NAME

Bio::Align::DNAStatistics - Calculate some statistics for a DNA alignment

SYNOPSIS

  use Bio::AlignIO;
  use Bio::Align::DNAStatistics;

  my $stats = new Bio::Align::DNAStatistics;
  my $alignin = new Bio::AlignIO(-format => 'emboss',
                                 -file   => 't/data/insulin.water');
  my $aln = $alignin->next_aln;
  my $jc = $stats->distance(-align => $aln, 
                            -method => 'Jukes-Cantor');
  foreach my $d ( @$jc )  {
      print "\t";
      foreach my $r ( @$d ) {
          print "$r\t";
      } 
      print "\n";
  }
  ## and for measurements of synonymous /nonsynonymous substitutions ##

  my $in = new Bio::AlignIO(-format => 'fasta',
                            -file   => 't/data/nei_gojobori_test.aln');
  my $alnobj = $in->next_aln;
  my ($seqid,$seq2id) = map { $_->display_id } $alnobj->each_seq;
  my $results = $stats->calc_KaKs_pair($alnobj, $seqid, $seq2id);
  print "comparing ".$results->[0]{'Seq1'}." and ".$results->[0]{'Seq2'}."\n";
  for (sort keys %{$results->[0]} ){
      next if /Seq/;
      printf("%-9s %.4f \n",$_ , $results->[0]{$_});
  }

  my $results2 = $stats->calc_all_KaKs_pairs($alnobj);
  for my $an (@$results2){
      print "comparing ". $an->{'Seq1'}." and ". $an->{'Seq2'}. " \n";
      for (sort keys %$an ){
          next if /Seq/;
          printf("%-9s %.4f \n",$_ , $an->{$_});
      }
      print "\n\n";
  }

  my $result3 = $stats->calc_average_KaKs($alnobj, 1000);
  for (sort keys %$result3 ){
      next if /Seq/;
      printf("%-9s %.4f \n",$_ , $result3->{$_});
  }

DESCRIPTION

This object contains routines for calculating various statistics and distances for DNA alignments. The routines are not well tested and do contain errors at this point. Work is underway to correct them, but do not expect this code to give you the right answer currently! Use dnadist/distmat in the PHLYIP or EMBOSS packages to calculate the distances.

There are also three methods to calculate the ratio of synonymous to non-synonymous mutations. All are implementations of the Nei-Gojobori evolutionary pathway method and use the Jukes-Cantor method of nucleotide substitution. This method works well so long as the nucleotide frequencies are roughly equal and there is no significant transition/transversion bias. In order to use these methods there are several pre-requisites for the alignment.

DNA alignment must be based on protein alignment. Use the subroutine aa_to_dna_aln in Bio::Align::Utilities to achieve this.
Therefore alignment gaps must be in multiples of 3 (representing an aa deletion/insertion) and at present must be indicated by a '-' symbol.
Alignment must be solely of coding region and be in reading frame 0 to achieve meaningful results
ALignment must therefore be a multiple of 3 nucleotides long.
All sequences must be the same length (including gaps). This should be the case anyway if the sequences have been automatically aligned using a program like Clustal.
Only the standard codon alphabet is supported at present.

calc_KaKs_pair() calculates a number of statistics for a named pair of sequences in the alignment.

calc_all_KaKs_pairs() calculates these statistics for all pairwise comparisons in an MSA. The statistics returned are:

S_d: Number of synonymous mutations between the 2 sequences.
N_d: Number of non-synonymous mutations between the 2 sequences.
S: Mean number of synonymous sites in both sequences.
N: mean number of synonymous sites in both sequences.
P_s: proportion of synonymous differences in both sequences given by P_s = S_d/S.
P_n: proportion of non-synonymous differences in both sequences given by P_n = S_n/S.
D_s: estimation of synonymous mutations per synonymous site (by Jukes-CAntor).
D_n: estimation of non-synonymous mutations per non-synonymous site (by Jukes-CAntor).
D_n_var: estimation of variance of D_n .
D_s_var: estimation of variance of S_n.
z_value: calculation of z value.Positive value indicates D_n > D_s, negative value indicates D_s > D_n.

calc_average_KaKs

The statistics returned by calc_average_KaKs are:

D_s: Average number of synonymous mutations/synonymous site.
D_n: Average number of non-synonymous mutations/non-synonymous site.
D_s_var: Estimated variance of Ds from bootstrapped alignments.
D_n_var: Estimated variance of Dn from bootstrapped alignments.
z_score: calculation of z value. POsitive value indicates D_n >D_s, negative values vice versa.

The design of the code is based around the explanation of the Nei-Gojobori algorithm in the excellent book "Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics" by Nei and Kumar, published by Oxford University Press. The methods have been tested using the worked example 4.1 in the book, and reproduce those results. If people like having this sort of analysis in BioPerl other methods for estimating Ds and Dn can be provided later.

FEEDBACK

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Reporting Bugs

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AUTHOR - Jason Stajich

Email jason@bioperl.org

Describe contact details here

CONTRIBUTORS

Additional contributors names and emails here Richard Adams, richard.adams@ed.ac.uk

APPENDIX

The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

new

 Title   : new
 Usage   : my $obj = new Bio::Align::DNAStatistics();
 Function: Builds a new Bio::Align::DNAStatistics object 
 Returns : Bio::Align::DNAStatistics
 Args    : none

distance

 Title   : distance
 Usage   : my $distance_mat = $stats->distance(-align  => $aln, 
                                               -method => $method);
 Function: Calculates a distance matrix for all pairwise distances of
           sequences in an alignment.
 Returns : Array ref
 Args    : -align  => Bio::Align::AlignI object
           -method => String specifying specific distance method 
                      (implementing class may assume a default)

available_distance_methods

 Title   : available_distance_methods
 Usage   : my @methods = $stats->available_distance_methods();
 Function: Enumerates the possible distance methods
 Returns : Array of strings
 Args    : none

D - distance methods

D_JukesCantor

 Title   : D_JukesCantor
 Usage   : my $d = $stat->D_JukesCantor($aln)
 Function: Calculates D (pairwise distance) between 2 sequences in an 
           alignment using the Jukes-Cantor 1 parameter model. 
 Returns : ArrayRef of all pairwise distances of all sequence pairs in the alignment
 Args    : Bio::Align::AlignI of DNA sequences
           double - gap penalty

D_F81

 Title   : D_F81
 Usage   : my $d = $stat->D_F81($aln)
 Function: Calculates D (pairwise distance) between 2 sequences in an 
           alignment using the Felsenstein 1981 distance model. 
 Returns : ArrayRef of a 2d array of all pairwise distances in the alignment
 Args    : Bio::Align::AlignI of DNA sequences

D_Kimura

 Title   : D_Kimura
 Usage   : my $d = $stat->D_Kimura($aln)
 Function: Calculates D (pairwise distance) between 2 sequences in an 
           alignment using the Kimura 2 parameter model.
 Returns : ArrayRef of pairwise distances between all sequences in alignment
 Args    : Bio::Align::AlignI of DNA sequences

D_Tamura

 Title   : D_Tamura
 Usage   :
 Function:
 Returns : 
 Args    :

D_F84

 Title   : D_F84
 Usage   : my $d = $stat->D_F84($aln)
 Function: Calculates D (pairwise distance) between 2 sequences in an 
           alignment using the Felsenstein 1984 distance model. 
 Returns : Distance value
 Args    : Bio::Align::AlignI of DNA sequences
           double - gap penalty

D_TajimaNei

 Title   : D_TajimaNei
 Usage   : my $d = $stat->D_TajimaNei($aln)
 Function: Calculates D (pairwise distance) between 2 sequences in an 
           alignment using the TajimaNei 1984 distance model. 
 Returns : Distance value
 Args    : Bio::Align::AlignI of DNA sequences

K - sequence substitution methods

K_JukesCantor

 Title   : K_JukesCantor
 Usage   : my $k = $stats->K_JukesCantor($aln)
 Function: Calculates K - the number of nucleotide substitutions between 
           2 seqs - according to the Jukes-Cantor 1 parameter model
           This only involves the number of changes between two sequences.
 Returns : double
 Args    : Bio::Align::AlignI

K_TajimaNei

 Title   : K_TajimaNei
 Usage   : my $k = $stats->K_TajimaNei($aln)
 Function: Calculates K - the number of nucleotide substitutions between 
           2 seqs - according to the Kimura 2 parameter model.
           This does not assume equal frequencies among all the nucleotides.
 Returns : ArrayRef of 2d matrix which contains pairwise K values for 
           all sequences in the alignment
 Args    : Bio::Align::AlignI

transversions

 Title   : transversions
 Usage   : my $transversions = $stats->transversion($aln);
 Function: Calculates the number of transversions between two sequences in 
           an alignment
 Returns : integer
 Args    : Bio::Align::AlignI

transitions

 Title   : transitions
 Usage   : my $transitions = Bio::Align::DNAStatistics->transitions($aln);
 Function: Calculates the number of transitions in a given DNA alignment
 Returns : integer representing the number of transitions
 Args    : Bio::Align::AlignI object

Data Methods

pairwise_stats

 Title   : pairwise_stats
 Usage   : $obj->pairwise_stats($newval)
 Function: 
 Returns : value of pairwise_stats
 Args    : newvalue (optional)

calc_KaKs_pair

 Title    : calc_KaKs_pair
 Useage   : my $results = $stats->calc_KaKs_pair($alnobj,
            $name1, $name2).
 Function : calculates Nei-Gojobori statistics for pairwise 
            comparison.
 Args     : A Bio::Align::AlignI compliant object such as a 
            Bio::SimpleAlign object, and 2 sequence name strings.
 Returns  : a reference to a hash of statistics with keys as 
            listed in Description.

calc_all_KaKs_pairs

 Title    : calc_all_KaKs_pairs
 Useage   : my $results2 = $stats->calc_KaKs_pair($alnobj).
 Function : Calculates Nei_gojobori statistics for all pairwise
            combinations in sequence.
 Arguments: A Bio::Align::ALignI compliant object such as
            a Bio::SimpleAlign object.
 Returns  : A reference to an array of hashes of statistics of
            all pairwise comparisons in the alignment.

calc_average_KaKs

 Title    : calc_average_KaKs.  
 Useage   : my $res= $stats->calc_average_KaKs($alnobj, 1000).
 Function : calculates Nei_Gojobori stats for average of all 
            sequences in the alignment.
 Args     : A Bio::Align::AlignI compliant object such as a
            Bio::SimpleAlign object, number of bootstrap iterations
            (default 1000).
 Returns  : A reference to a hash of statistics as listed in Description.

get_syn_changes

 Title   : get_syn_changes
 Usage   : Bio::Align::DNAStatitics->get_syn_chnages
 Function: Generate a hashref of all pairwise combinations of codns
           differing by 1
 Returns : Symetic matrix using hashes
           First key is codon
           and each codon points to a hashref of codons
           the values of which describe type of change.
           my $type = $hash{$codon1}->{$codon2};
           values are :
             1   synonomous
             0   non-syn
            -1   either codon is a stop codon
 Args    : none

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