#!/opt/chipster/tools/Python-2.7.12/bin/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] < gene_table.txt 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 """ from __future__ import print_function import optparse import string import sys def main(): # Parse command line parser = optparse.OptionParser( usage="%prog [options] < gene_table.txt" ) 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( "-b", "--nobin", action="store_false", dest="discard_first_column", default=True, help="file doesn't contain a 'bin' column (use this for pre-hg18 files)" ) options, args = parser.parse_args() assert options.region in ( 'coding', 'utr3', 'utr5', 'transcribed' ), "Invalid region argument" # Read table from stdin and handle each gene for line in sys.stdin: # Parse fields from gene tabls fields = line.split( '\t' ) if (options.discard_first_column): fields.pop(0) chrom = fields[1] strand = fields[2] 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 = [int(_) for _ in fields[8].rstrip( ',\n' ).split( ',' )] exon_ends = [int(_) for _ in 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( chrom, start, end, strand ) else: print_tab_sep( chrom, start, end ) else: if strand: print_tab_sep( chrom, region_start, region_end, strand ) else: print_tab_sep( chrom, region_start, region_end ) def print_tab_sep( *args ): """Print items in `l` to stdout separated by tabs""" print(string.join( ( str( f ) for f in args ), '\t' )) if __name__ == "__main__": main()