plant2human workflow

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plant2human workflow

This analysis workflow is centered on foldseek, which enables fast structural similarity searches, and supports the discovery of understudied genes by comparing plants, which are distantly related species, with human, for which there is a wealth of information. Based on the list of genes you are interested in, you can easily create a scatter plot of “structural similarity vs. sequence similarity” by retrieving structural data from the AlphaFold protein structure database.

Analysis environment

You can create an analysis environment using the Dev Containers, which is one of VScode extensions. Please check the official website for details.

• VScode Dev Containers

Example 1 ( Oryza sativa vs Homo sapiens)

Here, we will explain how to use the list of rice genes as an example.

1. Creation of a TSV file of gene and UniProt ID correspondences

First, you will need the following gene list tsv file. (Please set the column name as "From")

From
Os01g0187600
Os12g0129300
Os12g0159500
Os02g0609000
Os05g0468600
Os05g0352750
Os06g0140700
Os04g0391500
Os01g0795250
Os01g0859200

The following TSV file is required to execute the following workflow.

From	UniProt Accession
Os01g0187600	A0A0P0UZ77
Os12g0129300	A0A0P0Y6G7
Os12g0129300	B9GBP4
Os12g0159500	A0A0P0Y794
Os12g0159500	A0A8J8YJ44
Os12g0159500	B9GBZ8
...

To do this, you need to follow the CWL workflow command below. This yaml file is the parameter file for the workflow for example.

cwltool --debug --outdir ./test/oryza_sativa_test ./Tools/01_uniprot_idmapping.cwl ./job/uniprot_idmapping_job_example_os.yml

In this execution, mmcif files are also retrieved. The actual execution results are output together with the jupyter notebook.

2. Creating and preparing indexes

I'm sorry, but the main workflow does not currently include the creation of an index (both for foldseek index and BLAST index). Please perform the following processes in advance.

2-1. Creating a foldseek index

In this workflow, the target of the structural similarity search is specified as the AlphaFold database in order to perform comparisons across a wider range of species. Index creation using the foldseek databases command is possible with CWL Command Line Tool file.

Please select the database you want to use from Alphafold/UniProt, Alphafold/UniProt50-minimal, Alphafold/UniProt50, Alphafold/Proteome, Alphafold/Swiss-Prot. You can check the details of this database using the following command.

docker run --rm quay.io/biocontainers/foldseek:9.427df8a--pl5321hb365157_1 foldseek databases --help

For example, if you want to specify AlphaFold/Swiss-Prot as the index, you can do so with the following command,

# using docker container
docker run -u $(id -u):$(id -g) --rm -v $(pwd):/home -e HOME=/home --workdir /home quay.io/biocontainers/foldseek:9.427df8a--pl5321hb365157_1 foldseek databases Alphafold/Swiss-Prot swissprot tmp --threads 8

# making directory
mkdir ./index/index_swissprot

# moving index file
mv swissprot* ./index/index_swissprot/

Note: We have written a CWL file describing above process, but we have confirmed that an error occurs and are in the process of correcting it.

2-2. Downloading a BLAST index file

An index FASTA file must be downloaded to obtain the amino acid sequence using the blastdbcmd command from the UniProt database. In this case, since it is a rice and human comparison, it can be downloaded as follows.

# Oryza sativa (all uniprot entries)
curl -o uniprotkb_39947_all.fasta.gz "https://rest.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/stream?compressed=true&format=fasta&query=%28organism_id%3A39947%29"

gzip -d uniprotkb_39947_all.fasta.gz

# Homo sapiens (all uniprot entries)
curl -o uniprotkb_9606_all.fasta.gz "https://rest.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/stream?compressed=true&format=fasta&query=%28organism_id%3A9606%29"

gzip -d uniprotkb_9606_all.fasta.gz

3. Execution of the main workflow

In this process, we perform a structural similarity search using foldseek easy-search, and then perform a pairwise alignment of the amino acid sequences of the hit pairs using needle and water. Finally, we create a scatter plot based on this information and output a jupyter notebookas a report. Examples of commands are as follows.

cwltool --debug --outdir ./test/oryza_sativa_test ./Workflow/plant2human.cwl ./job/plant2human_job_example_os.yml

For example, you can visualize the results of structural similarity and global alignment, as shown below.

https://github.com/yonesora56/plant2human/blob/main/image/rice_test_scatter_plot.png

The following scatter diagram can also be obtained from the test results of Zey mays random 100 genes.

https://github.com/yonesora56/plant2human/blob/main/image/zey_mays_scatter_plot.png