rtracklayer - export.bw bug
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@storybenjamin-11722
Last seen 15 months ago
Germany

Hi,

A colleague approached me in hopes of figuring out a strange export problem they were having with rtracklayer. For some reason it seems that when I have over 255-256 chromosomes (manual tested this) in a genome, that certain chromosome(s) are lost during the export of a bigwig.

This was noticed by said colleague as they loaded a rtracklayer generated bigWig into IGV and the X chromosome was missing. 


Here is the code being run:

library(GenomicAlignments)
library(rtracklayer)
gr <- readGAlignments('Downloads/A250_S1_001_subset.bam')
seqlevelsStyle(gr) <- 'UCSC'

gg <- coverage( gr )

gg$chrX

export.bw(gg,'test40.bw')
imported.bw <- import('test40.bw')
coverage( imported.bw )$chrX


Here is the output:

> library(GenomicAlignments)
> library(rtracklayer)
> gr <- readGAlignments('Downloads/A250_Wills_S1_001_subset.bam')
> seqlevelsStyle(gr) <- 'UCSC'
> gg <- coverage( gr )
> gg$chrX
integer-Rle of length 123869142 with 177 runs
  Lengths:  488442      74       8      75  499789       1 ...  540531      74     172      73 1743866
  Values :       0       1       0       1       0       1 ...       0       1       0       1       0
> export.bw(gg,'test40.bw')
> imported.bw <- import('test40.bw')
> coverage( imported.bw )$chrX
integer-Rle of length 123869142 with 1 run
  Lengths: 123869142
  Values :         0


As you can see somehow the X chromosome has lost al of its coverage information? However it can be noted that if we subset the coverage object (gg) to a list of coverages with less than about 255 chromosomes then the X chromosome coverage returns in the bigwig generated during the "output.bw" step. Currently, we have a 2422 chromosomes (based on the seqinfo call) with no seqlengths provided. As a side note, other chromosomes seem to keep their correct coverage values in the bigwig.

 

Thanks,

Ben


R version 3.3.1 (2016-06-21)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks)

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

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

other attached packages:
 [1] rtracklayer_1.32.2         GenomicAlignments_1.8.4    Rsamtools_1.24.0           Biostrings_2.40.2          XVector_0.12.1            
 [6] SummarizedExperiment_1.2.3 Biobase_2.32.0             GenomicRanges_1.24.3       GenomeInfoDb_1.8.7         IRanges_2.6.1             
[11] S4Vectors_0.10.3           BiocGenerics_0.18.0       

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] XML_3.98-1.4       bitops_1.0-6       zlibbioc_1.18.0    BiocParallel_1.6.6 tools_3.3.1        RCurl_1.95-4.8    

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@michael-lawrence-3846
Last seen 2.9 years ago
United States

I think I fixed this in 1.35.1. It appears that the Kent library assumes that the blockSize is >= the number of chromosomes. It looks like even the wig2bigwig command line tool expects the user to manually override that setting in the >256 chromosome case.

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Is there a way to download version 1.35.1? and or a work around hack to get this to work under current framework? I'm having a similar problem that is affecting pipelines but the latest update of rtracklayer is 1.34.0

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It will be in 1.34.1

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