# partial_gene_match.py # # Example showing how to use the CloseMatch class, to find strings in a gene with up to 'n' mismatches # import pyparsing as pp from urllib.request import urlopen # read in a bunch of genomic data data_url = "http://toxodb.org/common/downloads/release-6.0/Tgondii/TgondiiApicoplastORFsNAs_ToxoDB-6.0.fasta" with urlopen(data_url) as datafile: fastasrc = datafile.read().decode() # define parser to extract gene definitions """ Sample header: >NC_001799-6-2978-2778 | organism=Toxoplasma_gondii_RH | location=NC_001799:2778-2978(-) | length=201 """ integer = pp.pyparsing_common.integer genebit = pp.Group( ">" + pp.Word(pp.alphanums.upper() + "-_")("gene_id") + "|" + pp.Word(pp.printables)("organism") + "|" + pp.Word(pp.printables)("location") + "|" + "length=" + integer("gene_len") + pp.LineEnd() + pp.Word("ACGTN")[1, ...].addParseAction("".join)("gene") ) # read gene data from .fasta file - takes just a few seconds # An important aspect of this parsing process is the reassembly of all the separate lines of the # gene into a single scannable string. Just searching the raw .fasta file could overlook matches # if the match is broken up across separate lines. The parse action in the genebit parser does # this reassembly work. genedata = genebit[1, ...].parseString(fastasrc) # using the genedata extracted above, look for close matches of a gene sequence searchseq = pp.CloseMatch("TTAAATCTAGAAGAT", 3) for g in genedata: show_header = True # scan for close matches, list out found strings, and mark mismatch locations for t, startLoc, endLoc in searchseq.scanString(g.gene, overlap=True): if show_header: # only need to show the header once print("%s/%s/%s (%d)" % (g.gene_id, g.organism, g.location, g.gene_len)) print("-" * 24) show_header = False matched = t[0] mismatches = t["mismatches"] print("MATCH:", searchseq.match_string) print("FOUND:", matched) if mismatches: print( " ", "".join( "*" if i in mismatches else " " for i, c in enumerate(searchseq.match_string) ), ) else: print("") print("at location", startLoc) print()