[BioC] concurrent R-release & R-devel versions -- bioc also? [was Re: from TF DNA binding motif to downstream genes?]

Sean Davis seandavi at gmail.com
Fri Feb 5 23:12:28 CET 2010


On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Paul Shannon
<pshannon at systemsbiology.org> wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> Thanks very much for these additions.  After a couple of weeks distraction working on other things, I am ready to try them out.
>
> What is the standard approach -- to switch entirely over to R-devel and the devel version of bioc?  Are they likely to be plenty stable for day-to-day use?
>
> Or would I be wise to maintain a release installation as my default, and only venture in to the devel installation cautiously, when I need to use recent additions like those described below?
>

Hi, Paul.

The main issue with devel is that it is a moving target; there is no
promise of code stability.  However, it generally "works" and many of
us use R-devel and Bioc-devel as our standard R installation.

For the record, one should never (unless willing to deal with BADNESS)
mix devel with release or mix releases.  Using biocLite() for
installation is a good way to go for all installation issues to stay
out of trouble.

Sean

> On Jan 19, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Patrick Aboyoun wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>> The issue was that the code was depended on using R-devel as well as the latest versions of BioC packages IRanges, Biostrings, and BSgenome.
>>
>> Rather than trying to retrofit something into R 2.10 and BioC 2.5, I went ahead and added a new vmatchPDict method for BSgenome objects into
>> BioC 2.6 for use with R-devel. I just checked the code in so it wont be available from bioconductor.org until Thursday morning at the earliest. If you want it earlier, you will need to get the latest versions of IRanges, Biostrings, and BSgenome from the trunk of Bioconductor's software svn. Below is an example of this new functionality. I am trying to grow the use of RangedData objects as containers for match output and am looking for any feedback on its usability. In particular, I am looking for useful methods that are missing from the packages referenced above so I can fill in the gaps.
>>
>>
>> > suppressMessages(library(BSgenome))
>> > library(BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2)
>> > data(HNF4alpha)  # a DNAStringSet object
>> > vmatchPDict(HNF4alpha[1:10], Celegans)
>> RangedData with 14 rows and 2 value columns across 7 spaces
>>        space               ranges | strand index
>>  <character>            <IRanges> |  <Rle> <Rle>
>> 1         chrI [10714238, 10714250] |      +     1
>> 2         chrI [10242063, 10242075] |      -     1
>> 3         chrI [  995608,   995620] |      -     3
>> 4       chrIII [  360758,   360770] |      +     1
>> 5       chrIII [ 9996856,  9996868] |      -     1
>> 6        chrIV [16177061, 16177073] |      +     3
>> 7        chrIV [17014321, 17014333] |      -     4
>> 8        chrIV [ 6364368,  6364380] |      -    10
>> 9         chrV [11914362, 11914374] |      +     1
>> 10        chrV [19656881, 19656893] |      +     2
>> ...
>> <4 more rows>
>> > sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.11.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-01-18 r50995)
>> i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2_1.3.16 BSgenome_1.15.4                 [3] Biostrings_2.15.18                IRanges_1.5.29
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] Biobase_2.7.3 tools_2.11.0
>>
>>
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Shannon wrote:
>>> Hi Patrick,
>>>
>>> Thanks very much!
>>> Running your code just now, I get this:
>>>
>>>  Error in function (classes, fdef, mtable)  :
>>>      unable to find an inherited method for function "dups", for signature "DNAStringSet"
>>>
>>> traceback () & sessionInfo pasted in below. Is dups perhaps defined in the devel version of Biostrings?
>>>
>>> - Paul
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> traceback ()
>>>>
>>> 13: stop("unable to find an inherited method for function \"", fdef at generic,
>>>        "\", for signature ", cnames)
>>> 12: function (classes, fdef, mtable)
>>>    {
>>>        methods <- .findInheritedMethods(classes, fdef, mtable)
>>>        if (length(methods) == 1L)
>>>            return(methods[[1L]])
>>>        else if (length(methods) == 0L) {
>>>            cnames <- paste("\"", sapply(classes, as.character),
>>>                "\"", sep = "", collapse = ", ")
>>>            stop("unable to find an inherited method for function \"",
>>>                fdef at generic, "\", for signature ", cnames)
>>>        }
>>>        else stop("Internal error in finding inherited methods; didn't return a unique method")
>>>    }(list("DNAStringSet"), function (x)
>>>    standardGeneric("dups"), <environment>)
>>> 11: dups(pdict)
>>> 10: .matchPDict(pdict, subject, algorithm, max.mismatch, min.mismatch,
>>>        fixed, verbose) at go.R#27
>>> 9: matchPDict(pdict = posPDict, subject = chr) at go.R#27
>>> 8: matchPDict(pdict = posPDict, subject = chr) at go.R#27
>>> 7: BSParams at FUN(seq, ...)
>>> 6: FUN(c("chrI", "chrII", "chrIII", "chrIV", "chrV", "chrX", "chrM"
>>>   )[[1L]], ...)
>>> 5: lapply(X, FUN, ...)
>>> 4: sapply(seqnames, processSeqname, ...)
>>> 3: sapply(seqnames, processSeqname, ...)
>>> 2: bsapply(bsParams, strings = HNF4alpha) at go.R#14
>>> 1: run(0)
>>>
>>>> sessionInfo ()
>>>>
>>> R version 2.10.0 (2009-10-26)
>>> x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
>>>
>>> locale:
>>> [1] en_US.utf-8/en_US.utf-8/C/C/en_US.utf-8/en_US.utf-8
>>>
>>> attached base packages:
>>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>>>
>>> other attached packages:
>>> [1] BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2_1.3.16 BSgenome_1.14.2                   Biostrings_2.14.8                 IRanges_1.4.8
>>>
>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> [1] Biobase_2.6.0 tools_2.10.0
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Patrick Aboyoun wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Paul,
>>>> I have made a first attempt at solving the first part of your problem (mapping the motifs to the genome) and plan on making this easier to perform by adding a vmatchPDict method to the BSgenome package in BioC 2.6. For now, here is some code that creates a RangedData object identifying the locations on the genome where the motifs match. You can then use findOverlaps against a RangedData object that contains the annotations that are of interest to you. Feedback is welcome.  - Patrick
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ## load the base libraries
>>>> library(Biostrings)
>>>> library(BSgenome)
>>>>
>>>> ## load the genome
>>>> library(BSgenome.Celegans.UCSC.ce2)
>>>>
>>>> ## create the motifs
>>>> data(HNF4alpha)
>>>>
>>>> ## -------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> ## method for finding motif locations on genome
>>>> ## the motifId column is an element identifier
>>>> ## that relates back to the original motif set
>>>> matchFUN <- function(strings, chr) {
>>>>  posPDict <- strings
>>>>  negPDict <- reverseComplement(strings)
>>>>  posMatches <- matchPDict(pdict = posPDict, subject = chr)
>>>>  posCounts <- elementLengths(posMatches)
>>>>  negMatches <- matchPDict(pdict = negPDict, subject = chr)
>>>>  negCounts <- elementLengths(negMatches)
>>>>  strand <-
>>>>    strand(rep(c("+", "-"), c(sum(posCounts), sum(negCounts))))
>>>>  motifId <-
>>>>    c(rep(seq_len(length(posMatches)), posCounts),
>>>>      rep(seq_len(length(negMatches)), negCounts))     RangedData(c(unlist(posMatches), unlist(negMatches)),
>>>>             strand = strand, motifId = motifId)
>>>> }
>>>> bsParams <-
>>>> new("BSParams", X = Celegans, FUN = matchFUN, simplify = TRUE)
>>>> matches <- bsapply(bsParams, strings = HNF4alpha)
>>>> nms <- names(matches)
>>>> matches <- do.call(c, unname(matches))
>>>> names(matches) <- nms
>>>> ## -------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> matches
>>>>>
>>>> RangedData with 183 rows and 2 value columns across 7 spaces
>>>>       space               ranges |   strand   motifId
>>>> <character>            <IRanges> | <factor> <integer>
>>>> 1         chrI [10714238, 10714250] |        +         1
>>>> 2         chrI [ 1746247,  1746259] |        +        33
>>>> 3         chrI [11509260, 11509272] |        +        39
>>>> 4         chrI [ 5249651,  5249663] |        +        48
>>>> 5         chrI [ 5442409,  5442421] |        +        64
>>>> 6         chrI [ 7949495,  7949507] |        +        64
>>>> 7         chrI [ 2788492,  2788504] |        +        71
>>>> 8         chrI [ 3853105,  3853117] |        +        71
>>>> 9         chrI [ 6952606,  6952618] |        +        71
>>>> 10        chrI [10242063, 10242075] |        -         1
>>>> ...
>>>> <173 more rows>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Paul Shannon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Can I get advice from on good ways to find genes -- perhaps with a high false-positive rate -- whose promoters contain known DNA binding motifs?
>>>>>
>>>>> Hu et al, "Profiling the Human Protein-DNA Interactome Reveals ERK2 as a Transcriptional Repressor of Interferon Signaling" identifies
>>>>>
>>>>>  17,718 PDIs [protein-DNA interactions] between 460 DNA motifs predicted to regulate    transcription and 4,191 human proteins of various functional classes.
>>>>>
>>>>> I wish to take those 460 motifs -- many of them only 7 bases long -- and find the genes whose transcription they control.
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect the answer lies in some artful use of Biostrings, BSgenome (which together provide efficient genome search), along with annotation to find the transcription start site of  known genes.   But before I start, I think it prudent to get the advice of those who may know more than me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> - Paul
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