#!/usr/bin/env python """ Read a table dump in the UCSC gene table format and print a tab separated list of intervals corresponding to requested features of each gene. usage: ucsc_gene_table_to_intervals.py [options] options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -rREGION, --region=REGION Limit to region: one of coding, utr3, utr5, transcribed [default] -e, --exons Only print intervals overlapping an exon -i, --input=inputfile input file -o, --output=outputfile output file """ import optparse, string, sys assert sys.version_info[:2] >= ( 2, 4 ) def main(): # Parse command line parser = optparse.OptionParser( usage="%prog [options] " ) parser.add_option( "-r", "--region", dest="region", default="transcribed", help="Limit to region: one of coding, utr3, utr5, transcribed [default]" ) parser.add_option( "-e", "--exons", action="store_true", dest="exons", help="Only print intervals overlapping an exon" ) parser.add_option( "-s", "--strand", action="store_true", dest="strand", help="Print strand after interval" ) parser.add_option( "-i", "--input", dest="input", default=None, help="Input file" ) parser.add_option( "-o", "--output", dest="output", default=None, help="Output file" ) options, args = parser.parse_args() assert options.region in ( 'coding', 'utr3', 'utr5', 'transcribed' ), "Invalid region argument" try: out_file = open (options.output,"w") except: print >> sys.stderr, "Bad output file." sys.exit(0) try: in_file = open (options.input) except: print >> sys.stderr, "Bad input file." sys.exit(0) print "Region:", options.region+";" print "Only overlap with Exons:", if options.exons: print "Yes" else: print "No" # Read table and handle each gene for line in in_file: try: if line[0:1] == "#": continue # Parse fields from gene tabls fields = line.split( '\t' ) name = fields[0] chrom = fields[1] strand = fields[2].replace(" ","_") tx_start = int( fields[3] ) tx_end = int( fields[4] ) cds_start = int( fields[5] ) cds_end = int( fields[6] ) # Determine the subset of the transcribed region we are interested in if options.region == 'utr3': if strand == '-': region_start, region_end = tx_start, cds_start else: region_start, region_end = cds_end, tx_end elif options.region == 'utr5': if strand == '-': region_start, region_end = cds_end, tx_end else: region_start, region_end = tx_start, cds_start elif options.region == 'coding': region_start, region_end = cds_start, cds_end else: region_start, region_end = tx_start, tx_end # If only interested in exons, print the portion of each exon overlapping # the region of interest, otherwise print the span of the region if options.exons: exon_starts = map( int, fields[8].rstrip( ',\n' ).split( ',' ) ) exon_ends = map( int, fields[9].rstrip( ',\n' ).split( ',' ) ) for start, end in zip( exon_starts, exon_ends ): start = max( start, region_start ) end = min( end, region_end ) if start < end: if strand: print_tab_sep(out_file, chrom, start, end, name, "0", strand ) else: print_tab_sep(out_file, chrom, start, end ) else: if strand: print_tab_sep(out_file, chrom, region_start, region_end, name, "0", strand ) else: print_tab_sep(out_file, chrom, region_start, region_end ) except: continue def print_tab_sep(out_file, *args ): """Print items in `l` to stdout separated by tabs""" print >>out_file, string.join( [ str( f ) for f in args ], '\t' ) if __name__ == "__main__": main()