[Bioc-devel] Problem with seqnames of TwoBitFile from AnnotationHub

I agree, I would not modify the file content. At present it is however not possible to use e.g. getSeq on these TwoBitFiles, since the chromosome names in the submitted GRanges (e.g. 1) do not match the seqnames/seqinfo of the TwoBitFile. I don?t know if a seqnames or seqinfo method stripping of all but the first name-part would help here...

jo

On 08 Jan 2016, at 15:18, Sean Davis <seandavi at gmail.com> wrote:

I will make the small editorial comment to guard against modifying file content on transit into the hub object. On the client side (after getting such an object) I think a ?fix? would be to have a quick seqnames method to strip off all but the first whitespace delimited piece.

Sean

On Jan 8, 2016, at 8:40 AM, Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael at gene.com> wrote:

This is perhaps something that could be handled when population the
hub, but I'm not sure how rtracklayer could automatically derive the
chromosome names.

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:37 AM, Rainer Johannes
<Johannes.Rainer at eurac.edu> wrote:

dear all,

I just run into a problem with a TwoBitFile I fetched from AnnotationHub. I was fetching a TwoBitFile with the genomic DNA sequence, as provided by Ensembl:

library(AnnotationHub)
ah <- AnnotationHub()
tbf <- ah[["AH50068?]]

head(seqnames(seqinfo(tbf)))

[1] "1 dna:chromosome chromosome:GRCh38:1:1:248956422:1 REF"
[2] "10 dna:chromosome chromosome:GRCh38:10:1:133797422:1 REF"
[3] "11 dna:chromosome chromosome:GRCh38:11:1:135086622:1 REF"
[4] "12 dna:chromosome chromosome:GRCh38:12:1:133275309:1 REF"
[5] "13 dna:chromosome chromosome:GRCh38:13:1:114364328:1 REF"
[6] "14 dna:chromosome chromosome:GRCh38:14:1:107043718:1 REF"

Would be nice, if the seqnames would be really just the chromsome names and not the whole string from the FA file header. Is there a way I could fix the file myself or is this something that should be fixed in the rtracklayer or AnnotationHub package when the TwoBitFile is created?

thanks, jo