On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Martin Morgan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 04/01/2010 07:12 AM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Martin Morgan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 03/31/2010 07:11 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> >>>  Dear bioc-sig-sequencing,
> >>>
> >>> I would like to annotate chip-seq peaks for the arabidopsis genome.  In
> >> trying to work thru the GenomicFeatures vignette dated 03/27/10, I need
> to
> >> convert my ChIPSeq peaks from a RangedData object to a GRanges object.
>  In a
> >> recent, but previous Bioconductor development version, the conversion
> with
> >> this particular RangedData object worked fine.
> >>>
> >>> In this more recent Bioconductor development version, I get the
> following
> >> error message:
> >>>
> >>>> gr_ChSeqPks <- as(rd0_chr1_s_8_trt_vs_INPctl, "GRanges")
> >>> Error in validObject(.Object) :
> >>>   invalid class "GRanges" object: slot 'strand' contains missing values
> >>>> rd0_chr1_s_8_trt_vs_INPctl
> >>> RangedData with 57 rows and 2 value columns across 1 space
> >>>           space               ranges   |     ARAB8 ARAB7INPCTL
> >>>     <character>            <IRanges>   | <integer>   <integer>
> >>> 1          chr1   [ 617092,  617094]   |        24           0
> >>> 2          chr1   [1808262, 1808262]   |         8           0
> >>> 3          chr1   [3889445, 3889452]   |        64           0
> >>> 4          chr1   [4404410, 4404410]   |         8           0
> >>> 5          chr1   [7081127, 7081127]   |         8           0
> >>> 6          chr1   [7128574, 7128581]   |        64           0
> >>> 7          chr1   [7128592, 7128649]   |       464           0
> >>> 8          chr1   [7530777, 7530781]   |        40           0
> >>> 9          chr1   [7530784, 7530786]   |        24           0
> >>> ...         ...                  ... ...       ...         ...
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>> rd = RangedData(IRanges(1, 10))
> >>> as(rd, "GRanges")
> >> Error in validObject(.Object) :
> >>  invalid class "GRanges" object: slot 'strand' contains missing values
> >>> rd[["strand"]] = "*"
> >>> as(rd, "GRanges")
> >> GRanges with 1 range and 0 elementMetadata values
> >>    seqnames    ranges strand |
> >>       <Rle> <IRanges>  <Rle> |
> >> [1]        1   [1, 10]      * |
> >>
> >> seqlengths
> >>  1
> >> NA
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>
> > Shouldn't the coerce function just do this automatically?
>
> Currently GRanges thinks of strand as '+', '-', '*', whereas IRanges
> allows NA as well (hence the error) so coercing NA to * represents a
> decision on the part of the investigator that '*' (strand irrelevant) is
> synonymous with NA (no information about strand available). Part of the
> motivation for this current state of affairs is that the use case for
> both NA and * were unclear, but course corrections welcome.
>
>
Ok. I guess one could think of the coercion of a RangedData missing a
'strand' column to a GRanges as an equivalent statement, since GRanges
requires strand information. If that doesn't sound reasonable, a better
error message will help avoid questions like this in the future.

Michael




> Martin
> >
> >>>
> >>>> sessionInfo()
> >>> R version 2.12.0 Under development (unstable) (2010-03-30 r51506)
> >>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >>>
> >>> locale:
> >>>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> >>>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> >>>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> >>>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> >>>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> >>> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >>>
> >>> attached base packages:
> >>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >>>
> >>> other attached packages:
> >>> [1] biomaRt_2.3.5         GenomicFeatures_0.5.0 GenomicRanges_0.1.0
> >>> [4] IRanges_1.5.73
> >>>
> >>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> >>> [1] Biobase_2.7.5      Biostrings_2.15.26 BSgenome_1.15.20   DBI_0.2-5
> >>> [5] RCurl_1.3-1        RSQLite_0.8-4      rtracklayer_1.7.11
> tools_2.12.0
> >>> [9] XML_2.8-1
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> P. Terry
> >>> [email protected]
> >>>
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> >>
> >> --
> >> Martin Morgan
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> >>
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> Martin Morgan
> Computational Biology / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
> 1100 Fairview Ave. N.
> PO Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109
>
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> Phone: (206) 667-2793
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