rphast (version 1.6.9)

convert.coords.feat: Convert coordinates from one frame of reference to another

Description

Converts coordinates of features in a GFF according to a multiple alignment. Will map from the coordinate system of any sequence to any other sequence; can also map to or from the coordinate system of the entire alignment.

Usage

convert.coords.feat(x, align, from = -1, to = 1)

Arguments

x

A features object; if the from parameter is -1, the first column should indicate which frame of reference is used for that row (ie, the species name). For coordinates in the frame of reference of the entire alignment, set the first column to "MSA".

align

An msa object containing the alignment

from

A single character string or integer, used to indicate the current frame of reference of the features. If the rows of the features are not all in the same frame of reference, set this to -1 and indicate the frame of reference in the 1st column of the features. Otherwise, it can be specified here as a single integer (from 0 to nrow.msa(align)), with 0 indicating the frame of reference of the entire alignment, and 1 indicating the 1st species, 2 the second, etc. Or it can be a single character string giving the name of the species, with "MSA" indicating the entire alignment.

to

A single character string or integer, used to indicate the frame of reference to convert to. This is specified in the same way as the "from" argument, above, except that -1 is not an option.

Value

A features object with elements in the frame of refernece indicated by the "to" argument.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
require("rphast")
align <- msa(seqs=c("A-GTAT", "-GGTAA", "AG--AG"),
             names=c("human", "mouse", "rat"))
feats <- feat(seqname=c("MSA", "human", "human", "mouse", "mouse", "rat"),
              start=c(1, 2, 3, 1, 3, 3),
              end=c(6, 4, 4, 4, 5, 3))
convert.coords.feat(feats, align)  # convert everything to human coords
convert.coords.feat(feats, align, to="MSA")  # convert to alignment coords

# here, there is no position 6 in human alignment so feature is removed
convert.coords.feat(feat(seqname="human", start=6, end=6),
                    align, to="MSA")

# here, feature goes beyond end of MSA so it is truncated:
convert.coords.feat(feat(seqname="rat", start=2, end=100),
                    align, to="MSA")


# note that if the "to" species has gaps at the endpoints, they will
# be truncated:
align <- msa(seqs=c("A-GT-T", "ACGTGT"), names=c("human", "mouse"))
convert.coords.feat(feat(seqname="mouse", start=2, end=5),
                    align, to="human")
# }