| Title: | Extract read count signals from bam files |
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| Description: | This package allows to efficiently obtain count vectors from indexed bam files. It counts the number of reads in given genomic ranges and it computes reads profiles and coverage profiles. It also handles paired-end data. |
| Authors: | Alessandro Mammana [aut, cre], Johannes Helmuth [aut] |
| Maintainer: | Johannes Helmuth <[email protected]> |
| License: | GPL-2 |
| Version: | 1.39.0 |
| Built: | 2024-12-07 05:56:35 UTC |
| Source: | https://github.com/bioc/bamsignals |
l such that
l[[i]] is the i-th signal.Converts the container to a list l such that
l[[i]] is the i-th signal.
## S3 method for class 'CountSignals' as.list(x, ...)## S3 method for class 'CountSignals' as.list(x, ...)
x |
A CountSignals object |
... |
not used |
a list l such that
l[[i]] is x[i].
Functions and classes for extracting signals from a bam file. Differently than the other packages, this package is not supposed to import reads in R. All the read-processing is done in C/C++ and the only output are read counts.
Alessandro Mammana [email protected]
Johannes Helmuth [email protected]
bamsignals-methods for the functions and
CountSignals for the class.
Functions for extracting count signals from a bam file.
bamCount: for each range, count the reads whose 5' end map in it.
bamProfile: for each base pair in the ranges, compute the number of reads
whose 5' end maps there.
bamCoverage: for each base pair in the ranges, compute the number of reads
covering it.
## S4 method for signature 'character,GenomicRanges' bamCount(bampath, gr, mapqual = 0, shift = 0, ss = FALSE, paired.end = c("ignore", "filter", "midpoint"), tlenFilter = NULL, filteredFlag = -1, verbose = TRUE) ## S4 method for signature 'character,GenomicRanges' bamProfile(bampath, gr, binsize = 1, mapqual = 0, shift = 0, ss = FALSE, paired.end = c("ignore", "filter", "midpoint"), tlenFilter = NULL, filteredFlag = -1, verbose = TRUE) ## S4 method for signature 'character,GenomicRanges' bamCoverage(bampath, gr, mapqual = 0, paired.end = c("ignore", "extend"), tlenFilter = NULL, filteredFlag = -1, verbose = TRUE)## S4 method for signature 'character,GenomicRanges' bamCount(bampath, gr, mapqual = 0, shift = 0, ss = FALSE, paired.end = c("ignore", "filter", "midpoint"), tlenFilter = NULL, filteredFlag = -1, verbose = TRUE) ## S4 method for signature 'character,GenomicRanges' bamProfile(bampath, gr, binsize = 1, mapqual = 0, shift = 0, ss = FALSE, paired.end = c("ignore", "filter", "midpoint"), tlenFilter = NULL, filteredFlag = -1, verbose = TRUE) ## S4 method for signature 'character,GenomicRanges' bamCoverage(bampath, gr, mapqual = 0, paired.end = c("ignore", "extend"), tlenFilter = NULL, filteredFlag = -1, verbose = TRUE)
bampath |
path to the bam file storing the read. The file must be indexed. |
gr |
GenomicRanges object used to specify the regions. If a range is on the negative strand the profile will be reverse-complemented. |
mapqual |
discard reads with mapping quality strictly lower than this parameter. The value 0 ensures that no read will be discarded, the value 254 that only reads with the highest possible mapping quality will be considered. |
shift |
shift the read position by a user-defined number of basepairs. This can be handy in the analysis of chip-seq data. |
ss |
produce a strand-specific profile or ignore the strand of the read. This option does not have any effect on the strand of the region. Strand-specific profiles are twice as long then strand-independent profiles. |
paired.end |
a character string indicating how to handle paired-end
reads. If |
tlenFilter |
A filter on fragment length as estimated from alignment
in paired end experiments (TLEN). If set to |
filteredFlag |
Filter out reads with a certain flag set, e.g. "1024" to filter out PCR or optical duplicates. |
verbose |
a logical value indicating whether verbose output is desired |
binsize |
If the value is set to 1, the method will return basepair-resolution read densities, for bigger values the density profiles will be binned (and the memory requirements will scale accordingly). |
A read position is always specified by its 5' end, so a read mapping
to the reference strand is positioned at its leftmost coordinate, a
read mapping to the alternative strand is positioned at its rightmost
coordinate. This can be changed using the shift parameter.
bamProfile and bamCoverage: a CountSignals object with a signal
per region
bamCount: a vector with one element per region or,
if ss==TRUE, a matrix with one column per region and two rows
(sense and antisense).
CountSignals for handling the return value of
bamProfile and bamCoverage
## TOY DATA ## library(GenomicRanges) bampath <- system.file("extdata", "randomBam.bam", package="bamsignals") genes <- get(load(system.file("extdata", "randomAnnot.Rdata", package="bamsignals"))) ## THE FUNCTION 'count' ## #count how many reads map in each region (according to 5' end) v <- bamCount(bampath, genes) #plot it labs <- paste0(seqnames(genes), ":", start(genes), "-", end(genes)) par(mar=c(5, 6, 4, 2)) barplot(v, names.arg=labs, main="read counts per region", las=2, horiz=TRUE, cex.names=.6) #distinguish between strands v2 <- bamCount(bampath, genes, ss=TRUE) #plot it par(mar=c(5, 6, 4, 2)) barplot(v2, names.arg=labs, main="read counts per region", las=2, horiz=TRUE, cex.names=.6, col=c("blue", "red"), legend=TRUE) ## THE FUNCTIONS 'bamProfile' and 'bamCoverage' ## #count how many reads map to each base pair (according to 5' end) pu <- bamProfile(bampath, genes) #count how many reads cover each base pair du <- bamCoverage(bampath, genes) #plot it xlab <- "offset from start of the region" ylab <- "reads per base pair" main <- paste0("read coverage and profile of the region ", labs[1]) plot(du[1], ylim=c(0, max(du[1])), ylab=ylab, xlab=xlab, main=main, type="l") lines(pu[1], lty=2) llab <- c("covering the base pair", "5' end maps to the base pair") legend("topright", llab, lty=c(1,2), bg="white") ## REGIONS OF THE SAME SIZE AND OPTIONS FOR 'bamProfile' ## proms <- promoters(genes, upstream=150, downstream=150) #pileup according to strand pu_ss <- bamProfile(bampath, proms, ss=TRUE) #compute average over regions avg_ss <- apply(alignSignals(pu_ss), 2, rowMeans) #profile using a strand-specific shift pu_shift <- bamProfile(bampath, proms, shift=75) #compute average over regions avg_shift <- rowMeans(alignSignals(pu_shift)) #profile using a strand-specific shift and a binning scheme binsize <- 20 pu_shift_bin <- bamProfile(bampath, proms, shift=75, binsize=binsize) #compute average over regions avg_shift_bin <- rowMeans(alignSignals(pu_shift_bin)) #plot it xs <- -149:150 main <- paste0("average read profile over ", length(proms), " promoters") xlab <- "distance from TSS" ylab <- "average reads per base pair" plot(xs, avg_shift, xlab=xlab, ylab=ylab, main=main, type="l", ylim=c(0, max(avg_shift))) lines(xs, avg_ss["sense",], col="blue") lines(xs, avg_ss["antisense",], col="red") lines(xs, rep(avg_shift_bin/binsize, each=binsize), lty=2) llabs <- c("sense reads", "antisense reads", "with shift", "binned and with shift") legend("topright", llabs, col=c("blue", "red", "black", "black"), lty=c(1,1,1,2), bg="white")## TOY DATA ## library(GenomicRanges) bampath <- system.file("extdata", "randomBam.bam", package="bamsignals") genes <- get(load(system.file("extdata", "randomAnnot.Rdata", package="bamsignals"))) ## THE FUNCTION 'count' ## #count how many reads map in each region (according to 5' end) v <- bamCount(bampath, genes) #plot it labs <- paste0(seqnames(genes), ":", start(genes), "-", end(genes)) par(mar=c(5, 6, 4, 2)) barplot(v, names.arg=labs, main="read counts per region", las=2, horiz=TRUE, cex.names=.6) #distinguish between strands v2 <- bamCount(bampath, genes, ss=TRUE) #plot it par(mar=c(5, 6, 4, 2)) barplot(v2, names.arg=labs, main="read counts per region", las=2, horiz=TRUE, cex.names=.6, col=c("blue", "red"), legend=TRUE) ## THE FUNCTIONS 'bamProfile' and 'bamCoverage' ## #count how many reads map to each base pair (according to 5' end) pu <- bamProfile(bampath, genes) #count how many reads cover each base pair du <- bamCoverage(bampath, genes) #plot it xlab <- "offset from start of the region" ylab <- "reads per base pair" main <- paste0("read coverage and profile of the region ", labs[1]) plot(du[1], ylim=c(0, max(du[1])), ylab=ylab, xlab=xlab, main=main, type="l") lines(pu[1], lty=2) llab <- c("covering the base pair", "5' end maps to the base pair") legend("topright", llab, lty=c(1,2), bg="white") ## REGIONS OF THE SAME SIZE AND OPTIONS FOR 'bamProfile' ## proms <- promoters(genes, upstream=150, downstream=150) #pileup according to strand pu_ss <- bamProfile(bampath, proms, ss=TRUE) #compute average over regions avg_ss <- apply(alignSignals(pu_ss), 2, rowMeans) #profile using a strand-specific shift pu_shift <- bamProfile(bampath, proms, shift=75) #compute average over regions avg_shift <- rowMeans(alignSignals(pu_shift)) #profile using a strand-specific shift and a binning scheme binsize <- 20 pu_shift_bin <- bamProfile(bampath, proms, shift=75, binsize=binsize) #compute average over regions avg_shift_bin <- rowMeans(alignSignals(pu_shift_bin)) #plot it xs <- -149:150 main <- paste0("average read profile over ", length(proms), " promoters") xlab <- "distance from TSS" ylab <- "average reads per base pair" plot(xs, avg_shift, xlab=xlab, ylab=ylab, main=main, type="l", ylim=c(0, max(avg_shift))) lines(xs, avg_ss["sense",], col="blue") lines(xs, avg_ss["antisense",], col="red") lines(xs, rep(avg_shift_bin/binsize, each=binsize), lty=2) llabs <- c("sense reads", "antisense reads", "with shift", "binned and with shift") legend("topright", llabs, col=c("blue", "red", "black", "black"), lty=c(1,1,1,2), bg="white")
This s4 class is a tiny wrapper around a normal list (stored in the
signals slot) and it is the output of the methods in the
bamsignals package.
Among other things the container provides an accessor method,
that returns single signals as vectors and matrices, and the
methods as.list and alignSignals, that convert the
container to a list or an array/matrix respectively. A CountSignals
object is read-only, i.e. it cannot be modified.
## S4 method for signature 'CountSignals' length(x) ## S4 method for signature 'CountSignals' width(x) ## S4 method for signature 'CountSignals,ANY' x[i, drop = TRUE] ## S4 method for signature 'CountSignals' as.list(x) ## S4 method for signature 'CountSignals' alignSignals(x)## S4 method for signature 'CountSignals' length(x) ## S4 method for signature 'CountSignals' width(x) ## S4 method for signature 'CountSignals,ANY' x[i, drop = TRUE] ## S4 method for signature 'CountSignals' as.list(x) ## S4 method for signature 'CountSignals' alignSignals(x)
x |
A CountSignals object |
i |
Index for subsetting. It can be a single index as well as a vector of indices. |
drop |
In case |
return values are described in the Methods section.
length: Number of contained signals
width: Width of each signal. If the CountSignals
object csig is strand-specific then
width(csig)[i] == ncol(csig[i]), otherwise
width(csig)[i] = length(csig[i]).
[: Access single signals or subset the CountSignals
object.
If i is a single index and drop==TRUE then the accessor returns
a single signal. If x is strand-specific then a single signal is a
matrix with two rows, the first for the sense, the second for the antisense
strand. Otherwise a signle signal is simply a vector of integers. If i
is a vector of length different than 1, then the acessor returns a subset of
the CountSignals object. Invalid indices result into errors.
as.list: Converts the container to a list l such that
l[[i]] is the i-th signal.
alignSignals: Convert to a matrix or to an array. This is only
possible if all signals have the same width w. If the CountSignals
object csig is strand-specific, the result is an array of dimensions
[2, w, length(csig)], otherwise it will be a matrix of dimensions
[w, length(csig)].
ssA single boolean value indicating whether all signals are strand-specific or not
signalsA list of integer vectors (if ss==TRUE) or of integer
matrices, representing each signal
bamsignals-methods for the functions that produce
this object
#get a CountSignals object library(GenomicRanges) bampath <- system.file("extdata", "randomBam.bam", package="bamsignals") genes <- get(load(system.file("extdata", "randomAnnot.Rdata", package="bamsignals"))) csig <- bamProfile(bampath, genes, ss=TRUE) #show it show(csig) #number of contained signals len <- length(csig) #width of each signal w <- width(csig) #get one element as a vector (or matrix) v <- csig[1] #use as if it was a list tot_per_sig <- sapply(csig, sum) #convert to a list siglist <- as.list(csig) #get regions and signals of the same width proms <- promoters(genes, upstream=150, downstream=150) csig <- bamCoverage(bampath, proms) #convert to matrix mat <- alignSignals(csig)#get a CountSignals object library(GenomicRanges) bampath <- system.file("extdata", "randomBam.bam", package="bamsignals") genes <- get(load(system.file("extdata", "randomAnnot.Rdata", package="bamsignals"))) csig <- bamProfile(bampath, genes, ss=TRUE) #show it show(csig) #number of contained signals len <- length(csig) #width of each signal w <- width(csig) #get one element as a vector (or matrix) v <- csig[1] #use as if it was a list tot_per_sig <- sapply(csig, sum) #convert to a list siglist <- as.list(csig) #get regions and signals of the same width proms <- promoters(genes, upstream=150, downstream=150) csig <- bamCoverage(bampath, proms) #convert to matrix mat <- alignSignals(csig)