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---
title: "Inference and Analysis of Synteny Networks"
author:
- name: Fabricio Almeida-Silva
affiliation:
- VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- name: Tao Zhao
affiliation:
- State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas/Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Apple, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China
- name: Kristian K Ullrich
affiliation:
- Department of Evolutionary Biology, Max Planck Institute For Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany
- name: Yves Van de Peer
affiliation:
- VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium
- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- College of Horticulture, Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
- Center for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
output:
BiocStyle::html_document:
toc: true
toc_float: true
number_sections: yes
bibliography: vignette_bibliography.bib
vignette: >
%\VignetteIndexEntry{Inference and Analysis of Synteny Networks}
%\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
%\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
---
```{r setup, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
collapse = TRUE,
comment = "#>",
crop = NULL ## Related to https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioc-devel/2020-April/016656.html
)
```
# Introduction
The analysis of synteny (i.e., conserved gene content and order in a genomic
segment across species) can help understand the trajectory of duplicated
genes through evolution. In particular, synteny analyses are widely used to
investigate the evolution of genes derived from whole-genome duplication (WGD)
events, as they can reveal genomic rearrangements that happened following the
duplication of all chromosomes. However, synteny analysis are typically
performed in a pairwise manner, which can be difficult to explore and interpret
when comparing several species. To understand global patterns of synteny,
@zhao2017network proposed a network-based approach to analyze synteny.
In synteny networks, genes in a given syntenic block are represented as nodes
connected by an edge. Synteny networks have been used to explore, among others,
global synteny patterns in mammalian and angiosperm genomes [@zhao2019network],
the evolution of MADS-box transcription factors [@zhao2017phylogenomic],
and infer a microsynteny-based phylogeny for angiosperms [@zhao2021whole].
`r BiocStyle::Biocpkg("syntenet")` is a package that
can be used to infer synteny networks from
protein sequences and perform downstream network analyses that include:
- **Network clustering** using the Infomap algorithm;
- **Phylogenomic profiling**, which consists in identifying which species
contain which clusters. This analysis can reveal highly conserved synteny
clusters and taxon-specific ones (e.g., family- and order-specific clusters);
- **Microsynteny-based phylogeny reconstruction** with maximum likelihood,
which can be achieved by inferring a phylogeny from a binary matrix of
phylogenomic profiles with IQ-TREE.
# Installation
`r BiocStyle::Biocpkg("syntenet")` can be installed from Bioconductor
with the following code:
```{r installation, eval=FALSE}
if(!requireNamespace('BiocManager', quietly = TRUE))
install.packages('BiocManager')
BiocManager::install("syntenet")
```
```{r load_package, message=FALSE}
# Load package after installation
library(syntenet)
```
# Data description
For this vignette, we will use the proteomes and gene annotation of the algae
species *Ostreococcus lucimarinus* and *Ostreococcus sp RCC809*, which were
obtained from Pico-PLAZA 3.0 [@vandepoele2013pico].
```{r data}
# Protein sequences
data(proteomes)
head(proteomes)
# Annotation (ranges)
data(annotation)
head(annotation)
```
# Importing data to the R session
To detect synteny and infer synteny networks,
`r BiocStyle::Biocpkg("syntenet")` requires two objects
as input:
- **seq:** A list of `AAStringSet` objects containing the translated sequences
of primary transcripts for each species.
- **annotation:** A `GRangesList` or `CompressedGRangesList` object containing
the coordinates for the genes in **seq**.
If you have whole-genome protein sequences in FASTA files, store all FASTA
files in the same directory and use the function `fasta2AAStringSetlist()` to
read all FASTA files into a list of `AAStringSet` objects.
Likewise, if you have gene annotation in GFF/GFF3/GTF files,
store all files in the same directory and use the function `gff2GRangesList()`
to read all GFF/GFF3/GTF files into a `GRangesList object`.
For a demonstration, we will read example FASTA and GFF3 files stored in
subdirectories named **sequences/** and **annotation/**, which are located
in the `extdata/` directory of this package.
## From FASTA files to a list of `AAStringSet` objects
Here is how you can use `fasta2AAStringSetlist()` to read FASTA files
in a directory as a list of `AAStringSet` objects.
```{r fasta2AAStringSetlist}
# Path to directory containing FASTA files
fasta_dir <- system.file("extdata", "sequences", package = "syntenet")
fasta_dir
dir(fasta_dir) # see the contents of the directory
# Read all FASTA files in `fasta_dir`
aastringsetlist <- fasta2AAStringSetlist(fasta_dir)
aastringsetlist
```
And that's it! Now you have a list of `AAStringSet` objects.
## From GFF/GTF files to a `GRangesList` object
Here is how you can use `gff2GRangesList()` to read GFF/GFF3/GTF files
in a directory as a `GRangesList` object.
```{r gff2GRangesList}
# Path to directory containing FASTA files
gff_dir <- system.file("extdata", "annotation", package = "syntenet")
gff_dir
dir(gff_dir) # see the contents of the directory
# Read all FASTA files in `fasta_dir`
grangeslist <- gff2GRangesList(gff_dir)
grangeslist
```
And now you have a `GRangesList` object.
# Data preprocessing
The first part of the pipeline consists in processing the data to make it
match a standard structure. However, before processing the data for synteny
detection, you must use the function `check_input()` to check if your data can
enter the pipeline. This function checks the input data for 3
required conditions:
1. Names of **seq** list (i.e., `names(seq)`) match
the names of **annotation** `GRangesList`/`CompressedGRangesList`
(i.e., `names(annotation)`)
2. For each species (list elements), the number of sequences
in **seq** is not greater than the number of genes
in **annotation**. This is a way to ensure users do not input
the translated sequences for multiple isoforms of the same gene (generated
by alternative splicing). Ideally, the number of sequences in **seq**
should be equal to the number of genes in **annotation**, but
this may not always stand true because of non-protein-coding genes.
3. For each species, sequence names (i.e., `names(seq[[x]])`,
equivalent to FASTA headers) match gene names in `annotation`.
By default, `r BiocStyle::Biocpkg("syntenet")` looks for gene IDs
in a column named "gene_id" in the GRanges objects (default field
in GFF3 files). If your gene IDs are in a different column (e.g., "Name"),
you can specify it in the *gene_field* parameter of `check_input()`
and `process_input()`.
Let's check if the example data sets satisfy these 3 criteria:
```{r check_input}
check_input(proteomes, annotation)
```
As you can see, the data passed the checks. Now, let's process them
with the function `process_input()`.
This function processes the input sequences and annotation to:
1. Remove whitespace and anything after it in sequence names
(i.e., `names(seq[[x]])`, which is equivalent to FASTA headers), if
there is any.
2. Add a unique species identifier to sequence names. The species
identifier consists of the first 3-5 strings of the element name.
For instance, if the first element of the **seq** list is named
"Athaliana", each sequence in it will have an identifier "Atha_" added
to the beginning of each gene name (e.g., Atha_AT1G01010).
3. If sequences have an asterisk (*) representing stop codon, remove it.
4. Add a unique species identifier (same as above) to
gene and chromosome names of each element of the **annotation**
`GRangesList`/`CompressedGRangesList`.
5. Filter each element of the **annotation**
`GRangesList`/`CompressedGRangesList` to keep only seqnames,
ranges, and gene ID.
Let's process our input data:
```{r process_input}
pdata <- process_input(proteomes, annotation)
# Looking at the processed data
pdata$seq
pdata$annotation
```
# Synteny network inference
Now that we have our processed data, we can infer the synteny network.
To detect synteny, we need the tabular output from BLASTp [@altschul1997gapped]
or similar programs. To get that, you can use the functions `run_diamond()`,
or `run_last()`, which runs DIAMOND [@buchfink2021sensitive] or last [@kielbasa2011adaptive]
from the R session and automatically parses its output to a list of data frames [^1].
[^1]: **Alternative:** if you want to use a different program for similarity
searches, you can run it on the command line, save the output in
a DIAMOND/BLAST-like tabular format, and read the output files
as a list of data frames with the function `read_diamond()` or `read_last()`
(see the FAQ for details).
Let's demonstrate how `run_diamond()` works.
Needless to say, you need to have DIAMOND installed in your machine
and in your PATH to run this function. To check if you have DIAMOND installed,
use the function `diamond_is_installed()` [^2].
[^2]: **Note:** in the code chunk below, the if statement is not required.
We just added it to make sure that the function `run_diamond()` is only
executed if DIAMOND is installed, to avoid problems when building this
vignette in machines that do not have DIAMOND installed. If you want to
reproduce the code in this vignette and do not have DIAMOND installed,
you can use the example output of `run_diamond()` stored in the *blast_list*
object (loaded with `data(blast_list)`).
```{r run_diamond}
data(blast_list)
if(diamond_is_installed()) {
blast_list <- run_diamond(seq = pdata$seq)
}
```
The output of `run_diamond()` is a list of data frames containing the tabular
output of all-vs-all DIAMOND searches. Let's take a look at it.
```{r blast_inspect}
# List names
names(blast_list)
# Inspect first data frame
head(blast_list$Olucimarinus_Olucimarinus)
```
Now, we can use this list of DIAMOND data frames to detect synteny. Here,
we reimplemented the popular MCScanX algorithm [@wang2012mcscanx], originally
written in C++, using the `r BiocStyle::CRANpkg("Rcpp")` [@eddelbuettel2011rcpp]
framework for R and C++ integration. This means that
`r BiocStyle::Biocpkg("syntenet")` comes with a native
version of the MCScanX algorithm, so you can run MCScanX in R without
having to install it yourself. Amazing, huh?
To detect synteny and infer the synteny network, use the
function `infer_syntenet()`. The output is a network represented as a
so-called **edge list** (i.e., a 2-column data frame with node 1 and node 2
in columns 1 and 2, respectively).
```{r infer_syntenet}
# Infer synteny network
net <- infer_syntenet(blast_list, pdata$annotation)
# Look at the output
head(net)
```
In a synteny network, each row of the edge list represents an anchor pair.
In the edge list above, for example,
the genes `r net[1,1]` and `r net[1,2]` are an anchor pair (i.e., duplicates
derived from a large-scale duplication event).
Note that gene IDs are preceded by IDs created with `process_input()`.
Under the hood, `process_input()` uses the function `create_species_id_table()`
to create unique IDs from the names of the **seq** and **annotation** lists.
To obtain a data frame of all IDs and their corresponding species, you can
use the following code:
```{r create_species_id_table}
# Get a 2-column data frame of species IDs and names
id_table <- create_species_id_table(names(proteomes))
id_table
```
# Phylogenomic profiling
After inferring the synteny network, the first thing you would want to do is
cluster your network and identify which phylogenetic groups are contained
in each cluster. This is what we call **phylogenomic profiling**. This way,
you can identify clade-specific clusters, and highly conserved clusters,
for instance. Here, we will use an example network of BUSCO genes for
25 eudicot species, which was obtained from @zhao2019network.
To obtain the phylogenomic profiles, you first need to cluster your network.
This can be done with `cluster_network()`. [^3]
[^3]: **Friendly tip:** `r BiocStyle::Biocpkg("syntenet")` uses the *Infomap*
algorithm to cluster networks, which has been shown to have the best performance
[@zhao2019network]. However, you can use any other network clustering
method implemented in the *cluster_* family of functions from the
`r BiocStyle::CRANpkg("igraph")` package by passing the function directly
to the *clust_function* parameter (see `?cluster_network` for details).
Importantly, the Infomap algorithm (default clustering method)
assigns each gene to a single cluster.
However, for some cases (e.g., detection of tandem arrays),
you may want to use an algorithm that allows community overlap
(i.e., a gene can be part of more than one cluster).
If this is your case, we recommend the *clique percolation* algorithm,
which is implemented in the R package
`r BiocStyle::CRANpkg("CliquePercolation")` [@lange2021cliquepercolation].
```{r cluster_network}
# Load example data and take a look at it
data(network)
head(network)
# Cluster network
clusters <- cluster_network(network)
head(clusters)
```
Now that each gene has been assigned to a cluster, we can identify the
phylogenomic profiles of each cluster. This function returns
a matrix of phylogenomic profiles, with clusters in rows
and species in columns.
```{r phylogenomic_profile}
# Phylogenomic profiling
profiles <- phylogenomic_profile(clusters)
# Exploring the output
head(profiles)
```
As a plot is worth a thousand words (or numbers), you can use the function
`plot_profiles()` to visualize the phylogenomic profiles as a heatmap with
species in rows and synteny network clusters in columns. The heatmap
generated by this function is highly customizable by users. Some
important remarks are:
1. You can add a legend for species metadata (e.g., taxonomic information)
by passing a 2-column data frame to the parameter *species_annotation*.
2. Columns (network clusters) are grouped with Ward's clustering on a matrix
of distances. The method to compute the distance matrix can be defined by users
in parameters *dist_function* and *dist_params*. By default, it uses
the function `stats::dist()` with parameter `method = "euclidean"`. Likewise,
the function to cluster the distance matrix and additional parameters
can be specified in *clust_function* and *clust_params*. By default,
it uses `stats::hclust` with parameter `method = "ward.D"`.
3. The order in which species are displayed can be defined by users in
parameter *cluster_species*. We strongly recommend passing a vector of
species order that matches the species tree, so that patterns can be
explored in a phylogenetic context. Importantly, if the character vector is
named, vector names will be used as species names in the plot. This a nice
way to replace species abbreviations with their full names.
Here, to briefly demonstrate how to play with the parameters we just mentioned
in the 3 remarks above, we will:
- Create a vector with the order in which we want species to be displayed,
with longer species names in vector names.
- Create a metadata data frame containing the family of each species.
- Use the function `dsvdis()` from the `r BiocStyle::CRANpkg("labdsv")` package
to calculate Ruzicka distances when clustering columns.
```{r plot_profiles}
# 1) Create a named vector of custom species order to plot
species_order <- setNames(
# vector elements
c(
"vra", "van", "pvu", "gma", "cca", "tpr", "mtr", "adu", "lja",
"Lang", "car", "pmu", "ppe", "pbr", "mdo", "roc", "fve",
"Mnot", "Zjuj", "jcu", "mes", "rco", "lus", "ptr"
),
# vector names
c(
"V. radiata", "V. angularis", "P. vulgaris", "G. max", "C. cajan",
"T. pratense", "M. truncatula", "A. duranensis", "L. japonicus",
"L. angustifolius", "C. arietinum", "P. mume", "P. persica",
"P. bretschneideri", "M. domestica", "R. occidentalis",
"F. vesca", "M. notabilis", "Z. jujuba",
"J. curcas", "M. esculenta", "R. communis",
"L. usitatissimum", "P. trichocarpa"
)
)
species_order
# 2) Create a metadata data frame containing the family of each species
species_annotation <- data.frame(
Species = species_order,
Family = c(
rep("Fabaceae", 11), rep("Rosaceae", 6),
"Moraceae", "Ramnaceae", rep("Euphorbiaceae", 3),
"Linaceae", "Salicaceae"
)
)
head(species_annotation)
# 3) Plot phylogenomic profiles, but using Ruzicka distances
plot_profiles(
profiles,
species_annotation,
cluster_species = species_order,
dist_function = labdsv::dsvdis,
dist_params = list(index = "ruzicka")
)
```
The heatmap is a nice way to observe patterns. For instance, you can see some
Rosaceae-specific clusters, Fabaceae-specific clusters, and highly conserved
ones as well.
If you want to explore in more details the group-specific clusters,
you can use the function `find_GS_clusters()`. For that, you only need to
input the profiles matrix and a data frame of species annotation (i.e.,
species groups).
```{r find_GS_clusters}
# Find group-specific clusters
gs_clusters <- find_GS_clusters(profiles, species_annotation)
head(gs_clusters)
# How many family-specific clusters are there?
nrow(gs_clusters)
```
As you can see, there are `r nrow(gs_clusters)` family-specific clusters
in the network. Let's plot a heatmap of group-specific clusters only.
```{r heatmap_filtered}
# Filter profiles matrix to only include group-specific clusters
idx <- rownames(profiles) %in% gs_clusters$Cluster
p_gs <- profiles[idx, ]
# Plot heatmap
plot_profiles(
p_gs, species_annotation,
cluster_species = species_order,
cluster_columns = TRUE
)
```
Pretty cool, huh? You can also visualize clusters as a network plot with
the function `plot_network()`. For example, let's visualize the
group-specific clusters.
```{r plot_network}
# 1) Visualize a network of first 5 GS-clusters
id <- gs_clusters$Cluster[1:5]
plot_network(network, clusters, cluster_id = id)
# 2) Coloring nodes by family
genes <- unique(c(network$node1, network$node2))
gene_df <- data.frame(
Gene = genes,
Species = unlist(lapply(strsplit(genes, "_"), head, 1))
)
gene_df <- merge(gene_df, species_annotation)[, c("Gene", "Family")]
head(gene_df)
plot_network(network, clusters, cluster_id = id, color_by = gene_df)
# 3) Interactive visualization (zoom out and in to explore it)
plot_network(
network, clusters, cluster_id = id,
interactive = TRUE, dim_interactive = c(500, 300)
)
```
# Microsynteny-based phylogeny reconstruction
Finally, you can use the information on presence/absence of clusters in each
species to reconstruct a microsynteny-based phylogeny.
To do that, you first need to binarize the profiles matrix (0s and 1s
representing absence and presence, respectively) and transpose it. This can
be done with `binarize_and_tranpose()`.
```{r binarize}
bt_mat <- binarize_and_transpose(profiles)
# Looking at the first 5 rows and 5 columns of the matrix
bt_mat[1:5, 1:5]
```
Now, you can use this transposed binary matrix as input to
IQ-TREE [@minh2020iq] to infer a phylogeny. To do so, you can use the function
`infer_microsynteny_phylogeny()`, which allows you to run IQ-TREE from
an R session [^4]. You need to have IQ-TREE installed in your machine and in
your PATH to run this function. You can check if you have IQ-TREE installed
with `iqtree_is_installed()`.
[^4]: **Alternative:** if you want to use a different program rather
than IQ-TREE, you can use the function `profiles2phylip()` to write the
transposed binary matrix to a PHYLIP file and run your favorite program
on the command line. However, when inferring a phylogeny from phylogenomic
profiles, you need to make sure that the program you are using supports
substitution models for binary data. In IQ-TREE, for instance, using
binary, morphological models requires passing parameters `-st MORPH`.
For the sake of demonstration, we will infer a phylogeny with
`infer_microsynteny_phylogeny()` using the profiles for BUSCO genes for
six legume species only. We will also remove non-variable sites (i.e.,
clusters that are present in all species or absent in all species).
However, we're only using this filtered data set for speed issues.
For real-life applications, the best thing to do is to
**include phylogenomic profiles for all genes** (not only BUSCO genes).
```{r infer_phylogeny}
# Leave only 6 legume species and P. mume as an outgroup for testing purposes
included <- c("gma", "pvu", "vra", "van", "cca", "pmu")
bt_mat <- bt_mat[rownames(bt_mat) %in% included, ]
# Remove non-variable sites
bt_mat <- bt_mat[, colSums(bt_mat) != length(included)]
if(iqtree_is_installed()) {
phylo <- infer_microsynteny_phylogeny(bt_mat, outgroup = "pmu",
threads = 1)
}
```
The output of `infer_microsynteny_phylogeny()` is a character vector with paths
to the output files from IQ-TREE. Usually, you are interested in the file
ending in *.treefile*. This is the species tree in Newick format, and it can
be visualized with your favorite tree viewer. We strongly recommend using
the `read.tree()` function from the Bioconductor package
`r BiocStyle::Biocpkg("treeio")` [@wang2020treeio] to
read the tree, and visualizing it with the `r BiocStyle::Biocpkg("ggtree")`
Bioc package [@yu2017ggtree].
For example, let's visualize a microsynteny-based phylogeny for 123 angiosperm
species, whose phylogenomic profiles were obtained from @zhao2021whole.
```{r vis_phylogeny, message = FALSE, warning = FALSE, fig.height = 12, fig.width = 7}
data(angiosperm_phylogeny)
# Plotting the tree
library(ggtree)
ggtree(angiosperm_phylogeny) +
geom_tiplab(size = 3) +
xlim(0, 0.3)
```
# __syntenet__ as a synteny detection tool
In some cases, users do not want to infer a synteny network, but only want to
identify syntenic regions within a single genome or between two genomes. This
can be accomplished with the functions `intraspecies_synteny()` and
`interspecies_synteny()`. In fact, these functions are used under the hood
by `infer_syntenet()` to infer a network.
To detect synteny, you will need:
1. A list of DIAMOND/BLAST data frames as returned by `run_diamond()`.
For `intraspecies_synteny()`, only intraspecies comparisons must be
included; for `interspecies_synteny()`, only interspecies comparisons
must be included.
2. A `GRangesList` object containing the processed annotation for your
species of interest, as returned by `process_input()`.
The output of `intraspecies_synteny()` and `interspecies_synteny()` is
the path to the *.collinearity* files generated by MCScanX [@wang2012mcscanx],
which can be read and parsed with the `parse_collinearity()` function.
To demonstrate the usage of `intraspecies_synteny()`, let's identify syntenic
regions in the genome of *Saccharomyces cerevisiae*. The processed annotation
and DIAMOND output are stored in the example data sets `scerevisiae_annot`
and `scerevisiae_diamond`.
```{r}
# Load data
data(scerevisiae_annot)
data(scerevisiae_diamond)
# Take a look at the data
head(scerevisiae_annot)
names(scerevisiae_diamond)
head(scerevisiae_diamond$Scerevisiae_Scerevisiae)
# Detect intragenome synteny
intra_syn <- intraspecies_synteny(
scerevisiae_diamond, scerevisiae_annot
)
intra_syn # see where the .collinearity file is
# Read .collinearity file
scerevisiae_syn <- parse_collinearity(intra_syn)
head(scerevisiae_syn)
```
To demonstrate the usage of `interspecies_synteny()`, let's detect syntenic
regions between the genomes of *Ostreococcus lucimarinus* and
*Ostreococcus sp RCC809*. For these genomes, we already have processed
annotation and the DIAMOND list in the objects `pdata` and `blast_list`,
obtained in previous sections of this vignette.
```{r}
# Keep only interspecies DIAMOND comparisons
names(blast_list)
diamond_inter <- blast_list[c(2, 3)]
# Double-check if we have processed annotation for these 2 species
names(pdata$annotation)
# Detect interspecies synteny
intersyn <- interspecies_synteny(diamond_inter, pdata$annotation)
intersyn # see where the .collinearity file is
# Read .collinearity file
ostreoccocus_syn <- parse_collinearity(intersyn)
head(ostreoccocus_syn)
```
Note that `parse_collinearity()` returns a data frame of anchor pairs by
default, but you can also obtain synteny block information, or a combination
of both by changing the argument to the *as* parameter
(check the man page with `?parse_collinearity` for details):
```{r parse_collinearity_examples}
# 1) Get anchors with `parse_collinearity()`
anchors <- parse_collinearity(intra_syn)
head(anchors)
# 2) Get synteny block with `parse_collinearity()`
blocks <- parse_collinearity(intra_syn, as = "blocks")
head(blocks)
# 3) Get synteny blocks and anchor pairs in a single data frame
all <- parse_collinearity(intra_syn, as = "all")
head(all)
```
# FAQ {.unnumbered}
## How do I execute an external dependency that is not in my PATH? {.unnumbered}
If you have DIAMOND and/or IQ-TREE installed, but in a directory that is not in
your PATH, you can add this given directory to your PATH with the function
`Sys.setenv()`.
For example, suppose your DIAMOND binary is in `/home/username/bioinfo_tools`.
To add this directory to your PATH, you would run:
```{r faq1}
# Add example directory /home/username/bioinfo_tools to PATH
Sys.setenv(
PATH = paste(
Sys.getenv("PATH"), "/home/username/bioinfo_tools", sep = ":"
)
)
```
Note that your R PATH is not the same as your system's PATH. Thus, even if you
add the directory `/home/username/bioinfo_tools` to your system's path (e.g.,
by editing your ~/.bashrc file if you are on Linux), you would still need to
update your R PATH.
## Can I run the DIAMOND searches on the command line and import the results? {.unnumbered}
Yes. This case is quite common for users who have a large amount
of data and want to execute DIAMOND or any similarity search program
in an HPC cluster (by submitting a job with `qsub` to execute a Bash script).
To do that, you will have to follow the 3 steps below:
1. Export the processed sequences (as returned by `process_input()`) with the function `export_sequences()`. This function will write the sequences
to FASTA files in the directory specified in the **outdir**
parameter.
2. Navigate (i.e., `cd`) to the directory specified in **outdir**, where
the FASTA files are, and execute all-vs-all similarity searches. The
output files must be named "[species]_[species].tsv", where [species]
indicates the basename of the FASTA files (e.g., "speciesA" for a FASTA
file named *speciesA.fasta*). For DIAMOND, you can use the following
code (with adaptations, if you prefer):
```{bash eval=FALSE}
#!/bin/bash
# Create output directories `dbs` and `results`
mkdir -p dbs
mkdir -p results
# 1. Make dbs for each species
for seqfile in *.fasta
do
dbfile="dbs/$(basename "$seqfile" .fasta)"
diamond makedb --in "$seqfile" -d "$dbfile" --quiet
done
# 2. Perform all-vs-all pairwise similarity searches
species=( $(basename -s .fasta *.fasta) )
for (( i=0; i<${#species[@]}; i++ ))
do
query="${species[$i]}.fasta"
for (( j=0; j<${#species[@]}; j++ ))
do
db="dbs/${species[$j]}"
outfile="results/${species[$i]}_${species[$j]}.tsv"
diamond blastp -q "$query" -d "$db" -o "$outfile" \
--max-hsps 1 -k 5 --quiet
done
done
```
3. Read the output of the similarity searches into a list of
data frames with the `read_diamond()` function. As input, `read_diamond()`
takes the path to the directory containing the DIAMOND/BLAST output files.
## My sequence names do not match gene IDs in the annotation. What should I do? {.unnumbered}
When the names of your sequences (equivalent to FASTA headers) do not match
the gene IDs in your `GRanges` objects, __syntenet__ throws the following error:
> Sequence names in 'seq' do not match gene names in 'annotation'.
In most (if not all) of the cases, this error happens because users have
protein IDs as sequence names, and __syntenet__ looks for gene IDs
(i.e., using rows of the `GRanges` objects for which the
column *type* is "gene"). This is the case, for instance, for data obtained
from NCBI's RefSeq database. To solve the issue, you need to replace
**protein/transcript IDs** with **gene IDs** in sequence names, which can
be done with the function `collapse_protein_ids()`.
To demonstrate how this works, let's explore an example data set containing
protein sequences and gene annotation obtained from RefSeq. The data contains
information on a subset of 16 genes from the fish species *Alosa alosa*, and
it is stored in the `extdata/RefSeq_parsing_example` directory of this
package.
```{r faq3-p1}
# Path to directory containing data
data_dir <- system.file(
"extdata", "RefSeq_parsing_example", package = "syntenet"
)
dir(data_dir)
# Reading the files to a format that syntenet understands
seqs <- fasta2AAStringSetlist(data_dir)
annot <- gff2GRangesList(data_dir)
# Taking a look at the data
seqs
head(names(seqs$Aalosa))
annot
```
The first problem we can observe is that sequence names have additional text
describing the sequences (e.g., "GSK3-beta..."), and we must have only the IDs.
To solve this issue, we can remove whitespace and everything
that comes after it.
```{r faq3-p2}
# Remove whitespace and everything after it
names(seqs$Aalosa) <- gsub(" .*", "", names(seqs$Aalosa))
# Taking a look at the new names
head(names(seqs$Aalosa))
```
Great, we removed the unnecessary text! However, there is still
a problem: sequence names start with *XP_....*. If you look closer at the
first row of `annot$Aalosa` (which contains ranges for genes), you will
notice that none of the columns contain such *XP_...* IDs. This is because
RefSeq uses such IDs for CDS, not for genes. Let's check if we can indeed find
the *XP_...* IDs in rows that have "CDS" in the `type` column.
```{r faq3-p3}
# Show only rows for which `type` is "CDS"
head(annot$Aalosa[annot$Aalosa$type == "CDS"])
```
The *XP_...* IDs can be found in the `Name` column. Note also that the gene IDs,
which are what we need for __syntenet__, are in the `gene` column. To collapse
protein IDs to gene IDs with `collapse_protein_ids()`, we will need to create
a list of 2-column data frames containing the correspondence between
protein IDs and gene IDs for each species. In this example, we can do that
by extracting the columns `Name` and `gene` from rows that represent CDS
ranges.
```{r faq-p4}
# Create a list of data frames containing protein-to-gene ID correspondences
protein2gene <- lapply(annot, function(x) {
# Extract only CDS ranges
cds_ranges <- x[x$type == "CDS"]
# Create the ID correspondence data frame
df <- data.frame(
protein_id = cds_ranges$Name,
gene_id = cds_ranges$gene
)
# Remove duplicate rows
df <- df[!duplicated(df$protein_id), ]
return(df)
})
# Taking a look at the list
protein2gene
```
Finally, we can pass the list of sequences and the list of ID correspondences
to `collapse_protein_ids()`, which will return a list of `AAStringSet` objects
with gene IDs in sequence names.
```{r faq-p5}
# Collapse protein IDs to gene IDs in list of sequences
new_seq <- collapse_protein_ids(seqs, protein2gene)
# Looking at the new sequences
new_seq
```
As you can see, protein IDs have been replaced with gene IDs. If there are
multiple proteins for the same gene (i.e., different isoforms), the function
keeps only the longest sequence (also known as protein products of the
primary transcript). This way, the number of sequences will never be greater
than the number of genes, which is what __syntenet__ expects.
# Session information {.unnumbered}
This document was created under the following conditions:
```{r sessionInfo}
sessionInfo()
```
# References {.unnumbered}