VariantExperiment 1.8.0
With the rapid development of the biotechnologies, the sequencing (e.g., DNA, bulk/single-cell RNA, etc.) and other types of biological data are getting increasingly larger-profile. The memory space in R has been an obstable for fast and efficient data processing, because most available R or Bioconductor packages are developed based on in-memory data manipulation. SingleCellExperiment has achieved efficient on-disk saving/reading of the large-scale count data as HDF5Array objects. However, there was still no such light-weight containers available for high-throughput variant data (e.g., DNA-seq, genotyping, etc.).
We have developed VariantExperiment, a Bioconductor package to
contain variant data into RangedSummarizedExperiment
object. The
package converts and represent VCF/GDS files using standard
SummarizedExperiment
metaphor. It is a container for high-through
variant data with GDS back-end.
In VariantExperiment
, The high-throughput variant data is saved in
DelayedArray objects with GDS back-end. In addition to the
light-weight Assay
data, it also supports the on-disk saving of
annotation data for both features and samples (corresponding to
rowData/colData
respectively) by implementing the
DelayedDataFrame data structure. The on-disk representation of
both assay data and annotation data realizes on-disk reading and
processing and saves R memory space significantly. The interface of
RangedSummarizedExperiment
data format enables easy and common
manipulations for high-throughput variant data with common
SummarizedExperiment metaphor in R and Bioconductor.
if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("VariantExperiment")
Or install the development version of the package from Github.
BiocManager::install("Bioconductor/VariantExperiment")
library(VariantExperiment)
GDSArray is a Bioconductor package that represents GDS
files as
objects derived from the DelayedArray package and DelayedArray
class. It converts GDS
nodes into a DelayedArray
-derived data
structure. The rich common methods and data operations defined on
GDSArray
makes it more R-user-friendly than working with the GDS
file directly.
The GDSArray()
constructor takes 2 arguments: the file path and the
GDS node name (which can be retrieved with the gdsnodes()
function)
inside the GDS file.
library(GDSArray)
## Loading required package: gdsfmt
## Loading required package: DelayedArray
## Loading required package: Matrix
##
## Attaching package: 'Matrix'
## The following object is masked from 'package:S4Vectors':
##
## expand
##
## Attaching package: 'DelayedArray'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
##
## aperm, apply, rowsum, scale, sweep
file <- GDSArray::gdsExampleFileName("seqgds")
## This is a SeqArray GDS file
gdsnodes(file)
## [1] "sample.id" "variant.id"
## [3] "position" "chromosome"
## [5] "allele" "genotype/data"
## [7] "genotype/~data" "genotype/extra.index"
## [9] "genotype/extra" "phase/data"
## [11] "phase/~data" "phase/extra.index"
## [13] "phase/extra" "annotation/id"
## [15] "annotation/qual" "annotation/filter"
## [17] "annotation/info/AA" "annotation/info/AC"
## [19] "annotation/info/AN" "annotation/info/DP"
## [21] "annotation/info/HM2" "annotation/info/HM3"
## [23] "annotation/info/OR" "annotation/info/GP"
## [25] "annotation/info/BN" "annotation/format/DP/data"
## [27] "annotation/format/DP/~data" "sample.annotation/family"
GDSArray(file, "genotype/data")
## <2 x 90 x 1348> array of class GDSArray and type "integer":
## ,,1
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] ... [,87] [,88] [,89] [,90]
## [1,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
## [2,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
##
## ,,2
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] ... [,87] [,88] [,89] [,90]
## [1,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
## [2,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
##
## ...
##
## ,,1347
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] ... [,87] [,88] [,89] [,90]
## [1,] 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## [2,] 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
##
## ,,1348
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] ... [,87] [,88] [,89] [,90]
## [1,] 3 3 0 3 . 3 3 3 3
## [2,] 3 3 1 3 . 3 3 3 3
GDSArray(file, "sample.id")
## <90> array of class GDSArray and type "character":
## [1] [2] [3] . [89] [90]
## "NA06984" "NA06985" "NA06986" . "NA12891" "NA12892"
More details about GDS
or GDSArray
format can be found in the
vignettes of the gdsfmt, SNPRelate, SeqArray, GDSArray
and DelayedArray packages.
DelayedDataFrame is a Bioconductor package that implements
delayed operations on DataFrame
objects using standard DataFrame
metaphor. Each column of data inside DelayedDataFrame
is represented
as 1-dimensional GDSArray
with on-disk GDS file. Methods like
show
,validity check
, [
, [[
subsetting, rbind
, cbind
are
implemented for DelayedDataFrame
. The DelayedDataFrame
stays lazy
until an explicit realization call like DataFrame()
constructor or
as.list()
triggered. More details about DelayedDataFrame data
structure could be found in the vignette of DelayedDataFrame
package.
VariantExperiment
classVariantExperiment
classVariantExperiment
class is defined to extend
RangedSummarizedExperiment
. The difference would be that the assay
data are saved as DelayedArray
, and the annotation data are saved by
default as DelayedDataFrame
(with option to save as ordinary
DataFrame
), both of which are representing the data on-disk with
GDS
back-end.
Conversion methods into VariantExperiment
object are
defined directly for VCF
and GDS
files. Here we show one simple
example to convert a DNA-sequencing data in GDS format into
VariantExperiment
and some class-related operations.
ve <- makeVariantExperimentFromGDS(file)
ve
## class: VariantExperiment
## dim: 1348 90
## metadata(0):
## assays(3): genotype/data phase/data annotation/format/DP/data
## rownames(1348): 1 2 ... 1347 1348
## rowData names(13): annotation.id annotation.qual ... info.GP info.BN
## colnames(90): NA06984 NA06985 ... NA12891 NA12892
## colData names(1): family
In this example, the sequencing file in GDS format was converted into
a VariantExperiment
object, with all available assay data saved into
the assay
slot, all available feature annotation nodes into
rowRanges/rowData
slot, and all available sample annotation nodes
into colData
slot. The available values for each arguments in
makeVariantExperimentFromGDS()
function can be retrieved using the
showAvailable()
function.
args(makeVariantExperimentFromGDS)
## function (file, ftnode, smpnode, assayNames = NULL, rowDataColumns = NULL,
## colDataColumns = NULL, rowDataOnDisk = TRUE, colDataOnDisk = TRUE,
## infoColumns = NULL)
## NULL
showAvailable(file)
## CharacterList of length 4
## [["assayNames"]] genotype/data phase/data annotation/format/DP/data
## [["rowDataColumns"]] allele annotation/id annotation/qual annotation/filter
## [["colDataColumns"]] family
## [["infoColumns"]] AC AN DP HM2 HM3 OR GP BN
Assay data are in GDSArray
format, and could be retrieve by the
assays()/assay()
function. NOTE that when converted into a
VariantExperiment
object, the assay data will be checked and
permuted, so that the first 2 dimensions always match to features
(variants/snps) and samples respectively, no matter how are the
dimensions are with the original GDSArray that can be constructed.
assays(ve)
## List of length 3
## names(3): genotype/data phase/data annotation/format/DP/data
assay(ve, 1)
## <1348 x 90 x 2> array of class DelayedArray and type "integer":
## ,,1
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] ... [,87] [,88] [,89] [,90]
## [1,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
## [2,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
## ... . . . . . . . . .
## [1347,] 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## [1348,] 3 3 0 3 . 3 3 3 3
##
## ,,2
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] ... [,87] [,88] [,89] [,90]
## [1,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
## [2,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
## ... . . . . . . . . .
## [1347,] 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## [1348,] 3 3 1 3 . 3 3 3 3
GDSArray(file, "genotype/data") ## original GDSArray from GDS file before permutation
## <2 x 90 x 1348> array of class GDSArray and type "integer":
## ,,1
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] ... [,87] [,88] [,89] [,90]
## [1,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
## [2,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
##
## ,,2
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] ... [,87] [,88] [,89] [,90]
## [1,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
## [2,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
##
## ...
##
## ,,1347
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] ... [,87] [,88] [,89] [,90]
## [1,] 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## [2,] 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
##
## ,,1348
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] ... [,87] [,88] [,89] [,90]
## [1,] 3 3 0 3 . 3 3 3 3
## [2,] 3 3 1 3 . 3 3 3 3
In this example, the original GDSArray
object from genotype data was
2 x 90 x 1348
. But it was permuted to 1348 x 90 x 2
when
constructed into the VariantExperiment
object.
The rowData()
of the VariantExperiment
is by default saved in
DelayedDataFrame
format. We can use rowRanges()
/ rowData()
to
retrieve the feature-related annotation file, with/without a
GenomicRange format.
rowRanges(ve)
## GRanges object with 1348 ranges and 13 metadata columns:
## seqnames ranges strand | annotation.id annotation.qual
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <GDSArray> <GDSArray>
## 1 1 1105366 * | rs111751804 NaN
## 2 1 1105411 * | rs114390380 NaN
## 3 1 1110294 * | rs1320571 NaN
## ... ... ... ... . ... ...
## 1346 22 43691009 * | rs8135982 NaN
## 1347 22 43691073 * | rs116581756 NaN
## 1348 22 48958933 * | rs5771206 NaN
## annotation.filter REF ALT info.AC info.AN
## <GDSArray> <DelayedArray> <DelayedArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray>
## 1 PASS T C 4 114
## 2 PASS G A 1 106
## 3 PASS G A 6 154
## ... ... ... ... ... ...
## 1346 PASS C T 11 142
## 1347 PASS G A 1 152
## 1348 PASS A G 1 6
## info.DP info.HM2 info.HM3 info.OR info.GP info.BN
## <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray>
## 1 3251 0 0 1:1115503 132
## 2 2676 0 0 1:1115548 132
## 3 7610 1 1 1:1120431 88
## ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
## 1346 823 0 0 22:45312345 116
## 1347 1257 0 0 22:45312409 132
## 1348 48 0 0 22:50616806 114
## -------
## seqinfo: 22 sequences from an unspecified genome; no seqlengths
rowData(ve)
## DelayedDataFrame with 1348 rows and 13 columns
## annotation.id annotation.qual annotation.filter REF
## <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <DelayedArray>
## 1 rs111751804 NaN PASS T
## 2 rs114390380 NaN PASS G
## 3 rs1320571 NaN PASS G
## ... ... ... ... ...
## 1346 rs8135982 NaN PASS C
## 1347 rs116581756 NaN PASS G
## 1348 rs5771206 NaN PASS A
## ALT info.AC info.AN info.DP info.HM2 info.HM3
## <DelayedArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray>
## 1 C 4 114 3251 0 0
## 2 A 1 106 2676 0 0
## 3 A 6 154 7610 1 1
## ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
## 1346 T 11 142 823 0 0
## 1347 A 1 152 1257 0 0
## 1348 G 1 6 48 0 0
## info.OR info.GP info.BN
## <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray>
## 1 1:1115503 132
## 2 1:1115548 132
## 3 1:1120431 88
## ... ... ... ...
## 1346 22:45312345 116
## 1347 22:45312409 132
## 1348 22:50616806 114
sample-related annotation is by default in DelayedDataFrame
format,
and could be retrieved by colData()
.
colData(ve)
## DelayedDataFrame with 90 rows and 1 column
## family
## <GDSArray>
## NA06984 1328
## NA06985
## NA06986 13291
## ... ...
## NA12890 1463
## NA12891
## NA12892
The gdsfile()
will retrieve the gds file path associated with the
VariantExperiment
object.
gdsfile(ve)
## [1] "/home/biocbuild/bbs-3.14-bioc/R/library/SeqArray/extdata/CEU_Exon.gds"
Some other getter function like metadata()
will return any metadata
that we have saved inside the VariantExperiment
object.
metadata(ve)
## list()
To take advantage of the functions and methods that are defined on
SummarizedExperiment
, from which the VariantExperiment
extends, we
have defined coercion methods from VCF
and GDS
to
VariantExperiment
.
VCF
to VariantExperiment
The coercion function of makeVariantExperimentFromVCF
could
convert the VCF
file directly into VariantExperiment
object. To
achieve the best storage efficiency, the assay data are saved in
DelayedArray
format, and the annotation data are saved in
DelayedDataFrame
format (with no option of ordinary DataFrame
),
which could be retrieved by rowData()
for feature related
annotations and colData()
for sample related annotations (Only when
sample.info
argument is specified).
vcf <- SeqArray::seqExampleFileName("vcf")
ve <- makeVariantExperimentFromVCF(vcf, out.dir = tempfile())
ve
## class: VariantExperiment
## dim: 1348 90
## metadata(0):
## assays(3): genotype/data phase/data annotation/format/DP/data
## rownames(1348): 1 2 ... 1347 1348
## rowData names(13): annotation.id annotation.qual ... info.GP info.BN
## colnames(90): NA06984 NA06985 ... NA12891 NA12892
## colData names(0):
Internally, the VCF
file was converted into a on-disk GDS
file,
which could be retrieved by:
gdsfile(ve)
## [1] "/tmp/RtmpIi31Dh/file233bc1724fcaa8/se.gds"
assay data is in DelayedArray
format:
assay(ve, 1)
## <1348 x 90 x 2> array of class DelayedArray and type "integer":
## ,,1
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] ... [,87] [,88] [,89] [,90]
## [1,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
## [2,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
## ... . . . . . . . . .
## [1347,] 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## [1348,] 3 3 0 3 . 3 3 3 3
##
## ,,2
## [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] ... [,87] [,88] [,89] [,90]
## [1,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
## [2,] 3 3 0 3 . 0 0 0 0
## ... . . . . . . . . .
## [1347,] 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## [1348,] 3 3 1 3 . 3 3 3 3
feature-related annotation is in DelayedDataFrame
format:
rowData(ve)
## DelayedDataFrame with 1348 rows and 13 columns
## annotation.id annotation.qual annotation.filter REF
## <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <DelayedArray>
## 1 rs111751804 NaN PASS T
## 2 rs114390380 NaN PASS G
## 3 rs1320571 NaN PASS G
## ... ... ... ... ...
## 1346 rs8135982 NaN PASS C
## 1347 rs116581756 NaN PASS G
## 1348 rs5771206 NaN PASS A
## ALT info.AC info.AN info.DP info.HM2 info.HM3
## <DelayedArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray>
## 1 C 4 114 3251 0 0
## 2 A 1 106 2676 0 0
## 3 A 6 154 7610 1 1
## ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
## 1346 T 11 142 823 0 0
## 1347 A 1 152 1257 0 0
## 1348 G 1 6 48 0 0
## info.OR info.GP info.BN
## <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray>
## 1 1:1115503 132
## 2 1:1115548 132
## 3 1:1120431 88
## ... ... ... ...
## 1346 22:45312345 116
## 1347 22:45312409 132
## 1348 22:50616806 114
User could also have the opportunity to save the sample related
annotation info directly into the VariantExperiment
object, by
providing the file path to the sample.info
argument, and then
retrieve by colData()
.
sampleInfo <- system.file("extdata", "Example_sampleInfo.txt",
package="VariantExperiment")
vevcf <- makeVariantExperimentFromVCF(vcf, sample.info = sampleInfo)
## Warning in (function (node, name, val = NULL, storage = storage.mode(val), :
## Missing characters are converted to "".
colData(vevcf)
## DelayedDataFrame with 90 rows and 1 column
## family
## <GDSArray>
## NA06984 1328
## NA06985
## NA06986 13291
## ... ...
## NA12890 1463
## NA12891
## NA12892
Arguments could be specified to take only certain info columns or format columns from the vcf file.
vevcf1 <- makeVariantExperimentFromVCF(vcf, info.import=c("OR", "GP"))
rowData(vevcf1)
## DelayedDataFrame with 1348 rows and 7 columns
## annotation.id annotation.qual annotation.filter REF
## <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <DelayedArray>
## 1 rs111751804 NaN PASS T
## 2 rs114390380 NaN PASS G
## 3 rs1320571 NaN PASS G
## ... ... ... ... ...
## 1346 rs8135982 NaN PASS C
## 1347 rs116581756 NaN PASS G
## 1348 rs5771206 NaN PASS A
## ALT info.OR info.GP
## <DelayedArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray>
## 1 C 1:1115503
## 2 A 1:1115548
## 3 A 1:1120431
## ... ... ... ...
## 1346 T 22:45312345
## 1347 A 22:45312409
## 1348 G 22:50616806
In the above example, only 2 info entries (“OR” and “GP”) are read
into the VariantExperiment
object.
The start
and count
arguments could be used to specify the start
position and number of variants to read into Variantexperiment
object.
vevcf2 <- makeVariantExperimentFromVCF(vcf, start=101, count=1000)
vevcf2
## class: VariantExperiment
## dim: 1000 90
## metadata(0):
## assays(3): genotype/data phase/data annotation/format/DP/data
## rownames(1000): 101 102 ... 1099 1100
## rowData names(13): annotation.id annotation.qual ... info.GP info.BN
## colnames(90): NA06984 NA06985 ... NA12891 NA12892
## colData names(0):
For the above example, only 1000 variants are read into the
VariantExperiment
object, starting from the position of 101.
GDS
to VariantExperiment
The coercion function of makeVariantExperimentFromGDS
coerces GDS
files into VariantExperiment
objects directly, with the assay data
saved as DelayedArray
, and the rowData()/colData()
in
DelayedDataFrame
by default (with the option of ordinary DataFrame
object).
gds <- SeqArray::seqExampleFileName("gds")
ve <- makeVariantExperimentFromGDS(gds)
ve
## class: VariantExperiment
## dim: 1348 90
## metadata(0):
## assays(3): genotype/data phase/data annotation/format/DP/data
## rownames(1348): 1 2 ... 1347 1348
## rowData names(13): annotation.id annotation.qual ... info.GP info.BN
## colnames(90): NA06984 NA06985 ... NA12891 NA12892
## colData names(1): family
Arguments could be specified to take only certain annotation columns
for features and samples. All available data entries for
makeVariantExperimentFromGDS
arguments could be retrieved by the
showAvailable()
function with the gds file name as input.
showAvailable(gds)
## CharacterList of length 4
## [["assayNames"]] genotype/data phase/data annotation/format/DP/data
## [["rowDataColumns"]] allele annotation/id annotation/qual annotation/filter
## [["colDataColumns"]] family
## [["infoColumns"]] AC AN DP HM2 HM3 OR GP BN
Note that the infoColumns
from gds file will be saved as columns
inside the rowData()
, with the prefix of
“info.”. rowDataOnDisk/colDataOnDisk
could be set as FALSE
to
save all annotation data in ordinary DataFrame
format.
ve3 <- makeVariantExperimentFromGDS(gds,
rowDataColumns = c("allele", "annotation/id"),
infoColumns = c("AC", "AN", "DP"),
rowDataOnDisk = TRUE,
colDataOnDisk = FALSE)
rowData(ve3) ## DelayedDataFrame object
## DelayedDataFrame with 1348 rows and 6 columns
## annotation.id REF ALT info.AC info.AN
## <GDSArray> <DelayedArray> <DelayedArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray>
## 1 rs111751804 T C 4 114
## 2 rs114390380 G A 1 106
## 3 rs1320571 G A 6 154
## ... ... ... ... ... ...
## 1346 rs8135982 C T 11 142
## 1347 rs116581756 G A 1 152
## 1348 rs5771206 A G 1 6
## info.DP
## <GDSArray>
## 1 3251
## 2 2676
## 3 7610
## ... ...
## 1346 823
## 1347 1257
## 1348 48
colData(ve3) ## DataFrame object
## DataFrame with 90 rows and 1 column
## family
## <character>
## NA06984 1328
## NA06985
## NA06986 13291
## ... ...
## NA12890 1463
## NA12891
## NA12892
For GDS formats of SEQ_ARRAY
(defined in SeqArray as
SeqVarGDSClass
class) and SNP_ARRAY
(defined in SNPRelate as
SNPGDSFileClass
class), we have made some customized transfer of
certain nodes when reading into VariantExperiment
object for users’
convenience.
The allele
node in SEQ_ARRAY
gds file is converted into 2 columns
in rowData()
asn REF
and ALT
.
veseq <- makeVariantExperimentFromGDS(file,
rowDataColumns = c("allele"),
infoColumns = character(0))
rowData(veseq)
## DelayedDataFrame with 1348 rows and 2 columns
## REF ALT
## <DelayedArray> <DelayedArray>
## 1 T C
## 2 G A
## 3 G A
## ... ... ...
## 1346 C T
## 1347 G A
## 1348 A G
The snp.allele
node in SNP_ARRAY
gds file was converted into 2
columns in rowData()
as snp.allele1
and snp.allele2
.
snpfile <- SNPRelate::snpgdsExampleFileName()
vesnp <- makeVariantExperimentFromGDS(snpfile,
rowDataColumns = c("snp.allele"))
rowData(vesnp)
## DelayedDataFrame with 9088 rows and 2 columns
## snp.allele1 snp.allele2
## <DelayedArray> <DelayedArray>
## 1 G T
## 2 C T
## 3 A G
## ... ... ...
## 9086 A G
## 9087 C T
## 9088 A C
VariantExperiment
supports basic subsetting operations using [
,
[[
, $
, and ranged-based subsetting operations using
subsetByOverlap
.
ve[1:10, 1:5]
## class: VariantExperiment
## dim: 10 5
## metadata(0):
## assays(3): genotype/data phase/data annotation/format/DP/data
## rownames(10): 1 2 ... 9 10
## rowData names(13): annotation.id annotation.qual ... info.GP info.BN
## colnames(5): NA06984 NA06985 NA06986 NA06989 NA06994
## colData names(1): family
$
subsettingThe $
subsetting can be operated directly on colData()
columns,
for easy sample extraction. NOTE that the colData/rowData
are
(by default) in the DelayedDataFrame
format, with each column saved
as GDSArray
. So when doing subsetting, we need to use as.logical()
to convert the 1-dimensional GDSArray
into ordinary vector.
colData(ve)
## DelayedDataFrame with 90 rows and 1 column
## family
## <GDSArray>
## NA06984 1328
## NA06985
## NA06986 13291
## ... ...
## NA12890 1463
## NA12891
## NA12892
ve[, as.logical(ve$family == "1328")]
## class: VariantExperiment
## dim: 1348 2
## metadata(0):
## assays(3): genotype/data phase/data annotation/format/DP/data
## rownames(1348): 1 2 ... 1347 1348
## rowData names(13): annotation.id annotation.qual ... info.GP info.BN
## colnames(2): NA06984 NA06989
## colData names(1): family
subsetting by rowData()
columns.
rowData(ve)
## DelayedDataFrame with 1348 rows and 13 columns
## annotation.id annotation.qual annotation.filter REF
## <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <DelayedArray>
## 1 rs111751804 NaN PASS T
## 2 rs114390380 NaN PASS G
## 3 rs1320571 NaN PASS G
## ... ... ... ... ...
## 1346 rs8135982 NaN PASS C
## 1347 rs116581756 NaN PASS G
## 1348 rs5771206 NaN PASS A
## ALT info.AC info.AN info.DP info.HM2 info.HM3
## <DelayedArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray>
## 1 C 4 114 3251 0 0
## 2 A 1 106 2676 0 0
## 3 A 6 154 7610 1 1
## ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
## 1346 T 11 142 823 0 0
## 1347 A 1 152 1257 0 0
## 1348 G 1 6 48 0 0
## info.OR info.GP info.BN
## <GDSArray> <GDSArray> <GDSArray>
## 1 1:1115503 132
## 2 1:1115548 132
## 3 1:1120431 88
## ... ... ... ...
## 1346 22:45312345 116
## 1347 22:45312409 132
## 1348 22:50616806 114
ve[as.logical(rowData(ve)$REF == "T"),]
## class: VariantExperiment
## dim: 214 90
## metadata(0):
## assays(3): genotype/data phase/data annotation/format/DP/data
## rownames(214): 1 4 ... 1320 1328
## rowData names(13): annotation.id annotation.qual ... info.GP info.BN
## colnames(90): NA06984 NA06985 ... NA12891 NA12892
## colData names(1): family
VariantExperiment
objects support all of the findOverlaps()
methods and associated functions. This includes subsetByOverlaps()
,
which makes it easy to subset a VariantExperiment
object by an
interval.
ve1 <- subsetByOverlaps(ve, GRanges("22:1-48958933"))
ve1
## class: VariantExperiment
## dim: 23 90
## metadata(0):
## assays(3): genotype/data phase/data annotation/format/DP/data
## rownames(23): 1326 1327 ... 1347 1348
## rowData names(13): annotation.id annotation.qual ... info.GP info.BN
## colnames(90): NA06984 NA06985 ... NA12891 NA12892
## colData names(1): family
In this example, only 23 out of 1348 variants were retained with the
GRanges
subsetting.
VariantExperiment
objectNote that after the subsetting by [
, $
or Ranged-based operations
, and you feel satisfied with the data for downstream
analysis, you need to save that VariantExperiment
object to
synchronize the gds file (on-disk) associated with the subset of data
(in-memory representation) before any statistical analysis. Otherwise,
an error will be returned.
0
## save VariantExperiment
object
Use the function saveVariantExperiment
to synchronize the on-disk
and in-memory representation. This function writes the processed data
as ve.gds
, and save the R object (which lazily represent the
backend data set) as ve.rds
under the specified directory. It
finally returns a new VariantExperiment
object into current R
session generated from the newly saved data.
a <- tempfile()
ve2 <- saveVariantExperiment(ve1, dir=a, replace=TRUE, chunk_size = 30)
VariantExperiment
objectYou can alternatively use loadVariantExperiment
to load the
synchronized data into R session, by providing only the file
directory. It reads the VariantExperiment
object saved as ve.rds
, as lazy
representation of the backend ve.gds
file under the specific
directory.
ve3 <- loadVariantExperiment(dir=a)
gdsfile(ve3)
## [1] "/tmp/RtmpIi31Dh/file233bc11f288269/ve.gds"
all.equal(ve2, ve3)
## [1] TRUE
sessionInfo()
## R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
## Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
##
## Matrix products: default
## BLAS: /home/biocbuild/bbs-3.14-bioc/R/lib/libRblas.so
## LAPACK: /home/biocbuild/bbs-3.14-bioc/R/lib/libRlapack.so
##
## locale:
## [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
## [3] LC_TIME=en_GB LC_COLLATE=C
## [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
## [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
## [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
## [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
##
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats4 stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods
## [8] base
##
## other attached packages:
## [1] GDSArray_1.14.0 DelayedArray_0.20.0
## [3] Matrix_1.3-4 gdsfmt_1.30.0
## [5] VariantExperiment_1.8.0 SummarizedExperiment_1.24.0
## [7] Biobase_2.54.0 GenomicRanges_1.46.0
## [9] GenomeInfoDb_1.30.0 IRanges_2.28.0
## [11] MatrixGenerics_1.6.0 matrixStats_0.61.0
## [13] S4Vectors_0.32.0 BiocGenerics_0.40.0
## [15] BiocStyle_2.22.0
##
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
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## [4] jquerylib_0.1.4 XVector_0.34.0 bitops_1.0-7
## [7] tools_4.1.1 zlibbioc_1.40.0 digest_0.6.28
## [10] jsonlite_1.7.2 evaluate_0.14 lattice_0.20-45
## [13] rlang_0.4.12 SeqArray_1.34.0 parallel_4.1.1
## [16] yaml_2.2.1 xfun_0.27 fastmap_1.1.0
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## [25] R6_2.5.1 rmarkdown_2.11 bookdown_0.24
## [28] magrittr_2.0.1 htmltools_0.5.2 SNPRelate_1.28.0
## [31] DelayedDataFrame_1.10.0 stringi_1.7.5 RCurl_1.98-1.5
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