#!/usr/bin/env python3 """Base-resolution breakpoint detection from an alignment. A double-strand break leaves two independent signatures in aligned reads: * *fragment ends* -- reads from the cut molecule terminate exactly at the break, so alignment start and end positions pile up there; * *clip boundaries* -- reads that read through a repaired or chimeric junction align partially and are soft-clipped at the break. Both are measurements. They are reported separately because agreeing on a position is strong evidence, whereas one signature alone can be produced by ordinary coverage structure (a capture boundary, a repeat edge, an adapter artefact). This is deliberately generic: the same statistic locates Cas9 cut sites, viral integration sites, fusion junctions and structural-variant breakpoints. """ from __future__ import annotations import re import subprocess from bisect import bisect_left, bisect_right from collections import Counter from pathlib import Path CIGAR_RE = re.compile(r"(\d+)([MIDNSHP=X])") # Operations that advance along the reference; used to find where an alignment ends. REF_CONSUMING = frozenset("MDN=X") MIN_CLIP = 5 # shorter clips are usually sequencing error, not a junction POOL = 50 # candidates ranked before truncating, so `k` cannot change the ranking def scan_sam(lines, *, min_mapq: int = 20, min_clip: int = MIN_CLIP) -> dict: """Accumulate breakpoint evidence from SAM records. Args: lines: Iterable of SAM text lines; headers are ignored. min_mapq: Reads below this are dropped, because a breakpoint claim made from multi-mapping reads is not a claim about a location. min_clip: Minimum soft-clip length counted as a junction. Returns: Counters keyed by ``(chrom, position)``: ``left_end`` and ``right_end`` for alignment termini, ``clip`` for soft-clip boundaries, plus ``n_reads`` scanned. """ left_end: Counter = Counter() # 1-based position of an alignment's first base right_end: Counter = Counter() # 1-based position of an alignment's last base clip: Counter = Counter() n = 0 for line in lines: if not line or line[0] == "@": continue f = line.rstrip("\n").split("\t") if len(f) < 6: continue flag = int(f[1]) if flag & 0x904: # unmapped, secondary or supplementary continue chrom, pos, mapq, cigar = f[2], int(f[3]), int(f[4]), f[5] if chrom == "*" or mapq < min_mapq or cigar == "*": continue n += 1 ops = CIGAR_RE.findall(cigar) span = sum(int(ln) for ln, op in ops if op in REF_CONSUMING) end = pos + span - 1 left_end[(chrom, pos)] += 1 right_end[(chrom, end)] += 1 if ops and ops[0][1] == "S" and int(ops[0][0]) >= min_clip: clip[(chrom, pos)] += 1 if ops and ops[-1][1] == "S" and int(ops[-1][0]) >= min_clip: clip[(chrom, end)] += 1 return {"left_end": left_end, "right_end": right_end, "clip": clip, "n_reads": n} def top_positions(counter: Counter, k: int = 20) -> list[dict]: """The `k` most-supported positions, as JSON-ready records.""" return [{"chrom": c, "pos": p, "reads": n} for (c, p), n in counter.most_common(k)] def consensus(ev: dict, k: int = 20, window: int = 10) -> list[dict]: """Positions supported by more than one signature, at base resolution. A cut site should show reads ending on its left and reads beginning on its right, so a candidate is scored by the summed support of every signature within `window` bases. Requiring agreement is what separates a break from a coverage edge. Clusters are seeded in descending order of support *at a single base*, so the position reported is the cluster's peak rather than any base near it. Seeding from each signature's own ranking instead put the reported position up to `window` bases off the true break, which is the difference between a right and a wrong answer when a coordinate is graded to a few base pairs. """ by_chrom: dict[str, dict[str, list]] = {} for name in ("left_end", "right_end", "clip"): for (c, p), n in ev[name].items(): by_chrom.setdefault(c, {}).setdefault(name, []).append((p, n)) for chrom in by_chrom: for name in by_chrom[chrom]: by_chrom[chrom][name].sort() def near(chrom: str, pos: int, name: str) -> int: """Support for `name` within `window` bases of `pos`.""" entries = by_chrom.get(chrom, {}).get(name) if not entries: return 0 lo = bisect_left(entries, (pos - window, 0)) hi = bisect_right(entries, (pos + window, 1 << 62)) return sum(n for _, n in entries[lo:hi]) peak: Counter = Counter() for name in ("left_end", "right_end", "clip"): peak.update(ev[name]) # Collect a fixed pool regardless of `k`, then rank, then truncate. Collecting only # `k` and ranking those makes the runner-up -- and therefore the reported margin -- # depend on how many results the caller asked for, which is not a property of the # data. pool = max(k, POOL) kept: list[dict] = [] for (c, p), _ in peak.most_common(): if any(c == s["chrom"] and abs(p - s["pos"]) <= window for s in kept): continue counts = {name: near(c, p, name) for name in ("left_end", "right_end", "clip")} kept.append({"chrom": c, "pos": p, "signatures": sum(1 for v in counts.values() if v > 0), "total": sum(counts.values()), **counts}) if len(kept) >= pool: break kept.sort(key=lambda d: (-d["signatures"], -d["total"])) return kept[:k] # The floor this tool already declares. Two conditions, not one: `consensus` keeps only # positions "supported by more than one signature", because agreement is what separates a # break from a coverage edge, and the blind spot below calls anything under 20 reads a # candidate rather than a location. `alternatives` is counted against BOTH, so uniqueness # means "no rival clears the bar this tool itself set". # # Counting support alone was wrong and a test caught it. A library with one real break and # uniform read length piles 40 read starts at `pos - readlen + 1` and 40 read ends at # `pos + readlen - 1`; each clears 20 reads, and each is a single signature -- a coverage # edge, which is precisely what the agreement rule exists to reject. Scoring them as # rivals made a clean, unambiguous cut site non-unique. SUPPORT_FLOOR = 20 MIN_SIGNATURES = 2 # A rival has to be an alternative *event*, not another view of the same one. Simulation # missed this because it placed distractors 5 kb apart; the real Cas9 library does not. One # cut site there produces a peak at chr3:46,373,178 and a shoulder of positions carrying # three signatures and hundreds of reads within ~130 bp of it, all of them the same break. # Counting those as rivals made the caller abstain on an answer it had ranked first. # # No single junction can produce evidence further away than one read length, so the read # span the scan actually observed is the independence window. It is measured, not chosen. DEFAULT_INDEPENDENCE = 150 def competence_for(found: list[dict], independence: int = DEFAULT_INDEPENDENCE): """State what a ranked breakpoint list can and cannot establish. Factored out of the `biotool breakpoints` command so the shipped rule is the one under test. A breakpoint is a claim about a single base, so the margin that matters is how far the top candidate stands above the second, not how much total support it has. `alternatives` counts rivals that clear this tool's own floor on both axes, `MIN_SIGNATURES` and `SUPPORT_FLOOR`. Measured on the variant caller first: a large margin arises both when the true answer dominates and when a distractor does, so separation between the top two is not the absence of a rival. Generalising the count here showed the floor a tool declares can be multi-dimensional, and using only part of it invents rivals that the tool's own ranking has already dismissed. Args: found: Ranked output of `consensus`, best first. independence: Minimum distance at which a candidate counts as a separate event. Pass the observed read span; the default is a typical short read. Returns: A `Competence` describing the list. """ from .competence import bounded top = found[0]["total"] if found else 0 runner_up = found[1]["total"] if len(found) > 1 else 0 lead = found[0] if found else None def independent(f: dict) -> bool: """Whether `f` describes a different event from the top candidate.""" return (lead is not None and (f["chrom"] != lead["chrom"] or abs(f["pos"] - lead["pos"]) > independence)) return bounded( confidence=min(1.0, top / 100.0), margin=((top - runner_up) / top) if top else 0.0, alternatives=sum(1 for f in found if f["total"] >= SUPPORT_FLOOR and f["signatures"] >= MIN_SIGNATURES and independent(f)), ties=sum(1 for f in found[1:] if top and (top - f["total"]) / top < 0.05 and independent(f)), blind_spots=((f"fewer than {SUPPORT_FLOOR} reads support the top position; it is " "a candidate, not a location",) if top < SUPPORT_FLOOR else ()), remedy="scan without --region, or sequence deeper at the locus", ) def scan_bam(bam: Path, *, samtools: str | None = None, region: str | None = None, min_mapq: int = 20, min_clip: int = MIN_CLIP) -> dict: """Accumulate breakpoint evidence from an indexed BAM. Args: bam: Sorted, indexed alignment. samtools: Binary to use; located if omitted. region: Restrict to `chr:start-end`. Omit to scan the whole genome, which is what lets the tool find a locus the agent has not already guessed. min_mapq: See `scan_sam`. min_clip: See `scan_sam`. Raises: RuntimeError: If samtools is missing or the scan fails. """ from . import references # local import keeps this module importable standalone binary = samtools or references.find_binary("samtools") if binary is None: raise RuntimeError("samtools is not installed") cmd = [binary, "view", str(bam)] + ([region] if region else []) with subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True, errors="replace", bufsize=1 << 20) as proc: evidence = scan_sam(proc.stdout, min_mapq=min_mapq, min_clip=min_clip) proc.stdout.close() err = proc.stderr.read() if proc.returncode not in (0, None) and not evidence["n_reads"]: raise RuntimeError(f"samtools view failed: {err[-300:]}") return evidence