[Bioc-devel] VariantAnnotation::readVcf(fl, seqinfo(scanVcfHeader(fl)) problem

Not sure I understand. Setting the seqlevelsStyle cannot change the 
genome build, so the two Seqinfos will remain incompatible in that 
way. I think what you want is to be able to say "let's consider these 
two genome builds to be the same", which seems reasonable after 
dropping chrM. I was proposing that this could be done with something 
like:

genome(vcf, rectifySeqlevels=TRUE) <- genome(txdb)

For convenience, we might want that argument to be TRUE by default, 
but that would change current behavior.


On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Robert Castelo 
<robert.castelo at upf.edu <mailto:robert.castelo at upf.edu>> wrote:

    hi Michael,

    if we assume that a seqname style does not imply a specific genome
    build, then i'd say that the error below about having incompatible
    genomes should not pop up because sequence styles have been
    already matched, right?



    On 10/24/14 10:22 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote:

    I don't think a seqname style implies a specific genome build.
    But the inverse might make sense. Given a genome build
    identifier, we could check for consistent naming. Perhaps an
    option on "genome<-" could support this?



    On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Valerie Obenchain
    <vobencha at fhcrc.org <mailto:vobencha at fhcrc.org>> wrote:

        This is a good question. I'm not sure we want
        seqlevelsStyle() to also alter the genome value. I think it's
        a reasonable request but I'd like to open it up to
        discussion. I've cc'd a few others for input.

        Valerie



        On 10/24/14 09:05, Robert Castelo wrote:

            hi Valerie,

            thanks for the quick fix and updating the documentation,
            i have a
            further question about the seqinfo slot and particularly
            the use of
            seqlevelsStyle(). Let me illustrate it with an example again:


            ==============
            library(VariantAnnotation)
            library(TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene)

            ## read again the same VCF file
            fl <- file.path(system.file("extdata",
            package="VariantFiltering"),
            "CEUtrio.vcf.bgz")
            vcf <- readVcf(fl, seqinfo(scanVcfHeader(fl)))

            txdb <- TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene

            ## select the standard chromosomes
            vcf <- keepStandardChromosomes(vcf)

            ## since the input VCF file had NCBI style, let's match
            ## the style of the TxDb annotations
            seqlevelsStyle(vcf) <- seqlevelsStyle(txdb)

            ## drop the mitochondrial chromosome (b/c of the
            different lengths
            ## between b37 and hg19
            vcf <- dropSeqlevels(vcf, "chrM")

            ## try to annotate the location of the variants. it
            prompts an
            ## error because the 'genome' slot of the Seqinfo object
            still
            ## has b37 after running seqlevelsStyle
            vcf_annot <- locateVariants(vcf, txdb, AllVariants())
            Error in mergeNamedAtomicVectors(genome(x), genome(y), what =
            c("sequence",  :
               sequences chr1, chr2, chr3, chr4, chr5, chr6, chr7,
            chr8, chr9,
            chr10, chr11, chr12, chr13, chr14, chr15, chr16, chr17,
            chr18, chr19,
            chr20, chr21, chr22, chrX, chrY, chrM have incompatible
            genomes:
               - in 'x': b37, b37, b37, b37, b37, b37, b37, b37, b37,
            b37, b37, b37,
            b37, b37, b37, b37, b37, b37, b37, b37, b37, b37, b37,
            b37, b37
               - in 'y': hg19, hg19, hg19, hg19, hg19, hg19, hg19,
            hg19, hg19, hg19,
            hg19, hg19, hg19, hg19, hg19, hg19, hg19, hg19, hg19,
            hg19, hg19, hg19,
            hg19, hg19, hg19

            ## this can be fixed by setting the 'genome' slot to the
            values of
            ## the TxDb object
            genome(vcf) <- genome(txdb)[intersect(names(genome(vcf)),
            names(genome(txdb)))]

            ## now this works
            vcf_annot <- locateVariants(vcf, txdb, AllVariants())
            =================

            so my question is, should not seqlevelsStyle() also
            change the 'genome'
            slot of the Seqinfo object in the updated object?

            if not, would the solution be updating the 'genome' slot
            in the way i
            did it?

            thanks!
            robert.



            On 10/23/2014 11:14 PM, Valerie Obenchain wrote:

                Hi Robert,

                Thanks for the bug report and reproducible example.
                Now fixed in release
                1.12.2 and devel 1.13.4.

                I've also updated the docs to better explain how the
                Seqinfo objects are
                propagated / merged when supplied as 'genome'.

                Valerie


                On 10/23/2014 06:45 AM, Robert Castelo wrote:

                    hi there,

                    in my package VariantFiltering i have an example
                    VCF file from a Hapmap
                    CEU trio including three chromosomes only to
                    illustrate its vignette.
                    i've come across a problem with the function
                    readVcf() in
                    VariantAnnotation that may be specific of the
                    situation of a VCF file
                    not having all chromosomes, but which it will be
                    great for me if this
                    could be addressed.

                    the problem is reproduced as follows:

                    ===========================
                    library(VariantAnnotation)

                    fl <- file.path(system.file("extdata",
                    package="VariantFiltering"),
                    "CEUtrio.vcf.bgz")

                    vcf <- readVcf(fl, seqinfo(scanVcfHeader(fl)))
                    Error in GenomeInfoDb:::makeNewSeqnames(x,
                    new2old = new2old,
                    seqlevels(value)) :
                    when 'new2old' is NULL, the first elements in the
                    supplied 'seqlevels' must be identical to
                    'seqlevels(x)'
                    ====================

                    this is caused because although i'm providing the
                    Seqinfo object derived
                    from the header of the VCF file itself, at some
                    point the ordering of
                    the seqlevels between the header and the rest of
                    the VCF file differs
                    due to the smaller subset of chromosomes in the
                    VCF file.

                    This can be easily fixed by replacing the line:

                    if (length(newsi) > length(oldsi)) {

                    within the .scanVcfToVCF() function in
                    methods-readVcf.R, by

                    if (length(newsi) >= length(oldsi)) {

                    this is happening both in release and devel. i'm
                    pasting below my
                    sessionInfo() for the release.

                    let me know if you think this fix is feasible or
                    i'm wrongly using the
                    function readVcf(). i'm basically trying to use
                    readVcf() without having
                    to figure out the appropriate value for the
                    argument 'genome', i.e.,
                    without knowing beforehand what version of the
                    genome was used to
                    produce the VCF file.

                    thanks!!
                    robert.


                    sessionInfo()
                    R version 3.1.1 Patched (2014-10-13 r66751)
                    Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)

                    locale:
                    [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF8 LC_NUMERIC=C
                    [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF8
                    [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF8
                    [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF8 LC_NAME=C
                    [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
                    [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

                    attached base packages:
                    [1] stats4 parallel stats graphics grDevices
                    [6] utils datasets methods base

                    other attached packages:
                    [1] VariantAnnotation_1.12.0 Rsamtools_1.18.0
                    [3] Biostrings_2.34.0 XVector_0.6.0
                    [5] GenomicRanges_1.18.0 GenomeInfoDb_1.2.0
                    [7] IRanges_2.0.0 S4Vectors_0.4.0
                    [9] BiocGenerics_0.12.0 vimcom_1.0-0
                    [11] setwidth_1.0-3 colorout_1.0-3

                    loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
                    [1] AnnotationDbi_1.28.0 base64enc_0.1-2
                    [3] BatchJobs_1.4 BBmisc_1.7
                    [5] Biobase_2.26.0 BiocParallel_1.0.0
                    [7] biomaRt_2.22.0 bitops_1.0-6
                    [9] brew_1.0-6 BSgenome_1.34.0
                    [11] checkmate_1.4 codetools_0.2-9
                    [13] DBI_0.3.1 digest_0.6.4
                    [15] fail_1.2 foreach_1.4.2
                    [17] GenomicAlignments_1.2.0 GenomicFeatures_1.18.0
                    [19] iterators_1.0.7 RCurl_1.95-4.3
                    [21] RSQLite_0.11.4 rtracklayer_1.26.0
                    [23] sendmailR_1.2-1 stringr_0.6.2
                    [25] tools_3.1.1 XML_3.98-1.1
                    [27] zlibbioc_1.12.0