# Copyright 2000-2003 Jeff Chang. # Copyright 2001-2008 Brad Chapman. # Copyright 2005-2010 by Peter Cock. # Copyright 2006-2009 Michiel de Hoon. # All rights reserved. # This code is part of the Biopython distribution and governed by its # license. Please see the LICENSE file that should have been included # as part of this package. """Represent a Sequence Feature holding info about a part of a sequence. This is heavily modeled after the Biocorba SeqFeature objects, and may be pretty biased towards GenBank stuff since I'm writing it for the GenBank parser output... What's here: Base class to hold a Feature. ---------------------------- classes: o SeqFeature Hold information about a Reference. ---------------------------------- This is an attempt to create a General class to hold Reference type information. classes: o Reference Specify locations of a feature on a Sequence. --------------------------------------------- This aims to handle, in Ewan's words, 'the dreaded fuzziness issue' in much the same way as Biocorba. This has the advantages of allowing us to handle fuzzy stuff in case anyone needs it, and also be compatible with Biocorba. classes: o FeatureLocation - Specify the start and end location of a feature. o ExactPosition - Specify the position as being exact. o WithinPosition - Specify a position occuring within some range. o BetweenPosition - Specify a position occuring between a range (OBSOLETE?). o BeforePosition - Specify the position as being found before some base. o AfterPosition - Specify the position as being found after some base. o OneOfPosition - Specify a position where the location can be multiple positions. """ from Bio.Seq import MutableSeq, reverse_complement class SeqFeature(object): """Represent a Sequence Feature on an object. Attributes: o location - the location of the feature on the sequence (FeatureLocation) o type - the specified type of the feature (ie. CDS, exon, repeat...) o location_operator - a string specifying how this SeqFeature may be related to others. For example, in the example GenBank feature shown below, the location_operator would be "join" o strand - A value specifying on which strand (of a DNA sequence, for instance) the feature deals with. 1 indicates the plus strand, -1 indicates the minus strand, 0 indicates both strands, and None indicates that strand doesn't apply (ie. for proteins) or is not known. o id - A string identifier for the feature. o ref - A reference to another sequence. This could be an accession number for some different sequence. o ref_db - A different database for the reference accession number. o qualifiers - A dictionary of qualifiers on the feature. These are analagous to the qualifiers from a GenBank feature table. The keys of the dictionary are qualifier names, the values are the qualifier values. o sub_features - Additional SeqFeatures which fall under this 'parent' feature. For instance, if we having something like: CDS join(1..10,30..40,50..60) Then the top level feature would be of type 'CDS' from 1 to 60 (actually 0 to 60 in Python counting) with location_operator='join', and the three sub- features would also be of type 'CDS', and would be from 1 to 10, 30 to 40 and 50 to 60, respectively (although actually using Python counting). To get the nucleotide sequence for this CDS, you would need to take the parent sequence and do seq[0:10]+seq[29:40]+seq[49:60] (Python counting). Things are more complicated with strands and fuzzy positions. To save you dealing with all these special cases, the SeqFeature provides an extract method to do this for you. """ def __init__(self, location = None, type = '', location_operator = '', strand = None, id = "", qualifiers = None, sub_features = None, ref = None, ref_db = None): """Initialize a SeqFeature on a Sequence. location can either be a FeatureLocation (with strand argument also given if required), or None. e.g. With no strand, on the forward strand, and on the reverse strand: >>> from Bio.SeqFeature import SeqFeature, FeatureLocation >>> f1 = SeqFeature(FeatureLocation(5,10), type="domain") >>> f2 = SeqFeature(FeatureLocation(7,110), strand=1, type="CDS") >>> f3 = SeqFeature(FeatureLocation(9,108), strand=-1, type="CDS") An invalid strand will trigger an exception: >>> f4 = SeqFeature(FeatureLocation(50,60), strand=2) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: Strand should be +1, -1, 0 or None, not 2 For exact start/end positions, an integer can be used (as shown above) as shorthand for the ExactPosition object. For non-exact locations, the FeatureLocation must be specified via the appropriate position objects. """ if strand not in [-1, 0, 1, None] : raise ValueError("Strand should be +1, -1, 0 or None, not %s" \ % repr(strand)) if location is not None and not isinstance(location, FeatureLocation): raise TypeError("FeatureLocation (or None) required for the location") self.location = location self.type = type self.location_operator = location_operator self.strand = strand self.id = id if qualifiers is None: qualifiers = {} self.qualifiers = qualifiers if sub_features is None: sub_features = [] self.sub_features = sub_features self.ref = ref self.ref_db = ref_db def __repr__(self): """A string representation of the record for debugging.""" answer = "%s(%s" % (self.__class__.__name__, repr(self.location)) if self.type: answer += ", type=%s" % repr(self.type) if self.location_operator: answer += ", location_operator=%s" % repr(self.location_operator) if self.strand: answer += ", strand=%s" % repr(self.strand) if self.id and self.id != "": answer += ", id=%s" % repr(self.id) if self.ref: answer += ", ref=%s" % repr(self.ref) if self.ref_db: answer += ", ref_db=%s" % repr(self.ref_db) answer += ")" return answer def __str__(self): """A readable summary of the feature intended to be printed to screen. """ out = "type: %s\n" % self.type out += "location: %s\n" % self.location if self.id and self.id != "": out += "id: %s\n" % self.id if self.ref or self.ref_db: out += "ref: %s:%s\n" % (self.ref, self.ref_db) out += "strand: %s\n" % self.strand out += "qualifiers: \n" for qual_key in sorted(self.qualifiers): out += " Key: %s, Value: %s\n" % (qual_key, self.qualifiers[qual_key]) if len(self.sub_features) != 0: out += "Sub-Features\n" for sub_feature in self.sub_features: out +="%s\n" % sub_feature return out def _shift(self, offset): """Returns a copy of the feature with its location shifted (PRIVATE). The annotation qaulifiers are copied.""" return SeqFeature(location = self.location._shift(offset), type = self.type, location_operator = self.location_operator, strand = self.strand, id = self.id, qualifiers = dict(self.qualifiers.iteritems()), sub_features = [f._shift(offset) for f in self.sub_features], ref = self.ref, ref_db = self.ref_db) def extract(self, parent_sequence): """Extract feature sequence from the supplied parent sequence. The parent_sequence can be a Seq like object or a string, and will generally return an object of the same type. The exception to this is a MutableSeq as the parent sequence will return a Seq object. This should cope with complex locations including complements, joins and fuzzy positions. Even mixed strand features should work! This also covers features on protein sequences (e.g. domains), although here reverse strand features are not permitted. >>> from Bio.Seq import Seq >>> from Bio.Alphabet import generic_protein >>> from Bio.SeqFeature import SeqFeature, FeatureLocation >>> seq = Seq("MKQHKAMIVALIVICITAVVAAL", generic_protein) >>> f = SeqFeature(FeatureLocation(8,15), type="domain") >>> f.extract(seq) Seq('VALIVIC', ProteinAlphabet()) Note - currently only sub-features of type "join" are supported. """ if isinstance(parent_sequence, MutableSeq): #This avoids complications with reverse complements #(the MutableSeq reverse complement acts in situ) parent_sequence = parent_sequence.toseq() if self.sub_features: if self.location_operator!="join": raise ValueError(self.location_operator) if self.strand == -1: #This is a special case given how the GenBank parser works. #Must avoid doing the reverse complement twice. parts = [] for f_sub in self.sub_features: assert f_sub.strand==-1 parts.append(parent_sequence[f_sub.location.nofuzzy_start:\ f_sub.location.nofuzzy_end]) else: #This copes with mixed strand features: parts = [f_sub.extract(parent_sequence) \ for f_sub in self.sub_features] #We use addition rather than a join to avoid alphabet issues: f_seq = parts[0] for part in parts[1:] : f_seq += part else: f_seq = parent_sequence[self.location.nofuzzy_start:\ self.location.nofuzzy_end] if self.strand == -1: #TODO - MutableSeq? try: f_seq = f_seq.reverse_complement() except AttributeError: assert isinstance(f_seq, str) f_seq = reverse_complement(f_seq) return f_seq # --- References # TODO -- Will this hold PubMed and Medline information decently? class Reference(object): """Represent a Generic Reference object. Attributes: o location - A list of Location objects specifying regions of the sequence that the references correspond to. If no locations are specified, the entire sequence is assumed. o authors - A big old string, or a list split by author, of authors for the reference. o title - The title of the reference. o journal - Journal the reference was published in. o medline_id - A medline reference for the article. o pubmed_id - A pubmed reference for the article. o comment - A place to stick any comments about the reference. """ def __init__(self): self.location = [] self.authors = '' self.consrtm = '' self.title = '' self.journal = '' self.medline_id = '' self.pubmed_id = '' self.comment = '' def __str__(self): """Output an informative string for debugging. """ out = "" for single_location in self.location: out += "location: %s\n" % single_location out += "authors: %s\n" % self.authors if self.consrtm: out += "consrtm: %s\n" % self.consrtm out += "title: %s\n" % self.title out += "journal: %s\n" % self.journal out += "medline id: %s\n" % self.medline_id out += "pubmed id: %s\n" % self.pubmed_id out += "comment: %s\n" % self.comment return out def __repr__(self): #TODO - Update this is __init__ later accpets values return "%s(title=%s, ...)" % (self.__class__.__name__, repr(self.title)) # --- Handling feature locations class FeatureLocation(object): """Specify the location of a feature along a sequence. This attempts to deal with fuzziness of position ends, but also make it easy to get the start and end in the 'normal' case (no fuzziness). You should access the start and end attributes with your_location.start and your_location.end. If the start and end are exact, this will return the positions, if not, we'll return the approriate Fuzzy class with info about the position and fuzziness. Note that the start and end location numbering follow Python's scheme, thus a GenBank entry of 123..150 (one based counting) becomes a location of [122:150] (zero based counting). """ def __init__(self, start, end): """Specify the start and end of a sequence feature. start and end arguments specify the values where the feature begins and ends. These can either by any of the *Position objects that inherit from AbstractPosition, or can just be integers specifying the position. In the case of integers, the values are assumed to be exact and are converted in ExactPosition arguments. This is meant to make it easy to deal with non-fuzzy ends. i.e. Short form: >>> from Bio.SeqFeature import FeatureLocation >>> loc = FeatureLocation(5,10) Explicit form: >>> from Bio.SeqFeature import FeatureLocation, ExactPosition >>> loc = FeatureLocation(ExactPosition(5),ExactPosition(10)) Other fuzzy positions are used similarly, >>> from Bio.SeqFeature import FeatureLocation >>> from Bio.SeqFeature import BeforePosition, AfterPosition >>> loc2 = FeatureLocation(BeforePosition(5),AfterPosition(10)) """ if isinstance(start, AbstractPosition): self._start = start else: self._start = ExactPosition(start) if isinstance(end, AbstractPosition): self._end = end else: self._end = ExactPosition(end) def __str__(self): """Returns a representation of the location (with python counting). For the simple case this uses the python splicing syntax, [122:150] (zero based counting) which GenBank would call 123..150 (one based counting). """ return "[%s:%s]" % (self._start, self._end) def __repr__(self): """A string representation of the location for debugging.""" return "%s(%s,%s)" \ % (self.__class__.__name__, repr(self.start), repr(self.end)) def _shift(self, offset): """Returns a copy of the location shifted by the offset (PRIVATE).""" return FeatureLocation(start = self._start._shift(offset), end = self._end._shift(offset)) start = property(fget= lambda self : self._start, doc="Start location (possibly a fuzzy position, read only).") end = property(fget= lambda self : self._end, doc="End location (possibly a fuzzy position, read only).") nofuzzy_start = property( fget=lambda self: self._start.position, doc="""Start position (integer, approximated if fuzzy, read only). To get non-fuzzy attributes (ie. the position only) ask for 'location.nofuzzy_start', 'location.nofuzzy_end'. These should return the largest range of the fuzzy position. So something like: (10.20)..(30.40) should return 10 for start, and 40 for end. """) nofuzzy_end = property( fget=lambda self: self._end.position + self._end.extension, doc="""End position (integer, approximated if fuzzy, read only). To get non-fuzzy attributes (ie. the position only) ask for 'location.nofuzzy_start', 'location.nofuzzy_end'. These should return the largest range of the fuzzy position. So something like: (10.20)..(30.40) should return 10 for start, and 40 for end. """) class AbstractPosition(object): """Abstract base class representing a position. """ def __init__(self, position, extension): self.position = position assert extension >= 0, extension self.extension = extension def __repr__(self): """String representation of the location for debugging.""" return "%s(%s,%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, \ repr(self.position), repr(self.extension)) def __hash__(self): """Simple position based hash.""" #Note __hash__ must be implemented on Python 3.x if overriding __eq__ return hash(self.position) def __eq__(self, other): """A simple equality for positions. This is very simple-minded and just compares the position attribute of the features; extensions are not considered at all. This could potentially be expanded to try to take advantage of extensions. """ assert isinstance(other, AbstractPosition), \ "We can only do comparisons between Biopython Position objects." return self.position == other.position def __ne__(self, other): """A simple non-equality for positions. This is very simple-minded and just compares the position attribute of the features; extensions are not considered at all. This could potentially be expanded to try to take advantage of extensions. """ assert isinstance(other, AbstractPosition), \ "We can only do comparisons between Biopython Position objects." return self.position != other.position def __le__(self, other): """A simple less than or equal for positions. This is very simple-minded and just compares the position attribute of the features; extensions are not considered at all. This could potentially be expanded to try to take advantage of extensions. """ assert isinstance(other, AbstractPosition), \ "We can only do comparisons between Biopython Position objects." return self.position <= other.position def __lt__(self, other): """A simple less than or equal for positions. This is very simple-minded and just compares the position attribute of the features; extensions are not considered at all. This could potentially be expanded to try to take advantage of extensions. """ assert isinstance(other, AbstractPosition), \ "We can only do comparisons between Biopython Position objects." return self.position < other.position def __ge__(self, other): """A simple less than or equal for positions. This is very simple-minded and just compares the position attribute of the features; extensions are not considered at all. This could potentially be expanded to try to take advantage of extensions. """ assert isinstance(other, AbstractPosition), \ "We can only do comparisons between Biopython Position objects." return self.position >= other.position def __gt__(self, other): """A simple less than or equal for positions. This is very simple-minded and just compares the position attribute of the features; extensions are not considered at all. This could potentially be expanded to try to take advantage of extensions. """ assert isinstance(other, AbstractPosition), \ "We can only do comparisons between Biopython Position objects." return self.position > other.position def _shift(self, offset): #We want this to maintain the subclass when called from a subclass return self.__class__(self.position + offset, self.extension) class ExactPosition(AbstractPosition): """Specify the specific position of a boundary. o position - The position of the boundary. o extension - An optional argument which must be zero since we don't have an extension. The argument is provided so that the same number of arguments can be passed to all position types. In this case, there is no fuzziness associated with the position. """ def __init__(self, position, extension = 0): if extension != 0: raise AttributeError("Non-zero extension %s for exact position." % extension) AbstractPosition.__init__(self, position, 0) def __repr__(self): """String representation of the ExactPosition location for debugging.""" assert self.extension == 0 return "%s(%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, repr(self.position)) def __str__(self): return str(self.position) class WithinPosition(AbstractPosition): """Specify the position of a boundary within some coordinates. Arguments: o position - The start position of the boundary o extension - The range to which the boundary can extend. This allows dealing with a position like ((1.4)..100). This indicates that the start of the sequence is somewhere between 1 and 4. To represent that with this class we would set position as 1 and extension as 3. """ def __init__(self, position, extension = 0): AbstractPosition.__init__(self, position, extension) def __str__(self): return "(%s.%s)" % (self.position, self.position + self.extension) class BetweenPosition(AbstractPosition): """Specify the position of a boundary between two coordinates (OBSOLETE?). Arguments: o position - The start position of the boundary. o extension - The range to the other position of a boundary. This specifies a coordinate which is found between the two positions. So this allows us to deal with a position like ((1^2)..100). To represent that with this class we set position as 1 and the extension as 1. """ def __init__(self, position, extension = 0): AbstractPosition.__init__(self, position, extension) def __str__(self): return "(%s^%s)" % (self.position, self.position + self.extension) class BeforePosition(AbstractPosition): """Specify a position where the actual location occurs before it. Arguments: o position - The upper boundary of where the location can occur. o extension - An optional argument which must be zero since we don't have an extension. The argument is provided so that the same number of arguments can be passed to all position types. This is used to specify positions like (<10..100) where the location occurs somewhere before position 10. """ def __init__(self, position, extension = 0): if extension != 0: raise AttributeError("Non-zero extension %s for exact position." % extension) AbstractPosition.__init__(self, position, 0) def __repr__(self): """A string representation of the location for debugging.""" assert self.extension == 0 return "%s(%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, repr(self.position)) def __str__(self): return "<%s" % self.position class AfterPosition(AbstractPosition): """Specify a position where the actual location is found after it. Arguments: o position - The lower boundary of where the location can occur. o extension - An optional argument which must be zero since we don't have an extension. The argument is provided so that the same number of arguments can be passed to all position types. This is used to specify positions like (>10..100) where the location occurs somewhere after position 10. """ def __init__(self, position, extension = 0): if extension != 0: raise AttributeError("Non-zero extension %s for exact position." % extension) AbstractPosition.__init__(self, position, 0) def __repr__(self): """A string representation of the location for debugging.""" assert self.extension == 0 return "%s(%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, repr(self.position)) def __str__(self): return ">%s" % self.position class OneOfPosition(AbstractPosition): """Specify a position where the location can be multiple positions. This models the GenBank 'one-of(1888,1901)' function, and tries to make this fit within the Biopython Position models. In our case the position of the "one-of" is set as the lowest choice, and the extension is the range to the highest choice. """ def __init__(self, position_list): """Initialize with a set of posssible positions. position_list is a list of AbstractPosition derived objects, specifying possible locations. """ # unique attribute for this type of positions self.position_choices = position_list # find the smallest and largest position in the choices smallest = None largest = None for position_choice in self.position_choices: assert isinstance(position_choice, AbstractPosition), \ "Expected position objects, got %r" % position_choice if smallest is None and largest is None: smallest = position_choice.position largest = position_choice.position elif position_choice.position > largest: largest = position_choice.position elif position_choice.position < smallest: smallest = position_choice.position # initialize with our definition of position and extension AbstractPosition.__init__(self, smallest, largest - smallest) def __repr__(self): """String representation of the OneOfPosition location for debugging.""" return "%s(%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, \ repr(self.position_choices)) def __str__(self): out = "one-of(" for position in self.position_choices: out += "%s," % position # replace the last comma with the closing parenthesis out = out[:-1] + ")" return out def _shift(self, offset): return self.__class__([position_choice._shift(offset) \ for position_choice in self.position_choices]) class PositionGap(object): """Simple class to hold information about a gap between positions. """ def __init__(self, gap_size): """Intialize with a position object containing the gap information. """ self.gap_size = gap_size def __repr__(self): """A string representation of the position gap for debugging.""" return "%s(%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, repr(self.gap_size)) def __str__(self): out = "gap(%s)" % self.gap_size return out def _test(): """Run the Bio.SeqFeature module's doctests.""" print "Runing doctests..." import doctest doctest.testmod() print "Done" if __name__ == "__main__": _test()