[Bioc-sig-seq] AlignedRead and complex subsetting

Patrick Aboyoun paboyoun at fhcrc.org
Wed Sep 2 19:00:05 CEST 2009


Ivan,
If you are using rtracklayer::import, you will produce a RangedData 
object and you can extract the RangesList component using the ranges() 
function.

library(rtracklayer)
myRegions <- import('myregions.bed')
myRangesList <- ranges(myRegions)



Patrick


Ivan Gregoretti wrote:
> Hello Steve, Martin and Everybody,
>
> First, thank you both for your help.
>
> As suggested by Steve, I look at
>
> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-sig-sequencing/2009-August/000509.html
>
> by it didn't quite applied to my case. I need to iterate over
> chromosomes and I need to keep strand information.
>
> I'll try this new algorithm Martin just wrote. By the way, Martin,
> what kind of object should rangesList be?
>
> Say that I load my regions like this
>
> myRegions <- import('myregions.bed')
>
> Can I coerce that IRanges instance myRegions to the rangestList class? How?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Ivan
>
>
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>
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Martin Morgan<mtmorgan at fhcrc.org> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Ivan --
>>
>> Steve Lianoglou wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Ivan,
>>>
>>> On Aug 31, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Ivan Gregoretti wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hello Everybody,
>>>>
>>>> How do you subset an AlignedRead instance to keep (or reject) tags
>>>> that lay within a set of genomic regions?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Example
>>>>
>>>> Lets say that I have an AlignedRead instance called aln.
>>>>
>>>> Now let's say that I have a set of positions in BED style:
>>>>
>>>> (chromosome, start end)
>>>> ch1 1000000 1000050
>>>> chrX 20000000 20100000
>>>> ...(many more)...
>>>>
>>>> We can imagine that I have the BED set loaded as a data frame.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to pick from aln only the tags within (or outside) the
>>>> features defined in the table described above?
>>>>         
>>> I think that you should convert your BED file to an IRanges object, and
>>> use overlap with your ranges + your readAligned object to get what your
>>>       
>> I wrote this, as a trial implementation of %in%. Is that useful? (also
>> !(... %in% ...) though that would, e.g., include NAs.
>>
>>
>> setMethod("%in%", c("AlignedRead", "RangesList"),
>>          function(x, table)
>> {
>>    ## consider only sensible alignemnts
>>    chr <- chromosome(x)
>>    pos <- position(x)
>>    wd <- width(x)
>>    notNA <- !(is.na(chr) | is.na(pos) | is.na(wd))
>>    ## find overlap
>>    chr <- chr[notNA]
>>    rl <- RangesList(mapply(IRanges, start=split(pos[notNA], chr),
>>                            width=split(wd[notNA], chr)))
>>    olap <- rl %in% table
>>    ## map to original indicies
>>    len <- seq_len(length(x))
>>    idx <- unlist(split(len[notNA], chr), use.names=FALSE)
>>    len %in% idx[unlist(olap)]
>> })
>>
>> One would then
>>
>>  aln[aln %in% rangesList]
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>     
>>> after. See Martin's post about something like this in this thread:
>>>
>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-sig-sequencing/2009-August/000509.html
>>>
>>> To get the reads *outside* of your ranges, maybe you can call the
>>> ``gaps`` on your bed/ranges and then do the same thing ...  or perhaps
>>> ``setdiff(ranges, aln)`` might work, too? (where aln is your IRanges
>>> converted alignedRead object (if necessary)).
>>>
>>> -steve
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve Lianoglou
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>>>   |  Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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