EpiTxDb: Storing and accessing epitranscriptomic information using the AnnotationDbi interface
2024-10-29
Package
EpiTxDb 1.18.0
1 Installation
if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install(c("EpiTxDb","EpiTxDb.Hs.hg38"))2 Introduction
The epitranscriptome includes all post-transcriptional modifications of the RNA and describes and additional layer of information encoded on RNA. Like the term epigenome it is not about a change in nucleotide sequences, but the addition of functional elements through modifications.
With the development of high throughput detection strategies for specific RNA modifications, such as miCLIP and Pseudo-Seq amongst other, a large number of modified positions have been identified and were summarized via the RMBase project (Xuan et al. 2017; Sun et al. 2015) project.
To make these information avaialble within the Bioconductor universe EpiTxDb
was developed, which facilitates the storage of epitranscriptomic information.
More specifically, it can keep track of modification identity, position, the
enzyme for introducing it on the RNA, a specifier which determines the position
on the RNA to be modified and the literature references each modification is
associated with.
3 Getting started
library(EpiTxDb)
library(EpiTxDb.Hs.hg38)The class EpiTxDb is the class for storing the epitranscriptomic data. It
inherits the inner workings of AnnotationDb class from the AnnotationDbi
package.
As an example for the vignette the snoRNAdb data (Lestrade and Weber 2006)
from the EpiTxDb.Hs.hg38 package will be used. The data is stored in the
AnnotationHub and is downloaded and cached upon the first request.
etdb <- EpiTxDb.Hs.hg38.snoRNAdb()## loading from cacheetdb## EpiTxDb object:
## # Db type: EpiTxDb
## # Supporting package: EpiTxDb
## # Data source: snoRNAdb
## # Organism: Homo sapiens
## # Genome: hg38
## # Coordinates: per Transcript
## # Nb of modifications: 235
## # Db created by: EpiTxDb package from Bioconductor
## # Creation time: 2020-02-26 10:34:30 +0100 (Wed, 26 Feb 2020)
## # EpiTxDb version at creation time: 0.99.0
## # RSQLite version at creation time: 2.2.0
## # DBSCHEMAVERSION: 1.0As expected for an AnnotationDb class the general accessors are available.
keytypes(etdb)## [1] "MODID" "MODNAME" "MODSTRAND" "MODTYPE"
## [5] "REF" "REFTYPE" "RXENSEMBL" "RXENSEMBLTRANS"
## [9] "RXENTREZID" "RXGENENAME" "SNID" "SNNAME"
## [13] "SPECENSEMBL" "SPECENSEMBLTRANS" "SPECENTREZID" "SPECGENENAME"
## [17] "SPECTYPE"columns(etdb)## [1] "MODEND" "MODID" "MODNAME" "MODSTART"
## [5] "MODSTRAND" "MODTYPE" "REF" "REFID"
## [9] "REFTYPE" "RXENSEMBL" "RXENSEMBLTRANS" "RXENTREZID"
## [13] "RXGENENAME" "RXID" "RXRANK" "SNID"
## [17] "SNNAME" "SPECENSEMBL" "SPECENSEMBLTRANS" "SPECENTREZID"
## [21] "SPECGENENAME" "SPECID" "SPECTYPE"head(keys(etdb, "MODID"))## [1] "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6"select(etdb, keys = "1",
columns = c("MODNAME","MODTYPE","MODSTART","MODSTRAND","SNNAME",
"RXGENENAME","SPECTYPE","SPECGENENAME"),
keytype = "MODID")## 'select()' returned 1:1 mapping between keys and columnsThe columns with the prefix RX or SPEC reference the reaction enzyme and the
location specifier. This can be the same information, but for ribosomal
modifications from the snoRNAdb it is of course fibrillarin and a snoRNA.
In addition the following accessor for metadata are available as well.
species(etdb)## [1] "Homo sapiens"organism(etdb)## [1] "Homo sapiens"seqlevels(etdb)## [1] "NR_003285" "NR_003286" "NR_003287" "NR_004430" "NR_002716" "NR_003925"
## [7] "NR_002756" "NR_004394" "NR_029422"4 Accessing RNA modifications
The specialized accessors are modifications() and modificationsBy().
modifications() allows for filtering results, whereas modificationsBy()
returns all the modifications in batches separated by certain information.
modifications(etdb, columns = c("mod_id","mod_type","mod_name",
"rx_genename","spec_genename",
"ref_type","ref"),
filter = list(mod_id = 1:3))## GRanges object with 3 ranges and 7 metadata columns:
## seqnames ranges strand | mod_id mod_type mod_name
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer> <character> <character>
## [1] NR_003285 14 + | 1 Um Um_14
## [2] NR_003285 55 + | 2 Y Y_55
## [3] NR_003285 69 + | 3 Y Y_69
## rx_genename spec_genename ref_type ref
## <CharacterList> <CharacterList> <CharacterList> <CharacterList>
## [1] fibrillarin SNORD71 PMID 16381836
## [2] dyskerin pseudouridi.. SNORA72 PMID 16381836
## [3] dyskerin pseudouridi.. SNORA69 PMID 16381836
## -------
## seqinfo: 9 sequences from hg38 genome; no seqlengths# split by sequence name, usually a transcipt identifier
modificationsBy(etdb, by = "seqnames")## GRangesList object of length 9:
## $NR_003285
## GRanges object with 4 ranges and 3 metadata columns:
## seqnames ranges strand | mod_id mod mod_name
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <integer> <character> <character>
## [1] NR_003285 14 + | 1 Um Um_14
## [2] NR_003285 55 + | 2 Y Y_55
## [3] NR_003285 69 + | 3 Y Y_69
## [4] NR_003285 75 + | 4 Gm Gm_75
## -------
## seqinfo: 9 sequences from hg38 genome; no seqlengths
##
## ...
## <8 more elements># split modification type
modificationsBy(etdb, by = "modtype")## GRangesList object of length 5:
## $Am
## GRanges object with 39 ranges and 3 metadata columns:
## seqnames ranges strand | mod mod_id mod_name
## <Rle> <IRanges> <Rle> | <character> <integer> <character>
## [1] NR_003286 27 + | Am 5 Am_27
## [2] NR_003286 99 + | Am 9 Am_99
## [3] NR_003286 159 + | Am 15 Am_159
## [4] NR_003286 166 + | Am 16 Am_166
## [5] NR_003286 468 + | Am 25 Am_468
## ... ... ... ... . ... ... ...
## [35] NR_002716 30 + | Am 207 Am_30
## [36] NR_003925 65 + | Am 216 Am_65
## [37] NR_004394 47 + | Am 226 Am_47
## [38] NR_004394 53 + | Am 227 Am_53
## [39] NR_004394 53 + | Am 228 Am_53
## -------
## seqinfo: 9 sequences from hg38 genome; no seqlengths
##
## ...
## <4 more elements>5 Shifting coordinates from genomic to transcriptomic
Since epitranscriptomic modifications by their nature can have different meaning for each of the individual transcript variants. This also introduces conflicts for saving epitranscriptomics coordinates. In the example above the coordinates are given per transcript, because of the source data.
However, not all sources report transcript coordinates. It might be of interest to shift the coordinates to transcript coordinates and at the same time taking care that with transcript variants multiple options exist for each of the transcript maturation process: From one genomic coordinate, multiple transcriptomic coordinates can be spawned.
Whether this is biologically relevant or whether biological evidence does exist for each modification on each transcript cannot be guaranteed or differentiated technically depending on the methods used. This might change with the arrival of new techniques allowing for detection of modified nucleotides per individual transcript variant.
library(TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38.knownGene)
library(BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38)txdb <- TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38.knownGene
seqlevels(txdb) <- "chr1"
bs <- BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38
etdb <- EpiTxDb.Hs.hg38.RMBase()## loading from cachetx <- exonsBy(txdb)
mod <- modifications(etdb, filter = list(sn_name = "chr1"))
length(mod)## [1] 47275In the following example we will focus on shifting the coordinates to individual
mature transcripts. However, keep in mind, that premature transcript might be
of interest as well and this can be controlled via the tx arguments of
shiftGenomicToTranscript()
mod_tx <- shiftGenomicToTranscript(mod, tx)## Warning: Coordinates for 974 ranges of 'subject' not found:
## 'chr1:14662:-','chr1:14668:-','chr1:139005:-','chr1:139020:-','chr1:139040:-','chr1:139127:-','chr1:629454:+','chr1:629456:+','chr1:629465:+','chr1:629595:+'
## and more ...length(mod_tx)## [1] 201525Due to multiple matches for each transcript variant the number of modifications has increased.
With the we can plot the relative positions of modifications by type on
chr1 transcripts.
mod_tx <- split(mod_tx,seqnames(mod_tx))
names <- Reduce(intersect,list(names(mod_tx),names(tx)))
# Getting the corresponding 5'-UTR and 3'-UTR annotations
fp <- fiveUTRsByTranscript(txdb)
tp <- threeUTRsByTranscript(txdb)
tx <- tx[names]
mod_tx <- mod_tx[names]
fp_m <- match(names,names(fp))
fp_m <- fp_m[!is.na(fp_m)]
tp_m <- match(names,names(tp))
tp_m <- tp_m[!is.na(tp_m)]
fp <- fp[fp_m]
tp <- tp[tp_m]
# Getting lengths of transcripts, 5'-UTR and 3'-UTR
tx_lengths <- sum(width(tx))
fp_lengths <- rep(0L,length(tx))
names(fp_lengths) <- names
fp_lengths[names(fp)] <- sum(width(fp))
tp_lengths <- rep(0L,length(tx))
names(tp_lengths) <- names
tp_lengths[names(tp)] <- sum(width(tp))
# Rescale modifications
# CDS start is at position 1L and cds end at position 1000L
from <- IRanges(fp_lengths+1L, tx_lengths - tp_lengths)
to <- IRanges(1L,1000L)
mod_rescale <- rescale(mod_tx, to, from)
# Construct result data.frame
rel_pos <- data.frame(mod_type = unlist(mcols(mod_rescale,level="within")[,"mod_type"]),
rel_pos = unlist(start(mod_rescale)))
rel_pos <- rel_pos[rel_pos$rel_pos < 1500 & rel_pos$rel_pos > -500,]library(ggplot2)
ggplot(rel_pos[rel_pos$mod_type %in% c("m6A","m1A","Y"),],
aes(x = rel_pos, colour = mod_type)) +
geom_density()
6 Session info
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