[ensembl-dev] VEP Extra output information

Guillermo Marco Puche guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com
Thu Apr 25 08:32:10 BST 2013


Hello,

On 04/24/13 18:07, Will McLaren wrote:
> Your formatting is correct, yes, but you are maybe misunderstanding 
> how to interpret the coordinates.
>
> To represent an insertion (such as this), in Ensembl we represent this 
> as start = end + 1, where the inserted base falls between those two 
> coordinates. This is why the coordinates look "backwards".
>
> You could check for this in your plugin, and reverse start and end if 
> start > end
I was thinking about implementing this on my code last night.
Going to do it asap, as for deletion it seems to have no problem. I just 
need to consider insertion checking if start > end.


Guillermo.
>
> Will
>
>
> On 24 April 2013 16:54, Guillermo Marco Puche 
> <guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com 
> <mailto:guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello Will,
>
>     We've been testing around that VCF line that it's causing error:
>
>     We believe that the insertion format is correct (we already read
>     the format page on VEP ensembl before) for the following line:
>
>     *
>     chr1    35246848    .    G    GC 1000    .    data2
>
>     This is a "C" insertion in pos **35246848.
>     *For this line in VCF the VEP script is getting this values for
>     $pos_string:
>     chr1:35246849-35246848
>
>     Since this index is afterwards not recognized by tabix access to
>     the indexed file won't happen.
>     We may be wrong and don't understand the explanation on the VCF
>     formatting section you mentioned before.
>
>
>     On 04/24/13 13:51, Will McLaren wrote:
>>     See:
>>
>>     http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/variation/vep/vep_formats.html#vcf
>>
>>     Will
>>
>>
>>     On 24 April 2013 12:40, Guillermo Marco Puche
>>     <guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com
>>     <mailto:guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hello,
>>
>>         It seems this has something to annotation format:
>>
>>         I've modified the line to look like this:
>>
>>         chr1    35246849    .    -    C    1000 .    data2
>>
>>         I removed *.gz and index files.
>>
>>         Re-indexed with the following commands:
>>
>>         bgzip -c tabix_test.vcf > tabix_test.vcf.gz
>>
>>         tabix -p vcf tabix_test.vcf.gz
>>
>>         And when running VEP I get this error:
>>
>>         WARNING: Alleles look like an insertion (-/C) but coordinates
>>         are not start = end + 1 (START=35246849, END=35246849) on line 2
>>
>>
>>         On 04/24/13 13:24, Guillermo Marco Puche wrote:
>>>         Hello,
>>>
>>>         I'm confused. I've found a bug into my plugin.
>>>
>>>         This is my input vcf file sample:
>>>
>>>         #CHROM    POS    ID    REF    ALT QUAL    FILTER    INFO   
>>>         FORMAT DATA
>>>         chr1    6520668    .    A    C 1000    .    data1
>>>         *chr1    35246848    .    G    GC 1000    .    data2*
>>>         chr1    35247292    .    A    G 1000    .    data1
>>>
>>>
>>>         This line "*chr1    35246848 .    G    GC    1000    .
>>>         data2"* is making my plugin fail.
>>>         I've noticed that printing
>>>         my $pos_string = sprintf("chr%s:%i-%i", $vf->{chr}, $vf->{start}, $vf->{end});
>>>         Results in this for that line: chr1:35246849-35246848
>>>
>>>         How is this possible? That start position is one position
>>>         ahead of end?
>>>
>>>         Best regards,
>>>         Guillermo.
>>>
>>>         -------- Original Message --------
>>>         Subject: 	Re: [ensembl-dev] VEP Extra output information
>>>         Date: 	Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:48:00 +0200
>>>         From: 	Guillermo Marco Puche
>>>         <guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>
>>>         <mailto:guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>
>>>         Organization: 	Sistemas Genómicos
>>>         To: 	dev at ensembl.org <mailto:dev at ensembl.org>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>         Hello,
>>>
>>>         Ok finally fixed it !
>>>
>>>         The problem was that my input VCF file had first column in
>>>         this format: chr2 and not just the number.
>>>         Fixed it changing the following line on the script:
>>>         my $pos_string = sprintf("chr%s:%i-%i", $vf->{chr}, $vf->{start}, $vf->{end});
>>>
>>>         Thank you so much Will.
>>>         Now I'm pretty sure that my next plugins will be easier to
>>>         develop !
>>>
>>>         I still think that plugin documentation should be extended
>>>         on Ensembl website, it's not that easy to get started ;)
>>>
>>>         Once again thank you very much.
>>>
>>>         Best regards,
>>>         Guillermo.
>>>
>>>         On 04/23/13 09:27, Guillermo Marco Puche wrote:
>>>>         Hello,
>>>>
>>>>         I edited the code so it match exactly the way you handled
>>>>         input file and tabix in dbNSFP plugin.
>>>>         You can check code on GIT repo:
>>>>         https://github.com/guillermomarco/vcf_input/blob/master/vcf_input.pm
>>>>
>>>>         It still won't iterate over TABIX file. Both variables
>>>>         $pos_string (2:26739423-26739423) and $file(myfile.vcf.gz)
>>>>         have correct values during execution. The only thing that
>>>>         differs from your script is that I'm not extracting HEAD
>>>>         for Tabix since I don't need it.
>>>>
>>>>         Maybe something is wrong with my input file since plugin is
>>>>         being executed but output is empty because it doesn't
>>>>         iterate file over TABIX file handler.
>>>>
>>>>         I've compressed and indexed it with the following commands
>>>>         previously:
>>>>         bgzip -c test.vcf > test.vcf.gz
>>>>         tabix -p vcf test.vcf.gz
>>>>
>>>>         Thank you.
>>>>
>>>>         Best regards,
>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>
>>>>         On 04/22/13 18:09, Guillermo Marco Puche wrote:
>>>>>         Hello Will,
>>>>>
>>>>>         After applying your fixes there's still no output.
>>>>>
>>>>>         Something must be wrong with TABIX file handler.
>>>>>         $pos_string seems correct, i've been printing on screen
>>>>>         the values and they seem correct :)
>>>>>
>>>>>         On the other hand "while TABIX" loop is not being
>>>>>         executed. It never iterates through this loop. But there's
>>>>>         also no error with file handler. So I don't know what is
>>>>>         wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>
>>>>>         On 04/22/13 17:56, Will McLaren wrote:
>>>>>>         A couple of other bugs I've spotted - you've got some variables being
>>>>>>         declared in the wrong scope which means you won't get anything in your
>>>>>>         results. Your run method should look like:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         sub run {
>>>>>>         my ($self, $tva) = @_;
>>>>>>         my $vf = $tva->variation_feature;
>>>>>>         my $pos_string = sprintf("%s:%i-%i", $vf->{chr}, $vf->{start}, $vf->{end});
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         #my $fichero = "test.vcf";
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         my $info;
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         open TABIX, sprintf("tabix %s %s |", $self->{file}, $pos_string);
>>>>>>         #open TABIX file handler for current position
>>>>>>         while(<TABIX>){
>>>>>>         chomp;
>>>>>>         if (my $line =~ /^#/){ next; } #skip header line
>>>>>>         my @split = split /\t/;
>>>>>>         $info = $split[7]; #store 8th column (INFO)
>>>>>>         }
>>>>>>         close TABIX; #close TABIX file handler
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              return {
>>>>>>              "SAMPLES" => $info,
>>>>>>              };
>>>>>>         }
>>>>>>
>>>>>>         On 22 April 2013 16:38, Will McLaren<wm2 at ebi.ac.uk>  <mailto:wm2 at ebi.ac.uk>  wrote:
>>>>>>>         You need to store the file name on the object itself. In the new method, replace
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>         my $file = $self->params->[0];
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>         with
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>         $self->{file} = $self->params->[0];
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>         Will
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>         On 22 April 2013 16:33, Guillermo Marco Puche
>>>>>>>         <guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  <mailto:guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>         Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Thank you for that information Will. It's so useful.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Ok I've managed to almost finish the plugin:
>>>>>>>>         https://github.com/guillermomarco/vcf_input/blob/master/vcf_input.pm
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I'm still getting an error with sprintf when trying to run it with VEP.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         2013-04-22 17:18:07 - Warning: plugin
>>>>>>>>         vcf_input,/home/likewise-open/SGNET/gmarco/scripts/genomics/global/annotation/ensembl71/VCF_Input/test.vcf.gz
>>>>>>>>         version (0.1) does not match the current VEP version (71)
>>>>>>>>         2013-04-22 17:18:07 - You may experience unexpected behaviour with this
>>>>>>>>         plugin
>>>>>>>>         2013-04-22 17:18:07 - Loaded plugin: vcf_input
>>>>>>>>         2013-04-22 17:18:07 - Output fields redefined (26 defined)
>>>>>>>>         2013-04-22 17:18:09 - INFO: Database will be accessed when using --hgvs
>>>>>>>>         2013-04-22 17:18:09 - Starting...
>>>>>>>>         2013-04-22 17:18:09 - Read 3 variants into buffer
>>>>>>>>         2013-04-22 17:18:09 - Reading transcript data from cache and/or database
>>>>>>>>         [===============================================]  [ 100% ]
>>>>>>>>         2013-04-22 17:18:09 - Retrieved 74 transcripts (0 mem, 74 cached, 0 DB, 0
>>>>>>>>         duplicates)
>>>>>>>>         2013-04-22 17:18:09 - Reading regulatory data from cache and/or database
>>>>>>>>         [===============================================]  [ 100% ]
>>>>>>>>         2013-04-22 17:18:09 - Retrieved 539 regulatory features (0 mem, 539 cached,
>>>>>>>>         0 DB, 0 duplicates)
>>>>>>>>         2013-04-22 17:18:09 - Calculating consequences
>>>>>>>>         [>                                              ]    [ 5% ]
>>>>>>>>         ERROR: Forked process failed
>>>>>>>>         Use of uninitialized value in sprintf at
>>>>>>>>         /home/likewise-open/SGNET/gmarco/.vep/Plugins/vcf_input.pm  <http://vcf_input.pm>  line 69.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Thank you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Best regards,
>>>>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 04/22/13 14:34, Will McLaren wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         The plugin is run once for each combination of variant and overlapped
>>>>>>>>         feature.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Let's say your variant overlaps 4 transcripts (they may be splice
>>>>>>>>         variants of the same gene, or 4 different genes, the principal is the
>>>>>>>>         same). In this case, the plugin's "run" method will be executed 4
>>>>>>>>         times for that variant, once for each transcript. The $tva
>>>>>>>>         TranscriptVariationAllele object in each run will have a different
>>>>>>>>         transcript "attached" to it. I'd recommend stepping through how a
>>>>>>>>         plugin works using Perl's debugger - simply add the line:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         $DB::single = 1;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         somewhere at the start of the run method, then run the vep with perl's -d
>>>>>>>>         flag:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         perl -dvariant_effect_predictor.pl  <http://variant_effect_predictor.pl>  [etc]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I'm not sure, but it seems like you're preloading all of the VCF in
>>>>>>>>         your plugin at the beginning, and then trying to add the info one at a
>>>>>>>>         time. This is not an ideal way to do it, as for large VCF files you
>>>>>>>>         may run in to memory usage issues, and especially using an array you
>>>>>>>>         may not be able to reliably link the lines from your VCF to the lines
>>>>>>>>         of input going into the VEP (a hash keyed on position would be much
>>>>>>>>         better).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         A much better way to do it would be to prepare the VCF file with
>>>>>>>>         tabix. The tabix utility can then retrieve just the relevant line from
>>>>>>>>         the VCF on demand (this is very quick, and you can cache data on the
>>>>>>>>         plugin's hash structure between separate executions of the "run"
>>>>>>>>         method).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         In the dbNSFP.pm plugin on GitHub, I do something very very similar to
>>>>>>>>         this. First, I get the variation feature object being passed to the
>>>>>>>>         "run" method - this contains the genomic coordinates of the current
>>>>>>>>         variant:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         my $vf = $tva->variation_feature;
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I then create a string to pass to tabix, which is chr:start-end; this
>>>>>>>>         means tabix will retrieve the lines from your VCF in that range:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         my $pos_string = sprintf("%s:%i-%i", $vf->{chr}, $vf->{start}, $vf->{end});
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I then run tabix and open the output as a pipe:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         open TABIX, sprintf("tabix %s %s |", $self->{file}, $pos_string);
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I can then read lines of VCF from the <TABIX> filehandle, parse them,
>>>>>>>>         and finally add the data to the %return hash that gets sent back at
>>>>>>>>         the end of the plugin.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         This return hash must contain key/value pairs that will be printed in
>>>>>>>>         the output. For example, lets say I want to add the variant name from
>>>>>>>>         the VCF file I've just parsed:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         return {
>>>>>>>>            "VAR_NAME" => $var_name,
>>>>>>>>         }
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         where $var_name = 'rs123'. Then in the output you would see (normal,
>>>>>>>>         tab-delimited):
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         VAR_NAME=rs123
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         appear in the Extra column of your output file. You could add multiple
>>>>>>>>         values for VAR_NAME, but you'd have to write that as a string, for
>>>>>>>>         example:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         return {
>>>>>>>>            "VAR_NAME" => join(",", ($var_name1, $var_name2)),
>>>>>>>>         }
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         which would give you e.g.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         VAR_NAME=rs123,rs456
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I'm afraid also at this juncture I have to point out that I'm nearing
>>>>>>>>         the limit of support I'm meant to be giving out to one individual.
>>>>>>>>         While we are here to help and will answer any reasonable questions you
>>>>>>>>         have, we have to stop short of doing people's jobs for them! Anything
>>>>>>>>         more than a base level of help might have to be considered as a
>>>>>>>>         collaboration, and this would require communication between our
>>>>>>>>         respective supervisors.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I hope that the documentation on the website and the example code
>>>>>>>>         (which we try to comment as thoroughly as we can) should be enough to
>>>>>>>>         keep you going, and of course I don't want to put you off using and
>>>>>>>>         helping us improve the VEP.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Regards
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Will
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 22 April 2013 12:59, Guillermo Marco Puche
>>>>>>>>         <guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  <mailto:guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I'm starting to develop a simple plugin to write the INFO column from VCF
>>>>>>>>         input into VEP output.
>>>>>>>>         As far as I've been seen in Git VEP Plugin repo, VEP script will right the
>>>>>>>>         value returned by the plugin in run function.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Suppose that I've an array of values with the INFO column. Something like
>>>>>>>>         this:
>>>>>>>>         my @info_column = ("info_row1","info_row2","info_row3")
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         An array containing the content of INFO column for each line of VCF input.
>>>>>>>>         How do I associate each value to the corresponding VEP line output?
>>>>>>>>         I guess I cannot simply return the array as the result of my plugin.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Is plugin executed for every line by VEP script?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Thank you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Best regards,
>>>>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 04/22/13 12:07, Guillermo Marco Puche wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Me neither. So I've no clue. I hope someone else can help me.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I've also been looking the plugin code you mentioned.
>>>>>>>>         I don't really see how to extract the columns from input VCF and intersect
>>>>>>>>         them with VEP output.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Regards,
>>>>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 04/22/13 12:01, Will McLaren wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I haven't used VCFannotate myself, perhaps I was wrong!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I know of other VEP users who have used it though, maybe someone on
>>>>>>>>         the list will read this email and can give you some help.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Cheers
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Will
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 22 April 2013 10:58, Guillermo Marco Puche
>>>>>>>>         <guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  <mailto:guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello Will,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         It seems VCFannotate is made for "Intersect the records in the VCF file with
>>>>>>>>         targets provided in a BED file.".
>>>>>>>>         How I'm supposed to intersect the output from vep script (VCF or VEP file)
>>>>>>>>         with my input file VCF?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Thank you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Best regards,
>>>>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 04/19/13 11:31, Will McLaren wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hi Guillermo,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         The --custom system doesn't quite work like that. Currently it is set
>>>>>>>>         up to either provide only the ID or the coordinates of any features it
>>>>>>>>         finds overlapping your variants in the custom file. It can't pull
>>>>>>>>         particular fields from a VCF in the way you describe here.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         To do so, you'd either have to write a plugin to do this (see the
>>>>>>>>         dbNSFP.pm plugin for an example of doing similar), or use VCFannotate,
>>>>>>>>         which I believe can do this sort of thing out of the box.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Regards
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Will
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 19 April 2013 07:42, Guillermo Marco Puche
>>>>>>>>         <guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  <mailto:guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I'm trying to get the following fields from the VCF input with the --custom
>>>>>>>>         flag.
>>>>>>>>         I want to add the following columns to the VEP output file:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         #CHROM        POS     ID      REF     ALT     QUA
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>          From what I've been reading this is possible to achieve using custom flag
>>>>>>>>         and VCF input, since third column is used as identifier (ID, ie: rs6054257)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I've been trying with the following command:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         ./variant_effect_predictor.pl  <http://variant_effect_predictor.pl>  -i myinput.vcf.gz -format vcf -o myoutput.vep
>>>>>>>>         --cache --everything --maf_1kg --force_overwrite --plugin
>>>>>>>>         Condel,/home/likewise-open/SGNET/gmarco/.vep/Plugins/config/Condel/config,b
>>>>>>>>         --custom myinput.vcf.gz,CHROM,vcf,exact,0 --fields
>>>>>>>>         CHROM,Existing_variation,AFR_MAF,AMR_MAF,ASN_MAF,EUR_MAF,GMAF,Feature,Feature_type,HGVSc,HGVSp,Consequence,Domains,MOTIF_NAME,MOTIF_POS,HIGH_INF_POS,Condel,SIFT,Polyphen,Cell_Type,Canonical,CCDS,Intron,Exon
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I got an output like this:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         #CHROM    Existing_variation    AFR_MAF    AMR_MAF    ASN_MAF    EUR_MAF
>>>>>>>>         GMAF    Feature    Feature_type    HGVSc    HGVSp    Consequence    Domains
>>>>>>>>         MOTIF_NAME    MOTIF_POS    HIGH_INF_POS    Condel    SIFT    Polyphen
>>>>>>>>         Cell_Type    Canonical    CCDS    Intron    Exon
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         1:6500735-6500735    -    -    -    -    -    -    NM_031475.2    Transcript
>>>>>>>>         NM_031475.2:c.725C>T    NP_113663.2:p.Thr242Ile    missense_variant    -
>>>>>>>>         -    -    -    deleterious(0.765)    deleterious(0.03)    -    -    -    -
>>>>>>>>         -    -
>>>>>>>>         1:6501044-6501044    rs2311045    0.28    0.12    0.21    0.13    G:0.1822
>>>>>>>>         ENSR00000074413    RegulatoryFeature    -    -    regulatory_region_variant
>>>>>>>>         -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -
>>>>>>>>         1:6501044-6501044    rs2311045    0.28    0.12    0.21    0.13    G:0.1822
>>>>>>>>         CCDS70.1    Transcript    CCDS70.1:c.909C>G    CCDS70.1:c.909C>G(p.=)
>>>>>>>>         synonymous_variant    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    CCDS70.1
>>>>>>>>         -    -
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Position being show in CHROM column makes no sense to me if it's the key
>>>>>>>>         identifier. If you're using the "exact" configuration in custom flag with no
>>>>>>>>         overlapping why it's an interval shown?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I would like that POS being shown in a second column called POS like in
>>>>>>>>         original VCF and so on with the rest of custom missing fields. Output format
>>>>>>>>         would be:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         #CHROM        POS     ID      REF     ALT     QUA     Existing_variation    AFR_MAF    AMR_MAF
>>>>>>>>         ASN_MAF    EUR_MAF    GMAF    Feature    Feature_type    HGVSc    HGVSp
>>>>>>>>         Consequence    Domains    MOTIF_NAME    MOTIF_POS    HIGH_INF_POS    Condel
>>>>>>>>         SIFT    Polyphen    Cell_Type    Canonical &nbs
>>>>>>>>           p;
>>>>>>>>         CCDS    Intron    Exon
>>>>>>>>         chr1  6501044 rs2311045 0.28    0.12    0.21    0.13    G:0.1822
>>>>>>>>         ENSR00000074413    RegulatoryFeature    -    -    regulatory_region_variant
>>>>>>>>         -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -    -
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I've been experiencing errors if I try with the following custom flag:
>>>>>>>>         --custom myinput.vcf.gz,CHROM,POS,ID,REF,ALT,QUA,vcf,exact,0
>>>>>>>>         I've no idea how to are more than one custom flag at a time, or not even if
>>>>>>>>         this is possible. What would be the correct way to do this?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Thank you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Best regards,
>>>>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 04/18/13 13:55, Guillermo Marco Puche wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         --fields command is working flawlessly ! I love it. It has saved me so much
>>>>>>>>         work.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         ./variant_effect_predictor.pl  <http://variant_effect_predictor.pl>  -i
>>>>>>>>         /home/likewise-open/SGNET/gmarco/VEP_71/in/Oto2_collect_not_annotated.vcf -o
>>>>>>>>         /home/likewise-open/SGNET/gmarco/VEP_71/out/output.fields -format vcf
>>>>>>>>         --cache --everything --maf_1kg --force_overwrite --fork 2 --plugin
>>>>>>>>         Condel,/home/likewise-open/SGNET/gmarco/.vep/Plugins/config/Condel/config,b
>>>>>>>>         --fields
>>>>>>>>         Existing_variation,AFR_MAF,AMR_MAF,ASN_MAF,EUR_MAF,GMAF,Feature,Feature_type,HGVSc,HGVSp,Consequence,Domains,MOTIF_NAME,MOTIF_POS,HIGH_INF_POS,Condel,SIFT,Polyphen,Cell_Type,Canonical,CCDS,Intron,Exon
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Now I need to figure out how to create a final output file which is the
>>>>>>>>         relation of VCF input (Chromosome, Position, Ref_Allele, Var_Allele) with
>>>>>>>>         the VEP output. To display all variants info for each chromosome.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 04/18/13 10:40, Will McLaren wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         The only way to do this would be to specify each Extra column as a
>>>>>>>>         separate column using --fields.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Will
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 18 April 2013 08:29, Guillermo Marco Puche
>>>>>>>>         <guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  <mailto:guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Finally I'm not going to use VCF format as output.
>>>>>>>>          From original input VFC I need to print into my output Chromosome, Position,
>>>>>>>>         Ref_Allele and Var_Allele columns.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I prefer standard VEP column tabbed file for output, since it's much easier
>>>>>>>>         to parse "Extra" column because all extra parameters are delimited by ";".
>>>>>>>>         Is there any way to force VEP to print empty extra parameters?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         ie:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         1_6508122_G/C    1:6508122    C    ENSESTG00000022320    ENSESTT00000056337
>>>>>>>>         Transcript    downstream_gene_variant    -    -    -    -    -    rs11808508
>>>>>>>>         AFR_MAF=;DISTANCE=2305;GMAF=;ASN_MAF=;EUR_MAF=;ENSP=ENSESTP00000056337;CANONICAL=YES;AMR_MAF=
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Or simply fill print empty extra empty fields with =EMPTY.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Thank you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Best regards,
>>>>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 04/17/13 16:53, Guillermo Marco Puche wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Again, thank you so much !
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I'm looking further VCFTools, maybe it should be the easiest and standard
>>>>>>>>         way to parse VCF output from VEP.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Thank you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Best regards,
>>>>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 04/17/13 16:50, Will McLaren wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Yes, you can customise the fields used and the order they appear in
>>>>>>>>         with --fields; this applies to both VCF and the normal tab-delimited
>>>>>>>>         output.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         The delimiter is hardcoded I'm afraid, but I'm not sure what you'd
>>>>>>>>         pick if you did decide to change it. ";" and "," are already used by
>>>>>>>>         the VCF spec, and ":" appears in HGVS notations and other fields.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         If you did want to change it, you'd just need to edit lines 1272 and
>>>>>>>>         1275 of ensembl-variation/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Variation/Utils/VEP.pm.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Will
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 17 April 2013 15:32, Guillermo Marco Puche
>>>>>>>>         <guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  <mailto:guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello Will,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 04/17/13 14:46, Will McLaren wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         It's difficult (well, in fact impossible) to provide an example where
>>>>>>>>         every field is populated, since some field types are mutually
>>>>>>>>         exclusive dependent on the feature type overlapped (for example, you
>>>>>>>>         will never see the CELL_TYPE field populated for a variant/transcript
>>>>>>>>         combination).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         If you are interested in this for the purposes of how it looks for a
>>>>>>>>         parser, you really want to be looking at the header line added to the
>>>>>>>>         VCF by the VEP:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         ##INFO=<ID=CSQ,Number=.,Type=String,Description="Consequence type as
>>>>>>>>         predicted by VEP. Format:
>>>>>>>>         Allele|Gene|Feature|Feature_type|Consequence|cDNA_position|CDS_position|Protein_position|Amino_acids|Codons|Existing_variation|EXON|INTRON|HGNC|MOTIF_NAME|MOTIF_POS|HIGH_INF_POS|MOTIF_SCORE_CHANGE|DISTANCE|CLIN_SIG|CANONICAL|SIFT|PolyPhen|GMAF|ENSP|DOMAINS|CCDS|HGVSc|HGVSp|CELL_TYPE|BLOSUM62|CAROL|Conservation|LinkedVariants|INTERPRO|TSSDistance">
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         This lists the fields that are added in order. Using this you should
>>>>>>>>         be able to parse what appears in the body of the file.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Here's an example using a bunch of plugins and with the "--everything"
>>>>>>>>         flag switched on:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         ##INFO=<ID=CSQ,Number=.,Type=String,Description="Consequence type as
>>>>>>>>         predicted by VEP. Format:
>>>>>>>>         Allele|Gene|Feature|Feature_type|Consequence|cDNA_position|CDS_position|Protein_position|Amino_acids|Codons|Existing_variation|EXON|INTRON|HGNC|MOTIF_NAME|MOTIF_POS|HIGH_INF_POS|MOTIF_SCORE_CHANGE|DISTANCE|CLIN_SIG|CANONICAL|SIFT|PolyPhen|GMAF|ENSP|DOMAINS|CCDS|HGVSc|HGVSp|CELL_TYPE|BLOSUM62|CAROL|Conservation|LinkedVariants|INTERPRO|TSSDistance">
>>>>>>>>         #CHROM  POS     ID      REF     ALT     QUAL    FILTER  INFO
>>>>>>>>         21      26960070        rs116645811     G       A       .       .
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         CSQ=|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||,A|ENSG00000154719|ENST00000352957|Transcript|intron_variant||||||rs116645811||9/9|MRPL39||||||||||A:0.0005|ENSP00000284967||CCDS13573.1|ENST00000352957.4:c.969+1077C>T|||||0.840||ENSP00000284967|,A|ENSG00000154719|ENST00000307301|Transcript|missense_variant|1043|1001|334|T/M|aCg/aTg|rs116645811|10/11||MRPL39|||||||YES|tolerated(0.06)|benign(0.001)|A:0.0005|ENSP00000305682|Low_complexity_(Seg):Seg|CCDS33522.1|ENST00000307301.7:c.1001C>T|ENSP00000305682.7:p.Thr334Met||-1|Neutral(0.940)|0.840||ENSP00000305682|
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I like this. It won't be so hard to parse it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I've I'm not wrong I can even choose the field order with "--fields" flag.
>>>>>>>>         Is this only working for regular VEP column tabbed output file? Does it work
>>>>>>>>         with VCF output also?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         The only thing I don't like is that delimiter being "|" character is also
>>>>>>>>         used to fill empty fields. It would be great to change delimiter to another
>>>>>>>>         special character so parsing is much easier.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Thank you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Best regards,
>>>>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         This is from input:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         #CHROM  POS     ID      REF     ALT     QUAL    FILTER  INFO
>>>>>>>>         21      26960070        rs116645811     G       A       .       .       .
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         using the command line:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         perlvariant_effect_predictor.pl  <http://variant_effect_predictor.pl>  -i test.txt -force -database
>>>>>>>>         -everything -vcf -plugin Blosum62 -plugin Carol -plugin Conservation
>>>>>>>>         -plugin LD -plugin ProteinDomains -plugin TSSDistance
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hope this is a bit clearer!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Will
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 17 April 2013 11:25, Guillermo Marco Puche
>>>>>>>>         <guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  <mailto:guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I'm looking for an example *.vcf output with ALL the "Extra" parameters.
>>>>>>>>         I've generated some with VEP script but i'm missing some extras never being
>>>>>>>>         generated like HGNC.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         A few lines VCF with all values would be enough, since i'm planning to parse
>>>>>>>>         "Extra" column.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         It also would be great if it includes most of the plugins outputs also :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Thank you :)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Best regards,
>>>>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 04/16/13 18:00, Guillermo Marco Puche wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 04/16/13 14:49, Will McLaren wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hi Guillermo,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         There's two distinct ways you can add additional data to the output
>>>>>>>>         from the VEP.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         1) Custom annotations - here you simply provide the VEP with a
>>>>>>>>         tabix-indexed position-based data file, and the VEP does the work of
>>>>>>>>         finding overlaps with your variant input and the data from the file.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         2) Plugins - you write the code to add to or manipulate the internal
>>>>>>>>         data structures used by the VEP. In its simplest form, a plugin can be
>>>>>>>>         simply looking up an attribute of some object and adding it to the
>>>>>>>>         output.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Writing a plugin requires a basic understanding of the Ensembl API,
>>>>>>>>         but getting a basic plugin working requires only a very small amount
>>>>>>>>         of code.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Since additional data is being obtained from multiple sources, APIs, files,
>>>>>>>>         etc.. I guess plugins are the only way to go for me.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         The documentation
>>>>>>>>         (http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/variation/vep/vep_script.html#plugins)
>>>>>>>>         explains all of this, but the best way to see how plugins work is to
>>>>>>>>         look at the existing plugins at
>>>>>>>>         https://github.com/ensembl-variation/VEP_plugins. I'd suggest looking
>>>>>>>>         at Conservation.pm and ProteinSeqs.pm as some relatively simple
>>>>>>>>         examples of retrieving additional data from the API.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Where are packages like package Conservation; comming from?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         You should note that using VCF output you will see repeated elements
>>>>>>>>         in the INFO field added, since the plugin gets run once for every
>>>>>>>>         variant/transcript overlap; all data appear under the CSQ field in the
>>>>>>>>         INFO column. Currently there is no way for the VEP via plugins to add
>>>>>>>>         separate INFO fields, however this is something we are looking into,
>>>>>>>>         and in fact would be relatively easy to "hack" in for someone
>>>>>>>>         determined enough (see subroutine vf_list_to_cons in
>>>>>>>>         Bio::EnsEMBL::Variation::Utils::VEP).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I'll look further into this tomorrow since I've to go now.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         A workaround could be simply generating a temp file with extra columns and
>>>>>>>>         in the end merge original VCF from VEP script with the output from plugins
>>>>>>>>         for additional columns.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Maybe I missunderstood you. Correct me if i'm wrong please.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hope this helps, and feel free to ask further questions!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Will McLaren
>>>>>>>>         Ensembl Variation
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Thank you so much.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Best regards,
>>>>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         On 16 April 2013 12:58, Guillermo Marco Puche
>>>>>>>>         <guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  <mailto:guillermo.marco at sistemasgenomicos.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Hello,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I'm in need to develop some extra features for VEP.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         My input files are in VCF format and also my output.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         But I want to add several additional columns for extra data at the VCF out.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         For example,AA conservation score, Biobase description, Biobase link, MAF
>>>>>>>>         populations, Flanking sequence, Gene description, InterPro_ID and more..
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I've been reading the documents and I'm a bit confused about "Custom
>>>>>>>>         annotations".
>>>>>>>>         I think since the data I want is extra on the output and not in the input,
>>>>>>>>         what I should do is develop several Plugins to obtain all the values I need.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I think most of them can be obtained through the Ensembl API even if I'm new
>>>>>>>>         to this. Other will require more hard coding.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         I hope someone can clarify me a bit on this matter.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Thank you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>         Best regards,
>>>>>>>>         Guillermo.
>>>>>>>>
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