# tocID <- "BIN-SEQA-Composition.R" # # Purpose: A Bioinformatics Course: # R code accompanying the BIN-SEQA-Comparison unit # # Version: 1.2 # # Date: 2017-11 - 2020-09 # Author: Boris Steipe (boris.steipe@utoronto.ca) # # 1.2 2020 Maintenance # 1.1 Change from require() to requireNamespace(), # use ::() idiom throughout, # use Biocmanager:: not biocLite() # Versions: # 1.0 First live version 2017 # 0.1 First code copied from BCH441_A03_makeYFOlist.R # # TODO: # # # == HOW TO WORK WITH LEARNING UNIT FILES ====================================== # # DO NOT SIMPLY source() THESE FILES! # If there are portions you don't understand, use R's help system, Google for an # answer, or ask your instructor. Don't continue if you don't understand what's # going on. That's not how it works ... # # ============================================================================== #TOC> ========================================================================== #TOC> #TOC> Section Title Line #TOC> ---------------------------------------------------------- #TOC> 1 Preparation 48 #TOC> 2 Aggregate properties 69 #TOC> 3 Sequence Composition Enrichment 113 #TOC> 3.1 Barplot, and side-by-side barplot 136 #TOC> 3.2 Plotting ratios 171 #TOC> 3.3 Plotting log ratios 188 #TOC> 3.4 Sort by frequency 204 #TOC> 3.5 Color by amino acid type 221 #TOC> #TOC> ========================================================================== # = 1 Preparation ========================================================= if (! requireNamespace("seqinr", quietly = TRUE)) { install.packages("seqinr") } # Package information: # library(help = seqinr) # basic information # browseVignettes("seqinr") # available vignettes # data(package = "seqinr") # available datasets # Load a reference sequence to work with: # If you have done the BIN-Storing_data unit: source("makeProteinDB.R") sel <- which(myDB$protein$name == sprintf("MBP1_%s", biCode(MYSPE))) mySeq <- myDB$protein$sequence[sel] # If not, use the yeast Mbp1 sequence: mySeq <- dbSanitizeSequence(fromJSON("./data/MBP1_SACCE.json")$sequence) # = 2 Aggregate properties ================================================ # Let's try a simple function from seqinr: computing the pI of the sequence ?seqinr::computePI # This takes as input a vector of upper-case AA codes # We can use the function strsplit() to split the string # into single characters (s <- strsplit(mySeq, "")) # splitting on the empty spring # splits into single characters s <- unlist(s) # strsplit() returns a list! Why? # (But we don't need a list now...) # Alternatively, seqinr provides # the function s2c() to convert strings into # character vectors (and c2s to convert them back). seqinr::s2c(mySeq) seqinr::computePI(seqinr::s2c(mySeq)) # isoelectric point seqinr::pmw(seqinr::s2c(mySeq)) # molecular weight seqinr::AAstat(seqinr::s2c(mySeq)) # This also plots the distribution of # values along the sequence # A true Labor of Love has gone into the # compilation of the "aaindex" data: ?seqinr::aaindex data(aaindex, package = "seqinr") # "attach" the dataset - i.e. make it # accessible as an R object length(aaindex) # no seqinr:: needed for the dataset since we just # "attached" it with data() # Here are all the index descriptions for (i in 1:length(aaindex)) { cat(paste(i, ": ", aaindex[[i]]$D, "\n", sep="")) } # = 3 Sequence Composition Enrichment ===================================== # Lets use one of the indices to calculate and plot amino-acid # composition enrichment: aaindex[[459]]$D # # Let's construct an enrichment plot to compare average frequencies # with the amino acid counts in our sequence. (refData <- aaindex[[459]]$I) # reference frequencies in % names(refData) <- seqinr::a(names(refData)) # change names to single-letter # code using seqinr's "a()" function sum(refData) refData # ... in % # tabulate the amino acid counts in mySeq (obsData <- table(seqinr::s2c(mySeq))) # counts (obsData <- 100 * (obsData / sum(obsData))) # frequencies # == 3.1 Barplot, and side-by-side barplot ================================= barplot(obsData, col = "#CCCCCC", cex.names = 0.7) abline(h = 100/20, col="#BB0000") barplot(refData, col = "#BB0000", cex.names = 0.7) abline(h = 100/20, col="#555555") # Ok: first problem - the values in obsData are in alphabetical order. But the # values in refData are in alphabetical order of amino acid name: alanine, # arginine, asparagine, aspartic acid ... A, R, N, D, E ... you will see this # order a lot - one of the old biochemistry tropes in the field. So we need to # re-order one of the vectors to match the other. That's easy though: refData (refData <- refData[names(obsData)]) barplot(refData, col = "#BB0000", cex.names = 0.7) abline(h = 100/20, col="#555555") # To compare the values, we want to see them in a barplot, side-by-side ... barplot(rbind(obsData, refData), ylim = c(0, 12), beside = TRUE, col = c("#CCCCCC", "#BB0000"), cex.names = 0.7) abline(h = 100/20, col="#00000044") # ... and add a legend legend (x = 1, y = 12, legend = c("mySeq", "Average composition"), fill = c("#CCCCCC", "#BB0000"), cex = 0.7, bty = "n") # == 3.2 Plotting ratios =================================================== # To better compare the values, we'll calculate ratios between # obsData and refData barplot(obsData / refData, col = "#CCCCCC", ylab = "Sequence / Average", ylim = c(0, 2.5), cex.names = 0.7) abline(h = 1, col="#BB0000") abline(h = c(1/2, 2), lty = 2, col="#BB000055") # ... but ratios are not very good here, since the difference in height on the # plot now depends on the order we compare in: ratios of 1/2 and 2 (dotted # lines) are exactly the same fold-difference ! # == 3.3 Plotting log ratios =============================================== # A better way to display this # is to plot log(ratios). barplot(log(obsData / refData), col = "#CCCCCC", ylab = "log(Sequence / Average)", ylim = log(c(1/3, 3)), cex.names = 0.7) abline(h = log(1), col="#BB0000") abline(h = log(c(1/2, 2)), lty = 2, col="#BB000055") # Note how the two-fold difference lines are now the same distance from the # line of equal ratio. # == 3.4 Sort by frequency ================================================= barplot(sort(log(obsData / refData), decreasing = TRUE), ylim = log(c(1/3, 3)), col = "#CCCCCC", ylab = "log(Sequence / Average)", cex.names = 0.7) abline(h = log(1), col="#BB0000") abline(h = log(c(1/2, 2)), lty = 2, col="#BB000055") yTxt <- log(0.9) arrows(4, yTxt, 0, yTxt, length = 0.07) text(5.5, yTxt, "Enriched", cex = 0.7) yTxt <- log(1.1) arrows(20, yTxt, 24, yTxt, length = 0.07) text(19.5, yTxt, "Depleted", pos = 2, cex = 0.7) # == 3.5 Color by amino acid type ========================================== # Color the bars by amino acid type. Use AACOLS , defined in the .utilities.R # script, or define your own. barplot(rep(1, 20), names.arg = names(AACOLS), col = AACOLS, cex.names = 0.5) lR <- sort(log(obsData / refData), decreasing = TRUE) barplot(lR, ylim = log(c(1/3, 3)), col = AACOLS[names(lR)], ylab = "log(Sequence / Average)", cex.names = 0.7) abline(h = log(1), col="#00000055") abline(h = log(c(1/2, 2)), lty = 2, col="#00000033") yTxt <- log(0.9) arrows(4, yTxt, 0, yTxt, length = 0.07) text(5.5, yTxt, "Enriched", cex = 0.7) yTxt <- log(1.1) arrows(20, yTxt, 24, yTxt, length = 0.07) text(19.5, yTxt, "Depleted", pos = 2, cex = 0.7) # Task: # Interpret this plot. (Can you?) Which types of amino acids are enriched? # Depleted? # [END]