[BioC] MakeTranscriptDbFromGFF

Marc Carlson mcarlson at fhcrc.org
Tue May 7 00:00:09 CEST 2013


Hi Ugo,

So I have good news and bad news regarding that data file you wanted to 
use from:

http://tophat.cbcb.umd.edu/igenomes.shtml

The good news is that I have modified makeTranscriptDbFromGFF() to 
notice whenever a file only has exon rank information for CDS and to do 
the right thing (and make use of that information) while issuing a 
warning that it is doing so.  The bad news is that after looking more 
carefully at the data from the site listed above, there is no way to 
make that data into a transcriptome without inferring the exon ranks.  
At least not in it's current state. The files on offer simply don't 
contain exon rank information. What I initially thought might be exon 
ranks is (after more careful inspection) something else, and so can't be 
used for that.

So you probably should go with the advice from my last message and make 
a custom mm9 package that makes use of the UCSC transcriptome (or maybe 
one from BiomaRt depending on what you have aligned your data to).  But 
I would not recommend using the data at that web site to make 
transcriptomes unless they can give you a file that has exon rank 
information.


  Marc



On 05/06/2013 01:32 PM, Marc Carlson wrote:
> Hi Ugo,
>
> This worked for me:
>
> library(OrganismDbi)
>
> gd <- list(join1 = c(GO.db="GOID", org.Mm.eg.db="GO"),
>            join2 = c(org.Mm.eg.db="ENTREZID",
>                      TxDb.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm10.knownGene="GENEID"))
>
> makeOrganismPackage(pkgname = "Mus.musculus.mm9",
>                     graphData = gd,
>                     organism = "Mus musculus",
>                     version = "1.0",
>                     maintainer ="You <maintainer at someplace.org>",
>                     author = "You",
>                     destDir = ".",
>                     license = "Artistic-2.0")
>
>
> Then I can do stuff like this (after I run R CMD INSTALL 
> Mus.musculus.mm9) :
>
> library(Mus.musculus.mm9)
>
> select(Mus.musculus.mm9, 
> head(keys(Mus.musculus.mm9,keytype="ENTREZID")),c("SYMBOL","TXSTRAND"),keytype="ENTREZID")
>
> txs <- transcripts(Mus.musculus.mm9, columns="SYMBOL")
>
>
> Etc.
>
>
> As for your other question, that error means that the chromosome names 
> in your input file are not all present in the chrominfo that you have 
> used.  Usually this means that there is a row that says something like 
> chrom8_random (or something like that) as it's chromosome name in the 
> input file.  And you don't have that in your chrominfo table, so the 
> database is stopping, because it doesn't have any way to know what 
> chrom8_random is?
>
> To fix it, you can either remove unwanted rows from your input file or 
> you can add new rows to your chrominfo object.
>
>
>   Marc
>
>
>
> On 05/04/2013 07:18 AM, Ugo Borello wrote:
>> Dear Marc,
>> I apologize for bothering you again, but I was intrigued by the 
>> custom Mus.musculus.mm9 object. It sounds very convenient indeed.
>> so I tried, as you suggested:
>>
>> gd<-c(org.Mm.eg.db='SYMBOL',
>>             TxDb.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm9.knownGene="GENEID")
>> ## I also tried to set org.Mm.eg.db='ENTREZID'
>>
>> destination <- tempfile()
>> dir.create(destination)
>> makeOrganismPackage(pkgname = "Mus.musculus.mm9",
>>                     graphData = gd,
>>                     organism = "Mus musculus",
>>                     version = "1.0.0",
>>                     maintainer = "Package 
>> Maintainer<maintainer at somewhere.com>",
>>                     author = "SomeBody",
>>                     destDir = destination,
>>                     license = "Artistic-2.0")
>>
>> and I got:
>> Error in cbind(pkgs, keys) :
>>   number of rows of matrices must match (see arg 2)
>>
>> I am surely missing something here. Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>> And, coming back to makeTranscriptDbFromGFF.
>> I obtained my gtf annotation file from UCSC using genePredToGtf, as 
>> the UCSC people suggest 
>> (http://genomewiki.ucsc.edu/index.php/Genes_in_gtf_or_gff_format)
>>
>> txdb <-makeTranscriptDbFromGFF(file = 'mm9.gtf', format = "gtf",
>> + exonRankAttributeName = "exon_number",
>> + chrominfo = chrominfo,
>> + dataSource = "UCSC",
>> + species = "Mus musculus")
>> extracting transcript information
>> Estimating transcript ranges.
>> Extracting gene IDs
>> Processing splicing information for gtf file.
>> Prepare the 'metadata' data frame ... metadata: OK
>> Error in .checkForeignKey(transcripts_tx_chrom, NA, 
>> "transcripts$tx_chrom",  :
>>   all the values in 'transcripts$tx_chrom' must be present in 
>> 'chrominfo$chrom'
>>
>> Why I get this error now?
>>
>>> chrominfo
>>    chrom    length is_circular
>> 1  chr10 129993255       FALSE
>> 2  chr11 121843856       FALSE
>> 3  chr12 121257530       FALSE
>> 4  chr13 120284312       FALSE
>> 5  chr14 125194864       FALSE
>> 6  chr15 103494974       FALSE
>> 7  chr16  98319150       FALSE
>> 8  chr17  95272651       FALSE
>> 9  chr18  90772031       FALSE
>> 10 chr19  61342430       FALSE
>> 11  chr1 197195432       FALSE
>> 12  chr2 181748087       FALSE
>> 13  chr3 159599783       FALSE
>> 14  chr4 155630120       FALSE
>> 15  chr5 152537259       FALSE
>> 16  chr6 149517037       FALSE
>> 17  chr7 152524553       FALSE
>> 18  chr8 131738871       FALSE
>> 19  chr9 124076172       FALSE
>> 20  chrM     16299       FALSE
>> 21  chrX 166650296       FALSE
>> 22  chrY  15902555       FALSE
>>
>> Thank you very much for your time and patience.
>>
>> Ugo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> P.S.
>> This is the annotation
>>> annFile3<- import.gff('mm9.gtf', format='gtf', asRangedData=FALSE)
>>> annFile3
>> GRanges with 962651 ranges and 9 metadata columns:
>>               seqnames               ranges strand   | source        
>> type     score     phase     gene_id transcript_id
>>                  <Rle>            <IRanges> <Rle>   |  <factor>    
>> <factor> <numeric> <integer> <character> <character>
>>        [1]        chr1   [3195985, 3197398]      -   | knownGene      
>>   exon      <NA>      <NA> uc007aet.1    uc007aet.1
>>        [2]        chr1   [3203520, 3205713]      -   | knownGene      
>>   exon      <NA>      <NA> uc007aet.1    uc007aet.1
>>        [3]        chr1   [3204563, 3207049]      -   | knownGene      
>>   exon      <NA>      <NA> Q5GH67 uc007aeu.1
>>        [4]        chr1   [3206106, 3207049]      -   | knownGene      
>>    CDS      <NA>         2      Q5GH67 uc007aeu.1
>>        [5]        chr1   [3411783, 3411982]      -   | knownGene      
>>   exon      <NA>      <NA> Q5GH67 uc007aeu.1
>>        ...         ...                  ...    ... ... ...         
>> ...       ...       ...         ...           ...
>>   [962647] chrY_random [58502132, 58502365]      +   | knownGene      
>>    CDS      <NA>         0      Q62458 uc012htl.1
>>   [962648] chrY_random [58502369, 58502946]      +   | knownGene      
>>   exon      <NA>      <NA> Q62458 uc012htl.1
>>   [962649] chrY_random [58502369, 58502812]      +   | knownGene      
>>    CDS      <NA>         0      Q62458 uc012htl.1
>>   [962650] chrY_random [58502132, 58502134]      +   | knownGene 
>> start_codon      <NA>         0      Q62458    uc012htl.1
>>   [962651] chrY_random [58502813, 58502815]      +   | knownGene 
>> stop_codon      <NA>         0      Q62458    uc012htl.1
>>            exon_number      exon_id   gene_name
>>              <numeric>  <character> <character>
>>        [1]           1 uc007aet.1.1        <NA>
>>        [2]           2 uc007aet.1.2        <NA>
>>        [3]           1 uc007aeu.1.1      Q5GH67
>>        [4]           1 uc007aeu.1.1      Q5GH67
>>        [5]           2 uc007aeu.1.2      Q5GH67
>>        ...         ...          ...         ...
>>   [962647]           1 uc012htl.1.1      Q62458
>>   [962648]           2 uc012htl.1.2      Q62458
>>   [962649]           2 uc012htl.1.2      Q62458
>>   [962650]           1 uc012htl.1.1      Q62458
>>   [962651]           1 uc012htl.1.1      Q62458
>>   ---
>>   seqlengths:
>>            chr1        chr10        chr11        chr12 chr13 
>> ...         chrX  chrX_random         chrY  chrY_random
>>              NA           NA           NA           NA NA 
>> ...           NA
>>
>>
>> Quoting Marc Carlson <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>:
>>
>>> Hi Ugo,
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/03/2013 04:00 AM, Ugo Borello wrote:
>>>> Dear Carl,
>>>> Thank you very much; it makes sense now.
>>>>
>>>> To quantify gene expression of my RNASeq samples I  use your
>>>> TxDb.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm9.knownGene annotation together with the 
>>>> alignments to
>>>> the BSgenome.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm9 genome.
>>>> Now that I used the UCSC mm9 mouse genome from the Illumina iGenomes I
>>>> wanted to use their annotation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I have now a general question.
>>>> For the mouse mm9 genome (genome.fa) obtained from Illumina iGenomes
>>>>> genome<- scanFaIndex('genome.fa')
>>>>> seqlengths(genome)
>>>>     chr10     chr11     chr12     chr13     chr14 chr15 chr16
>>>> chr17     chr18     chr19
>>>> 129993255 121843856 121257530 120284312 125194864 103494974 98319150
>>>> 95272651  90772031  61342430
>>>>      chr1      chr2      chr3      chr4      chr5 chr6 chr7
>>>> chr8      chr9      chrM
>>>> 197195432 181748087 159599783 155630120 152537259 149517037 152524553
>>>> 131738871 124076172     16299
>>>>      chrX      chrY
>>>> 166650296  15902555
>>>>
>>>> For your TxDb.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm9.knownGene
>>>>> seqlengths( TxDb.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm9.knownGene)
>>>>         chr1         chr2         chr3         chr4 chr5
>>>> chr6         chr7         chr8         chr9
>>>>    197195432    181748087    159599783    155630120 152537259
>>>> 149517037    152524553    131738871    124076172
>>>>        chr10        chr11        chr12        chr13 chr14
>>>> chr15        chr16        chr17        chr18
>>>>    129993255    121843856    121257530    120284312 125194864
>>>> 103494974     98319150     95272651     90772031
>>>>        chr19         chrX         chrY         chrM chr1_random
>>>> chr3_random  chr4_random  chr5_random  chr7_random
>>>>     61342430    166650296     15902555        16299 1231697
>>>> 41899       160594       357350       362490
>>>>  chr8_random  chr9_random chr13_random chr16_random chr17_random
>>>> chrX_random  chrY_random chrUn_random
>>>>       849593       449403       400311         3994 628739
>>>> 1785075     58682461      5900358
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So. I want to filter out the '_random' stuff; is this the only and 
>>>> right way
>>>> to do it?
>>>
>>> It depends on whether you want to use the _random stuff.  My impression
>>> of how people use this is that most people don't.  So they would use
>>> isActiveSeq() to toggle those off.
>>>
>>>>> ann<- TxDb.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm9.knownGene
>>>>> isActiveSeq(ann)[seqlevels(ann)] <- FALSE
>>>>> isActiveSeq(ann) <- c("chr10"=TRUE, "chr11"=TRUE,
>>>> +                       "chr12"=TRUE,"chr13"=TRUE,
>>>> +                       "chr14"=TRUE,"chr15"=TRUE,
>>>> +                       "chr16"=TRUE, "chr17"=TRUE,
>>>> +                       "chr18"=TRUE, "chr19"=TRUE,
>>>> +                       "chr1"=TRUE, "chr2"=TRUE,
>>>> +                       "chr3"=TRUE, "chr4"=TRUE,
>>>> +                       "chr5"=TRUE, "chr6"=TRUE,
>>>> +                       "chr7"=TRUE, "chr8"=TRUE,
>>>> +                       "chr9"=TRUE, "chrM"=TRUE,
>>>> +                       "chrX"=TRUE, "chrY"=TRUE)
>>>> Then get my gene info this way?
>>>>> genesInfo<- exons(ann, columns='gene_id')
>>>> How can I add also gene names or symbols?
>>> Again, it depends on what you want to do.  If you are dealing with just
>>> a TranscriptDb like this, then there are not gene symbols attached
>>> already.  So for that object yes, you would need to do it like that.
>>>
>>>
>>> Now if you wanted gene symbols they are pretty easy to get. You can go
>>> and get gene symbols by loading an org package like this:
>>>
>>> library(org.Mm.eg.db)
>>> cols(org.Mm.eg.db)
>>>
>>> And then you could use select() to retrieve those (by using the gene
>>> IDs as keys from your TranscriptDb object).  But some people find this
>>> extra step to be inconvenient, so I have created another route. And
>>> that is to use a OrganismDb object.  There is a package for this
>>> already that I will use to demo here:
>>>
>>> library(Mus.musculus)
>>> cols(Mus.musculus)
>>>
>>> You will notice that this kind of object has all the stuff you want in
>>> one place.  I suspect that you will find that to be a lot more
>>> convenient:
>>>
>>> This basically means that you can do the thing you were interested in
>>> like this:
>>>
>>> genesInfo <- exons(Mus.musculus, columns=c("GENEID","SYMBOL"))
>>>
>>> *But* in your case, you are using mm9, so you will want to make a
>>> custom object (the Mus.musculus object is based on mm10). This is not
>>> hard to do, but it is an extra step.  You can read how to do it in
>>> section 2 of the following vignette:
>>>
>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc/vignettes/OrganismDbi/inst/doc/OrganismDbi.pdf 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you again for your help.
>>>>
>>>> Ugo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> From: Marc Carlson <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
>>>>> Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 15:52:38 -0700
>>>>> To: Ugo Borello <ugo.borello at inserm.fr>
>>>>> Cc: <bioconductor at r-project.org>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [BioC] MakeTranscriptDbFromGFF
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Ugo,
>>>>>
>>>>> The 15 GB tarball you sent me to contains several different GTF files
>>>>> for genes.  I grabbed this one as it seemed to be the most recent:
>>>>>
>>>>> Mus_musculus/UCSC/mm9/Annotation/Archives/archive-2013-03-06-15-01-24/Genes/ge 
>>>>>
>>>>> nes.gtf
>>>>>
>>>>> So looking at this file I can reproduce the problem you 
>>>>> mentioned.  And
>>>>> it shows me two problems.  The 1st problem is that the only field 
>>>>> that
>>>>> seems to contain any information about exon positions is called phase
>>>>> (and not "exon_number" as was in the code I see from before).  
>>>>> There is
>>>>> not actually any field called "exon_number" in this file. Either way,
>>>>> one thing you can check is to make sure that the string you give 
>>>>> here is
>>>>> the same as the appropriate field name that is used by the file.  
>>>>> There
>>>>> is no way to know this information in advance since GTF does not 
>>>>> specify
>>>>> how to encode this information (and in fact the information is 
>>>>> entirely
>>>>> optional).
>>>>>
>>>>> The second problem is that even "phase" can't work right now since 
>>>>> the
>>>>> authors of this gtf file have decided to only associate the exon rank
>>>>> information only with CDS and never with exons features. So there is
>>>>> not any actual 'exon' position information in this file, only
>>>>> information for CDS positions.  Now that I see people doing these 
>>>>> files
>>>>> in this way, I plan to enhance the parser so that it can process 
>>>>> files
>>>>> of this kind.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a reason why you wanted to use this file and not the data
>>>>> contained in this package here?
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/data/annotation/html/TxDb.Mmusculus. 
>>>>>
>>>>> UCSC.mm9.knownGene.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    Marc
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 05/02/2013 02:59 AM, Ugo Borello wrote:
>>>>>> Dear Marc
>>>>>> Sorry I was not precise on the origin of the gtf annotation file; 
>>>>>>  I got the
>>>>>> gtf file from here:
>>>>>> http://tophat.cbcb.umd.edu/igenomes.shtml
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And more precisely from the Mus musculus/UCSC/mm9 folder
>>>>>> Here the description of the content of the folder:
>>>>>> ftp://igenome:G3nom3s4u@ussd-ftp.illumina.com/README.txt
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I realized reading the README.txt file that actually the 
>>>>>> genes.gtf file I
>>>>>> used is the Ensembl annotation of the mm9 release.
>>>>>> So, I changed dataSource = "Ensembl" in the function call and I  
>>>>>> got the same
>>>>>> error message:
>>>>>> Error in data.frame(..., check.names = FALSE) :
>>>>>>    arguments imply differing number of rows: 541775, 0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At the end of my previous email you have the result of calling:
>>>>>> annFile<- import.gff('genes.gtf', format='gtf', asRangedData=FALSE)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ugo
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From: Marc Carlson <mcarlson at fhcrc.org>
>>>>>>> Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 15:33:02 -0700
>>>>>>> To: <bioconductor at r-project.org>
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [BioC] MakeTranscriptDbFromGFF
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Ugo,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Which UCSC file was it that you were trying to process?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     Marc
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 05/01/2013 02:21 AM, Ugo Borello wrote:
>>>>>>>> Good morning,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have a little problem creating a TranscriptDb object using  
>>>>>>>> the function
>>>>>>>> makeTranscriptDbFromGFF. I want to use this annotation to count 
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>> overlaps
>>>>>>>> of my genomic alignments with genes.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I ran:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> txdb <-makeTranscriptDbFromGFF(file = annFile, format = "gtf",
>>>>>>>> + exonRankAttributeName = "exon_number",
>>>>>>>> + chrominfo = chrominfo,
>>>>>>>> + dataSource = "UCSC",
>>>>>>>> + species = "Mus musculus")
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And I got this error message:
>>>>>>>> Error in data.frame(..., check.names = FALSE) :
>>>>>>>>     arguments imply differing number of rows: 541775, 0
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> "chrominfo" was (info retrieved from the fasta genome file):
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> chrominfo
>>>>>>>>      chrom    length is_circular
>>>>>>>> 1  chr10 129993255       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 2  chr11 121843856       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 3  chr12 121257530       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 4  chr13 120284312       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 5  chr14 125194864       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 6  chr15 103494974       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 7  chr16  98319150       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 8  chr17  95272651       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 9  chr18  90772031       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 10 chr19  61342430       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 11  chr1 197195432       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 12  chr2 181748087       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 13  chr3 159599783       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 14  chr4 155630120       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 15  chr5 152537259       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 16  chr6 149517037       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 17  chr7 152524553       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 18  chr8 131738871       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 19  chr9 124076172       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 20  chrM     16299        TRUE
>>>>>>>> 21  chrX 166650296       FALSE
>>>>>>>> 22  chrY  15902555       FALSE
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I ran it again without the "exonRankAttributeName" argument and 
>>>>>>>> I got:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> txdb <-makeTranscriptDbFromGFF(file = annFile, format = "gtf",
>>>>>>>> + chrominfo = chrominfo,
>>>>>>>> + dataSource = "UCSC",
>>>>>>>> + species = "Mus musculus")
>>>>>>>> extracting transcript information
>>>>>>>> Estimating transcript ranges.
>>>>>>>> Extracting gene IDs
>>>>>>>> Processing splicing information for gtf file.
>>>>>>>> Deducing exon rank from relative coordinates provided
>>>>>>>> Prepare the 'metadata' data frame ... metadata: OK
>>>>>>>> Error in .checkForeignKey(transcripts_tx_chrom, NA, 
>>>>>>>> "transcripts$tx_chrom",
>>>>>>>> :
>>>>>>>>     all the values in 'transcripts$tx_chrom' must be present in
>>>>>>>> 'chrominfo$chrom'
>>>>>>>> In addition: Warning message:
>>>>>>>> In .deduceExonRankings(exs, format = "gtf") :
>>>>>>>>     Infering Exon Rankings.  If this is not what you expected,  
>>>>>>>> then please
>>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>>> sure that you have provided a valid attribute for 
>>>>>>>> exonRankAttributeName
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Without the "chrominfo" argument I got the same error message  
>>>>>>>> as the first
>>>>>>>> time:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> txdb <-makeTranscriptDbFromGFF(file = annFile, format = "gtf",
>>>>>>>> + exonRankAttributeName = "exon_number",
>>>>>>>> + dataSource = "UCSC",
>>>>>>>> + species = "Mus musculus")
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Error in data.frame(..., check.names = FALSE) :
>>>>>>>>     arguments imply differing number of rows: 541775, 0
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Finally when I eliminated both the "exonRankAttributeName" and the
>>>>>>>> "chrominfo" arguments it worked but the warning reminded me of the
>>>>>>>> "exonRankAttributeName" argument and the chromosome names are  
>>>>>>>> now different
>>>>>>>> from the ones in the genome file and there is no info on their 
>>>>>>>> length
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> txdb <-makeTranscriptDbFromGFF(file = annFile, format = "gtf",
>>>>>>>> + dataSource = "UCSC",
>>>>>>>> + species = "Mus musculus")
>>>>>>>> extracting transcript information
>>>>>>>> Estimating transcript ranges.
>>>>>>>> Extracting gene IDs
>>>>>>>> Processing splicing information for gtf file.
>>>>>>>> Deducing exon rank from relative coordinates provided
>>>>>>>> Prepare the 'metadata' data frame ... metadata: OK
>>>>>>>> Now generating chrominfo from available sequence names. No 
>>>>>>>> chromosome
>>>>>>>> length
>>>>>>>> information is available.
>>>>>>>> Warning messages:
>>>>>>>> 1: In .deduceExonRankings(exs, format = "gtf") :
>>>>>>>>     Infering Exon Rankings.  If this is not what you expected,  
>>>>>>>> then please
>>>>>>>> be
>>>>>>>> sure that you have provided a valid attribute for 
>>>>>>>> exonRankAttributeName
>>>>>>>> 2: In matchCircularity(chroms, circ_seqs) :
>>>>>>>>     None of the strings in your circ_seqs argument match your 
>>>>>>>> seqnames.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> seqinfo(txdb)
>>>>>>>> Seqinfo of length 32
>>>>>>>> seqnames     seqlengths isCircular genome
>>>>>>>> chr13              <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr9               <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr6               <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chrX               <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr17              <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr2               <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr7               <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr18              <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr8               <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> ...                 ...        ...    ...
>>>>>>>> chrY_random        <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chrX_random        <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr5_random        <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr4_random        <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chrY               <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr7_random        <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr17_random       <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr13_random       <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>> chr1_random        <NA>      FALSE <NA>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What am I doing wrong in my original call to 
>>>>>>>> makeTranscriptDbFromGFF?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> txdb <-makeTranscriptDbFromGFF(file = annFile, format = "gtf",
>>>>>>>> exonRankAttributeName = "exon_number",
>>>>>>>>                                  chrominfo = chrominfo,
>>>>>>>>                                  dataSource = "UCSC",
>>>>>>>>                                  species = "Mus musculus")
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Why am I getting this unfair error message?
>>>>>>>> Thank you for your help
>>>>>>>> Ugo
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> FYI, this is my annFile (My gtf  annotation file was downloaded 
>>>>>>>> together
>>>>>>>> with a fasta file containing the mouse genome from UCSC):
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> annFile
>>>>>>>> GRanges with 595632 ranges and 9 metadata columns:
>>>>>>>>                 seqnames               ranges strand |   source
>>>>>>>> type
>>>>>>>> score     phase
>>>>>>>>                    <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle>   | <factor>
>>>>>>>> <factor>
>>>>>>>> <numeric> <integer>
>>>>>>>>          [1]        chr1   [3204563, 3207049]      - |  unknown
>>>>>>>> exon
>>>>>>>> <NA>      <NA>
>>>>>>>>          [2]        chr1   [3206103, 3206105]      - |  unknown
>>>>>>>> stop_codon
>>>>>>>> <NA>      <NA>
>>>>>>>>          [3]        chr1   [3206106, 3207049]      - |  unknown
>>>>>>>> CDS
>>>>>>>> <NA>         2
>>>>>>>>          [4]        chr1   [3411783, 3411982]      - |  unknown
>>>>>>>> CDS
>>>>>>>> <NA>         1
>>>>>>>>          [5]        chr1   [3411783, 3411982]      - |  unknown
>>>>>>>> exon
>>>>>>>> <NA>      <NA>
>>>>>>>>          ...         ...                  ...    ... ...      ...
>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>> ...       ...
>>>>>>>>     [595628] chrY_random [54422360, 54422362]      + |  unknown
>>>>>>>> stop_codon
>>>>>>>> <NA>      <NA>
>>>>>>>>     [595629] chrY_random [58501955, 58502946]      + |  unknown
>>>>>>>> exon
>>>>>>>> <NA>      <NA>
>>>>>>>>     [595630] chrY_random [58502132, 58502812]      + |  unknown
>>>>>>>> CDS
>>>>>>>> <NA>         0
>>>>>>>>     [595631] chrY_random [58502132, 58502134]      + |  unknown
>>>>>>>> start_codon
>>>>>>>> <NA>      <NA>
>>>>>>>>     [595632] chrY_random [58502813, 58502815]      + |  unknown
>>>>>>>> stop_codon
>>>>>>>> <NA>      <NA>
>>>>>>>>                   gene_id  transcript_id gene_name        p_id
>>>>>>>> tss_id
>>>>>>>>               <character>    <character> <character> <character>
>>>>>>>> <character>
>>>>>>>>          [1]         Xkr4   NM_001011874 Xkr4 P2739
>>>>>>>> TSS1881
>>>>>>>>          [2]         Xkr4   NM_001011874 Xkr4 P2739
>>>>>>>> TSS1881
>>>>>>>>          [3]         Xkr4   NM_001011874 Xkr4 P2739
>>>>>>>> TSS1881
>>>>>>>>          [4]         Xkr4   NM_001011874 Xkr4 P2739
>>>>>>>> TSS1881
>>>>>>>>          [5]         Xkr4   NM_001011874 Xkr4 P2739
>>>>>>>> TSS1881
>>>>>>>>          ...          ...            ... ... ...
>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>     [595628] LOC100039753   NM_001017394 LOC100039753      P10196
>>>>>>>> TSS19491
>>>>>>>>     [595629] LOC100039614 NM_001160137_4 LOC100039614      P22060
>>>>>>>> TSS4342
>>>>>>>>     [595630] LOC100039614 NM_001160137_4 LOC100039614      P22060
>>>>>>>> TSS4342
>>>>>>>>     [595631] LOC100039614 NM_001160137_4 LOC100039614      P22060
>>>>>>>> TSS4342
>>>>>>>>     [595632] LOC100039614 NM_001160137_4 LOC100039614      P22060
>>>>>>>> TSS4342
>>>>>>>>     ---
>>>>>>>>     seqlengths:
>>>>>>>>              chr1        chr10        chr11 chr12 ...   
>>>>>>>> chrX_random
>>>>>>>> chrY  chrY_random
>>>>>>>>                NA           NA           NA NA ...          NA
>>>>>>>> NA           NA
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>>>>> R version 3.0.0 (2013-04-03)
>>>>>>>> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> locale:
>>>>>>>> [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>>>>> [1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils datasets  
>>>>>>>> methods
>>>>>>>> base
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> other attached packages:
>>>>>>>>    [1] rtracklayer_1.20.1     Rbowtie_1.0.2 Rsamtools_1.12.2
>>>>>>>> Biostrings_2.28.0
>>>>>>>>    [5] GenomicFeatures_1.12.0 AnnotationDbi_1.22.1 Biobase_2.20.0
>>>>>>>> GenomicRanges_1.12.2
>>>>>>>>    [9] IRanges_1.18.0         BiocGenerics_0.6.0
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>>>>>>    [1] BiocInstaller_1.10.0 biomaRt_2.16.0 bitops_1.0-5
>>>>>>>> BSgenome_1.28.0
>>>>>>>>    [5] DBI_0.2-5            grid_3.0.0 hwriter_1.3
>>>>>>>> lattice_0.20-15
>>>>>>>>    [9] RCurl_1.95-4.1       RSQLite_0.11.3 ShortRead_1.18.0
>>>>>>>> stats4_3.0.0
>>>>>>>> [13] tools_3.0.0          XML_3.95-0.2 zlibbioc_1.6.0
>>>>>>>>
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