Edits made by David Hall

The goal of this exercise is to make you familiar with how to download data from Google Sheets and to briefly review some key concepts R functions and coding concepts.

We’ll do the following things: Load Packages, Download Data from Google Docs, Identify Data that may be entered incorrectly, Make a Dataframe, Remove NA data from the Dataframe, Select Unique Genes, Randomly Sample Two Data Entries, Download Fasta Files, Make a dotplot, Make an alignment, Identify the different ways to calculate percent identity

Preliminary Packages

## Google sheets download package
# comment this out when you are done
# install.packages("googlesheets4")
library(googlesheets4)

# comp bio packages
library(seqinr)
library(rentrez)
library(compbio4all)
library(Biostrings)
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Download data

This saves the google sheet’s link to the variable spreadsheet_sp.

spreadsheet_sp <- "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1spC_ZA3_cVuvU3e_Jfcj2nEIfzp-vaP7SA5f-qwQ1pg/edit?usp=sharing" 

This allows googlesheets4 to run wihtout a specific authorization.

# be sure to run this!
googlesheets4::gs4_deauth()   

Third, we download our data.

NOTE!: sometimes Google Sheets or the function gets cranky and throws this error:

“Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : Error in the HTTP2 framing layer”

If that happens, just re-run the code.

# I include this again in case you missed is the first time : )
googlesheets4::gs4_deauth()  

# download
## NOTE: if you get an error, just run the code again
refseq_column <- read_sheet(ss = spreadsheet_sp, # the url
           sheet = "RefSeq_prot",                # the name of the worksheet
           range = "selenoprot!H1:H364",
           col_names = TRUE,
           na = "",                              # fill in empty spaces "" w/NA
           trim_ws = TRUE)
## v Reading from "human_gene_table".
## v Range ''selenoprot'!H1:H364'.
## NOTE: if you get an error, just run the code again

# for reasons we won't get into I'm going to do this
protein_refseq <- refseq_column$RefSeq_prot

This prints the first ten RefSeq accession numbers.

protein_refseq[1:10]
##  [1] "NP_000783.2"    "NP_998758.1"    "NP_001034804.1" "NP_001034805.1"
##  [5] "NP_001311245.1" NA               NA               "NP_054644.1"   
##  [9] "NP_001353425.1" "NP_000784.3"

This downloads the gene names that we have the accession numbers for

# download
## NOTE: if you get an error, just run the code again
gene_name_column <- read_sheet(ss = spreadsheet_sp, # the url
           sheet = "gene",                # the name of the worksheet
           range = "selenoprot!A1:A364",
           col_names = TRUE,
           na = "",                              # fill in empty spaces "" w/NA
           trim_ws = TRUE)
## v Reading from "human_gene_table".
## v Range ''selenoprot'!A1:A364'.
## NOTE: if you get an error, just run the code again

# for reasons we won't get into I'm going to do this
gene <- gene_name_column$gene

Identifying Incorrect Data

This block of code checks to our work to see everything is in order

is(protein_refseq)
##  [1] "character"               "vector"                 
##  [3] "data.frameRowLabels"     "SuperClassMethod"       
##  [5] "character_OR_connection" "character_OR_NULL"      
##  [7] "atomic"                  "EnumerationValue"       
##  [9] "vector_OR_Vector"        "vector_OR_factor"
class(protein_refseq)
## [1] "character"
length(protein_refseq)
## [1] 363
protein_refseq[1:10]
##  [1] "NP_000783.2"    "NP_998758.1"    "NP_001034804.1" "NP_001034805.1"
##  [5] "NP_001311245.1" NA               NA               "NP_054644.1"   
##  [9] "NP_001353425.1" "NP_000784.3"

This returns true if there are any NA pieces of data

is.na(protein_refseq)
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This makes a table of whether the data is NA or not, and from the time of writing, there are 29 NA points of data.

table(is.na(protein_refseq))
## 
## FALSE  TRUE 
##   334    29

This creates a vector of all the NA data points

# ...
temp <- is.na(protein_refseq)

# ....
protein_refseq[temp]
##  [1] NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
## [26] NA NA NA NA
temp2 <- protein_refseq[temp]

# ...
length(temp2)
## [1] 29

Make Data Frame

This makes a dataframe of the gene and the accession numbers

seleno_df <- data.frame(gene = gene,
                        protein_refseq = protein_refseq)

This checks our work and outputs the start of the dataframe and a summary of it

summary(seleno_df)
##      gene           protein_refseq    
##  Length:363         Length:363        
##  Class :character   Class :character  
##  Mode  :character   Mode  :character
head(seleno_df)
##   gene protein_refseq
## 1 DIO1    NP_000783.2
## 2 DIO1    NP_998758.1
## 3 DIO1 NP_001034804.1
## 4 DIO1 NP_001034805.1
## 5 DIO1 NP_001311245.1
## 6 DIO1           <NA>

Omitting NA Data

This omitts all the NA data in our dataframe

# omit NAs
seleno_df_noNA <- na.omit(seleno_df)

# check length- should be shorter
dim(seleno_df)
## [1] 363   2
dim(seleno_df_noNA)
## [1] 334   2

Narrowing Down to Unique Genes

The same gene can appear multiple times because multiple isoforms are listed.

head(seleno_df_noNA)
##   gene protein_refseq
## 1 DIO1    NP_000783.2
## 2 DIO1    NP_998758.1
## 3 DIO1 NP_001034804.1
## 4 DIO1 NP_001034805.1
## 5 DIO1 NP_001311245.1
## 8 DIO2    NP_054644.1

This makes a vector of all the unique genes in our dataframe.

genes_unique <- unique(seleno_df_noNA$gene)
length(genes_unique)
## [1] 37
genes_unique
##  [1] "DIO1"     "DIO2"     "DIO3"     "GPX1"     "GPX2"     "GPX3"    
##  [7] "GPX4"     "GPX6"     "MSRB1"    "SELENOF"  "SELENOH"  "SELENOI" 
## [13] "SELENOK"  "SELENOM"  "SELENON"  "SELENOO"  "SELENOP"  "SELENOS" 
## [19] "SELENOT"  "SELENOV"  "SELENOW"  "SEPHS2"   "TXNRD1"   "TXNRD2"  
## [25] "TXNRD3"   "SELENOP1" "SELENOP2" "SELENOU"  "SELENOW1" "SELENOW2"
## [31] "SELENOE"  "SELENOJ"  "SELENOL"  "SELENOO1" "SELENOO2" "SELENOT1"
## [37] "SELENOT2"

unique() just gives us the unique elements. A related function, duplicated(), gives us the location of duplicated elements in the vector. FALSE means “not duplicated yet” or “first instance so far”.

i.dups <- duplicated(seleno_df_noNA$gene)

We can remove the duplicates using a form of reverse indexing where the “!” means “not”. (You don’t need to know this for the exam)

seleno_df_noNA[!i.dups, ]
##         gene protein_refseq
## 1       DIO1    NP_000783.2
## 8       DIO2    NP_054644.1
## 14      DIO3    NP_001353.4
## 15      GPX1    NP_000572.2
## 20      GPX2    NP_002074.2
## 24      GPX3    NP_002075.2
## 26      GPX4    NP_002076.2
## 29      GPX6    NP_874360.1
## 30     MSRB1    NP_057416.1
## 31   SELENOF    NP_004252.2
## 35   SELENOH    NP_734467.1
## 37   SELENOI    NP_277040.1
## 39   SELENOK    NP_067060.2
## 40   SELENOM    NP_536355.1
## 41   SELENON    NP_996809.1
## 43   SELENOO    NP_113642.1
## 44   SELENOP    NP_005401.3
## 47   SELENOS    NP_060915.2
## 49   SELENOT    NP_057359.2
## 50   SELENOV    NP_874363.1
## 53   SELENOW    NP_003000.1
## 54    SEPHS2    NP_036380.2
## 55    TXNRD1    NP_877393.1
## 62    TXNRD2    NP_006431.2
## 69    TXNRD3    NP_443115.1
## 232 SELENOP1 NP_001026780.2
## 233 SELENOP2 NP_001335698.1
## 236  SELENOU NP_001180447.1
## 268 SELENOW1 NP_001291715.2
## 269 SELENOW2 NP_001341647.1
## 334  SELENOE NP_001182713.2
## 338  SELENOJ NP_001180398.1
## 340  SELENOL NP_001177311.1
## 343 SELENOO1 NP_001038336.2
## 344 SELENOO2 NP_001335014.1
## 348 SELENOT1    NP_840075.2
## 350 SELENOT2 NP_001091957.2

Make a dataframe of non-duplicated genes

seleno_df_noDups <- seleno_df_noNA[!i.dups, ]
dim(seleno_df_noDups)
## [1] 37  2

Selecting Two Random Genes

First, lets make a vector that contains a unique number for each row of data

indices <- 1:nrow(seleno_df_noDups)

This would do the same thing

# with dim
indices <- 1:dim(seleno_df_noDups)[1]

# with length
indices <- 1:length(seleno_df_noDups$gene)

or hard-coded

indices <- 1:37

We can then use sample() to select 2 random numbers from this vector.

For x = we’ll use our vector of indices (1 to 37). For size we’ll use 2, since we want to pull out just 2 numbers. For replace we’ll use WHAT? since we don’t want to be ale to select the same number twice.

i.random.genes <- sample(x = indices,
                         size = 2,
                         replace = FALSE)

Hard coded this would be

i.random.genes <- sample(x = c(1:37),
                         size = 2,
                         replace = FALSE)

This gives me two indices values.

i.random.genes
## [1] 15 25

I can now use these index values to pull out two rows of data

seleno_df_noNA[i.random.genes, ]
##       gene protein_refseq
## 19    GPX1 NP_001316384.1
## 32 SELENOF    NP_976086.1

Hard coded, this would be something like this for whichever genes happen to have been selected

seleno_df_noNA[c(37,15), ]
##       gene protein_refseq
## 47 SELENOS    NP_060915.2
## 19    GPX1 NP_001316384.1

Downloading FASTA files

I will now download the FASTA files of two proteins

rentrez::entrez_fetch(id = "NP_060915.2",
                      db = "protein",
                      rettype = "fasta")
## [1] ">NP_060915.2 selenoprotein S isoform 1 [Homo sapiens]\nMERQEESLSARPALETEGLRFLHTTVGSLLATYGWYIVFSCILLYVVFQKLSARLRALRQRQLDRAAAAV\nEPDVVVKRQEALAAARLKMQEELNAQVEKHKEKLKQLEEEKRRQKIEMWDSMQEGKSYKGNAKKPQEEDS\nPGPSTSSVLKRKSDRKPLRGGGYNPLSGEGGGACSWRPGRRGPSSGGUG\n\n"
rentrez::entrez_fetch(id = "NP_001316384.1",
                      db = "protein",
                      rettype = "fasta")
## [1] ">NP_001316384.1 glutathione peroxidase 1 isoform 5 [Homo sapiens]\nMCAARLAAAAAAAQSVYAFSARPLAGGEPVSLGSLRGKENAKNEEILNSLKYVRPGGGFEPNFMLFEKCE\nVNGAGAHPLFAFLREALPAPSDDATALMTDPKLITWSPVCRNDVAWNFEKFLVGPDGVPLRRYSRRFQTI\nDIEPDIEALLSQGPSCA\n\n"

This saves the FASTA files in variables that we can then use.

prot1 <- rentrez::entrez_fetch(id = "NP_060915.2",
                      db = "protein",
                      rettype = "fasta")

prot2 <- rentrez::entrez_fetch(id = "NP_001316384.1",
                      db = "protein",
                      rettype = "fasta")

I can put them into a list like this

# make the list
seleno_list <- vector("list", 1)


# add the first fasta
seleno_list[[1]] <- prot1

# See the result
seleno_list
## [[1]]
## [1] ">NP_060915.2 selenoprotein S isoform 1 [Homo sapiens]\nMERQEESLSARPALETEGLRFLHTTVGSLLATYGWYIVFSCILLYVVFQKLSARLRALRQRQLDRAAAAV\nEPDVVVKRQEALAAARLKMQEELNAQVEKHKEKLKQLEEEKRRQKIEMWDSMQEGKSYKGNAKKPQEEDS\nPGPSTSSVLKRKSDRKPLRGGGYNPLSGEGGGACSWRPGRRGPSSGGUG\n\n"
# add the second fasta
seleno_list[[2]] <- prot2

# see the result
seleno_list
## [[1]]
## [1] ">NP_060915.2 selenoprotein S isoform 1 [Homo sapiens]\nMERQEESLSARPALETEGLRFLHTTVGSLLATYGWYIVFSCILLYVVFQKLSARLRALRQRQLDRAAAAV\nEPDVVVKRQEALAAARLKMQEELNAQVEKHKEKLKQLEEEKRRQKIEMWDSMQEGKSYKGNAKKPQEEDS\nPGPSTSSVLKRKSDRKPLRGGGYNPLSGEGGGACSWRPGRRGPSSGGUG\n\n"
## 
## [[2]]
## [1] ">NP_001316384.1 glutathione peroxidase 1 isoform 5 [Homo sapiens]\nMCAARLAAAAAAAQSVYAFSARPLAGGEPVSLGSLRGKENAKNEEILNSLKYVRPGGGFEPNFMLFEKCE\nVNGAGAHPLFAFLREALPAPSDDATALMTDPKLITWSPVCRNDVAWNFEKFLVGPDGVPLRRYSRRFQTI\nDIEPDIEALLSQGPSCA\n\n"
# name the list
names(seleno_list) <- c("prot1", "prot2")

#Output
seleno_list
## $prot1
## [1] ">NP_060915.2 selenoprotein S isoform 1 [Homo sapiens]\nMERQEESLSARPALETEGLRFLHTTVGSLLATYGWYIVFSCILLYVVFQKLSARLRALRQRQLDRAAAAV\nEPDVVVKRQEALAAARLKMQEELNAQVEKHKEKLKQLEEEKRRQKIEMWDSMQEGKSYKGNAKKPQEEDS\nPGPSTSSVLKRKSDRKPLRGGGYNPLSGEGGGACSWRPGRRGPSSGGUG\n\n"
## 
## $prot2
## [1] ">NP_001316384.1 glutathione peroxidase 1 isoform 5 [Homo sapiens]\nMCAARLAAAAAAAQSVYAFSARPLAGGEPVSLGSLRGKENAKNEEILNSLKYVRPGGGFEPNFMLFEKCE\nVNGAGAHPLFAFLREALPAPSDDATALMTDPKLITWSPVCRNDVAWNFEKFLVGPDGVPLRRYSRRFQTI\nDIEPDIEALLSQGPSCA\n\n"

Elements of the list are accessed like this

seleno_list[[1]]
## [1] ">NP_060915.2 selenoprotein S isoform 1 [Homo sapiens]\nMERQEESLSARPALETEGLRFLHTTVGSLLATYGWYIVFSCILLYVVFQKLSARLRALRQRQLDRAAAAV\nEPDVVVKRQEALAAARLKMQEELNAQVEKHKEKLKQLEEEKRRQKIEMWDSMQEGKSYKGNAKKPQEEDS\nPGPSTSSVLKRKSDRKPLRGGGYNPLSGEGGGACSWRPGRRGPSSGGUG\n\n"

I’ll clean them with fasta_cleaner()

# first, make a copy of the list for storing the clean data
## I'm just going to copy over the old data
seleno_list_clean <- seleno_list


# HOW TO MAKE THIS MORE COMPACT?
for(i in 1:length(seleno_list_clean)){
   clean_fasta_temp <- compbio4all::fasta_cleaner(seleno_list[[i]],
                                                       parse = T)
  
  seleno_list_clean[[i]] <- clean_fasta_temp
}

Now the data looks like there are two separate vectors of amino acids in a list rather than combined.

seleno_list_clean
## $prot1
##   [1] "M" "E" "R" "Q" "E" "E" "S" "L" "S" "A" "R" "P" "A" "L" "E" "T" "E" "G"
##  [19] "L" "R" "F" "L" "H" "T" "T" "V" "G" "S" "L" "L" "A" "T" "Y" "G" "W" "Y"
##  [37] "I" "V" "F" "S" "C" "I" "L" "L" "Y" "V" "V" "F" "Q" "K" "L" "S" "A" "R"
##  [55] "L" "R" "A" "L" "R" "Q" "R" "Q" "L" "D" "R" "A" "A" "A" "A" "V" "E" "P"
##  [73] "D" "V" "V" "V" "K" "R" "Q" "E" "A" "L" "A" "A" "A" "R" "L" "K" "M" "Q"
##  [91] "E" "E" "L" "N" "A" "Q" "V" "E" "K" "H" "K" "E" "K" "L" "K" "Q" "L" "E"
## [109] "E" "E" "K" "R" "R" "Q" "K" "I" "E" "M" "W" "D" "S" "M" "Q" "E" "G" "K"
## [127] "S" "Y" "K" "G" "N" "A" "K" "K" "P" "Q" "E" "E" "D" "S" "P" "G" "P" "S"
## [145] "T" "S" "S" "V" "L" "K" "R" "K" "S" "D" "R" "K" "P" "L" "R" "G" "G" "G"
## [163] "Y" "N" "P" "L" "S" "G" "E" "G" "G" "G" "A" "C" "S" "W" "R" "P" "G" "R"
## [181] "R" "G" "P" "S" "S" "G" "G" "U" "G"
## 
## $prot2
##   [1] "M" "C" "A" "A" "R" "L" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "A" "Q" "S" "V" "Y" "A"
##  [19] "F" "S" "A" "R" "P" "L" "A" "G" "G" "E" "P" "V" "S" "L" "G" "S" "L" "R"
##  [37] "G" "K" "E" "N" "A" "K" "N" "E" "E" "I" "L" "N" "S" "L" "K" "Y" "V" "R"
##  [55] "P" "G" "G" "G" "F" "E" "P" "N" "F" "M" "L" "F" "E" "K" "C" "E" "V" "N"
##  [73] "G" "A" "G" "A" "H" "P" "L" "F" "A" "F" "L" "R" "E" "A" "L" "P" "A" "P"
##  [91] "S" "D" "D" "A" "T" "A" "L" "M" "T" "D" "P" "K" "L" "I" "T" "W" "S" "P"
## [109] "V" "C" "R" "N" "D" "V" "A" "W" "N" "F" "E" "K" "F" "L" "V" "G" "P" "D"
## [127] "G" "V" "P" "L" "R" "R" "Y" "S" "R" "R" "F" "Q" "T" "I" "D" "I" "E" "P"
## [145] "D" "I" "E" "A" "L" "L" "S" "Q" "G" "P" "S" "C" "A"

This shows how there are vectors within the list

class(seleno_list_clean[[1]])
## [1] "character"
is(seleno_list_clean[[1]])
##  [1] "character"               "vector"                 
##  [3] "data.frameRowLabels"     "SuperClassMethod"       
##  [5] "character_OR_connection" "character_OR_NULL"      
##  [7] "atomic"                  "EnumerationValue"       
##  [9] "vector_OR_Vector"        "vector_OR_factor"
is.vector(seleno_list_clean[[1]])
## [1] TRUE

Make an dotplot

For old-times sake we can make a dotplot.
Now for a dotplot

This saves the two protien sequences from the list into two vectors

prot1_vector <- seleno_list_clean[[1]]
prot2_vector <- seleno_list_clean[[2]]

We can dotplot like this

seqinr::dotPlot(prot1_vector,
                prot1_vector)

This calls the vectors directly from the list, giving a different result because of the way R manages that data.

seqinr::dotPlot(seleno_list_clean[[1]],
                seleno_list_clean[[2]])

Pairwise alignment

dotPlot likes things in a single vector, but pairwiseAlignment like a single string of characters, so as always we have to process the data.

This turns our vectors into a string, as the the "" is meant to put no spaces between the amino acid sequences.

prot1_str <- paste(seleno_list_clean[[1]],sep = "", collapse = "")
prot2_str <- paste(seleno_list_clean[[2]],sep = "", collapse = "")

So now things look like a long string of letters.

prot1_str
## [1] "MERQEESLSARPALETEGLRFLHTTVGSLLATYGWYIVFSCILLYVVFQKLSARLRALRQRQLDRAAAAVEPDVVVKRQEALAAARLKMQEELNAQVEKHKEKLKQLEEEKRRQKIEMWDSMQEGKSYKGNAKKPQEEDSPGPSTSSVLKRKSDRKPLRGGGYNPLSGEGGGACSWRPGRRGPSSGGUG"

Protein alignments need a amino acid transition matrix, and we need to use data() to bring those up into active memory (VERY IMPORTANT STEP!)

data(BLOSUM50)

The alignment

align_out <- Biostrings::pairwiseAlignment(pattern = prot1_str, 
                              subject = prot2_str, 
                              type = "global",
                              gapOpening = -9.5,
                              gapExtension = -0.5)

This is an alignment that tries to match the sequence in the most optimal orientation with gaps or indels where there might have been insertions or deletions.

align_out
## Global PairwiseAlignmentsSingleSubject (1 of 1)
## pattern: MERQEESLSARPALETEGLRFLHTTVGSLLATYG...-----------------ACSWRPGRRGPSSGGUG
## subject: M---------------------------------...IDIEPDIEALLSQGPSCA----------------
## score: -160.2561

This prints out the entire alignment rather than just the start and end.

compbio4all::print_pairwise_alignment(align_out)
## [1] "MERQEESLSARPALETEGLRFLHTTVGSLLATYGWYIVFSCILLYVVFQKLSARLRALRQ 60"
## [1] "M---------------------------------------C----------AARL----- 6"
## [1] " "
## [1] "RQLDRAAAAVEPDVVVKRQEALAAA--------RLKMQEELNAQVEKHKEKLKQLEEEKR 112"
## [1] "-----AAAA-------------AAAQSVYAFSAR-------------------------- 22"
## [1] " "
## [1] "RQKIEMWDSMQEGKSYKGNAKKPQEEDSPGPSTSSVLKRKSDRKPLRGGGYNPLSGE--- 169"
## [1] "--------------------------------------------PLAGG-------EPVS 31"
## [1] " "
## [1] "------------------------GGG--------------------------------- 172"
## [1] "LGSLRGKENAKNEEILNSLKYVRPGGGFEPNFMLFEKCEVNGAGAHPLFAFLREALPAPS 91"
## [1] " "
## [1] "------------------------------------------------------------ 172"
## [1] "DDATALMTDPKLITWSPVCRNDVAWNFEKFLVGPDGVPLRRYSRRFQTIDIEPDIEALLS 151"
## [1] " "
## [1] "-----A 227"
## [1] "QGPSCA 211"
## [1] " "

These are two randomly chosen sequences, so the alignment should not have a lot of matching and be full of gaps.

The score is negative, but on its own that means that they might have had a lot of indels or mismatches.

score(align_out)
## [1] -160.2561

pid gives us percent identity which shows what percent of the alignment matches.

pid(align_out)
## [1] 7.189542

Of course, pid can be calculated several ways since they can vary the denominator in order to find things like percent identity out of all aligned bases for example.

pid(align_out,type = "PID1")
## [1] 7.189542
pid(align_out,type = "PID2")
## [1] 91.66667
pid(align_out,type = "PID3")
## [1] 14.01274
pid(align_out,type = "PID4")
## [1] 12.71676