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author peterjc
date Fri, 16 Apr 2021 22:26:52 +0000
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#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Back-translate a protein alignment to nucleotides.

This tool is a short Python script (using Biopython library functions) to
load a protein alignment, and matching nucleotide FASTA file of unaligned
sequences, in order to produce a codon aware nucleotide alignment - which
can be viewed as a back translation.

The development repository for this tool is here:

* https://github.com/peterjc/pico_galaxy/tree/master/tools/align_back_trans

This tool is available with a Galaxy wrapper from the Galaxy Tool Shed at:

* http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/peterjc/align_back_trans

See accompanying text file for licence details (MIT licence).
"""

from __future__ import print_function

import sys

from Bio import AlignIO
from Bio import SeqIO

from Bio.Align import MultipleSeqAlignment
from Bio.Alphabet import generic_protein
from Bio.Data.CodonTable import ambiguous_generic_by_id
from Bio.Seq import Seq

if "-v" in sys.argv or "--version" in sys.argv:
    print("v0.0.9")
    sys.exit(0)


def check_trans(identifier, nuc, prot, table):
    """Return nucleotide sequence, if works (can remove trailing stop)."""
    if len(nuc) % 3:
        sys.exit(
            "Nucleotide sequence for %s is length %i (not a multiple of three)"
            % (identifier, len(nuc))
        )

    p = str(prot).upper().replace("*", "X")
    t = str(nuc.translate(table)).upper().replace("*", "X")
    if len(t) == len(p) + 1:
        if str(nuc)[-3:].upper() in ambiguous_generic_by_id[table].stop_codons:
            # Allow this...
            t = t[:-1]
            nuc = nuc[:-3]  # edit return value
    if len(t) != len(p):
        err = (
            "Inconsistent lengths for %s, ungapped protein %i, "
            "tripled %i vs ungapped nucleotide %i."
            % (identifier, len(p), len(p) * 3, len(nuc))
        )
        if t.endswith(p):
            err += "\nThere are %i extra nucleotides at the start." % (len(t) - len(p))
        elif t.startswith(p):
            err += "\nThere are %i extra nucleotides at the end." % (len(t) - len(p))
        elif p in t:
            # TODO - Calculate and report the number to trim at start and end?
            err += "\nHowever, protein sequence found within translated nucleotides."
        elif p[1:] in t:
            err += "\nHowever, ignoring first amino acid, protein sequence found "
            "within translated nucleotides."
        sys.exit(err)

    if t == p:
        return nuc
    elif p.startswith("M") and "M" + t[1:] == p:
        # Close, was there a start codon?
        if str(nuc[0:3]).upper() in ambiguous_generic_by_id[table].start_codons:
            return nuc
        else:
            sys.exit(
                "Translation check failed for %s\n"
                "Would match if %s was a start codon (check correct table used)\n"
                % (identifier, nuc[0:3].upper())
            )
    else:
        # Allow * vs X here? e.g. internal stop codons
        m = "".join("." if x == y else "!" for (x, y) in zip(p, t))
        if len(prot) < 70:
            sys.stderr.write("Protein:     %s\n" % p)
            sys.stderr.write("             %s\n" % m)
            sys.stderr.write("Translation: %s\n" % t)
        else:
            for offset in range(0, len(p), 60):
                sys.stderr.write("Protein:     %s\n" % p[offset : offset + 60])
                sys.stderr.write("             %s\n" % m[offset : offset + 60])
                sys.stderr.write("Translation: %s\n\n" % t[offset : offset + 60])
        sys.exit("Translation check failed for %s\n" % identifier)


def sequence_back_translate(
    aligned_protein_record, unaligned_nucleotide_record, gap, table=0
):
    """Back-translate a sequence."""
    # TODO - Separate arguments for protein gap and nucleotide gap?
    if not gap or len(gap) != 1:
        raise ValueError("Please supply a single gap character")

    alpha = unaligned_nucleotide_record.seq.alphabet
    if hasattr(alpha, "gap_char"):
        gap_codon = alpha.gap_char * 3
        assert len(gap_codon) == 3
    else:
        from Bio.Alphabet import Gapped

        alpha = Gapped(alpha, gap)
        gap_codon = gap * 3

    ungapped_protein = aligned_protein_record.seq.ungap(gap)
    ungapped_nucleotide = unaligned_nucleotide_record.seq
    if table:
        ungapped_nucleotide = check_trans(
            aligned_protein_record.id, ungapped_nucleotide, ungapped_protein, table
        )
    elif len(ungapped_protein) * 3 != len(ungapped_nucleotide):
        sys.exit(
            "Inconsistent lengths for %s, ungapped protein %i, "
            "tripled %i vs ungapped nucleotide %i"
            % (
                aligned_protein_record.id,
                len(ungapped_protein),
                len(ungapped_protein) * 3,
                len(ungapped_nucleotide),
            )
        )

    seq = []
    nuc = str(ungapped_nucleotide)
    for amino_acid in aligned_protein_record.seq:
        if amino_acid == gap:
            seq.append(gap_codon)
        else:
            seq.append(nuc[:3])
            nuc = nuc[3:]
    assert not nuc, "Nucleotide sequence for %r longer than protein %r" % (
        unaligned_nucleotide_record.id,
        aligned_protein_record.id,
    )

    aligned_nuc = unaligned_nucleotide_record[:]  # copy for most annotation
    aligned_nuc.letter_annotation = {}  # clear this
    aligned_nuc.seq = Seq("".join(seq), alpha)  # replace this
    assert len(aligned_protein_record.seq) * 3 == len(aligned_nuc)
    return aligned_nuc


def alignment_back_translate(
    protein_alignment, nucleotide_records, key_function=None, gap=None, table=0
):
    """Thread nucleotide sequences onto a protein alignment."""
    # TODO - Separate arguments for protein and nucleotide gap characters?
    if gap is None:
        gap = "-"

    aligned = []
    try:
        if key_function is None:
            for protein in protein_alignment:
                nucleotide = nucleotide_records[protein.id]
                aligned.append(sequence_back_translate(protein, nucleotide, gap, table))
        else:
            for protein in protein_alignment:
                nucleotide = nucleotide_records[key_function(protein.id)]
                aligned.append(sequence_back_translate(protein, nucleotide, gap, table))
    except KeyError:
        raise ValueError(
            "Could not find nucleotide sequence for protein %r" % protein.id
        )

    return MultipleSeqAlignment(aligned)


if len(sys.argv) == 4:
    align_format, prot_align_file, nuc_fasta_file = sys.argv[1:]
    nuc_align_file = sys.stdout
    table = 0
elif len(sys.argv) == 5:
    align_format, prot_align_file, nuc_fasta_file, nuc_align_file = sys.argv[1:]
    table = 0
elif len(sys.argv) == 6:
    align_format, prot_align_file, nuc_fasta_file, nuc_align_file, table = sys.argv[1:]
else:
    sys.exit(
        """This is a Python script for 'back-translating' a protein alignment,

It requires three, four or five arguments:
- alignment format (e.g. fasta, clustal),
- aligned protein file (in specified format),
- unaligned nucleotide file (in fasta format).
- aligned nucleotiode output file (in same format), optional.
- NCBI translation table (0 for none), optional

The nucleotide alignment is printed to stdout if no output filename is given.

Example usage:

$ python align_back_trans.py fasta demo_prot_align.fasta demo_nucs.fasta demo_nuc_align.fasta

Warning: If the output file already exists, it will be overwritten.

This script is available with sample data and a Galaxy wrapper here:
https://github.com/peterjc/pico_galaxy/tree/master/tools/align_back_trans
http://toolshed.g2.bx.psu.edu/view/peterjc/align_back_trans
"""  # noqa: E501
    )

try:
    table = int(table)
except ValueError:
    sys.exit("Bad table argument %r" % table)

prot_align = AlignIO.read(prot_align_file, align_format, alphabet=generic_protein)
nuc_dict = SeqIO.index(nuc_fasta_file, "fasta")
nuc_align = alignment_back_translate(prot_align, nuc_dict, gap="-", table=table)
AlignIO.write(nuc_align, nuc_align_file, align_format)