[BioC] GTF file error when using easyRNAseq

Nicolas Delhomme nicolas.delhomme at umu.se
Tue Nov 19 10:45:45 CET 2013


Hej Natalia!

I can’t reproduce that error. Are you using the gtf file you had modified? I just downloaded it from ensembl, unzipped it and ran the bit of code that complains in your case and it went smoothly through.

If you had done the same, then it’s very strange. In that case, could you run and paste the output of:

easyRNASeq:::.getGtfRange(filename="Gallus_gallus.Galgal4.73.gtf")

and

easyRNASeq:::.getGtfRange

Cheers,

Nico
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On 19 Nov 2013, at 08:10, Natalia Sevane <nata_sf at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi Nico!
>
> I’m sorry to bother you again but I’m
> still having the same error with easyRNASeq. The only difference is that the
> error message doesn’t include the exon_number and gene_name as required fields.
>
>
>
> Your gtf file: Gallus_gallus.Galgal4.73.gtf does not contain all the
> required fields: gene_id, transcript_id.
>
>
>
> I haven’t tried rtracklayer yet.
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Natalia
>
>
>
> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:58:13 -0800
> From: lawrence.michael at gene.com
> To: delhomme at embl.de
> CC: lawrence.michael at gene.com; bioconductor at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [BioC] GTF file error when using easyRNAseq
>
> It might be worth taking a look at rtracklayer and the TranscriptDb stuff
> in GenomicFeatures. It could save you time, and if you notice any
> deficiencies in rtracklayer, it would help me. For example, if the
> attribute parsing is a bottleneck, I can push it down to C.
>
> Michael
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Nicolas Delhomme <delhomme at embl.de> wrote:
>
>> Hej Michael,
>>
>> Good question really. I have a number of reason for this:
>>
>> 1) I’ve been using the genomeIntervals readGff3 function for that - for
>> years now - and I’ve always been satisfied by its performance, especially
>> when parsing the gff/gtf ninth column. The parseGffAttribute and
>> getGffAttribute functions are extremely convenient. I honestly haven’t
>> checked if there was any recent development in rtracklayer /
>> GenomicFeatures similar to these functions. If there were not, I think they
>> would be a great addition to either package.
>>
>> 2) As you might guess it’s essentially historical, back when I started
>> that package in 2009, there was not today’s fantastic set of packages.
>>
>> 3) As you painfully know, there’s about as many gff format as they are gff
>> files, and because my package is a pipeline I really want to make sure that
>> it’s output is consistent, hence I have strict requirement with regards to
>> the gff/gtf format I accept. Which means that times and again, I have to do
>> slight adjustment but I prefer that over outputting garbage.
>>
>> 4) RNA-Seq analyses are filled with pitfalls, hence I think it is
>> essential that users understand the data formats they handle and actually
>> what these analyses are all about. I don’t want them to use my package as
>> they would use a black box.
>>
>> 5) It’s educational. There’s a vignette that describes how to parse and
>> convert gff/gtf annotation in the minimal gff/gtf formatted file that would
>> suit my package
>>
>> Well, I suppose it’s more than you asked for, but here are my reasons ;-)
>> You’re welcome to comment and I’d be happy to look again at rtracklayer
>> (been through GenomicFeatures recently and I like it much) if you would
>> advise me so.
>>
>> Have a nice WE,
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Nico
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>> Nicolas Delhomme
>>
>> Genome Biology Computational Support
>>
>> European Molecular Biology Laboratory
>>
>> Tel: +49 6221 387 8310
>> Email: nicolas.delhomme at embl.de
>> Meyerhofstrasse 1 - Postfach 10.2209
>> 69102 Heidelberg, Germany
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 15 Nov 2013, at 12:44, Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael at gene.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Why not use rtracklayer / GenomicFeatures for parsing GTF? That format
>> is tough; no reason for everyone to take it on by themselves.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:40 AM, Nicolas Delhomme <delhomme at embl.de>
>> wrote:
>>> Hej Natalia!
>>>
>>> There were a number of lines in that particular gtf that violated the
>> assumptions I had about EnsEMBL gtf. Not all the fields in the attributes'
>> column were always set and one of the gene name had a space character in
>> it. I’ve made the parsing of gtf file annotation more flexible/lenient and
>> that should resolve that particular issue you had. The changes should
>> propagate in ~2 days to Bioc with easyRNASeq version 1.8.2.
>>>
>>> Rather than using the geneModel, which implementation is old and has
>> gotten slow because of changes in the underlying architecture, I prefer an
>> approach where I
>>> 1) filter the gtf / gff annotation file for only those lines I’m
>> interested in (e.g. of type exon, mRNA and gene for a gff file)
>>> 2) collapse every exon of a gene into what I call now a “synthetic
>> transcript”. The reason for changing the naming from geneModel to synthetic
>> transcript is that “gene model” has different meaning depending on the
>> field of application.
>>> 3) use easyRNASeq with the modified annotation and the “transcript”
>> count method.
>>>
>>> I’ve detailed that procedure in the vignette section 7.1 .
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Nico
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Nicolas Delhomme
>>>
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>>>
>>> European Molecular Biology Laboratory
>>>
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>>> Email: nicolas.delhomme at embl.de
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12 Nov 2013, at 14:21, Nicolas Delhomme <delhomme at embl.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hej Natalia!
>>>>
>>>> This is not the first time that I’ve seen this error on the list, but
>> I’ve not been able to reproduce it so far with my own data. Would you mind
>> sharing some data offline, just an excerpt of your files would do. If
>> that’s OK, I can create and give access to a folder on my box account.
>>>>
>>>> I had already relaxed the constraint on parsing a gtf file in a
>> previous update but forgot to reflect the changes in the error message.
>> Only the  gene_id and transcript_id are actually mandatory. I would not
>> expect any issue with the EnsEMBL gtf file, but I’ll have a look at why it
>> fails for Gallus galls one and let you know asap.
>>>>
>>>> This as nothing to do with this error, but by looking at your command
>> line, I saw that you provide a character vector to the chrSize argument.
>> This is not necessary as this information is extracted from the bam file in
>> your case, so you can just drop the chrSizes = “chrSizes” from your command
>> line. I’ve added some extra check in the method to detect this now. Thanks
>> :-)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Nico
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Nicolas Delhomme
>>>>
>>>> Genome Biology Computational Support
>>>>
>>>> European Molecular Biology Laboratory
>>>>
>>>> Tel: +49 6221 387 8310
>>>> Email: nicolas.delhomme at embl.de
>>>> Meyerhofstrasse 1 - Postfach 10.2209
>>>> 69102 Heidelberg, Germany
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11 Nov 2013, at 16:31, Natalia [guest] <guest at bioconductor.org>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>> I would like to make a count table to use it in DESeq. I´ve tried to
>> use easyRNAseq but I have a problem with the annotation file. I’ve
>> downloaded the file Gallus_gallus.Galgal4.73.gtf from Ensembl. As I run
>> into the problem Error in .doBasicCount(obj) : The genomicAnnotation slot
>> is empty, I modified the file and added chr before the chromosome number.
>> The next problem was this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Your gtf file: Gallus_gallus.Galgal4.73.gtf does not contain all the
>> required fields: gene_id, transcript_id, exon_number, gene_name.
>>>>>
>>>>> To solve this problem:
>>>>> - I deleted all the entries without gene_name (first example):
>>>>>
>>>>> gene_id "ENSGALG00000009771"; transcript_id "ENSGALT00000015891";
>> exon_number "1"; gene_biotype "protein_coding"; exon_id
>> "ENSGALE00000301221";
>>>>>
>>>>> gene_id "ENSGALG00000009783"; transcript_id "ENSGALT00000015914";
>> exon_number "2"; gene_name "GOLGB1"; gene_biotype "protein_coding";
>> transcript_name "GOLGB1-201"; exon_id "ENSGALE00000105891";
>>>>>
>>>>> - I checked the chromosome numbers and deleted the entries that
>> didn’t match any chromosome from BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal4 (I can’t
>> find any entry corresponding to chr32 in the Gallus_gallus.Galgal4.73.gtf
>> file, I don’t know if it is a problem):
>>>>>
>>>>> - I searched for semicolons and single quotes ‘ in the gene names,
>> but I didn’t find any on the final file.
>>>>>
>>>>> - I deleted all the columns after gene_name.
>>>>>
>>>>> So finally the annotation file entries look like this:
>>>>> chr1 protein_coding  exon    19962541        19963992
>>>>>     .       +       .       gene_id "ENSGALG00000000003";
>> transcript_id "ENSGALT00000000003"; exon_number "2"; gene_name "PANX2";
>>>>>
>>>>> Nothing works; the error message is always the same. So, I don’t know
>> what else I can do. Could you please help me?
>>>>> Thank you in advance!
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>
>>>>> Natalia
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> here is my code:
>>>>>> count.table <- easyRNASeq("/RNAseqGallus", organism="Ggallus",
>> chrSizes="chrSizes", annotationMethod="gtf",
>> annotationFile="Gallus_gallus.Galgal4.73.gtf", count="genes",
>> summarization="geneModels", format="bam", gapped=TRUE,
>> filenames=c("NS1gallus.bam","NS2gallus.bam"), outputFormat="DESeq",
>> conditions=conditions)
>>>>> Checking arguments...
>>>>> Fetching annotations...
>>>>> Read 334620 records
>>>>> Error en .getGtfRange(organismName(obj), filename = filename,
>> ignoreWarnings = ignoreWarnings,  :
>>>>> Your gtf file: Gallus_gallus.Galgal4.73.gtf does not contain all the
>> required fields: gene_id, transcript_id, exon_number, gene_name.
>>>>> Además: Mensajes de aviso perdidos
>>>>> 1: In easyRNASeq("/RNAseqGallus", organism = "Ggallus", chrSizes =
>> "chrSizes",  :
>>>>> Your organism has no mapping defined to perform the validity check
>> for the UCSC compliance of the chromosome name.
>>>>> Defined organism's mapping can be listed using the 'knownOrganisms'
>> function.
>>>>> To benefit from the validity check, you can provide a 'chr.map' to
>> your 'easyRNASeq' function call.
>>>>> As you did not do so, 'validity.check' is turned off
>>>>> 2: In .Method(..., deparse.level = deparse.level) :
>>>>> number of columns of result is not a multiple of vector length (arg 1)
>>>>>
>>>>>> traceback()
>>>>> 6: stop(paste("Your gtf file: ", filename, " does not contain all the
>> required fields: ",
>>>>>   paste(fields, collapse = ", "), ".", sep = ""))
>>>>> 5: .getGtfRange(organismName(obj), filename = filename,
>> ignoreWarnings = ignoreWarnings,
>>>>>   ...)
>>>>> 4: fetchAnnotation(obj, method = annotationMethod, filename =
>> annotationFile,
>>>>>   ignoreWarnings = ignoreWarnings, ...)
>>>>> 3: fetchAnnotation(obj, method = annotationMethod, filename =
>> annotationFile,
>>>>>   ignoreWarnings = ignoreWarnings, ...)
>>>>> 2: easyRNASeq("/RNAseqGallus", organism = "Ggallus", chrSizes =
>> "chrSizes",
>>>>>   annotationMethod = "gtf", annotationFile = "
>> Gallus_gallus.Galgal4.73.gtf ",
>>>>>   count = "genes", summarization = "geneModels", format = "bam",
>>>>>   gapped = TRUE, filenames = c("NS1gallus.bam", "NS2gallus.bam"),
>>>>>   outputFormat = "DESeq", conditions = conditions)
>>>>> 1: easyRNASeq("/RNAseqGallus", organism = "Ggallus", chrSizes =
>> "chrSizes",
>>>>>   annotationMethod = "gtf", annotationFile = "
>> Gallus_gallus.Galgal4.73.gtf ",
>>>>>   count = "genes", summarization = "geneModels", format = "bam",
>>>>>   gapped = TRUE, filenames = c("NS1gallus.bam", "NS2gallus.bam"),
>>>>>   outputFormat = "DESeq", conditions = conditions)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- output of sessionInfo():
>>>>>
>>>>>> sessionInfo()
>>>>> R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
>>>>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>>>>
>>>>> locale:
>>>>> [1] LC_COLLATE=Spanish_Spain.1252  LC_CTYPE=Spanish_Spain.1252
>> LC_MONETARY=Spanish_Spain.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> LC_TIME=Spanish_Spain.1252
>>>>>
>>>>> attached base packages:
>>>>> [1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
>> methods   base
>>>>>
>>>>> other attached packages:
>>>>> [1] BSgenome.Ggallus.UCSC.galGal4_1.3.18 BSgenome_1.30.0
>>         easyRNASeq_1.8.1                     ShortRead_1.20.0
>>>>> [5] Rsamtools_1.14.1                     GenomicRanges_1.14.3
>>        DESeq_1.14.0                         lattice_0.20-23
>>>>> [9] locfit_1.5-9.1                       Biostrings_2.30.0
>>         XVector_0.2.0                        IRanges_1.20.4
>>>>> [13] edgeR_3.4.0                          limma_3.18.2
>>          biomaRt_2.18.0                       Biobase_2.22.0
>>>>> [17] genomeIntervals_1.18.0               BiocGenerics_0.8.0
>>          intervals_0.14.0                     BiocInstaller_1.12.0
>>>>>
>>>>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>>>> [1] annotate_1.40.0      AnnotationDbi_1.24.0 bitops_1.0-6
>> DBI_0.2-7            genefilter_1.44.0    geneplotter_1.40.0   grid_3.0.2
>>>>> [8] hwriter_1.3          latticeExtra_0.6-26  LSD_2.5
>> RColorBrewer_1.0-5   RCurl_1.95-4.1       RSQLite_0.11.4
>> splines_3.0.2
>>>>> [15] stats4_3.0.2         survival_2.37-4      tools_3.0.2
>> XML_3.98-1.1         xtable_1.7-1         zlibbioc_1.8.0
>>>>>
>>>>>
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