The IndexedFst class provides fast named random access
to indexed fst files. It is based on the fst package,
which provides fast random reading of data frames. This is particularly
useful to manipulate large collections of binding sites without loading
them all in memory.
Creating an indexed fst file from a data.frame is very simple:
## Loading required package: scanMiR# we create a temporary directory in which the files will be saved
tmp <- tempdir()
f <- file.path(tmp, "test")
# we create a dummy data.frame
d <- data.frame( category=sample(LETTERS[1:4], 10000, replace=TRUE),
var2=sample(LETTERS, 10000, replace=TRUE),
var3=runif(10000) )
saveIndexedFst(d, index.by="category", file.prefix=f)The file can then be loaded (without having all the data in memory) in the following way:
## [1] "IndexedFst"
## attr(,"package")
## [1] "scanMiRApp"## <fst file>
## 10000 rows, 3 columns (test.fst)
##
## * 'category': character
## * 'var2' : character
## * 'var3' : doubleWe can see that d2 is considerably smaller than the
original d:
## [1] "237 Kb"## [1] "2.4 Kb"Nevertheless, a number of functions can be used normally on the object:
## [1] 10000## [1] 3## [1] "category" "var2" "var3"## category var2 var3
## 1 A W 0.20581679
## 2 A I 0.34200166
## 3 A C 0.57244492
## 4 A G 0.28961427
## 5 A P 0.04906822
## 6 A W 0.97997983In addition, the object can be accessed as a list (using the indexed
variable). Since in this case the file is indexed using the category
column, the different categories can be accessed as names
of the object:
## [1] "A" "B" "C" "D"## A B C D
## 2475 2471 2551 2503We can read specifically the rows pertaining to one category using:
## category var2 var3
## 1 B N 0.90477901
## 2 B V 0.71859241
## 3 B X 0.53217675
## 4 B Q 0.57689692
## 5 B K 0.08894358
## 6 B H 0.34006295In addition to data.frames, GRanges can be saved as indexed Fst. To demonstrate this, we first create a dummy GRanges object:
## Loading required package: stats4## Loading required package: BiocGenerics## Loading required package: generics##
## Attaching package: 'generics'## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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## as.difftime, as.factor, as.ordered, intersect, is.element, setdiff,
## setequal, union##
## Attaching package: 'BiocGenerics'## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
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## IQR, mad, sd, var, xtabs## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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## Filter, Find, Map, Position, Reduce, anyDuplicated, aperm, append,
## as.data.frame, basename, cbind, colnames, dirname, do.call,
## duplicated, eval, evalq, get, grep, grepl, is.unsorted, lapply,
## mapply, match, mget, order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int,
## rank, rbind, rownames, sapply, saveRDS, table, tapply, unique,
## unsplit, which.max, which.min## Loading required package: S4Vectors##
## Attaching package: 'S4Vectors'## The following object is masked from 'package:utils':
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## findMatches## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
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## I, expand.grid, unname## Loading required package: IRanges## Loading required package: GenomeInfoDbgr <- GRanges(sample(LETTERS[1:3],200,replace=TRUE), IRanges(seq_len(200), width=2))
gr$propertyA <- factor(sample(letters[1:5],200,replace=TRUE))
gr## GRanges object with 200 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | propertyA
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <factor>
## [1] B 1-2 * | c
## [2] A 2-3 * | c
## [3] C 3-4 * | a
## [4] B 4-5 * | e
## [5] C 5-6 * | c
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [196] C 196-197 * | b
## [197] A 197-198 * | d
## [198] C 198-199 * | e
## [199] B 199-200 * | b
## [200] B 200-201 * | c
## -------
## seqinfo: 3 sequences from an unspecified genome; no seqlengthsAgain the file can then be loaded (without having all the data in memory) in the following way:
f2 <- file.path(tmp, "test2")
saveIndexedFst(gr, index.by="seqnames", file.prefix=f2)
d1 <- loadIndexedFst(f2)
names(d1)## [1] "B" "A" "C"## GRanges object with 6 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | propertyA
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <factor>
## [1] A 2-3 * | c
## [2] A 7-8 * | a
## [3] A 19-20 * | e
## [4] A 21-22 * | b
## [5] A 23-24 * | c
## [6] A 24-25 * | c
## -------
## seqinfo: 3 sequences from an unspecified genome; no seqlengthsSimilarly, we could index using a different column:
## [1] "a" "b" "c" "d" "e"The fst
package supports multithreaded reading and writing. This can also be
applied for IndexedFst, using the nthreads
argument of loadIndexedFst and
saveIndexedFst.
The IndexedFst class is simply a wrapper around the
fst package. In addition to the fst file, an
rds file is saved containing the index data. For example,
for our last example, the following files have been saved:
## [1] "test2.fst" "test2.idx.rds"Either file (or the prefix) can be used for loading, but both files need to have the same prefix.
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