proteinToGenome {ensembldb} | R Documentation

## Map within-protein coordinates to genomic coordinates

### Description

`proteinToGenome` maps protein-relative coordinates to genomic coordinates based on the genomic coordinates of the CDS of the encoding transcript. The encoding transcript is identified using protein-to-transcript annotations (and eventually Uniprot to Ensembl protein identifier mappings) from the submitted `EnsDb` object (and thus based on annotations from Ensembl).

Not all coding regions for protein coding transcripts are complete, and the function thus checks also if the length of the coding region matches the length of the protein sequence and throws a warning if that is not the case.

The genomic coordinates for the within-protein coordinates, the Ensembl protein ID, the ID of the encoding transcript and the within protein start and end coordinates are reported for each input range.

### Usage

    proteinToGenome(x, db, id = "name", idType = "protein_id")

### Arguments

`x` | `IRanges` with the coordinates within the protein(s). The object has also to provide some means to identify the protein (see details).
`db` | `EnsDb` object to be used to retrieve genomic coordinates of encoding transcripts.
`id` | `character(1)` specifying where the protein identifier can be found. Has to be either `"name"` or one of `colnames(mcols(prng))`.
`idType` | `character(1)` defining what type of IDs are provided. Has to be one of `"protein_id"` (default), `"uniprot_id"` or `"tx_id"`.

### Details

Protein identifiers (supported are Ensembl protein IDs or Uniprot IDs) can be passed to the function as `names` of the `x` `IRanges` object, or alternatively in any one of the metadata columns (`mcols`) of `x`.

### Value

`list`, each element being the mapping results for one of the input ranges in `x` and names being the IDs used for the mapping. Each element can be either a:

- `GRanges` object with the genomic coordinates calculated on the protein-relative coordinates for the respective Ensembl protein (stored in the `"protein_id"` metadata column.

- `GRangesList` object, if the provided protein identifier in `x` was mapped to several Ensembl protein IDs (e.g. if Uniprot identifiers were used). Each element in this `GRangesList` is a `GRanges` with the genomic coordinates calculated for the protein-relative coordinates from the respective Ensembl protein ID.

The following metadata columns are available in each `GRanges` in the result:

- `"protein_id"`: the ID of the Ensembl protein for which the within-protein coordinates were mapped to the genome.

- `"tx_id"`: the Ensembl transcript ID of the encoding transcript.

- `"exon_id"`: ID of the exons that have overlapping genomic coordinates.

- `"exon_rank"`: the rank/index of the exon within the encoding transcript.

- `"cds_ok"`: contains `TRUE` if the length of the CDS matches the length of the amino acid sequence and `FALSE` otherwise.

- `"protein_start"`: the within-protein sequence start coordinate of the mapping.

- `"protein_end"`: the within-protein sequence end coordinate of the mapping.

Genomic coordinates are returned ordered by the exon index within the transcript.

### Note

While the mapping for Ensembl protein IDs to encoding transcripts (and thus CDS) is 1:1, the mapping between Uniprot identifiers and encoding transcripts (which is based on Ensembl annotations) can be one to many. In such cases `proteinToGenome` calculates genomic coordinates for within-protein coordinates for all of the annotated Ensembl proteins and returns all of them. See below for examples.

Mapping using Uniprot identifiers needs also additional internal checks that have a significant impact on the performance of the function. It is thus strongly suggested to first identify the Ensembl protein identifiers for the list of input Uniprot identifiers (e.g. using the `proteins()` function and use these as input for the mapping function.

A warning is thrown for proteins which sequence does not match the coding sequence length of any encoding transcripts. For such proteins/transcripts a `FALSE` is reported in the respective `"cds_ok"` metadata column. The most common reason for such discrepancies are incomplete 3' or 5' ends of the CDS. The positions within the protein might not be correclty mapped to the genome in such cases and it might be required to check the mapping manually in the Ensembl genome browser.

### Author(s)

Johannes Rainer based on initial code from Laurent Gatto and Sebastian Gibb

### See Also

Other coordinate mapping functions: `cdsToTranscript`, `genomeToProtein`, `genomeToTranscript`, `proteinToTranscript`, `transcriptToCds`, `transcriptToGenome`, `transcriptToProtein`

### Examples

    library(EnsDb.Hsapiens.v86)
    ## Restrict all further queries to chromosome x to speed up the examples
    edbx <- filter(EnsDb.Hsapiens.v86, filter = ~ seq_name == "X")

    ## Define an IRange with protein-relative coordinates within a protein for
    ## the gene SYP
    syp <- IRanges(start = 4, end = 17)
    names(syp) <- "ENSP00000418169"
    res <- proteinToGenome(syp, edbx)
    res
    ## Positions 4 to 17 within the protein span two exons of the encoding
    ## transcript.

    ## Perform the mapping for multiple proteins identified by their Uniprot
    ## IDs.
    ids <- c("O15266", "Q9HBJ8", "unexistant")
    prngs <- IRanges(start = c(13, 43, 100), end = c(21, 80, 100))
    names(prngs) <- ids

    res <- proteinToGenome(prngs, edbx, idType = "uniprot_id")

    ## The result is a list, same length as the input object
    length(res)
    names(res)

    ## No protein/encoding transcript could be found for the last one
    res[[3]]

    ## The first protein could be mapped to multiple Ensembl proteins. The
    ## mapping result using all of their encoding transcripts are returned
    res[[1]]

    ## The coordinates within the second protein span two exons
    res[[2]]

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