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Overview

tidysq contains tools for analysis and manipulation of biological sequences (including amino acid and nucleic acid – e.g. RNA, DNA – sequences). Two major features of this package are:

  • effective compression of sequence data, allowing to fit larger datasets in R,

  • compatibility with most of tidyverse universe, especially dplyr and vctrs packages, making analyses tidier.

Getting started

Try our quick start vignette or our exhaustive documentation.

Installation

The easiest way to install tidysq package is to download its latest version from CRAN repository:

install.packages("tidysq")

Alternatively, it is possible to download the development version directly from GitHub repository:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("BioGenies/tidysq")

Example usage

library(tidysq)
file <- system.file("examples", "example_aa.fasta", package = "tidysq")
sqibble <- read_fasta(file)
sqibble
#> # A tibble: 421 × 2
#>    sq             name                               
#>    <ami_bsc>      <chr>                              
#>  1 PGGGKVQIV <13> AMY1|K19|T-Protein (Tau)           
#>  2 NLKHQPGGG <43> AMY9|K19Gluc41|T-Protein (Tau)     
#>  3 NLKHQPGGG <19> AMY14|K19Gluc782|T-Protein (Tau)   
#>  4 GKVQIVYK   <8> AMY17|PHF8|T-Protein (Tau)         
#>  5 VQIVYK     <6> AMY18|PHF6|T-Protein (Tau)         
#>  6 DAEFRHDSG <40> AMY22|Whole|Amyloid beta A4 peptide
#>  7 VPHQKLVFF <15> AMY23|HABP1|Amyloid beta A4 peptide
#>  8 VHPQKLVFF <15> AMY24|HABP2|Amyloid beta A4 peptide
#>  9 VHHPKLVFF <15> AMY25|HABP3|Amyloid beta A4 peptide
#> 10 VHHQPLVFF <15> AMY26|HABP4|Amyloid beta A4 peptide
#> # ℹ 411 more rows

sq_ami <- sqibble$sq
sq_ami
#> basic amino acid sequences list:
#>  [1] PGGGKVQIVYKPV                                                          <13>
#>  [2] NLKHQPGGGKVQIVYKPVDLSKVTSKCGSLGNIHHKPGGGQVE                            <43>
#>  [3] NLKHQPGGGKVQIVYKEVD                                                    <19>
#>  [4] GKVQIVYK                                                                <8>
#>  [5] VQIVYK                                                                  <6>
#>  [6] DAEFRHDSGYEVHHQKLVFFAEDVGSNKGAIIGLMVGGVV                               <40>
#>  [7] VPHQKLVFFAEDVGS                                                        <15>
#>  [8] VHPQKLVFFAEDVGS                                                        <15>
#>  [9] VHHPKLVFFAEDVGS                                                        <15>
#> [10] VHHQPLVFFAEDVGS                                                        <15>
#> printed 10 out of 421

# Subsequences can be extracted with bite()
bite(sq_ami, 5:10)
#> Warning in CPP_bite(x, indices, NA_letter, on_warning): some sequences are
#> subsetted with index bigger than length - NA introduced
#> basic amino acid sequences list:
#>  [1] KVQIVY                                                                  <6>
#>  [2] QPGGGK                                                                  <6>
#>  [3] QPGGGK                                                                  <6>
#>  [4] IVYK!!                                                                  <6>
#>  [5] YK!!!!                                                                  <6>
#>  [6] RHDSGY                                                                  <6>
#>  [7] KLVFFA                                                                  <6>
#>  [8] KLVFFA                                                                  <6>
#>  [9] KLVFFA                                                                  <6>
#> [10] PLVFFA                                                                  <6>
#> printed 10 out of 421

# There are also more traditional functions
reverse(sq_ami)
#> basic amino acid sequences list:
#>  [1] VPKYVIQVKGGGP                                                          <13>
#>  [2] EVQGGGPKHHINGLSGCKSTVKSLDVPKYVIQVKGGGPQHKLN                            <43>
#>  [3] DVEKYVIQVKGGGPQHKLN                                                    <19>
#>  [4] KYVIQVKG                                                                <8>
#>  [5] KYVIQV                                                                  <6>
#>  [6] VVGGVMLGIIAGKNSGVDEAFFVLKQHHVEYGSDHRFEAD                               <40>
#>  [7] SGVDEAFFVLKQHPV                                                        <15>
#>  [8] SGVDEAFFVLKQPHV                                                        <15>
#>  [9] SGVDEAFFVLKPHHV                                                        <15>
#> [10] SGVDEAFFVLPQHHV                                                        <15>
#> printed 10 out of 421

# find_motifs() returns a whole tibble of useful informations
find_motifs(sqibble, "^VHX")
#> # A tibble: 9 × 5
#>   names                                found     sought start   end
#>   <chr>                                <ami_bsc> <chr>  <int> <int>
#> 1 AMY24|HABP2|Amyloid beta A4 peptide  VHP <3>   ^VHX       1     3
#> 2 AMY25|HABP3|Amyloid beta A4 peptide  VHH <3>   ^VHX       1     3
#> 3 AMY26|HABP4|Amyloid beta A4 peptide  VHH <3>   ^VHX       1     3
#> 4 AMY34|HABP12|Amyloid beta A4 peptide VHH <3>   ^VHX       1     3
#> 5 AMY35|HABP13|Amyloid beta A4 peptide VHH <3>   ^VHX       1     3
#> 6 AMY36|HABP14|Amyloid beta A4 peptide VHH <3>   ^VHX       1     3
#> 7 AMY38|HABP16|Amyloid beta A4 peptide VHH <3>   ^VHX       1     3
#> 8 AMY43|AB5|Amyloid beta A4 peptide    VHH <3>   ^VHX       1     3
#> 9 AMY195|86-95|Prion protein (human)   VHD <3>   ^VHX       1     3

An example of dplyr integration:

library(dplyr)
# tidysq integrates well with dplyr verbs
sqibble %>%
  filter(sq %has% "VFF") %>%
  mutate(length = get_sq_lengths(sq))
#> # A tibble: 24 × 3
#>    sq             name                                 length
#>    <ami_bsc>      <chr>                                 <dbl>
#>  1 DAEFRHDSG <40> AMY22|Whole|Amyloid beta A4 peptide      40
#>  2 VPHQKLVFF <15> AMY23|HABP1|Amyloid beta A4 peptide      15
#>  3 VHPQKLVFF <15> AMY24|HABP2|Amyloid beta A4 peptide      15
#>  4 VHHPKLVFF <15> AMY25|HABP3|Amyloid beta A4 peptide      15
#>  5 VHHQPLVFF <15> AMY26|HABP4|Amyloid beta A4 peptide      15
#>  6 KKLVFFPED  <9> AMY32|HABP10|Amyloid beta A4 peptide      9
#>  7 VHHQEKLVF <16> AMY34|HABP12|Amyloid beta A4 peptide     16
#>  8 VHHQEKLVF <16> AMY35|HABP13|Amyloid beta A4 peptide     16
#>  9 VHHQEKLVF <16> AMY36|HABP14|Amyloid beta A4 peptide     16
#> 10 KKLVFFAED  <9> AMY37|HABP15|Amyloid beta A4 peptide      9
#> # ℹ 14 more rows

Citation

For citation type:

citation("tidysq")

or use:

Michal Burdukiewicz, Dominik Rafacz, Laura Bakala, Jadwiga Slowik, Weronika Puchala, Filip Pietluch, Katarzyna Sidorczuk, Stefan Roediger and Leon Eyrich Jessen (2021). tidysq: Tidy Processing and Analysis of Biological Sequences. R package version 1.1.3.

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install.packages('tidysq')

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Version

1.2.3

License

GPL (>= 2)

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Maintainer

Dominik Rafacz

Last Published

January 7th, 2025

Functions in tidysq (1.2.3)

%has%

Test sq object for presence of given motifs
find_motifs

Find given motifs
get_standard_alphabet

Get standard alphabet for given type.
is.sq

Check if object has specified type
paste

Paste sequences in string-like fashion
random_sq

Generate random sequences
import_sq

Import sq objects from other objects
get_sq_lengths

Get lengths of sequences in sq object
is_empty_sq

Test if sequence is empty
get_tidysq_options

Obtain current state of tidysq options
sq_type

Get type of an sq object
remove_na

Remove sequences that contain NA values
read_fasta

Read a FASTA file
sqconcatenate

Concatenate sq objects
sqextract

Extract parts of a sq object
sq-class

sq: class for keeping biological sequences tidy
sq

Construct sq object from character vector
translate

Convert DNA or RNA into proteins using genetic code
sqprint

Print sq object
substitute_letters

Substitute letters in a sequence
tidysq-package

tidysq: tidy analysis of biological sequences
reverse

Reverse sequence
typify

Set type of an sq object
write_fasta

Save sq to fasta file
sqapply

Apply function to each sequence
remove_ambiguous

Remove sequences that contain ambiguous elements
as.sq

Convert an object to sq
as.character.sq

Convert sq object into character vector
as.matrix.sq

Convert sq object into matrix
bite

Subset sequences from sq objects
find_invalid_letters

Find elements which are not suitable for specified type.
complement

Create complement sequence from dnasq or rnasq object
export_sq

Export sq objects into other formats
collapse

Collapse multiple sequences into one
==.sq

Compare sq objects
alphabet

Get alphabet of given sq object.