Short-read sequencing (SRS) is the predominant technique of DNA sequencing used for clinical diagnosis. It utilizes flowcells covered with millions of surface-bound oligonucleotides that allow parallel sequencing of hundreds of millions of independent short reads. However, as the average sequencing read length is approximately 150 bp, large structural variants (SVs) and copy number variants (CNVs) are challenging to observe. This creates a diagnostic gap between the clinical phenotypes and the underlying genetic mechanisms in the field of biomedical sciences. Novel technologies such as optical genome mapping and long-read sequencing have partially addressed the issues of SV and CNV detection; however, the identification of pathogenic variants among thousands of called SVs/CNVs throughout the genome has proven to be challenging as the analytical pipelines available for single nucleotide variants are not applicable to SV analysis. Thus, we have built an R-based annotation package “nanotatoR” specifically for structural variants to provide a multitude of critical functional annotations for large genomic variations.
#Package Installation
nanotatoR is currently available from the GitHub repository. Installation method is as follows:
if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("nanotatoR", version = "3.8")## The nanotatoR package is compatible with R versions ≥ 3.6.
#Package Functionalities
Given a list of structural variants with chromosome number, SV type, and variant start/end positions, nanotatoR can perform the following functions (both GRCh37/38 can be used):
##Structural Variant Frequency
Genomic variant frequencies are one of the most important filtration characteristics for identification of rare, possibly pathogenic, variants. NanotatoR uses the Database of Genomic Variants (DGV) and DECIPHER (DECIPHER), publicly available reference control database, to estimate structural variant frequencies in the general population. Compared with the traditional single nucleotide variant frequency calculations, frequency estimates for structural variants pose larger difficulty due to the much higher breakpoint variability between “same” structural variants. In order to provide accurate estimates of population frequencies, nanotatoR recognizes five categories of SVs: insertions, deletions, duplications, inversions and translocations (e.g. “gains” of DNA material are considered as “insertions/duplications” and “losses” of DNA material as “deletions”). In order for two SVs to be considered as “same”, nanotatoR, by default, checks whether they belong to the same category (e.g. deletion), have greater than 50% size similarity and the SV breakpoints (start and end positions) are within 10 kbp from each other. Currently the 50% size similarity cutoff is not applied for duplications, inversions and translocations as the sizes for these structural variants are not computed by most SV callers; however, a breakpoint cutoff of 50 kbp is applied in order to identify matching variants (note: duplication breakpoint cutoff is 10 kbp). Default breakpoint cutoffs and percent similarity determined by Bionano Genomics (see the references). In order for the natotatoR to estimate SV frequencies it requires the following input files: DECIPHER reference file(decipherpath) and “smap” file containing structural variant information generated via default Bionano Genomics Solve/Tools Pipelines for optical mapping-based SV calling (smappath). The default input parameters for SV breakpoints and percent similarities are as follows: insertions/duplications/deletions (win_indel) of 10,000 bases, inversions and translocations (win_inv_trans) of 50,000 bases and percentage similarity (perc_similarity) of 0.5 or 50%. The output from this function can be of 2 types: an R object (dataFrame) or a text file (Text).
decipherpath <- system.file("extdata", "population_cnv.txt", package = "nanotatoR")
smapName <- "F1.1_TestSample1_solo_hg19.smap"
smappath <- system.file("extdata", package = "nanotatoR")
win_indel=10000;win_inv_trans=50000;perc_similarity=0.5
decipherext<-Decipher_extraction(decipherpath, input_fmt = "Text", smappath,
smap= smapName,
win_indel = 10000, perc_similarity = 0.5, returnMethod="dataFrame")## [1] "###Calculating Decipher Frequency###"
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## [1] "ii: 14"Other than DGV and DECIPHER, nanotatoR can also take as input a data set of variants created by Bionano Genomics comprising of 204 samples. Input parameters are similar to that of DECIPHER, with an addition of following parameters: confidence score threshold for insertion and deletion (indelconf; Default is 0.5), inversion (invconf; Default is 0.01) and translocation (transconf; Default is 0.1 (determined by Bionano Genomics).
mergedFiles <- system.file("extdata", "BNSOLO2_merged.txt", package = "nanotatoR")
smapName <- "F1.1_TestSample1_solo_hg19.smap"
smappath <- system.file("extdata", package = "nanotatoR")
win_indel = 10000; win_inv_trans = 50000; perc_similarity = 0.5;
indelconf = 0.5; invconf = 0.01;transconf = 0.1
cohortFreq<-cohortFrequency(internalBNDB = mergedFiles , smappath ,
smap=smapName, input_fmt ="Text", buildBNInternalDB=FALSE, win_indel, win_inv_trans,
perc_similarity , indelconf, invconf, transconf,returnMethod="dataFrame")## [1] "###Cohort Frequency Calculation###"
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The cohort analysis is designed to provide internal variant frequency, and parental zygosity within the cohort. The function will first merge all of the available individual smaps to form an “internal reference” (buildSVInternalDB=TRUE) or use an existing file if the internal SV database is already available (buildSVInternalDB=FALSE). The function requires the paths of the query smap file, the merged internal database file, as well as the following parameters: confidence score threshold for insertion and deletion (indelconf; Default is 0.5), inversion (invconf; Default is 0.01) and translocation (transconf; Default is 0.1 (determined by Bionano Genomics). The output can be a (dataFrame) or a text file (Text).
mergedFiles <- system.file("extdata", "nanotatoR_merged.txt", package = "nanotatoR")
smapName <- "F1.1_TestSample1_solo_hg19.smap"
smappath <- system.file("extdata", package = "nanotatoR")
intFreq <- internalFrequency(mergedFiles = mergedFiles, smappath = smappath ,
smap = smapName, buildSVInternalDB=FALSE, win_indel=10000,
win_inv_trans=50000,
perc_similarity=0.5, indelconf=0.5, invconf=0.01,
transconf=0.1, limsize=1000, win_indel_parents=5000,input_fmt="Text",
win_inv_trans_parents=40000,
returnMethod="dataFrame")## [1] "###Calculating the Internal Frequency###"
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## [1] "Chrom:14"## SmapEntryID QryContigID RefcontigID1 RefcontigID2 QryStartPos QryEndPos
## 1 645 3341 1 1 17067025 17069612
## RefStartPos RefEndPos Confidence Type Type1 Type2 XmapID1 XmapID2
## 1 100747965 100750778 -1 deletion deletion deletion 28 28
## LinkID QryStartIdx QryEndIdx RefStartIdx RefEndIdx Zygosity Genotype
## 1 -1 3275 3276 19021 19022 heterozygous 1
## GenotypeGroup RawConfidence RawConfidenceLeft RawConfidenceRight
## 1 -1 1.15 4123.48 715.5
## RawConfidenceCenter Sample Algorithm Size
## 1 1.15 GM24385_DLE_1_son assembly_comparison 226
## Present_in_._of_BNG_control_samples
## 1 3.4
## Present_in_._of_BNG_control_samples_with_the_same_enzyme
## 1 20
## Fail_BSPQI_assembly_chimeric_score Fail_BSSSI_assembly_chimeric_score
## 1 not_applicable not_applicable
## OverlapGenes NearestNonOverlapGene NearestNonOverlapGeneDistance
## 1 RTCA MIR553 1102
## Found_in_parents_assemblies Found_in_parents_molecules
## 1 mother both
## Found_in_self_BSPQI_molecules Found_in_self_BSSSI_molecules
## 1 yes yes
## Internal_Freq_Perc_Filtered Internal_Freq_Perc_Unfiltered
## 1 0 0
## Internal_Homozygotes MotherZygosity FatherZygosity
## 1 0 heterozygous -##Gene Overlap
Incorporates known gene and non-coding RNA genomic locations that overlap with or are near the identified structural variants. NanotatoR automatically determines the number of overlapping genes for a given structural variant, provides gene strandedness (+ or -) as well as the percent overlap of SVs with the gene. The function also provides gene names and corresponding distances from SVs for the nearest genes (user selected, default 3 on each side) that are upstream and downstream. The function requires an input BED file (inputfmt=BED) or Bionano compliant BED file (inputfmt=BNBED), which re-codes the X and Y chromosome notations to 23 and 24, respectively. The BED files are used to overlap structural variants of the query smap file (smap) with overlapping and non-overlapping upstream and downstream genes (n;default is 3). The output from this function can be of 2 types: an R object (dataFrame) or a text file (Text).
smapName="F1.1_TestSample1_solo_hg19.smap"
smap = system.file("extdata", smapName, package="nanotatoR")
bedFile <- system.file("extdata", "Homo_sapiens.Hg19_BN_bed.txt", package="nanotatoR")
outpath <- system.file("extdata", package="nanotatoR")
datcomp <- compSmapbed(smap, bed=bedFile, inputfmtBed = "BNBED", n = 3, returnMethod_bedcomp = c("dataFrame"))## [1] "###Comparing SVs and Beds###"
## [1] "***Overlap Genes***"
## [1] "***NonOverlap Genes***"## SmapEntryID QryContigID RefcontigID1 RefcontigID2 QryStartPos QryEndPos
## 1 645 3341 1 1 17067025 17069612
## RefStartPos RefEndPos Confidence Type Type1 Type2 XmapID1 XmapID2
## 1 100747965 100750778 -1 deletion deletion deletion 28 28
## LinkID QryStartIdx QryEndIdx RefStartIdx RefEndIdx Zygosity Genotype
## 1 -1 3275 3276 19021 19022 heterozygous 1
## GenotypeGroup RawConfidence RawConfidenceLeft RawConfidenceRight
## 1 -1 1.15 4123.48 715.5
## RawConfidenceCenter Sample Algorithm Size
## 1 1.15 GM24385_DLE_1_son assembly_comparison 226
## Present_in_._of_BNG_control_samples
## 1 3.4
## Present_in_._of_BNG_control_samples_with_the_same_enzyme
## 1 20
## Fail_BSPQI_assembly_chimeric_score Fail_BSSSI_assembly_chimeric_score
## 1 not_applicable not_applicable
## OverlapGenes NearestNonOverlapGene NearestNonOverlapGeneDistance
## 1 RTCA MIR553 1102
## Found_in_parents_assemblies Found_in_parents_molecules
## 1 mother both
## Found_in_self_BSPQI_molecules Found_in_self_BSSSI_molecules
## 1 yes yes
## OverlapGenes_strand_perc Upstream_nonOverlapGenes_dist_kb
## 1 - -
## Downstream_nonOverlapGenes_dist_kb
## 1 -##Entrez Extract
Generates a list of genes involved with the patient phenotype and overlaps it with gene names that span structural variants. The user provided, phenotypic key words are used to generate gene lists from selected databases such as ClinVar, OMIM, GTR and Gene Registry. The generated lists are used to prioritize structural variants that occur in genes known to be associated with patient’s phenotype. The input to the function is a term, which can be provided as a single character input (method=“Single”), or a vector of terms (method=“Multiple”) or as a text file (method=“Text”). The output can be selected as a (dataFrame) or a text file (Text).
terms="Muscle Weakness"
gene <- gene_list_generation(method="Single", term=terms, returnMethod="dataFrame")## [1] "GeneID length:218"## 'select()' returned 1:1 mapping between keys and columns## 'select()' returned 1:many mapping between keys and columns## 'select()' returned 1:1 mapping between keys and columns
## 'select()' returned 1:1 mapping between keys and columns## [1] "OMIM GeneName length:4"## 'select()' returned 1:1 mapping between keys and columns
## 'select()' returned 1:1 mapping between keys and columns## [1] "gtrGenes GeneName length:2"## 'select()' returned 1:1 mapping between keys and columns## 'select()' returned 1:many mapping between keys and columns## Genes Terms
## 1 TGFB1 Muscle Weakness_Gene
## 2 AR Muscle Weakness_Gene
## 3 BCL2 Muscle Weakness_Gene
## 4 SOD1 Muscle Weakness_Gene
## 5 HFE Muscle Weakness_Gene
## 6 LMNA Muscle Weakness_Gene
## 7 SCN5A Muscle Weakness_Gene
## 8 KCNH2 Muscle Weakness_Gene
## 9 KCNQ1 Muscle Weakness_Gene
## 10 DMD Muscle Weakness_Gene##Filter Variants
Provides easy to use, user-selected, filtration criteria to segregate variants into corresponding groups (such as de novo, inherited or occurring in the gene list). In this step the generated or available gene lists are appended to the smap file. The input file for this function can either be an (smap) or a dataframe. Both raw and nanotatoR-annotated smaps can serve as inputs. It has an option to take the input of the smap (input_fmt_svMap) and genelist (input_fmt_geneList) as a dataFrame or a text file, and produces an excel as the output.
terms <- "Muscle Weakness"
gene <- gene_list_generation(
method = "Single", term = terms,
returnMethod_GeneList = "dataFrame"
)
RzipFile = "zip.exe"
RZIPpath <- system.file("extdata", RzipFile, package = "nanotatoR")
smapName <- "F1.1_TestSample1_solo_hg19.smap"
smappath <- system.file("extdata", smapName, package = "nanotatoR")
smappath1 <- system.file("extdata", package = "nanotatoR")
run_bionano_filter(input_fmt_geneList = c("dataframe"),
input_fmt_svMap = c("Text"),
SVFile = smappath, dat_geneList = gene,
outpath = smappath1, outputFilename = "test",
RZIPpath = RZIPpath)##Main
The main function consecutively runs the available nanotatoR sub-functions by appending the outputs from each function. It takes as an input the smap file, DGV file, BED file, internal database file, phenotype term list as an input. It also takes in the output path and the filename for the final excel file. Individual, sub-function, input parameters are also available for user selections.
terms <- "Muscle Weakness"
gene <- gene_list_generation(
method = "Single", term = terms,
returnMethod = "dataFrame"
)
mergedFiles <- system.file ("extdata", "BNSOLO2_merged.txt",
package = "nanotatoR")
RzipFile = "zip.exe"
RZIPpath <- system.file("extdata", RzipFile, package = "nanotatoR")
smapName <- "F1.1_TestSample1_solo_hg19.smap"
smappath <- system.file("extdata", smapName, package = "nanotatoR")
path <- system.file("extdata", "SoloFile/", package = "nanotatoR")
hgpath <- system.file ("extdata", "GRCh37_hg19_variants_2016-05-15.txt", package = "nanotatoR")
decipherpath <- system.file("extdata", "population_cnv.txt", package = "nanotatoR")
bedFile <- system.file("extdata", "Homo_sapiens.Hg19.bed", package="nanotatoR")
pattern <- "_hg19.smap"
nanotatoR_main(smap = smappath, bed = bedFile,
inputfmtBed = c("BNBED"),
n = 3, buildSVInternalDB = TRUE, soloPath = path, solopattern = pattern,
input_fmt_INF = c("dataFrame"), buildBNInternalDB = FALSE,
returnMethod_bedcomp = c("dataFrame"), returnMethod_DGV = c("dataFrame"),
returnMethod_Internal = c("dataFrame"), input_fmt_DGV = c("dataFrame"),
hgpath = hgpath, smapName = smapName, limsize=1000, win_indel_parents=5000,
decipherpath = decipherpath, dbOutput_Int = "dataframe",
win_inv_trans_parents=40000, win_indel_DGV = 10000,
input_fmt_geneList = c("dataFrame"), input_fmt_svMap = c("dataFrame"),
input_fmt_decipher = "dataFrame",input_fmt_BN = "dataFrame",
returnMethod_GeneList = c("dataFrame"),returnMethod_BNCohort = c("dataFrame"),
returnMethod_decipher = c("dataFrame"), mergedFiles_BN = mergedFiles,
dat_geneList = gene , method_entrez = "",
outpath = smappath, outputFilename = "test",
RZIPpath = RZIPpath)#References
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