ORFik 1.12.13
Welcome to the introduction of data management with ORFik experiment. This vignette will walk you through how to work with large amounts of sequencing data effectively in ORFik.
ORFik
is an R package containing various functions for analysis of RiboSeq, RNASeq, RCP-seq, TCP-seq, Chip-seq and Cage data, we advice you to read ORFikOverview vignette, before starting this one.
NGS libraries are becoming more and more numerous. As a bioinformatician / biologist you often work on multi-library experiments, like 6 libraries of RNA-seq and 6 Ribo-seq libraries, split on 3 conditions with 2 replicates each. Then make some plots or statistics. A lot of things can go wrong when you scale up from just 1 library to many, or even to multiple experiments.
Another problem is also that annotations like gff and fasta files combined with the NGS data, must be separately loaded. Making it possible to use wrong annotation for the NGS data.
So to summarize, the ORFik experiment API abstracts what could be done with 1 NGS library and a corresponding organism annotation to the level of multiple libraries and the comparison between them, standardizing ploting, comparisons, loading libraries and many much more.
It is an object that simplify and error correct your NGS workflow, creating a single R object that stores and controls all results relevant to a specific experiment. It contains following important parts:
Let’s say we have a human experiment, containing annotation files (.gtf and .fasta genome) + Next generation sequencing libraries (NGS-data); RNA-seq, ribo-seq and CAGE.
An example of how to make the experiment will now be shown:
First load ORFik
library(ORFik)
In a normal experiment, you would usually have only bam files from alignment of your experiment to start with (and split this into 3 experiments, 1 for RNA-seq, 1 for Ribo-seq and 1 for CAGE), but to simplify this for you to replicate we use the ORFik example data.
The minimal amount of information you need to make an ORFik experiment is:
# 1. Pick directory (normally a folder with your aligned bam files)
NGS.dir <- system.file("extdata", "", package = "ORFik")
# 2. .gff/.gtf location
txdb <- system.file("extdata", "annotations.gtf", package = "ORFik")
# 3. fasta genome location
fasta <- system.file("extdata", "genome.fasta", package = "ORFik")
# 4. Pick an experiment name
exper.name <- "ORFik_example_human"
list.files(NGS.dir)
## [1] "QC_STATS" "annotations.gtf" "cage-seq-heart.bed.bgz"
## [4] "features.rdata" "genome.fasta" "genome.fasta.fai"
## [7] "ofst" "pshifted" "ribo-seq-heart.bed.bgz"
## [10] "ribo-seq.bam" "ribo-seq.bam.bai" "rna-seq-heart.bed.bgz"
Experiments are created by all accepted files from a folder (file extension given by type argument, default: bam, bed, wig), so remember to keep your experiment folder clean of other NGS libraries not related to the experiment.
# This experiment is intentionally malformed, so we first make only a template:
template <- create.experiment(dir = NGS.dir, # directory of the NGS files for the experiment
exper.name, # Experiment name
txdb = txdb, # gtf / gff / gff.db annotation
fa = fasta, # Fasta genome
organism = "Homo sapiens", # Scientific naming
saveDir = NULL, # Create template instead of ready experiment
)
# The experiment contains 3 main parts:
# 1. Annotation, organism, general info:
data.frame(template)[1:3, ]
## X1 X2 X3 X4
## 1 name ORFik_example_human
## 2 gff /tmp/RtmpEIV12e/Rinst28f9d7b10a4eb/ORFik/extdata/annotations.gtf
## 3 fasta /tmp/RtmpEIV12e/Rinst28f9d7b10a4eb/ORFik/extdata/genome.fasta
## X5 X6
## 1
## 2 organism Homo sapiens
## 3
# 2. NGS data set-up info:
data.frame(template)[4:8, 1:5]
## X1 X2 X3 X4 X5
## 4 libtype stage rep condition fraction
## 5 CAGE heart
## 6 RFP heart
## 7 RFP
## 8 RNA heart
# 3. NGS File paths:
data.frame(template)[4:8, 6]
## [1] "filepath"
## [2] "/tmp/RtmpEIV12e/Rinst28f9d7b10a4eb/ORFik/extdata/cage-seq-heart.bed.bgz"
## [3] "/tmp/RtmpEIV12e/Rinst28f9d7b10a4eb/ORFik/extdata/ribo-seq-heart.bed.bgz"
## [4] "/tmp/RtmpEIV12e/Rinst28f9d7b10a4eb/ORFik/extdata/ribo-seq.bam"
## [5] "/tmp/RtmpEIV12e/Rinst28f9d7b10a4eb/ORFik/extdata/rna-seq-heart.bed.bgz"
You see from the template, it excludes files with .bai or .fai, .rdata etc, and only using data of NGS libraries, defined by argument (type).
You can also see it tries to guess library types, stages, replicates, condition etc. It will also try to auto-detect paired end bam files.
Since every NGS file in a experiment must be a unique set of information columns ( there can not be 2 RNA-seq libraries from wildtype that are replicate1 etc), the create.experiment function will intentionally abort if it can not distinguish all the libraries in some way. (Example: It might find 2 files that are categorized as RNA-seq replicate 1, but the condtion: Wild type vs crispr mutant was not auto-detected), so the files would be non-unique.
To fix the things it did not find (a condition not specified, etc), there are 3 ways:
Let’s update the template to have correct tissue-fraction in one of the samples.
template$X5[6] <- "heart_valve" # <- fix non unique row (tissue fraction is heart valve)
df <- read.experiment(template)# read experiment from template
Normally you read experiments saved to disc, if you made only a template, save it by doing:
save.experiment(df, file = "path/to/save/experiment.csv")
You can then load the experiment whenever you need it.
To see the object, just show it like this:
df
## experiment: ORFik_example_human with 3 library types and 4 runs
## libtype stage fraction
## 1: CAGE heart
## 2: RFP heart heart_valve
## 3: RFP
## 4: RNA heart
You see here that file paths are hidden, you can access them like this:
filepath(df, type = "default")
## [1] "/tmp/RtmpEIV12e/Rinst28f9d7b10a4eb/ORFik/extdata/cage-seq-heart.bed.bgz"
## [2] "/tmp/RtmpEIV12e/Rinst28f9d7b10a4eb/ORFik/extdata/ribo-seq-heart.bed.bgz"
## [3] "/tmp/RtmpEIV12e/Rinst28f9d7b10a4eb/ORFik/extdata/ribo-seq.bam"
## [4] "/tmp/RtmpEIV12e/Rinst28f9d7b10a4eb/ORFik/extdata/rna-seq-heart.bed.bgz"
If you have varying version of libraries, like p-shifted, bam, simplified wig files, you can get file paths to different version with this function, like this:
filepath(df[df$libtype == "RFP", ], type = "pshifted")[2] # RFP = Ribo-seq, Default location for pshifted reads
## [1] "/tmp/RtmpEIV12e/Rinst28f9d7b10a4eb/ORFik/extdata/pshifted/ribo-seq_pshifted.ofst"
There are 3 ways to load NGS data, the first one is to load data into an environment. By default all libraries are loaded into .GlobalEnv (global environment) with names decided by columns in experiment, to see what the names will be, do:
bamVarName(df) #This will be the names:
## [1] "CAGE_heart" "RFP_heart_fheart_valve" "RFP"
## [4] "RNA_heart"
Now let’s auto-load the libraries to the global environment
outputLibs(df) # With default output.mode = "envir".
## Outputting libraries from: ORFik_example_human
To remove the outputted libraries:
# remove.experiments(df)
The second way gives you a list, where the elements are the NGS libraries. There are also two ways of loading the list:
outputLibs(df, output.mode = "envirlist") # Make sure NGS exist in envir, then return as list
## $CAGE_heart
## GRanges object with 500 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr1 2556380 + | 1
## [2] chr1 12428832 + | 1
## [3] chr1 17755857 + | 1
## [4] chr1 21280476 - | 1
## [5] chr1 31644889 - | 1
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [496] chrX 81329014 + | 1
## [497] chrX 103356533 + | 11
## [498] chrX 132217287 - | 1
## [499] chrX 140564830 + | 1
## [500] chrX 153954723 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 24 sequences from an unspecified genome; no seqlengths
##
## $RFP_heart_fheart_valve
## GRanges object with 500 ranges and 6 metadata columns:
## seqnames ranges strand | V7 V8 V9
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer> <integer> <integer>
## [1] GL000220.1 109184-109205 + | 109183 109205 0
## [2] GL000220.1 112148-112179 + | 112147 112179 0
## [3] GL000220.1 112148-112179 + | 112147 112179 0
## [4] GL000220.1 112148-112179 + | 112147 112179 0
## [5] GL000220.1 112148-112179 + | 112147 112179 0
## ... ... ... ... . ... ... ...
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## [497] chr8 135773772-135773799 - | 135773771 135773799 0
## [498] chr9 76571752-76571781 + | 76571751 76571781 0
## [499] chr9 76571752-76571781 + | 76571751 76571781 0
## [500] chr9 93543250-93543273 + | 93543249 93543273 0
## V10 V11 V12
## <integer> <character> <character>
## [1] 1 22 0
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## [3] 1 32 0
## [4] 1 32 0
## [5] 1 32 0
## ... ... ... ...
## [496] 1 30 0
## [497] 1 28 0
## [498] 1 30 0
## [499] 1 30 0
## [500] 1 24 0
## -------
## seqinfo: 26 sequences from an unspecified genome; no seqlengths
##
## $RFP
## GAlignments object with 16649 alignments and 0 metadata columns:
## seqnames strand cigar qwidth start end width
## <Rle> <Rle> <character> <integer> <integer> <integer> <integer>
## [1] chr23 - 28M 28 17599129 17599156 28
## [2] chr23 - 28M 28 17599129 17599156 28
## [3] chr23 - 28M 28 17599129 17599156 28
## [4] chr23 - 28M 28 17599129 17599156 28
## [5] chr23 - 28M 28 17599129 17599156 28
## ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
## [16645] chr8 + 29M 29 24068894 24068922 29
## [16646] chr8 + 28M 28 24068907 24068934 28
## [16647] chr8 + 30M 30 24068919 24068948 30
## [16648] chr8 + 30M 30 24068919 24068948 30
## [16649] chr8 + 30M 30 24068939 24068968 30
## njunc
## <integer>
## [1] 0
## [2] 0
## [3] 0
## [4] 0
## [5] 0
## ... ...
## [16645] 0
## [16646] 0
## [16647] 0
## [16648] 0
## [16649] 0
## -------
## seqinfo: 1133 sequences from an unspecified genome
##
## $RNA_heart
## GRanges object with 500 ranges and 6 metadata columns:
## seqnames ranges strand | V7 V8 V9
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer> <integer> <integer>
## [1] GL000220.1 117772-117872 - | 117771 117872 0
## [2] GL000220.1 118010-118110 - | 118009 118110 0
## [3] KI270733.1 134864-134964 - | 134863 134964 0
## [4] KI270733.1 175346-175446 + | 175345 175446 0
## [5] KI270733.1 177165-177265 - | 177164 177265 0
## ... ... ... ... . ... ... ...
## [496] chr9 130236114-130236214 - | 130236113 130236214 0
## [497] chr9 137008790-137008972 + | 137008789 137008972 0
## [498] chr9 137040403-137040580 - | 137040402 137040580 0
## [499] chr9 137220666-137220766 - | 137220665 137220766 0
## [500] chr9 137616179-137617934 + | 137616178 137617934 0
## V10 V11 V12
## <integer> <character> <character>
## [1] 1 101 0
## [2] 1 101 0
## [3] 1 101 0
## [4] 1 101 0
## [5] 1 101 0
## ... ... ... ...
## [496] 1 101 0
## [497] 2 79,22 0,161
## [498] 2 34,67 0,111
## [499] 1 101 0
## [500] 2 21,1 0,1755
## -------
## seqinfo: 26 sequences from an unspecified genome; no seqlengths
# Check envir, if it exist, list them and return, if not, only return list
outputLibs(df, output.mode = "list")
## $CAGE_heart
## GRanges object with 500 ranges and 1 metadata column:
## seqnames ranges strand | score
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer>
## [1] chr1 2556380 + | 1
## [2] chr1 12428832 + | 1
## [3] chr1 17755857 + | 1
## [4] chr1 21280476 - | 1
## [5] chr1 31644889 - | 1
## ... ... ... ... . ...
## [496] chrX 81329014 + | 1
## [497] chrX 103356533 + | 11
## [498] chrX 132217287 - | 1
## [499] chrX 140564830 + | 1
## [500] chrX 153954723 - | 1
## -------
## seqinfo: 24 sequences from an unspecified genome; no seqlengths
##
## $RFP_heart_fheart_valve
## GRanges object with 500 ranges and 6 metadata columns:
## seqnames ranges strand | V7 V8 V9
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer> <integer> <integer>
## [1] GL000220.1 109184-109205 + | 109183 109205 0
## [2] GL000220.1 112148-112179 + | 112147 112179 0
## [3] GL000220.1 112148-112179 + | 112147 112179 0
## [4] GL000220.1 112148-112179 + | 112147 112179 0
## [5] GL000220.1 112148-112179 + | 112147 112179 0
## ... ... ... ... . ... ... ...
## [496] chr8 81522077-81522106 - | 81522076 81522106 0
## [497] chr8 135773772-135773799 - | 135773771 135773799 0
## [498] chr9 76571752-76571781 + | 76571751 76571781 0
## [499] chr9 76571752-76571781 + | 76571751 76571781 0
## [500] chr9 93543250-93543273 + | 93543249 93543273 0
## V10 V11 V12
## <integer> <character> <character>
## [1] 1 22 0
## [2] 1 32 0
## [3] 1 32 0
## [4] 1 32 0
## [5] 1 32 0
## ... ... ... ...
## [496] 1 30 0
## [497] 1 28 0
## [498] 1 30 0
## [499] 1 30 0
## [500] 1 24 0
## -------
## seqinfo: 26 sequences from an unspecified genome; no seqlengths
##
## $RFP
## GAlignments object with 16649 alignments and 0 metadata columns:
## seqnames strand cigar qwidth start end width
## <Rle> <Rle> <character> <integer> <integer> <integer> <integer>
## [1] chr23 - 28M 28 17599129 17599156 28
## [2] chr23 - 28M 28 17599129 17599156 28
## [3] chr23 - 28M 28 17599129 17599156 28
## [4] chr23 - 28M 28 17599129 17599156 28
## [5] chr23 - 28M 28 17599129 17599156 28
## ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
## [16645] chr8 + 29M 29 24068894 24068922 29
## [16646] chr8 + 28M 28 24068907 24068934 28
## [16647] chr8 + 30M 30 24068919 24068948 30
## [16648] chr8 + 30M 30 24068919 24068948 30
## [16649] chr8 + 30M 30 24068939 24068968 30
## njunc
## <integer>
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## [3] 0
## [4] 0
## [5] 0
## ... ...
## [16645] 0
## [16646] 0
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## [16648] 0
## [16649] 0
## -------
## seqinfo: 1133 sequences from an unspecified genome
##
## $RNA_heart
## GRanges object with 500 ranges and 6 metadata columns:
## seqnames ranges strand | V7 V8 V9
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer> <integer> <integer>
## [1] GL000220.1 117772-117872 - | 117771 117872 0
## [2] GL000220.1 118010-118110 - | 118009 118110 0
## [3] KI270733.1 134864-134964 - | 134863 134964 0
## [4] KI270733.1 175346-175446 + | 175345 175446 0
## [5] KI270733.1 177165-177265 - | 177164 177265 0
## ... ... ... ... . ... ... ...
## [496] chr9 130236114-130236214 - | 130236113 130236214 0
## [497] chr9 137008790-137008972 + | 137008789 137008972 0
## [498] chr9 137040403-137040580 - | 137040402 137040580 0
## [499] chr9 137220666-137220766 - | 137220665 137220766 0
## [500] chr9 137616179-137617934 + | 137616178 137617934 0
## V10 V11 V12
## <integer> <character> <character>
## [1] 1 101 0
## [2] 1 101 0
## [3] 1 101 0
## [4] 1 101 0
## [5] 1 101 0
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## [496] 1 101 0
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## [498] 2 34,67 0,111
## [499] 1 101 0
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## -------
## seqinfo: 26 sequences from an unspecified genome; no seqlengths
The third way is to load manually, more secure, but also more cumbersome.
files <- filepath(df, type = "default")
CAGE_loaded_manually <- fimport(files[1])
If you use the auto-loading to environment and you have multiple experiments, it might be a chance of non-unique naming, 2 experiments might have a library called cage. To be sure names are unique, we add the experiment name in the variable name:
df@expInVarName <- TRUE
bamVarName(df) #This will be the names:
## [1] "ORFik_example_human_CAGE_heart"
## [2] "ORFik_example_human_RFP_heart_fheart_valve"
## [3] "ORFik_example_human_RFP"
## [4] "ORFik_example_human_RNA_heart"
You see here that the experiment name, “ORFik” is in the variable name If you are only working on one experiment, you do not need to include the name, since there is no possibility of duplicate naming (the experiment class validates all names are unique).
Since we want NGS data names without “ORFik”, let’s remove the loaded libraries and load them again.
df@expInVarName <- FALSE
remove.experiments(df)
## Removed loaded libraries from experiment:ORFik_example_human
outputLibs(df)
## Outputting libraries from: ORFik_example_human
There is also many function to load specific parts of the annotation:
txdb <- loadTxdb(df) # transcript annotation
## Import genomic features from the file as a GRanges object ... OK
## Prepare the 'metadata' data frame ... OK
## Make the TxDb object ... OK
Let’s say we want to load all leaders, cds and 3’ UTRs that are longer than 30. With ORFik experiment this is easy:
txNames <- filterTranscripts(txdb, minFiveUTR = 30, minCDS = 30, minThreeUTR = 30)
loadRegions(txdb, parts = c("leaders", "cds", "trailers"), names.keep = txNames)
The regions are now loaded into .GlobalEnv, only keeping transcripts from txNames.
ORFik supports a myriad of plots for experiments. Lets make a plot with coverage over mrna, seperated by 5’ UTR, CDS and 3’ UTR in one of the ribo-seq libraries from the experiment
transcriptWindow(leaders, cds, trailers, df[3,])
## RFP
## [[1]]
##
## [[2]]
If your experiment consists of Ribo-seq, you want to do p-site shifting.
shiftFootprintsByExperiment(df[df$libtype == "RFP",])
P-shifted ribo-seq will automaticly be stored as .bigWwig (track files for IGV/UCSC) and .ofst (ORFik serialized for R) files in a ./pshifted folder, relative to original libraries.
To validate p-shifting, use shiftPlots. Here is an example from Bazzini et al. 2014 I made.
df.baz <- read.experiment("zf_bazzini14_RFP")
shiftPlots(df.baz, title = "Ribo-seq, zebrafish, Bazzini et al. 2014", type = "heatmaps")
To see the shifts per library do:
shifts.load(df)
To see the location of pshifted files:
filepath(df[df$libtype == "RFP",], type = "pshifted")
To load p-shifted libraries, you can do:
outputLibs(df[df$libtype == "RFP",], type = "pshifted")
Bam files are slow to load, and usually you don’t need all the information contained in a bam file.
Usually you convert to bed or bigWig files, but ORFik also support 3 formats for much faster loading and use of data.
From the bam file store these columns as a serialized file (using the insane facebook zstandard compression): seqname, start, cigar, strand, score (number of identical replicates for that read).
This is the fastest format to use, loading time of 10GB Ribo-seq bam file reduced from ~ 5 minutes to ~ 1 second and ~ 15MB size.
convertLibs(df, type = "ofst") # Collapsed
From the bam file store these columns as text file: seqname, start, end (if not all widths are 1), strand, score (number of identical replicates for that read), size (size of cigar Ms according to reference)
The R object loaded from these files are GRanges, since cigar is not needed.
Loading time of 10GB Ribo-seq bam file reduced to ~ 10 seconds and ~ 100MB size.
From the bam file store these columns as text file: seqname, cigar, start, strand, score (number of identical replicates for that read)
The R object loaded from these files are GAlignments or GAlignmentPairs, since cigar is needed.
Loading time of 10GB Ribo-seq bam file reduced to ~ 15 seconds and ~ 200MB size.
ORFik also support a full QC report for post alignment statistics, correlation plots, simplified libraries for plotting, meta coverage, ++.
To optimize the experiment for use in ORFik, always run QCreport, you will then get:
The default QC report:
QCreport(df)
Load Count tables for cds (FPKM normalized):
countTable(df, region = "cds", type = "fpkm")
Load Count tables for all mRNAs (DESeq object):
countTable(df, region = "mrna", type = "deseq")
The statistics are saved in /QC_STATS/ folder relative to the bam files as csv files. To see the statistics, you can do:
QCstats(df)
The plots are saved in /QC_STATS/ folder relative to the bam files, this folder will contain all plots from the QC, either as pdf or png files dependent on what you specify in the QC.
To pshift all ribo-seq files in an experiment, do:
shiftFootprintsByExperiment(df)
In addition there is a QC report for Ribo-seq, with some addition analysis of read lengths and frames. This should only be run on when you have pshifted the reads.
RiboQC.plot(df)
Usually you want to do some operation on multiple data-sets. If ORFik does not include a premade function for what you want, you can make it yourself. If your data is in the format of an ORFik experiment, this operation is simple.
Not all functions in ORFik supports abstraction from single library to the experiment syntax. Here 3 ways to run loops for the data for these cases are shown:
outputLibs(df, type = "pshifted") # Output all libraries, fastest way
libs <- bamVarName(df) # <- here are names of the libs that were outputed
cds <- loadRegion(df, "cds")
# parallel loop
bplapply(libs, FUN = function(lib, cds) {
return(entropy(cds, get(lib)))
}, cds = cds)
files <- filepath(df, type = "pshifted")
cds <- loadRegion(df, "cds")
# parallel loop
res <- bplapply(files, FUN = function(file, cds) {
return(entropy(cds, fimport(file)))
}, cds = cds)
files <- filepath(df, type = "pshifted")
cds <- loadRegion(df, "cds")
# Single thread loop
lapply(files, FUN = function(file, cds) {
return(entropy(cds, fimport(file)))
}, cds = cds)
Since the output from the above loops will output lists, a very fast conversion to data.table can be done with:
library(data.table)
outputLibs(df, type = "pshifted")
libs <- bamVarName(df) # <- here are names of the libs that were outputed
cds <- loadRegion(df, "cds")
# parallel loop
res <- bplapply(libs, FUN = function(lib, cds) {
return(entropy(cds, get(lib)))
}, cds = cds)
res.by.columns <- copy(res) # data.table copies default by reference
# Add some names and convert
names(res.by.columns) <- libs
data.table::setDT(res.by.columns) # Will give 1 column per library
res.by.columns # Now by columns
To merge row-wise do:
res.by.rows <- copy(res)
# Add some names and convert
names(res.by.rows) <- libs
res.by.rows <- rbindlist(res.by.rows) # Will bind rows per library
res.by.columns # now melted row-wise
ORFik contains a whole API for using the ORFik.experiment S4 class to simplify coding over experiments. More examples of use shown in documentation and in the Annotation_Alignment and Ribo-seq pipeline vignettes.