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
## 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)
## Loading required package: BiocGenerics
## Loading required package: parallel
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## Attaching package: 'BiocGenerics'
## The following objects are masked from 'package:parallel':
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## clusterApply, clusterApplyLB, clusterCall, clusterEvalQ,
## clusterExport, clusterMap, parApply, parCapply, parLapply,
## parLapplyLB, parRapply, parSapply, parSapplyLB
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## IQR, mad, sd, var, xtabs
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## anyDuplicated, append, as.data.frame, basename, cbind, colnames,
## dirname, do.call, duplicated, eval, evalq, Filter, Find, get, grep,
## grepl, intersect, is.unsorted, lapply, Map, mapply, match, mget,
## order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int, Position, rank,
## rbind, Reduce, rownames, sapply, setdiff, sort, table, tapply,
## union, unique, unsplit, which.max, which.min
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## strsplit
WHAT IS THIS?
spreadsheet_sp <- "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1spC_ZA3_cVuvU3e_Jfcj2nEIfzp-vaP7SA5f-qwQ1pg/edit?usp=sharing"
WHAT DOES THIS DO?
# be sure to run this!
googlesheets4::gs4_deauth() # <====== MUST RUN THIS
Third, we download our data.
“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)
## ✓ Reading from "human_gene_table".
## ✓ 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$RefSeq_prot
Results from data
protein_refseq[1:10]
## [1] "NP_000783.2" "NP_998758.1" "NP_001034804.1" "NP_001034805.1"
## [5] "NP_001311245.1" NA NA "NP_054644.1"
## [9] "NP_001353425.1" "NP_000784.3"
Getting the data from another column
# download
## NOTE: if you get an error, just run the code again
gene_name_column <- read_sheet(ss = spreadsheet_sp, # the url
sheet = "gene", # the name of the worksheet
range = "selenoprot!A1:A364",
col_names = TRUE,
na = "", # fill in empty spaces "" w/NA
trim_ws = TRUE)
## ✓ Reading from "human_gene_table".
## ✓ Range ''selenoprot'!A1:A364'.
## NOTE: if you get an error, just run the code again
# for reasons we won't get into I'm going to do this
gene <- gene_name_column$gene
Download a vector of character data and check the type, class, and length
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"
Checking for NAs using is.na
is.na(protein_refseq)
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Count up the number of false using table(). In this case, false means it is not NA
table(is.na(protein_refseq))
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## FALSE TRUE
## 334 29
An alternative way to count the number of true in protein_refseq
# ...
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
Put the information into a data frame and store it into a vector for analysis
seleno_df <- data.frame(gene = gene,
protein_refseq = protein_refseq)
Look at the summary of the dataframe and return the first part of the dataframe through head()
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>
Remove NAs using na.omit
# 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
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
The function unique() selects just one row for each gene
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
Let’s select 2 random sequences to work with. We’ll use WHICH FUNCTION? to select a random index number to get
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] 1 32
I can now use these index values to pull out two rows of data
seleno_df_noNA[i.random.genes, ]
## gene protein_refseq
## 1 DIO1 NP_000783.2
## 42 SELENON NP_065184.2
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
I will now download the two FASTA files. Using the accession NP_060915.2 and NP_001316384.1
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"
Storing information into vectors
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 WHAT?
seleno_thingy <- vector("list", 1)
# add the first fasta
seleno_thingy[[1]] <- prot1
# See the result
seleno_thingy
## [[1]]
## [1] ">NP_060915.2 selenoprotein S isoform 1 [Homo sapiens]\nMERQEESLSARPALETEGLRFLHTTVGSLLATYGWYIVFSCILLYVVFQKLSARLRALRQRQLDRAAAAV\nEPDVVVKRQEALAAARLKMQEELNAQVEKHKEKLKQLEEEKRRQKIEMWDSMQEGKSYKGNAKKPQEEDS\nPGPSTSSVLKRKSDRKPLRGGGYNPLSGEGGGACSWRPGRRGPSSGGUG\n\n"
# add the first fasta
seleno_thingy[[2]] <- prot2
# see the result
seleno_thingy
## [[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"
# WHAT DOES THIS DO?
names(seleno_thingy) <- c("prot1", "prot2")
#Output
seleno_thingy
## $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_thingy[[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_thingy_clean <- seleno_thingy
# HOW TO MAKE THIS MORE COMPACT?
for(i in 1:length(seleno_thingy_clean)){
clean_fasta_temp <- compbio4all::fasta_cleaner(seleno_thingy[[i]],
parse = T)
seleno_thingy_clean[[i]] <- clean_fasta_temp
}
Now the data is more organized and readable
seleno_thingy_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"
Each element of the list is a vector of character data
class(seleno_thingy_clean[[1]])
## [1] "character"
is(seleno_thingy_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_thingy_clean[[1]])
## [1] TRUE
For old-times sake we can make a dotplot.
Now for a dotplot
Taking each vector in the list and make it into a separate object.
prot1_vector <- seleno_thingy_clean[[1]]
prot2_vector <- seleno_thingy_clean[[2]]
We can dotplot like this
seqinr::dotPlot(prot1_vector,
prot1_vector)
Access the direct object from the list instead of the vector
seqinr::dotPlot(seleno_thingy_clean[[1]],
seleno_thingy_clean[[2]])
dotPlot likes things in a single vector, but pairwiseAlignment like a single string of characters, so as always we have to process the data.
Use paste() to take everything in the vector and make it more compact (combine it) The "" removes all the individual "" and combines the items together
prot1_str <- paste(seleno_thingy_clean[[1]],sep = "", collapse = "")
prot2_str <- paste(seleno_thingy_clean[[2]],sep = "", collapse = "")
A vector of length 1 with the entire sequence in a single element of the vector
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)
The raw output, which is not very informative yet
align_out
## Global PairwiseAlignmentsSingleSubject (1 of 1)
## pattern: MERQEESLSARPALETEGLRFLHTTVGSLLATYG...-----------------ACSWRPGRRGPSSGGUG
## subject: M---------------------------------...IDIEPDIEALLSQGPSCA----------------
## score: -160.2561
The full alignment is shown below. There are a LOT os gaps because these are two random sequences
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 be pretty bad because we expect there to just be some random points where they match up.
The score is negative, but on its own that is hard to interpret. Even good alignments can be negative
score(align_out)
## [1] -160.2561
pid gives us a better sense of how well the sequences match
pid(align_out)
## [1] 7.189542
Of course, pid can be calculated several ways (WHY IS THIS AN ISSUE / POSSIBLE?)
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