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# Copyright 2000-2002 by Andrew Dalke.
# Revisions copyright 2007-2010 by Peter Cock.
# All rights reserved.
#
# This file is part of the Biopython distribution and governed by your
# choice of the "Biopython License Agreement" or the "BSD 3-Clause License".
# Please see the LICENSE file that should have been included as part of this
# package.
"""Alphabets used in Seq objects etc to declare sequence type and letters (OBSOLETE).
This is used by sequences which contain a finite number of similar words.
The design of Bio.Aphabet included a number of historic design choices
which, with the benefit of hindsight, were regretable. While the details
remain to be agreed, we intend to remove or replace Bio.Alphabet in 2020.
Please avoid using this module explicitly in your code. See also:
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/2046
"""
import warnings
warnings.warn("We intend to remove or replace Bio.Alphabet in 2020, "
"ideally avoid using it explicitly in your code. Please "
"get in touch if you will be adversely affected by this. "
"https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/2046",
PendingDeprecationWarning)
class Alphabet(object):
"""Generic alphabet base class.
This class is used as a base class for other types of alphabets.
Attributes:
- letters - list-like object containing the letters of the alphabet.
Usually it is a string when letters are single characters.
- size - size of the alphabet's letters (e.g. 1 when letters are
single characters).
"""
size = None # default to no fixed size for words
letters = None # default to no fixed alphabet
# In general, a list-like object. However,
# assuming letters are single characters, use a
# string. This is expected for use with Seq like
# objects.
def __repr__(self):
"""Represent the alphabet class as a string for debugging."""
return self.__class__.__name__ + "()"
def contains(self, other):
"""Test if the other alphabet is contained in this one (OBSOLETE?).
Returns a boolean. This relies on the Alphabet subclassing
hierarchy only, and does not check the letters property.
This isn't ideal, and doesn't seem to work as intended
with the AlphabetEncoder classes.
"""
return isinstance(other, self.__class__)
def _case_less(self):
"""Return a case-less variant of the current alphabet (PRIVATE)."""
# TODO - remove this method by dealing with things in subclasses?
if isinstance(self, ProteinAlphabet):
return generic_protein
elif isinstance(self, DNAAlphabet):
return generic_dna
elif isinstance(self, RNAAlphabet):
return generic_rna
elif isinstance(self, NucleotideAlphabet):
return generic_nucleotide
elif isinstance(self, SingleLetterAlphabet):
return single_letter_alphabet
else:
return generic_alphabet
def _upper(self):
"""Return an upper case variant of the current alphabet (PRIVATE)."""
if not self.letters or self.letters == self.letters.upper():
# Easy case, no letters or already upper case!
return self
else:
# TODO - Raise NotImplementedError and handle via subclass?
return self._case_less()
def _lower(self):
"""Return a lower case variant of the current alphabet (PRIVATE)."""
if not self.letters or self.letters == self.letters.lower():
# Easy case, no letters or already lower case!
return self
else:
# TODO - Raise NotImplementedError and handle via subclass?
return self._case_less()
generic_alphabet = Alphabet()
class SingleLetterAlphabet(Alphabet):
"""Generic alphabet with letters of size one."""
size = 1
letters = None # string of all letters in the alphabet
single_letter_alphabet = SingleLetterAlphabet()
# ########## Protein
class ProteinAlphabet(SingleLetterAlphabet):
"""Generic single letter protein alphabet."""
pass
generic_protein = ProteinAlphabet()
# ########## DNA
class NucleotideAlphabet(SingleLetterAlphabet):
"""Generic single letter nucleotide alphabet."""
pass
generic_nucleotide = NucleotideAlphabet()
class DNAAlphabet(NucleotideAlphabet):
"""Generic single letter DNA alphabet."""
pass
generic_dna = DNAAlphabet()
# ########## RNA
class RNAAlphabet(NucleotideAlphabet):
"""Generic single letter RNA alphabet."""
pass
generic_rna = RNAAlphabet()
# ########## Other per-sequence encodings
class SecondaryStructure(SingleLetterAlphabet):
"""Alphabet used to describe secondary structure.
Letters are 'H' (helix), 'S' (strand), 'T' (turn) and 'C' (coil).
"""
letters = "HSTC"
class ThreeLetterProtein(Alphabet):
"""Three letter protein alphabet."""
size = 3
letters = [
"Ala", "Asx", "Cys", "Asp", "Glu", "Phe", "Gly", "His", "Ile",
"Lys", "Leu", "Met", "Asn", "Pro", "Gln", "Arg", "Ser", "Thr",
"Sec", "Val", "Trp", "Xaa", "Tyr", "Glx",
]
def _upper(self):
raise NotImplementedError("We don't have an uppercase three letter "
"protein alphabet.")
def _lower(self):
raise NotImplementedError("We don't have a lowercase three letter "
"protein alphabet.")
# ##### Non per-sequence modifications
# (These are Decorator classes)
class AlphabetEncoder(object):
"""A class to construct a new, extended alphabet from an existing one."""
def __init__(self, alphabet, new_letters):
"""Initialize the class."""
self.alphabet = alphabet
self.new_letters = new_letters
if alphabet.letters is not None:
self.letters = alphabet.letters + new_letters
else:
self.letters = None
def __getattr__(self, key):
"""Proxy method for accessing attributes of the wrapped alphabet."""
if key[:2] == "__" and key[-2:] == "__":
raise AttributeError(key)
return getattr(self.alphabet, key)
def __repr__(self):
"""Represent the alphabet encoder class as a string for debugging."""
return "%s(%r, %r)" % (self.__class__.__name__, self.alphabet,
self.new_letters)
def contains(self, other):
"""Test if the other alphabet is contained in this one (OBSOLETE?).
This is isn't implemented for the base AlphabetEncoder,
which will always return 0 (False).
"""
return 0
def _upper(self):
"""Return an upper case variant of the current alphabet (PRIVATE)."""
return AlphabetEncoder(self.alphabet._upper(),
self.new_letters.upper())
def _lower(self):
"""Return a lower case variant of the current alphabet (PRIVATE)."""
return AlphabetEncoder(self.alphabet._lower(),
self.new_letters.lower())
class Gapped(AlphabetEncoder):
"""Alphabets which contain a gap character."""
def __init__(self, alphabet, gap_char="-"):
"""Initialize the class."""
AlphabetEncoder.__init__(self, alphabet, gap_char)
self.gap_char = gap_char
def contains(self, other):
"""Test if the other alphabet is contained in this one (OBSOLETE?).
Returns a boolean. This relies on the Alphabet subclassing
hierarchy, and attempts to check the gap character. This fails
if the other alphabet does not have a gap character!
"""
return (other.gap_char == self.gap_char and
self.alphabet.contains(other.alphabet))
def _upper(self):
"""Return an upper case variant of the current alphabet (PRIVATE)."""
return Gapped(self.alphabet._upper(), self.gap_char.upper())
def _lower(self):
"""Return a lower case variant of the current alphabet (PRIVATE)."""
return Gapped(self.alphabet._lower(), self.gap_char.lower())
class HasStopCodon(AlphabetEncoder):
"""Alphabets which contain a stop symbol."""
def __init__(self, alphabet, stop_symbol="*"):
"""Initialize the class."""
AlphabetEncoder.__init__(self, alphabet, stop_symbol)
self.stop_symbol = stop_symbol
def contains(self, other):
"""Test if the other alphabet is contained in this one (OBSOLETE?).
Returns a boolean. This relies on the Alphabet subclassing
hierarchy, and attempts to check the stop symbol. This fails
if the other alphabet does not have a stop symbol!
"""
return (other.stop_symbol == self.stop_symbol and
self.alphabet.contains(other.alphabet))
def _upper(self):
"""Return an upper case variant of the current alphabet (PRIVATE)."""
return HasStopCodon(self.alphabet._upper(), self.stop_symbol.upper())
def _lower(self):
"""Return a lower case variant of the current alphabet (PRIVATE)."""
return HasStopCodon(self.alphabet._lower(), self.stop_symbol.lower())
def _get_base_alphabet(alphabet):
"""Return the non-gapped non-stop-codon Alphabet object (PRIVATE)."""
a = alphabet
while isinstance(a, AlphabetEncoder):
a = a.alphabet
if not isinstance(a, Alphabet):
raise TypeError("Invalid alphabet found, %s." % repr(a))
return a
def _ungap(alphabet):
"""Return the alphabet without any gap encoder (PRIVATE)."""
# TODO - Handle via method of the objects?
if not hasattr(alphabet, "gap_char"):
return alphabet
elif isinstance(alphabet, Gapped):
return alphabet.alphabet
elif isinstance(alphabet, HasStopCodon):
return HasStopCodon(_ungap(alphabet.alphabet),
stop_symbol=alphabet.stop_symbol)
elif isinstance(alphabet, AlphabetEncoder):
return AlphabetEncoder(_ungap(alphabet.alphabet),
letters=alphabet.letters)
else:
raise NotImplementedError
def _consensus_base_alphabet(alphabets):
"""Return a common but often generic base alphabet object (PRIVATE).
This throws away any AlphabetEncoder information, e.g. Gapped alphabets.
Note that DNA+RNA -> Nucleotide, and Nucleotide+Protein-> generic single
letter. These DO NOT raise an exception!
"""
common = None
for alpha in alphabets:
a = _get_base_alphabet(alpha)
if common is None:
common = a
elif common == a:
pass
elif isinstance(a, common.__class__):
pass
elif isinstance(common, a.__class__):
common = a
elif (isinstance(a, NucleotideAlphabet) and
isinstance(common, NucleotideAlphabet)):
# e.g. Give a mix of RNA and DNA alphabets
common = generic_nucleotide
elif (isinstance(a, SingleLetterAlphabet) and
isinstance(common, SingleLetterAlphabet)):
# This is a pretty big mis-match!
common = single_letter_alphabet
else:
# We have a major mis-match... take the easy way out!
return generic_alphabet
if common is None:
# Given NO alphabets!
return generic_alphabet
return common
def _consensus_alphabet(alphabets):
"""Return a common but often generic alphabet object (PRIVATE).
>>> from Bio.Alphabet import IUPAC
>>> _consensus_alphabet([IUPAC.extended_protein, IUPAC.protein])
ExtendedIUPACProtein()
>>> _consensus_alphabet([generic_protein, IUPAC.protein])
ProteinAlphabet()
Note that DNA+RNA -> Nucleotide, and Nucleotide+Protein-> generic single
letter. These DO NOT raise an exception!
>>> _consensus_alphabet([generic_dna, generic_nucleotide])
NucleotideAlphabet()
>>> _consensus_alphabet([generic_dna, generic_rna])
NucleotideAlphabet()
>>> _consensus_alphabet([generic_dna, generic_protein])
SingleLetterAlphabet()
>>> _consensus_alphabet([single_letter_alphabet, generic_protein])
SingleLetterAlphabet()
This is aware of Gapped and HasStopCodon and new letters added by
other AlphabetEncoders. This WILL raise an exception if more than
one gap character or stop symbol is present.
>>> from Bio.Alphabet import IUPAC
>>> _consensus_alphabet([Gapped(IUPAC.extended_protein),
... HasStopCodon(IUPAC.protein)])
HasStopCodon(Gapped(ExtendedIUPACProtein(), '-'), '*')
>>> _consensus_alphabet([Gapped(IUPAC.protein, "-"),
... Gapped(IUPAC.protein, "=")])
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: More than one gap character present
>>> _consensus_alphabet([HasStopCodon(IUPAC.protein, "*"),
... HasStopCodon(IUPAC.protein, "+")])
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: More than one stop symbol present
"""
base = _consensus_base_alphabet(alphabets)
gap = None
stop = None
new_letters = ""
for alpha in alphabets:
# Gaps...
if not hasattr(alpha, "gap_char"):
pass
elif gap is None:
gap = alpha.gap_char
elif gap == alpha.gap_char:
pass
else:
raise ValueError("More than one gap character present")
# Stops...
if not hasattr(alpha, "stop_symbol"):
pass
elif stop is None:
stop = alpha.stop_symbol
elif stop == alpha.stop_symbol:
pass
else:
raise ValueError("More than one stop symbol present")
# New letters...
if hasattr(alpha, "new_letters"):
for letter in alpha.new_letters:
if letter not in new_letters and letter != gap \
and letter != stop:
new_letters += letter
alpha = base
if new_letters:
alpha = AlphabetEncoder(alpha, new_letters)
if gap:
alpha = Gapped(alpha, gap_char=gap)
if stop:
alpha = HasStopCodon(alpha, stop_symbol=stop)
return alpha
def _check_type_compatible(alphabets):
"""Return True except for DNA+RNA or Nucleotide+Protein (PRIVATE).
>>> _check_type_compatible([generic_dna, generic_nucleotide])
True
>>> _check_type_compatible([generic_dna, generic_rna])
False
>>> _check_type_compatible([generic_dna, generic_protein])
False
>>> _check_type_compatible([single_letter_alphabet, generic_protein])
True
This relies on the Alphabet subclassing hierarchy. It does not
check things like gap characters or stop symbols.
"""
dna, rna, nucl, protein = False, False, False, False
for alpha in alphabets:
a = _get_base_alphabet(alpha)
if isinstance(a, DNAAlphabet):
dna = True
nucl = True
if rna or protein:
return False
elif isinstance(a, RNAAlphabet):
rna = True
nucl = True
if dna or protein:
return False
elif isinstance(a, NucleotideAlphabet):
nucl = True
if protein:
return False
elif isinstance(a, ProteinAlphabet):
protein = True
if nucl:
return False
return True
def _verify_alphabet(sequence):
"""Check all letters in sequence are in the alphabet (PRIVATE).
>>> from Bio.Seq import Seq
>>> from Bio.Alphabet import IUPAC
>>> my_seq = Seq("MKQHKAMIVALIVICITAVVAALVTRKDLCEVHIRTGQTEVAVF",
... IUPAC.protein)
>>> _verify_alphabet(my_seq)
True
This example has an X, which is not in the IUPAC protein alphabet
(you should be using the IUPAC extended protein alphabet):
>>> bad_seq = Seq("MKQHKAMIVALIVICITAVVAALVTRKDLCEVHIRTGQTEVAVFX",
... IUPAC.protein)
>>> _verify_alphabet(bad_seq)
False
This replaces Bio.utils.verify_alphabet() since we are deprecating
that. Potentially this could be added to the Alphabet object, and
I would like it to be an option when creating a Seq object... but
that might slow things down.
"""
letters = sequence.alphabet.letters
if not letters:
raise ValueError("Alphabet does not define letters.")
for letter in sequence:
if letter not in letters:
return False
return True