[BioC] nearest() for GRanges

Cook, Malcolm MEC at stowers.org
Sat Jun 23 00:25:02 CEST 2012


Great news, Valerie... thanks very much... I will take immediate advantage
of this... after re-reading your report of 'an overhaul' I would well
understand if back-porting your fix in dev to release would be onerous to
impossible.  

I hope it goes quickly and smoothly....

Cheers,

Malcolm


On 6/22/12 4:00 PM, "Valerie Obenchain" <vobencha at fhcrc.org> wrote:

>On 06/20/2012 05:20 PM, Cook, Malcolm wrote:
>> Hi Valerie,
>>
>> Very glad you found and fixed the root cause.
>>
>> I don't know the overhead it would take for you, but, this being a
>> regression, might you consider fixing in Bioconductor 2.10 as, say
>> GenomicRanges_1.8.
>>
>Yes, I will fix this in release too. If not today then first thing next
>week.
>
>Valerie
>> Thanks for your consideration,
>>
>> Malcolm
>>
>> On 6/20/12 3:13 PM, "Valerie Obenchain"<vobencha at fhcrc.org>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Oleg, Malcom,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the bug report. This is now fixed in devel 1.9.28.  Over the
>>> past months we've done an overhaul of the precede/follow code in devel.
>>> The new nearest method is based on the new precede and follow and is
>>> documented at
>>>
>>> ?'nearest,GenomicRanges,GenomicRanges-method'
>>>
>>> Let me know if you run into problems.
>>>
>>> Valerie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/18/2012 02:25 PM, Cook, Malcolm wrote:
>>>> Martin, Oleg, Val, all,
>>>>
>>>> I too have script logic that benefitted from and depends upon what the
>>>> behavior of nearest,GenomicRanges,missing as reported by Oleg.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the unit tests Martin.
>>>>
>>>> If it helps in sleuthing, in my hands, the 3rd test used to pass (if
>>>>my
>>>> memory serves), but does not pass now, as the attached transcript
>>>>shows.
>>>>
>>>> Hoping it helps find a speedy resolution to this issue,
>>>>
>>>> ~ Malcolm Cook
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>    r<- IRanges(c(1,5,10), c(2,7,12))
>>>>>    g<- GRanges("chr1", r, "+")
>>>>>    checkEquals(precede(r), precede(g))
>>>> [1] TRUE
>>>>>     checkEquals(follow(r), follow(g))
>>>> [1] TRUE
>>>>>    try(checkEquals(nearest(r), nearest(g)))
>>>> Error in checkEquals(nearest(r), nearest(g)) :
>>>>     Mean relative difference: 0.6
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
>>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>>>>
>>>> locale:
>>>> [1] C
>>>>
>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>    [1] tools     splines   parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices
>>>>utils
>>>> datasets  methods   base
>>>>
>>>> other attached packages:
>>>>    [1] RUnit_0.4.26          log4r_0.1-4           vwr_0.1
>>>> RecordLinkage_0.4-1   ffbase_0.5            ff_2.2-7
>>>> bit_1.1-8             evd_2.2-6             ipred_0.8-13
>>>> prodlim_1.3.1         KernSmooth_2.23-7     nnet_7.3-1
>>>> survival_2.36-14      mlbench_2.1-0         MASS_7.3-18
>>>> ada_2.0-2             rpart_3.1-53          e1071_1.6
>>>> class_7.3-3           XLConnect_0.1-9       XLConnectJars_0.1-4
>>>> rJava_0.9-3           latticeExtra_0.6-19   RColorBrewer_1.0-5
>>>> lattice_0.20-6        doMC_1.2.5            multicore_0.1-7
>>>> [28] BSgenome_1.24.0       rtracklayer_1.16.1    Rsamtools_1.8.5
>>>> Biostrings_2.24.1     GenomicFeatures_1.8.1 AnnotationDbi_1.18.1
>>>> GenomicRanges_1.8.6   IRanges_1.14.3        Biobase_2.16.0
>>>> BiocGenerics_0.2.0    data.table_1.8.0      compare_0.2-3
>>>> svUnit_0.7-10         doParallel_1.0.1      iterators_1.0.6
>>>> foreach_1.4.0         ggplot2_0.9.1         sqldf_0.4-6.4
>>>> RSQLite.extfuns_0.0.1 RSQLite_0.11.1        chron_2.3-42
>>>> gsubfn_0.6-3          proto_0.3-9.2         DBI_0.2-5
>>>> functional_0.1        reshape_0.8.4         plyr_1.7.1
>>>> [55] stringr_0.6           gtools_2.6.2
>>>>
>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>>    [1] RCurl_1.91-1     XML_3.9-4        biomaRt_2.12.0
>>>>bitops_1.0-4.1
>>>> codetools_0.2-8  colorspace_1.1-1 compiler_2.15.0  dichromat_1.2-4
>>>> digest_0.5.2     grid_2.15.0      labeling_0.1     memoise_0.1
>>>> munsell_0.3      reshape2_1.2.1   scales_0.2.1     stats4_2.15.0
>>>> tcltk_2.15.0     zlibbioc_1.2.0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 6/18/12 2:39 PM, "Martin Morgan"<mtmorgan at fhcrc.org>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Oleg --
>>>>>
>>>>> On 06/17/2012 11:11 PM, Oleg Mayba wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just noticed that a piece of logic I was relying on with GRanges
>>>>>> before
>>>>>> does not seem to work anymore.  Namely, I expect the behavior of
>>>>>> nearest()
>>>>>> with a single GRanges object as an argument to be the same as that
>>>>>>of
>>>>>> IRanges (example below), but it's not anymore.  I expect
>>>>>>nearest(GR1)
>>>>>> NOT
>>>>>> to behave trivially but to return the closest range OTHER than the
>>>>>> range
>>>>>> itself.  I could swear that was the case before, but isn't any
>>>>>>longer:
>>>>> I think you're right that there is an inconsistency here; Val will
>>>>> likely help clarify in a day or so. My two cents...
>>>>>
>>>>> I think, certainly, that GRanges on a single chromosome on the "+"
>>>>> strand should behave like an IRanges
>>>>>
>>>>>     library(GenomicRanges)
>>>>>     library(RUnit)
>>>>>
>>>>>     r<- IRanges(c(1,5,10), c(2,7,12))
>>>>>     g<- GRanges("chr1", r, "+")
>>>>>
>>>>>     ## first two ok, third should work but fails
>>>>>     checkEquals(precede(r), precede(g))
>>>>>     checkEquals(follow(r), follow(g))
>>>>>     try(checkEquals(nearest(r), nearest(g)))
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, on the "-" strand I think we're expecting
>>>>>
>>>>>     g<- GRanges("chr1", r, "-")
>>>>>
>>>>>     ## first two ok, third should work but fails
>>>>>     checkEquals(follow(r), precede(g))
>>>>>     checkEquals(precede(r), follow(g))
>>>>>     try(checkEquals(nearest(r), nearest(g)))
>>>>>
>>>>> For "*" (which was your example) I think the situation is (a)
>>>>>different
>>>>> in devel than in release; and (b) not so clear. In devel, "*" is
>>>>>(from
>>>>> method?"nearest,GenomicRanges,missing") "x on '*' strand can match to
>>>>> ranges on any of ''+'', ''-'' or ''*''" and in particular I think
>>>>>these
>>>>> are always true:
>>>>>
>>>>>     checkEquals(precede(g), follow(g))
>>>>>     checkEquals(nearest(r), follow(g))
>>>>>
>>>>> I would also expect
>>>>>
>>>>>     try(checkEquals(nearest(g), follow(g)))
>>>>>
>>>>> though this seems not to be the case. In 'release', "*" is coereced
>>>>>and
>>>>> behaves as if on the "+" strand (I think).
>>>>>
>>>>> Martin
>>>>>
>>>>>>> z=IRanges(start=c(1,5,10), end=c(2,7,12))
>>>>>>> z
>>>>>> IRanges of length 3
>>>>>>        start end width
>>>>>> [1]     1   2     2
>>>>>> [2]     5   7     3
>>>>>> [3]    10  12     3
>>>>>>> nearest(z)
>>>>>> [1] 2 1 2
>>>>>>> z=GRanges(seqnames=rep('chr1',3),ranges=IRanges(start=c(1,5,10),
>>>>>> end=c(2,7,12)))
>>>>>>> z
>>>>>> GRanges with 3 ranges and 0 elementMetadata cols:
>>>>>>          seqnames    ranges strand
>>>>>>             <Rle>    <IRanges>     <Rle>
>>>>>>      [1]     chr1  [ 1,  2]      *
>>>>>>      [2]     chr1  [ 5,  7]      *
>>>>>>      [3]     chr1  [10, 12]      *
>>>>>>      ---
>>>>>>      seqlengths:
>>>>>>       chr1
>>>>>>         NA
>>>>>>> nearest(z)
>>>>>> [1] 1 2 3
>>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>> R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
>>>>>> Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> locale:
>>>>>>     [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>>>>>>     [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>>>>>>     [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>>>>>>     [7] LC_PAPER=C                 LC_NAME=C
>>>>>>     [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>>>>>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>>>>>>
>>>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>>> [1] datasets  utils     grDevices graphics  stats     methods   base
>>>>>>
>>>>>> other attached packages:
>>>>>> [1] GenomicRanges_1.8.6 IRanges_1.14.3      BiocGenerics_0.2.0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>>>> [1] stats4_2.15.0
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want the IRanges behavior and not what seems currently to be the
>>>>>> GRanges
>>>>>> behavior, since I have some code that depends on it. Is there a
>>>>>>quick
>>>>>> way
>>>>>> to make nearest() do that for me again?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Oleg.
>>>>>>
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