BioJava:CookBookItaliano:Sequence:Regex
Come posso trasformare un motivo di interesse biologico in una espressione regolare?
Fra le più interessanti funzioni di BioJava ci sono quelle che si possono eseguire con MotifTools, come ad esempio trasformare una String (motivo) in un Pattern come espressione regolare. E’ possibile ricercare poi questo Pattern all’interno di una SymbolList. Il Pattern generato può provenire a partire da una sequenza ambigua come ad esempio “acgytnwacrs”. Per poter compiere questa operazione, in BioJava è presente un wrapper verso le funzionalità relative alle espressioni regolari built-in di Java.
Un semplice programma d’esempio è mostrato di seguito:
```java // Biojava imports import org.biojava.*;
public class AmbiguitySearch {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
//Inizializziamo le variabili
Matcher occurences;
FiniteAlphabet IUPAC = DNATools.getDNA();
SymbolList WorkingSequence = DNATools.createDNA("tagagatagacgatagc");
// Creo un pattern utilizzando un pattern factory.
Pattern pattern;
PatternFactory FACTORY = PatternFactory.makeFactory(IUPAC);
try{
pattern = FACTORY.compile("wtagn");
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return;
}
System.out.println("Effettuo la ricerca per: "+pattern.patternAsString());
// Ottengo un iteratore per i match ottenuti
try {
occurences = pattern.matcher( WorkingSequence );
} catch(Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return;
}
// Per ognuno di questi stampo il valore
while( occurences.find() ) {
System.out.println("Match: " +"\t"+ WorkingSequence.seqString()
+"\n"+ occurences.start() +"\t"+ occurences.group().seqString());
}
}
catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
System.exit(1);
}
}
} ```
Alternativamente, il seguente esempio proposto da Andy Hammer dimostra come le funzionalità delle java regular expression possono essere utilizzate direttamente per ricercare un oggetto Stringa per il pattern matching.
```java /**
* MotifLister.java
* Modified slightly from the original by Andy Hammer
*
* Lists all instances of a motif in specified (dna\rna\protein) fasta file.
* The motif can contain Ambiguity symbols
* Lists the ORF title and position of motif
* Outputs a list of counts to stdout.
*/
import java.io.*; import java.util.*; import org.biojava.*;
public class MotifLister{
private SymbolList motif;
private int frame;
private int count;
private SequenceIterator si;
public MotifLister(String type, String inputFile,
String target, String placement)throws Exception{
System.out.println("MotifLister is searching file " + inputFile +
" for the motif '" + target +
"' in frame " + placement + ".");
try{
if(type.equalsIgnoreCase("dna")){
motif = DNATools.createDNA(target);
}else if(type.equalsIgnoreCase("rna")){
motif = RNATools.createRNA(target);
}else{
motif = ProteinTools.createProtein(target);
}
}
catch(BioError e){
System.out.println("Error!! Data type must match type of motif.");
System.out.println("Specifically, " + target + " is not " + type);
System.exit(0);
}
frame = Integer.parseInt(placement);
if (frame < 0 || frame > 3) {
System.out.println("Only frames 0 through 3 are allowed");
System.out.println("frame zero searches all frames.");
System.exit(0);
}
//make a regex expression for the SymbolList using MotifTools
Pattern p = Pattern.compile( MotifTools.createRegex(motif) );
count = 0;
//leggo gli input
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(inputFile);
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(fis);
BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(isr);
try{
si = (SequenceIterator)SeqIOTools.fileToBiojava("fasta", type, input);
//for each sequence
while (si.hasNext()){
Sequence seq = si.nextSequence();
//get the regex matcher for the pattern
Matcher matcher = p.matcher(seq.seqString());
int start = 0;
//find the next match from start
while(matcher.find(start)) {
start = matcher.start();
int end = matcher.end();
int result = (start % 3) + 1;
if(result == frame || frame == 0){
//print the match location
System.out.println(seq.getName() + " : " +
"[" + (start + 1) + "," + (end) + "]");
count++;
}
start++;
}
}
input.close(); //close the file
System.out.println("Total Hits = " + count);
}
catch(BioException e){
System.out.println(inputFile + " is not a " + type + " file.");
System.out.println(e);
}
}
public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception{
if (args.length < 4) {
System.err.println(" Usage: >java -jar MotifLister.jar type fastaFile motif frame" +
"\n Ex: >java -jar MotifLister.jar dna eColi.fasta AAAAAAG 3 > output.txt" +
"\n would search for A AAA AAG in the third frame in dna file eColi.fasta" +
"\n and print the results to file output.txt." +
"\n 'type' can be dna, rna, or protein." +
"\n 'frame' can be integers 0 through 3." +
"\n 0 counts any instance of the motif." +
"\n 1, 2, 3 counts only instances of the motif in the specified frame." +
"\n Capture output with redirection operator '>'.");
}else{
MotifLister ML = new MotifLister(args[0], args[1], args[2], args[3]);
}
}
} ```