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Geneview

Genomics data visualization in Python by using matplotlib.

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geneview: A python package for visualizing genomics data

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geneview is a library for making attractive and informative genomics graphics in Python. It is built on top of matplotlib and tightly integrated with the PyData stack, including support for numpy and pandas data structures. And now it is actively developed.

Some of the features that geneview offers are:

  • High-level abstractions for structuring grids of plots that let you easily build complex visualizations.
  • Functions for visualizing general genomics plots.

Installation

To install the released version, just do

pip install geneview

This command will install geneview and all the dependencies.

Quick start

Manhattan and Q-Q plot

We use a PLINK2.x association output data gwas.csv which is in geneview-data directory, as the input for the plots below. Here is the format preview of gwas:

|#CHROM|POS|ID|REF|ALT|A1|TEST|OBS_CT|BETA|SE|T_STAT|P| |:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:|:-----:| |chr1|904165|1_904165|G|A|A|ADD|282|-0.0908897|0.195476|-0.464967|0.642344| |chr1|1563691|1_1563691|T|G|G|ADD|271|0.447021|0.422194|1.0588|0.290715| |chr1|1707740|1_1707740|T|G|G|ADD|283|0.149911|0.161387|0.928888|0.353805| |chr1|2284195|1_2284195|T|C|C|ADD|275|-0.024704|0.13966|-0.176887|0.859739| |chr1|2779043|1_2779043|T|C|T|ADD|272|-0.111771|0.139929|-0.79877|0.425182| |chr1|2944527|1_2944527|G|A|A|ADD|276|-0.054472|0.166038|-0.32807|0.743129| |chr1|3803755|1_3803755|T|C|T|ADD|283|-0.0392713|0.128528|-0.305547|0.760193| |chr1|4121584|1_4121584|A|G|G|ADD|279|0.120902|0.127063|0.951511|0.342239| |chr1|4170048|1_4170048|C|T|T|ADD|280|0.250807|0.143423|1.74873|0.0815274| |chr1|4180842|1_4180842|C|T|T|ADD|277|0.209195|0.146122|1.43165|0.153469| |chr1|6053630|1_6053630|T|G|G|ADD|269|-0.210917|0.129069|-1.63414|0.103503| |chr1|7569602|1_7569602|C|T|C|ADD|281|-0.136834|0.13265|-1.03154|0.303249| |chr1|7575666|1_7575666|T|C|C|ADD|277|-0.231278|0.159448|-1.45049|0.14815|

Manhattan plot with default parameters

The manhattanplot() function in geneview takes a data frame with columns containing the chromosomal name/id, chromosomal position, P-value and optionally the name of SNP(e.g. rsID in dbSNP).

By default, manhattanplot() looks for column names corresponding to those outout by the plink2 association results, namely, #CHROM, POS, P, and ID, although different column names can be specificed by user. Calling manhattanplot() function with a data frame of GWAS results as the single argument draws a basic manhattan plot, defaulting to a darkblue and lightblue color scheme.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import geneview as gv

# load data
df = gv.load_dataset("gwas")
# Plot a basic manhattan plot with horizontal xtick labels and the figure will display in screen.
ax = gv.manhattanplot(data=df)
plt.show()

manhattan_plot.png

Rotate the x-axis tick label by setting xticklabel_kws to avoid label overlap:

ax = manhattanplot(data=df, xticklabel_kws={"rotation": "vertical"})

manhattan_plot.png

Or rotate the labels 45 degrees by setting xticklabel_kws={"rotation": 45}.

When run with default parameters, the manhattanplot() function draws horizontal lines drawn at $-log_{10}{(1e-5)}$ for "suggestive" associations and $-log_{10}{(5e-8)}$ for the "genome-wide significant" threshold. These can be move to different locations or turned off completely with the arguments suggestiveline and genomewideline, respectively.

ax = manhattanplot(data=df,
                   suggestiveline=None,  # Turn off suggestiveline
                   genomewideline=None,  # Turn off genomewideline
                   xticklabel_kws={"rotation": "vertical"})

manhattan_plot_xviertical_noline.png

The behavior of the manhattanplot function changes slightly when results from only a single chromosome is used. Here, instead of plotting alternating colors and chromosome ID on the x-axis, the SNP's position on the chromosome is plotted on the x-axis:

# plot only results of chromosome 8.
manhattanplot(data=df, CHR="chr8", xlabel="Chromosome 8")

manhattan_plot_xviertical_noline.png

manhattanplot() funcion has the ability to highlight SNPs with significant GWAS signal and annotate the Top SNP, which has the lowest P-value:

ax = manhattanplot(data=df,
                   sign_marker_p=1e-6,  # highline the significant SNP with ``sign_marker_color`` color.
                   is_annotate_topsnp=True,  # annotate the top SNP
                   xticklabel_kws={"rotation": "vertical"})

manhattan_anno_plot.png

Additionally, highlighting SNPs of interest can be combined with limiting to a single chromosome to enable "zooming" into a particular region containing SNPs of interest.

manhattan_anno_plot.png

Show a better manhattan plot

Futher graphical parameters can be passed to the manhattanplot() function to control thing like plot title, point character, size, colors, etc. Here is the example:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import geneview as gv

# common parameters for plotting
plt_params = {
    "pdf.fonttype": 42,
    "font.sans-serif": "Arial",
    "legend.fontsize": 14,
    "axes.titlesize": 18,
    "axes.labelsize": 16,
    "xtick.labelsize": 14,
    "ytick.labelsize": 14
}
plt.rcParams.update(plt_params)

# Create a manhattan plot
f, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(12, 4), facecolor="w", edgecolor="k")
xtick = set(["chr" + i for i in list(map(str, range(1, 10))) + ["11", "13", "15", "18", "21", "X"]])
_ = gv.manhattanplot(data=df,
                     marker=".",
                     sign_marker_p=1e-6,  # Genome wide significant p-value
                     sign_marker_color="r",
                     snp="ID",  # The column name of annotation information for top SNPs.

                     title="Test",
                     xtick_label_set=xtick,
                  
                     xlabel="Chromosome",
                     ylabel=r"$-log_{10}{(P)}$",

                     sign_line_cols=["#D62728", "#2CA02C"],
                     hline_kws={"linestyle": "--", "lw": 1.3},

                     is_annotate_topsnp=True,
                     ld_block_size=50000,  # 50000 bp
                     text_kws={"fontsize": 12,
                               "arrowprops": dict(arrowstyle="-", color="k", alpha=0.6)},
                     ax=ax)

manhattan.png

QQ plot with default parameters

The qqplot() function can be used to generate a Q-Q plot to visualize the distribution of association "P-value". The qqplot() function takes a vector of P-values as its the only required argument.


import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import geneview as gv

# load data
df = gv.load_dataset("gwas")
# Plot a basic manhattan plot with horizontal xtick labels and the figure will display in screen.
ax = gv.qqplot(data=df["P"])
plt.show()

qq.png

Show a better QQ plot

Futher graphical parameters can be passed to qqplot() to control the plot title, axis labels, point characters, colors, points sizes, etc. Here is the example:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import geneview as gv

f, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(6, 6), facecolor="w", edgecolor="k")
_ = gv.qqplot(data=df["P"],
              marker="o",
              title="Test",
              xlabel=r"Expected $-log_{10}{(P)}$",
              ylabel=r"Observed $-log_{10}{(P)}$",
              ax=ax)

Admixture plot

Generate Admixture plot from the raw admixture output result:

simple example for admixtureplot

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from geneview import load_dataset
from geneview import admixtureplot

f, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1, figsize=(14, 2), facecolor="w", constrained_layout=True, dpi=300)
admixtureplot(data=load_dataset("admixture_output.Q"), 
              population_info=load_dataset("admixture_population.info"),
              ylabel_kws={"rotation": 45, "ha": "right"},
              ax=ax)

admixtureplot

or

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import geneview as gv

admixture_output_fn = gv.load_dataset("admixture_output.Q")
population_group_fn = gv.load_dataset("admixture_population.info")

# define the order for population to plot
pop_group_1kg = ["KHV", "CDX", "CHS", "CHB", "JPT", "BEB", "STU", "ITU", "GIH", "PJL", "FIN", 
                 "CEU", "GBR", "IBS", "TSI", "PEL", "PUR", "MXL", "CLM", "ASW", "ACB", "GWD", 
                 "MSL", "YRI", "ESN", "LWK"]

f, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1, figsize=(14, 2), facecolor="w", constrained_layout=True, dpi=300)
gv.popgen.admixtureplot(data=admixture_output_fn, 
                        population_info=population_group_fn,
                        edgewidth=2.0,
                        group_order=pop_group_1kg,
                        shuffle_popsample_kws={"frac": 0.5},
                        ylabel_kws
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