--- title: "Week 3 - BLAST Report - now Knitted!" author: "Liz Boggs" date: "`r format(Sys.Date(), '%B %d, %Y')`" output: html_document: theme: readable toc: true toc_float: true number_sections: true code_folding: show --- # Week 3 - Knitting BLAST Report ## This report uses NCBI BLAST and UniProt protein sequences to identify genes in a given set of unknown sequences. ### 1. Download BLAST from NCBI using `curl` *NOTE: make sure to pick the correct operating system version from the executables page from the URL!* ```{bash} cd /home/shared/8TB_HDD_02/lizboggs/applications # absolute path - user needs to change to where they want it! curl -O https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/LATEST/ncbi-blast-2.16.0+-x64-linux.tar.gz tar -xf ncbi-blast-2.16.0+-x64-linux.tar.gz # retrieves the files in a gzip ``` *An additional note here - I prefer not to use absolute paths, obviously, for the sake of the exercise and making sure things are where they should be I kept this one absolute* ### 2. Double checking that the download worked by using the `-h` command (help): ```{bash} ~/applications/ncbi-blast-2.16.0+/bin/blastx -h # pulls up blastx usage options ``` ### 3. Downloading a file of known sequences from UniProt/SwissProt ```{bash} cd /home/shared/8TB_HDD_02/lizboggs/blastdb # this is where the database files will live curl -O https://ftp.uniprot.org/pub/databases/uniprot/current_release/knowledgebase/complete/uniprot_sprot.fasta.gz # pulling fasta from webpage mv uniprot_sprot.fasta.gz uniprot_sprot_r2025_01.fasta.gz # rename the file gunzip -k uniprot_sprot_r2025_01.fasta.gz # unzip the sequence folder ls # list out the files to make sure they're there ``` ### 4. Making our BLAST database ```{bash} /home/shared/8TB_HDD_02/lizboggs/applications/ncbi-blast-2.16.0+/bin/makeblastdb \ -in ~/blastdb/uniprot_sprot_r2025_01.fasta \ -dbtype prot \ -out ~/blastdb/uniprot_sprot_r2025_01 ``` ### 5. Getting the query sequence (our unknown) ```{bash} curl https://eagle.fish.washington.edu/cnidarian/Ab_4denovo_CLC6_a.fa \ -k \ > ~/blastdb/Ab_4denovo_CLC6_a.fa head ~/blastdb/Ab_4denovo_CLC6_a.fa echo "How many sequences are there?" # output for next line grep -c ">" ~/blastdb/Ab_4denovo_CLC6_a.fa # count of sequences ``` ### 6. Running the BLAST program to find matches for our sequence ```{bash} ~/applications/ncbi-blast-2.16.0+/bin/blastx \ -query ~/blastdb/Ab_4denovo_CLC6_a.fa \ -db ~/blastdb/uniprot_sprot_r2025_01 \ -out ~/output/Ab_4-uniprot_blastx.tab \ -evalue 1E-20 \ -num_threads 16 \ -max_target_seqs 1 \ -outfmt 6 head -2 ~/output/Ab_4-uniprot_blastx.tab # showing the top 2 results wc -l ~/output/Ab_4-uniprot_blastx.tab # counting the output ``` ### 7. Retrieving the annotation table for the BLAST output #### These next `curl` commands will grab annotation information from UniProt. ```{bash} curl -O -H "Accept: text/plain; format=tsv" "https://rest.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/search?query=reviewed:true+AND+organism_id:9606" ``` ```{bash} curl -O -H "Accept: text/plain; format=tsv" "https://rest.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/stream?compressed=true&fields=accession%2Creviewed%2Cid%2Cprotein_name%2Cgene_names%2Corganism_name%2Clength&format=tsv&query=%28*%29+AND+%28reviewed%3Atrue%29" ``` ### 8. Joining BLAST with annotations #### Now we need to join the tables we've made in order to understand the unknown sequences' function(s). #### Let's check the outputted file first: ```{bash} head -2 ~/output/Ab_4-uniprot_blastx.tab wc -l ~/output/Ab_4-uniprot_blastx.tab ``` #### Pull out the accession number: ```{bash} head -2 ~/output/Ab_4-uniprot_blastx.tab | tr '|' '\t' ``` #### Save it so we can use it. ```{bash} tr '|' '\t' < ~/output/Ab_4-uniprot_blastx.tab \ > ~/output/Ab_4-uniprot_blastx_sep.tab ``` ### Time to join the tables! #### `kable` will help us produce a prettier output ```{r} library(tidyverse) library(kableExtra) bltabl <- read.csv("\~/output/Ab_4-uniprot_blastx_sep.tab", sep = '\t', header = FALSE) spgo <- read.csv("\~/blastdb/uniprot_sprot_r2025_01.tab", sep = '\t', header = TRUE) kbl( head( left_join(bltabl, spgo, by = c("V3" = "Entry")) %\>% select(V1, V3, V13, Protein.names, Organism, Gene.Ontology..biological.process., Gene.Ontology.IDs) %\>% mutate(V1 = str_replace_all(V1, pattern = "solid0078_20110412_FRAG_BC_WHITE_WHITE_F3_QV_SE_trimmed", replacement = "Ab")) ) ) %\>% kable_styling(bootstrap_options = c("striped", "hover", "condensed", "responsive")) left_join(bltabl, spgo, by = c("V3" = "Entry")) %\>% select(V1, V3, V13, Protein.names, Organism, Gene.Ontology..biological.process., Gene.Ontology.IDs) %\>% mutate(V1 = str_replace_all(V1, pattern = "solid0078_20110412_FRAG_BC_WHITE_WHITE_F3_QV_SE_trimmed", replacement = "Ab")) %\>% write_delim("\~/output/blast_annot_go.tab", delim = '\t') ```