BRGenomics 1.6.0
BRGenomics provides several functions for conveniently importing and processing BAM, bigWig, bedGraph files.
The import_bam() function provides a number of options for filtering and
processing bam files. BRGenomics includes an example BAM file with a small
number of reads from the included PRO-seq data. The file’s local location can
be found (on your computer) as follows:
library(BRGenomics)bfile <- system.file("extdata", "PROseq_dm6_chr4.bam",
package = "BRGenomics")Because PRO-seq data is sequenced in the 3’-to-5’ direction of the original RNA
molecule, we’ll use the revcomp option to reverse-complement all the input
reads. We’ll also set a minimum MAPQ score of 20:
ps_reads <- import_bam(bfile, mapq = 20, revcomp = TRUE, paired_end = FALSE)
ps_reads## GRanges object with 164 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr4 1270-1296 + | 1
## [2] chr4 41411-41429 + | 1
## [3] chr4 42556-42591 + | 1
## [4] chr4 42559-42589 + | 1
## [5] chr4 42559-42594 + | 3
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [160] chr4 1307741-1307776 - | 1
## [161] chr4 1316536-1316563 - | 1
## [162] chr4 1318959-1318994 - | 1
## [163] chr4 1319003-1319038 - | 1
## [164] chr4 1319368-1319403 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 1870 sequences from an unspecified genomeBy default, import_bam() combines identical reads into the same range, and
the score metadata column indicates the number of perfectly-overlapping
alignments. This means that the total number of alignments (reads) is equal to
the sum of the score:
sum(score(ps_reads))## [1] 190Alternatively, you can import each read as its own range by setting field = NULL:
reads_expanded <- import_bam(bfile, mapq = 20, revcomp = TRUE,
field = NULL, paired_end = FALSE)
ps_reads[1:8]## GRanges object with 8 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr4 1270-1296 + | 1
## [2] chr4 41411-41429 + | 1
## [3] chr4 42556-42591 + | 1
## [4] chr4 42559-42589 + | 1
## [5] chr4 42559-42594 + | 3
## [6] chr4 42560-42594 + | 2
## [7] chr4 42560-42595 + | 2
## [8] chr4 42561-42596 + | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 1870 sequences from an unspecified genomereads_expanded[1:8]## GRanges object with 8 ranges and 0 metadata columns:
## seqnames ranges strand
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle>
## [1] chr4 1270-1296 +
## [2] chr4 41411-41429 +
## [3] chr4 42556-42591 +
## [4] chr4 42559-42589 +
## [5] chr4 42559-42594 +
## [6] chr4 42559-42594 +
## [7] chr4 42559-42594 +
## [8] chr4 42560-42594 +
## -------
## seqinfo: 1870 sequences from an unspecified genomeNotice that reads 5-7 are now identical, rather than combined into a single range with a score = 3.
length(reads_expanded) == sum(score(ps_reads))## [1] TRUEMany BRGenomics function have a field argument, and setting field = NULL
will treat each range has a single read.
We can use the import_bam() function to extract the positions of interest
from BAM files. Below, we construct an import function for PRO-seq data that
returns a basepair-resolution GRanges object.
In PRO-seq, a “run-on” reaction is performed in which actively engaged RNA polymerases incorporate a biotinylated nucleotide at the 3’ end of a nascent RNA. Our base of interest is therefore the base immediately preceding the RNA 3’ end, as this was the original position of a polymerase active site.
The processing options in import_bam() are applied in the same order that
they’re listed in the documentation page. Following this order, we will apply
the options:
ps <- import_bam(bfile,
mapq = 20,
revcomp = TRUE,
shift = -1,
trim.to = "3p",
paired_end = FALSE)
ps## GRanges object with 150 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr4 1295 + | 1
## [2] chr4 41428 + | 1
## [3] chr4 42588 + | 1
## [4] chr4 42590 + | 2
## [5] chr4 42593 + | 5
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [146] chr4 1307742 - | 1
## [147] chr4 1316537 - | 1
## [148] chr4 1318960 - | 1
## [149] chr4 1319004 - | 1
## [150] chr4 1319369 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 1870 sequences from an unspecified genomeNote that for paired-end data, import_bam() will automatically filter
unmatched read pairs.
Notice that the number of ranges in ps is not the same as for ps_reads, in
which we imported the entire read lengths:
length(ps_reads)
## [1] 164
length(ps)
## [1] 150This is because identical positions are collapsed together after applying the processing options. However, we can check that all of the same reads are represented:
sum(score(ps)) == sum(score(ps_reads))
## [1] TRUEAnd we can check that collapsing identical positions has created a basepair-resolution GRanges object:
isBRG(ps)
## [1] TRUEFor convenience, we’ve included several functions with default options for
several kinds of data, including import_bam_PROseq(), import_bam_PROcap(),
and import_bam_ATACseq(), the latter of which corrects for the 9 bp offset
between Tn5 insertion sites.1 Jason D. Buenrostro, Paul G. Giresi, Lisa C.
Zaba, Howard Y. Chang, William J. Greenleaf (2013). Transposition of native
chromatin for fast and sensitive epigenomic profiling of open chromatin,
dna-binding proteins and nucleosome position. 10:
1213–1218.
In conjunction with export functions from the rtracklayer package, we can use the functions described above to write a post-alignment pipeline for generating bigWig files for PRO-seq data:
# import bam, automatically applying processing steps for PRO-seq
ps <- import_bam_PROseq(bfile, mapq = 30, paired_end = FALSE)
# separate strands, and make minus-strand scores negative
ps_plus <- subset(ps, strand == "+")
ps_minus <- subset(ps, strand == "-")
score(ps_minus) <- -score(ps_minus)
# use rtracklayer to export bigWig files
export.bw(ps_plus, "~/Data/PROseq_plus.bw")
export.bw(ps_minus, "~/Data/PROseq_minus.bw")For single-ended bam files, import is much faster if the bam files are sorted
and indexed (i.e. by samtools index).
For paired-end files, we assume that collating (samtools collate) or sorting
by name is faster.
Additionally, while single-ended files can often be imported “all at once”
(particularly if sorted and indexed), processing paired-end data is more memory
intensive, and requires breaking up the file into chunks for processing. For
this, use the yieldSize argument.
For example, to process 500 thousands reads at a time, set the
yieldSize = 5e5.
bedGraph and bigWig files are efficient and portable, but unstranded representations of basepair-resolution genomics data.
As compared to rtracklayer::import.bedGraph(), the BRGenomics function
import_bedGraph() imports both plus-strand and minus-strand files as a single
object, and has options for filtering out odd chromosomes, mitochondrial
chromosomes, and sex chromosomes.
# local paths to included bedGraph files
bg.p <- system.file("extdata", "PROseq_dm6_chr4_plus.bedGraph",
package = "BRGenomics")
bg.m <- system.file("extdata", "PROseq_dm6_chr4_minus.bedGraph",
package = "BRGenomics")
import_bedGraph(bg.p, bg.m, genome = "dm6")## GRanges object with 164 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr4 1270-1295 + | 1
## [2] chr4 41411-41428 + | 1
## [3] chr4 42556-42590 + | 1
## [4] chr4 42559-42588 + | 1
## [5] chr4 42559-42593 + | 3
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [160] chr4 1307742-1307776 - | 1
## [161] chr4 1316537-1316563 - | 1
## [162] chr4 1318960-1318994 - | 1
## [163] chr4 1319004-1319038 - | 1
## [164] chr4 1319369-1319403 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 1 sequence from dm6 genome; no seqlengthsThe import_bigWig() function provides the same added functionality as
compared to rtracklayer::import.bw(), but also removes run-length compression
and returns a basepair-resolution GRanges object by default.
# local paths to included bigWig files
bw.p <- system.file("extdata", "PROseq_dm6_chr4_plus.bw",
package = "BRGenomics")
bw.m <- system.file("extdata", "PROseq_dm6_chr4_minus.bw",
package = "BRGenomics")
import_bigWig(bw.p, bw.m, genome = "dm6")## GRanges object with 150 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr4 1295 + | 1
## [2] chr4 41428 + | 1
## [3] chr4 42588 + | 1
## [4] chr4 42590 + | 2
## [5] chr4 42593 + | 5
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [146] chr4 1307742 - | 1
## [147] chr4 1316537 - | 1
## [148] chr4 1318960 - | 1
## [149] chr4 1319004 - | 1
## [150] chr4 1319369 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 1 sequence from dm6 genomeConversion to a basepair-resolution GRanges object can be turned off by setting
makeBRG = FALSE.
Biological replicates are best used to independently reproduce and measure effects, and therefore we often want to handle them separately. However, there are times when combining replicates can allow for more sensitive measurements, assuming that the replicates are highly concordant.
The mergeGRangesData() function can be used to combine basepair-resolution
GRanges objects.
We’ll break up the included PRO-seq data into a list of toy datasets:
ps_list <- lapply(1:6, function(i) ps[seq(i, length(ps), 6)])
names(ps_list) <- c("A_rep1", "A_rep2",
"B_rep1", "B_rep2",
"C_rep1", "C_rep2")ps_list[1:2]## $A_rep1
## GRanges object with 25 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr4 1295 + | 1
## [2] chr4 42595 + | 1
## [3] chr4 42622 + | 2
## [4] chr4 42718 + | 1
## [5] chr4 42789 + | 1
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [21] chr4 1280795 - | 1
## [22] chr4 1306469 - | 1
## [23] chr4 1306713 - | 1
## [24] chr4 1307115 - | 2
## [25] chr4 1307301 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 1870 sequences from an unspecified genome
##
## $A_rep2
## GRanges object with 25 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr4 41428 + | 1
## [2] chr4 42596 + | 1
## [3] chr4 42652 + | 3
## [4] chr4 42733 + | 1
## [5] chr4 42794 + | 2
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [21] chr4 1280936 - | 1
## [22] chr4 1306497 - | 2
## [23] chr4 1306888 - | 1
## [24] chr4 1307120 - | 1
## [25] chr4 1307742 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 1870 sequences from an unspecified genomenames(ps_list)## [1] "A_rep1" "A_rep2" "B_rep1" "B_rep2" "C_rep1" "C_rep2"We can pass a list of GRanges objects directly as an argument:
mergeGRangesData(ps_list, ncores = 1)## GRanges object with 150 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr4 1295 + | 1
## [2] chr4 41428 + | 1
## [3] chr4 42588 + | 1
## [4] chr4 42590 + | 2
## [5] chr4 42593 + | 5
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [146] chr4 1307742 - | 1
## [147] chr4 1316537 - | 1
## [148] chr4 1318960 - | 1
## [149] chr4 1319004 - | 1
## [150] chr4 1319369 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 1870 sequences from an unspecified genomeOr we can pass any number of individual GRanges objects as arguments:
merge_ps <- mergeGRangesData(ps_list[[1]], ps_list[[2]], ps, ncores = 1)
merge_ps## GRanges object with 150 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr4 1295 + | 2
## [2] chr4 41428 + | 2
## [3] chr4 42588 + | 1
## [4] chr4 42590 + | 2
## [5] chr4 42593 + | 5
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [146] chr4 1307742 - | 2
## [147] chr4 1316537 - | 1
## [148] chr4 1318960 - | 1
## [149] chr4 1319004 - | 1
## [150] chr4 1319369 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 1870 sequences from an unspecified genomeNote that the output is also a basepair-resolution GRanges object:
isBRG(merge_ps)
## [1] TRUE
The mergeReplicates() function makes combining replicates particularly
simple:
mergeReplicates(ps_list, ncores = 1)## $A
## GRanges object with 50 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr4 1295 + | 1
## [2] chr4 41428 + | 1
## [3] chr4 42595 + | 1
## [4] chr4 42596 + | 1
## [5] chr4 42622 + | 2
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [46] chr4 1306888 - | 1
## [47] chr4 1307115 - | 2
## [48] chr4 1307120 - | 1
## [49] chr4 1307301 - | 1
## [50] chr4 1307742 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 1870 sequences from an unspecified genome
##
## $B
## GRanges object with 50 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr4 42588 + | 1
## [2] chr4 42590 + | 2
## [3] chr4 42601 + | 1
## [4] chr4 42618 + | 1
## [5] chr4 42657 + | 1
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [46] chr4 1307032 - | 1
## [47] chr4 1307122 - | 1
## [48] chr4 1307126 - | 1
## [49] chr4 1316537 - | 1
## [50] chr4 1318960 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 1870 sequences from an unspecified genome
##
## $C
## GRanges object with 50 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr4 42593 + | 5
## [2] chr4 42594 + | 2
## [3] chr4 42619 + | 2
## [4] chr4 42621 + | 1
## [5] chr4 42661 + | 1
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [46] chr4 1307114 - | 1
## [47] chr4 1307283 - | 1
## [48] chr4 1307300 - | 1
## [49] chr4 1319004 - | 1
## [50] chr4 1319369 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 1870 sequences from an unspecified genome