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Finding all bases at a specific genomic position

Hi

I am using pysam pileup to find bases from all reads that map to a single base in the reference sequence (all bases at that genomic position)

I have this so far but it does not seem to be printing all the bases

vcf_reader = vcf.Reader(filename=input_vcf)
for record in vcf_reader:
   position = record.POS
   for pileupColumn in bam.pileup("chr22", position, position+1, stepper='samtools', min_base_quality=0, ignore_overlaps=False, ignore_orphans=False, truncate=True ):
      for read in pileupColumn.pileups:
         print(read.alignment.query_name, read.alignment.query_sequence[read.query_position], read.query_position)

For example, when I compare the results to allele counts generated from IGV, samtools mpileup and GATK CollectAllelicCounts, at chr22:16262728, there would be 70 Gs (reference nucleotide) and 49 As (alternate nucleotide) but the output from the code only shows: 

('HS24_85:1:1201:7411:83378', 'G', 103)
('HS22_78:3:1214:9386:19864', 'G', 122)
('HS24_85:1:2101:12797:23657', 'G', 122)
('HS22_78:3:1315:8282:30946', 'G', 122)
('HS22_78:3:1101:14500:47773', 'G', 121)
('HS24_85:2:1216:5699:17766', 'G', 120)
('HS23_42:1:2111:4475:69608', 'G', 119)
('HS22_78:3:1202:14726:38119', 'G', 119)
('HS24_85:1:1115:9370:82669', 'G', 117)
('HS24_85:1:2307:2074:88160', 'G', 117)
('HS22_78:3:2314:10450:47392', 'G', 116)
('HS22_78:3:2308:15054:34133', 'G', 114)
('HS23_42:1:1305:13596:55163', 'G', 114)
('HS24_85:2:1111:1612:16820', 'G', 112)
('HS22_78:3:2216:2740:77764', 'C', 111)
('HS22_78:3:2302:9314:13921', 'G', 111)
('HS24_85:2:1211:4578:88656', 'G', 110)
('HS23_42:1:1101:20531:37762', 'G', 110)
('HS22_78:3:2310:8780:32097', 'G', 110)
('HS24_85:1:1115:10861:81726', 'G', 107)
('HS23_42:1:1107:6662:41114', 'G', 106)
('HS24_85:1:1212:20743:82452', 'G', 105)
('HS23_42:1:2313:11725:19964', 'G', 105)
('HS22_78:3:1310:13644:88843', 'G', 105)
('HS24_85:2:1107:9280:81457', 'G', 103)
('HS24_85:1:1212:18950:61905', 'G', 103)
('HS24_85:2:1101:17461:24965', 'G', 103)
('HS24_85:1:1116:9648:70745', 'G', 102)
('HS23_42:1:2107:13018:14721', 'G', 102)
('HS24_85:2:2306:11254:67768', 'G', 101)
('HS23_42:1:2104:6675:95474', 'G', 106)
('HS22_78:3:1305:2201:11591', 'G', 101)
('HS24_85:1:1206:14931:10360', 'G', 100)
('HS24_85:2:1315:18777:27046', 'G', 99)
('HS23_42:1:2206:20980:4951', 'G', 99)
('HS24_85:1:2110:10249:85104', 'G', 98)
truncated

pysam version:0.15.2 python version:2.7.16 Aligner used: minimap2 (2.15) Reference: Hg38

Thank you

Dollina

pysam pileup
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written by dodani • dodani

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written by Ram Ram

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Hi dodani,

Try (updated):

vcf_reader = vcf.Reader(filename=input_vcf)
for record in vcf_reader:
    position = record.POS
    for pileupColumn in bam.pileup("chr22", position-1, position, stepper='samtools', min_base_quality=0, ignore_overlaps=False, ignore_orphans=False, truncate=True):
        for pileupRead in pileupColumn.pileups:
            if not pileupRead.is_del and not pileupRead.is_refskip:
                print ('Base in read %s at position %s is %s' % (pileupRead.alignment.query_name, position, pileupRead.alignment.query_sequence[pileupRead.query_position]))
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written by AK AK

Hi, thanks!

I tried that and still unable to see all bases that map to a particular position. For example, when I compare the allele count with results from IGV or GATK CollectAllelicCounts, at chr22:16262728 there would be 70 Gs (count of reference allele) and 49 As (count of alternate allele).

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written by dodani • dodani

OK, it works in my case. Did you get any error, or just printing nothing?

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written by AK AK

no it prints only 1 of the two alleles. For example at chr22:16262728 I get: 

Base in read HS24_85:1:1201:7411:83378 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS22_78:3:1214:9386:19864 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS24_85:1:2101:12797:23657 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS22_78:3:1315:8282:30946 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS22_78:3:1101:14500:47773 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS24_85:2:1216:5699:17766 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS23_42:1:2111:4475:69608 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS22_78:3:1202:14726:38119 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS24_85:1:1115:9370:82669 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS24_85:1:2307:2074:88160 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS22_78:3:2314:10450:47392 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS22_78:3:2308:15054:34133 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS23_42:1:1305:13596:55163 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS24_85:2:1111:1612:16820 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS22_78:3:2216:2740:77764 at position 16262728 is C
Base in read HS22_78:3:2302:9314:13921 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS24_85:2:1211:4578:88656 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS23_42:1:1101:20531:37762 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS22_78:3:2310:8780:32097 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS24_85:1:1115:10861:81726 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS23_42:1:1107:6662:41114 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS24_85:1:1212:20743:82452 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS23_42:1:2313:11725:19964 at position 16262728 is G
Base in read HS22_78:3:1310:13644:88843 at position 16262728 is G

. . . Is there a way to print all the bases at that position?

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written by dodani • dodani

Can you try again by changing from position, position+1 to position-1, position (in bam.pileup)? It should work as within pysam coordinates are 0-based.

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written by AK AK

Thank you so much! That helps

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written by dodani • dodani

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