Bio::Matrix::PSM::ProtMatrix(3)

NAME
Bio::Matrix::PSM::ProtMatrix - SiteMatrixI implementation, holds a position scoring matrix (or position weight matrix) with log-odds scoring information.

SYNOPSIS
   use Bio::Matrix::PSM::ProtMatrix;
   # Create from memory by supplying probability matrix hash both as strings or
   # arrays where the frequencies   Hash entries of the form lN refer to an array
   # of position-specific log-odds scores for amino acid N. Hash entries of the
   # form pN represent the position-specific probability of finding amino acid N.

   my %param = (
             'id' => 'A. thaliana protein atp1',
             '-e_val' => $score,
             'lS' => [ '-2', '3', '-3', '2', '-3', '1', '1', '3' ],
             'lF' => [ '-1', '-4', '0', '-5', '0', '-5', '-4', '-4' ],
             'lT' => [ '-1', '1', '0', '1', '-2', '-1', '0', '1' ],
             'lN' => [ '-3', '-1', '-2', '3', '-5', '5', '-2', '0' ],
             'lK' => [ '-2', '0', '-3', '2', '-3', '2', '-3', '-1' ],
             'lY' => [ '-2', '-3', '-3', '-4', '-3', '-4', '-4', '-4' ],
             'lE' => [ '-3', '4', '-3', '2', '-4', '-2', '-3', '2' ],
             'lV' => [ '0', '-2', '1', '-4', '1', '-4', '-1', '-3' ],
             'lQ' => [ '-1', '0', '-2', '3', '-4', '1', '-3', '0' ],
             'lM' => [ '8', '-3', '8', '-3', '1', '-3', '-3', '-3' ],
             'lC' => [ '-2', '-3', '-3', '-4', '-3', '-4', '-3', '-3' ],
             'lL' => [ '1', '-3', '1', '-4', '3', '-4', '-2', '-4' ],
             'lA' => [ '-2', '1', '-2', '0', '-2', '-2', '2', '2' ],
             'lW' => [ '-2', '-4', '-3', '-5', '-4', '-5', '-5', '-5' ],
             'lP' => [ '-3', '-2', '-4', '-3', '-1', '-3', '6', '-3' ],
             'lH' => [ '-2', '-2', '-3', '-2', '-5', '-2', '-2', '-3' ],
             'lD' => [ '-4', '-1', '-3', '1', '-3', '-1', '-3', '4' ],
             'lR' => [ '-2', '-1', '-3', '0', '-4', '4', '-4', '-3' ],
             'lI' => [ '0', '-3', '0', '-4', '6', '-4', '-2', '-2' ],
             'lG' => [ '-4', '-2', '-4', '-2', '-5', '-3', '-1', '-2' ],
             'pS' => [ '0', '33', '0', '16', '1', '12', '11', '25' ],
             'pF' => [ '0', '0', '2', '0', '3', '0', '0', '0' ],
             'pT' => [ '0', '8', '7', '10', '1', '2', '7', '8' ],
             'pN' => [ '0', '0', '2', '13', '0', '36', '1', '4' ],
             'pK' => [ '0', '5', '0', '13', '1', '15', '0', '2' ],
             'pY' => [ '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0' ],
             'pE' => [ '0', '41', '1', '12', '0', '0', '0', '15' ],
             'pV' => [ '0', '3', '9', '0', '2', '0', '3', '1' ],
             'pQ' => [ '0', '0', '0', '15', '0', '4', '0', '3' ],
             'pM' => [ '100', '0', '66', '0', '2', '0', '0', '0' ],
             'pC' => [ '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0' ],
             'pL' => [ '0', '0', '8', '0', '25', '0', '4', '0' ],
             'pA' => [ '0', '10', '1', '9', '2', '0', '22', '16' ],
             'pW' => [ '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0' ],
             'pP' => [ '0', '0', '0', '0', '3', '1', '45', '0' ],
             'pH' => [ '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '1', '0' ],
             'pD' => [ '0', '0', '1', '7', '2', '2', '0', '22' ],
             'pR' => [ '0', '0', '0', '3', '0', '27', '0', '0' ],
             'pI' => [ '0', '0', '3', '0', '59', '1', '2', '3' ],
             'pG' => [ '0', '0', '0', '1', '0', '0', '4', '1' ],
   );

   my $matrix = Bio::Matrix::PSM::ProtMatrix( %param );

   my $site = Bio::Matrix::PSM::ProtMatrix->new(%param);
   # Or get it from a file:
   use Bio::Matrix::PSM::IO;
   my $psmIO = Bio::Matrix::PSM::IO->new(-file => $file, -format => 'psi-blast');
   while (my $psm = $psmIO->next_psm) {
      #Now we have a Bio::Matrix::PSM::Psm object,
      # see Bio::Matrix::PSM::PsmI for details
      #This is a Bio::Matrix::PSM::ProtMatrix object now
      my $matrix = $psm->matrix;
   }

   # Get a simple consensus, where alphabet is:
   # {A, R, N, D, C, Q, E, G, H, I, L, K, M, F, P, S, T, W, Y, V,}
   # choosing the highest probability or N if prob is too low
   my $consensus = $site->consensus;

   # Retrieving and using regular expressions:
   my $regexp = $site->regexp;
   my $count = grep($regexp,$seq);
   my $count = ($seq=~ s/$regexp/$1/eg);
   print "Motif $mid is present $count times in this sequence\n";

DESCRIPTION
ProtMatrix is designed to provide some basic methods when working with position scoring (weight) matrices related to protein sequences. A protein PSM consists of 20 vectors with 20 frequencies (one per amino acid per position). This is the minimum information you should provide to construct a PSM object. The vectors can be provided as strings with frequencies where the frequency is {0..a} and a=1. This is the way MEME compressed representation of a matrix and it is quite useful when working with relational DB. If arrays are provided as an input (references to arrays actually) they can be any number, real or integer (frequency or count).

When creating the object the constructor will check for positions that equal 0. If such is found it will increase the count for all positions by one and recalculate the frequency. Potential bug - if you are using frequencies and one of the positions is 0 it will change significantly. However, you should never have frequency that equals 0.

Throws an exception if: You mix as an input array and string (for example A matrix is given as array, C - as string). The position vector is (0,0,0,0). One of the probability vectors is shorter than the rest.

Summary of the methods I use most frequently (details bellow):

   iupac - return IUPAC compliant consensus as a string
   score - Returns the score as a real number
   IC - information content. Returns a real number
   id - identifier. Returns a string
   accession - accession number. Returns a string
   next_pos - return the sequence probably for each letter, IUPAC
         symbol, IUPAC probability and simple sequence
   consenus letter for this position. Rewind at the end. Returns a hash.
   pos - current position get/set. Returns an integer.
   regexp - construct a regular expression based on IUPAC consensus.
         For example AGWV will be [Aa][Gg][AaTt][AaCcGg]
   width - site width
   get_string - gets the probability vector for a single base as a string.
   get_array - gets the probability vector for a single base as an array.
   get_logs_array - gets the log-odds vector for a single base as an array.

New methods, which might be of interest to anyone who wants to store PSM in a relational database without creating an entry for each position is the ability to compress the PSM vector into a string with losing usually less than 1% of the data. this can be done with:

   my $str=$matrix->get_compressed_freq('A');
or

   my $str=$matrix->get_compressed_logs('A');

Loading from a database should be done with new, but is not yet implemented. However you can still uncompress such string with:

   my @arr=Bio::Matrix::PSM::_uncompress_string ($str,1,1); for PSM

or

   my @arr=Bio::Matrix::PSM::_uncompress_string ($str,1000,2); for log odds

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AUTHOR - James Thompson
Email tex@biosysadmin.com

APPENDIX

  new
 Title    : new
 Usage    : my $site = Bio::Matrix::PSM::ProtMatrix->new(
               %probs,
               %logs,
               -IC    => $ic,
               -e_val => $score,
               -id    => $mid
               -model => \%model
            );
 Function : Creates a new Bio::Matrix::PSM::ProtMatrix object from memory
 Throws   : If inconsistent data for all vectors (all 20 amino acids) is
               provided, if you mix input types (string vs array) or if a
               position freq is 0.
 Example  :
 Returns  : Bio::Matrix::PSM::ProtMatrix object
 Args     : Hash references to log-odds scores and probabilities for
            position-specific scoring info, e-value (optional), information
            content (optional), id (optional), model for background distribution
            of proteins (optional).

  alphabet
 Title    : Returns an array (or array reference if desired) to the alphabet
 Usage    :
 Function : Returns an array (or array reference) containing all of the
            allowable characters for this matrix.
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  : Array or arrary reference.
 Args     :

  _calculate_consensus
 Title    : _calculate_consensus
 Usage    :
 Function : Calculates the consensus sequence for this matrix.
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  :
 Args     :

  next_pos
 Title    : next_pos
 Usage    :
 Function : Retrives the next position features: frequencies for all 20 amino
            acids, log-odds scores for all 20 amino acids at this position,
            the main (consensus) letter at this position, the probability
            for the consensus letter to occur at this position and the relative
            current position as an integer.
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  : hash (or hash reference) (pA,pR,pN,pD,...,logA,logR,logN,logD,aa,prob,rel)
            - pN entries represent the probability for amino acid N
            to be at this position
            - logN entries represent the log-odds score for having amino acid
            N at this position
            - aa is the consensus amino acid
            - prob is the probability for the consensus amino acid to be at this
            position
            - rel is the relative index of the current position (integer)
 Args      : none

  curpos
 Title    : curpos
 Usage    :
 Function : Gets/sets the current position.
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  : Current position (integer).
 Args     : New position (integer).

  e_val
 Title    : e_val
 Usage    :
 Function : Gets/sets the e-value
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  :
 Args     : real number

  IC
 Title    : IC
 Usage    :
 Function : Position-specific information content.
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  : Information content for current position.
 Args     : Information content for current position.

  accession_number
 Title    : accession_number
 Usage    :
 Function: accession number, this will be unique id for the ProtMatrix object as
            well for any other object, inheriting from ProtMatrix.
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  : New accession number (string)
 Args     : Accession number (string)

  consensus
 Title    : consensus
 Usage    :
 Function : Returns the consensus sequence for this PSM.
 Throws   : if supplied with thresold outisde 5..10 range
 Example  :
 Returns  : string
 Args     : (optional) threshold value 5 to 10 (corresponds to 50-100% at each position

  get_string
 Title   : get_string
 Usage   :
 Function: Returns given probability vector as a string. Useful if you want to
            store things in a rel database, where arrays are not first choice
 Throws  : If the argument is outside {A,C,G,T}
 Example :
 Returns : string
 Args    : character {A,C,G,T}

  width
 Title    : width
 Usage    :
 Function : Returns the length of the site
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  : number
 Args     :

  get_array
 Title    : get_array
 Usage    :
 Function : Returns an array with frequencies for a specified amino acid.
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  : Array representing frequencies for specified amino acid.
 Args     : Single amino acid (character).

  get_logs_array
 Title    : get_logs_array
 Usage    :
 Function : Returns an array with log_odds for a specified base
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  : Array representing log-odds scores for specified amino acid.
 Args     : Single amino acid (character).

  id
 Title    : id
 Usage    :
 Function : Gets/sets the site id
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  : string
 Args     : string

  regexp
 Title    : regexp
 Usage    :
 Function : Returns a case-insensitive regular expression which matches the
            IUPAC convention.  X's in consensus sequence will match anything.
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  : string
 Args     : Threshold for calculating consensus sequence (number in range 0-100
            representing a percentage). Threshold defaults to 20.

  regexp_array
 Title    : regexp_array
 Usage    :
 Function : Returns an array of position-specific regular expressions.
             X's in consensus sequence will match anything.
 Throws   :
 Example  :
 Returns  : Array of position-specific regular expressions.
 Args     : Threshold for calculating consensus sequence (number in range 0-100
            representing a percentage). Threshold defaults to 20.
 Notes    : Simply calls regexp method in list context.

  _compress_array
 Title    : _compress_array
 Usage    :
 Function :  Will compress an array of real signed numbers to a string (ie vector of bytes)
             -127 to +127 for bi-directional(signed) and 0..255 for unsigned ;
 Throws   :
 Example  :  Internal stuff
 Returns  :  String
 Args     :  array reference, followed by max value and direction (optional, defaults to 1),
             direction of 1 is unsigned, anything else is signed.

  _uncompress_string
 Title    : _uncompress_string
 Usage    :
 Function :   Will uncompress a string (vector of bytes) to create an array of real
                  signed numbers (opposite to_compress_array)
 Throws   :
 Example  :   Internal stuff
 Returns  :   string, followed by max value and direction (optional, defaults to 1),
              direction of 1 is unsigned, anything else is signed.
 Args     :   array

  get_compressed_freq
 Title    : get_compressed_freq
 Usage    :
 Function:   A method to provide a compressed frequency vector. It uses one byte to
             code the frequence for one of the probability vectors for one position.
             Useful for relational database. Improvment of the previous 0..a coding.
 Throws   :
 Example  :   my $strA=$self->get_compressed_freq('A');
 Returns  :   String
 Args     :   char

  sequence_match_weight
 Title    : sequence_match_weight
 Usage    :
 Function :   This method will calculate the score of a match, based on the PSM
              if such is associated with the matrix object. Returns undef if no
              PSM data is available.
 Throws   :   if the length of the sequence is different from the matrix width
 Example  :   my $score=$matrix->sequence_match_weight('ACGGATAG');
 Returns  :   Floating point
 Args     :   string

  _to_IUPAC
 Title   : _to_IUPAC
 Usage   :
 Function: Converts a single position to IUPAC compliant symbol and returns its probability.
            Currently returns the most likely amino acid/probability combination.
 Throws  :
 Example :
 Returns : char, real number representing an amino acid and a probability.
 Args    : real numbers for all 20 amino acids (ordered by alphabet contained
            in $self->{_alphabet}, minimum probability threshold.

  _to_cons
 Title   : _to_cons
 Usage   :
 Function: Converts a single position to simple consensus character and returns
            its probability. Currently just calls the _to_IUPAC subroutine.
 Throws  :
 Example :
 Returns : char, real number
 Args    : real numbers for A,C,G,T (positional)

  get_all_vectors
 Title    : get_all_vectors
 Usage    :
 Function :  returns all possible sequence vectors to satisfy the PFM under
             a given threshold
 Throws   :  If threshold outside of 0..1 (no sense to do that)
 Example  :  my @vectors = $self->get_all_vectors(4);
 Returns  :  Array of strings
 Args     :  (optional) floating