fasta, blast, probabilities
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Fasta, Blast, Probabilities. Reminder. Last classes we discussed dynamic programming algorithms for global alignment local alignment Multiple alignment All of these assumed a scoring rule: that determines the quality of perfect matches, substitutions, insertions, and deletions. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Fasta, Blast, Probabilities
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Reminder
Last classes we discussed dynamic programming algorithms for
global alignment local alignment Multiple alignment
All of these assumed a scoring rule:
that determines the quality of perfect matches, substitutions, insertions, and deletions.
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Alignment in Real Life
One of the major uses of alignments is to find sequences in a “database.”
The current protein database contains about 100 millions (i.e.,108) residues ! So searching a 1000 long target sequence requires to evaluate about 1011 matrix cells which will take about three hours in the rate of 10 millions evaluations per second.
Quite annoying when, say, one thousand target sequences need to be searched because it will take about four months to run.
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Heuristic Fast Search
Instead, most searches rely on heuristic procedures These are not guaranteed to find the best match Sometimes, they will completely miss a high-scoring
match
We now describe the main ideas used by the best known of these heuristic procedures.
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Basic Intuition
Almost all heuristic search procedures are based on the observation that real-life matches often contain long strings with gap-less matches.
These heuristic try to find significant gap-less matches and then extend them.
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Banded DP
Suppose that we have two strings s[1..n] and t[1..m] such that nm
If the optimal alignment of s and t has few gaps, then path of the alignment will be close to diagonal
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Banded DP
To find such a path, it suffices to search in a diagonal region of the matrix.
If the diagonal band has width k, then the dynamic programming step takes O(kn).
Much faster than O(n2) of standard DP.s
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Note that for diagonals i-j = constant.
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Banded DP for local alignment
Problem: Where is the banded diagonal ? It need not be the main diagonal when looking for a good local alignment.
How do we select which subsequences to align using banded DP?
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We heuristically find potential diagonals and evaluate them using Banded DP.
This is the main idea of FASTA.
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Finding Potential Diagonals
Suppose that we have a relatively long gap-less match
AGCGCCATGGATTGAGCGA
TGCGACATTGATCGACCTA Can we find “clues” that will let us find it quickly? Each such sequence defines a potential diagonal (which is
then evaluated using Banded DP.
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Signature of a Match
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Assumption: good matches contain several “patches” of perfect matches
AGCGCCATGGATTGAGCTATGCGACATTGATCGACCTA
Since this is a gap-less alignment, all perfect match regionsshould be on one diagonal
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FASTA-finding ungapped matches
Input: strings s and t, and a parameter ktup Find all pairs (i,j) such that s[i..i+ktup]=t[j..j+ktup] Locate sets of pairs that are on the same diagonal
By sorting according to the difference i-j Compute the score for the diagonal that contains all these
pairs
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FASTA-finding ungapped matchesInput: strings s and t, and a parameter ktup Find all pairs (i,j) such that s[i..i+ktup]=t[j..j+ktup]
Step one: prepare an index of the database and the query sequence such that given a sequence of length ktup, one gets the list of positions. (Linear time).
Step two: for each ktup from the query add 1 in the diagonal (i-j) in which it appears. Then find contiguous (possibly with mismatch) ktup in diagonals.
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FASTA- using banded DPStep 3:
Select the ten high scoring contiguous segments
Try and score all combinations of these ten segments in order to constitute a pass into the matrix
Step 4: Run banded DP on the region
containing the best scoring pass (say with width 12).
Hence, the algorithm may combine some diagonals into gapped matches (in the example below combine diagonals 2 and 3).
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FASTA- practical choices
Some implementation choices /tricks have not been explicated herein.
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Most applications of FASTA use very small ktup (1-2 for proteins, and 4-6 for DNA).
Higher values are faster, yielding less diagonal to search around, but increase the chance to miss the optimal local alignment.
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FASTA-summary
Input: strings s and t, and a parameter ktup = 1,2,4,5, or 6 depending on the application.
Output: A highly scored local alignment
1. Find pairs of matching substrings s[i..i+ktup]=t[j..j+ktup]
2. Extend to ungapped diagonals3. Extend to gapped matches using banded DP
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BLAST Overview(Basic Local Alignment Search Tool)
Input: strings s and t, and a parameter T = threshold valueOutput: A highly scored local alignment
Definition: Two strings s and t of length k are a high scoring pair (HSP) if d(s,t) > T (usually consider un-gapped alignments only).
1. Find high scoring pairs of substrings such that d(s,t) > T These words serve as seeds for finding longer matches
2. Extend to ungapped diagonals (as in FASTA)3. Extend to gapped matches
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BLAST Overview (cont.)
Step 1: Find high scoring pairs of substrings such that d(s,t) > T (The seeds):
Find all strings of length k which score at least T with substrings of s in a gapless alignment (k = 4 for proteins, 11 for DNA)
(note: possibly, not all k-words must be tested, e.g. when such a word scores less than T with itself).
Find in t all exact matches with each of the above strings.
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Extending Potential Matches
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Once a seed is found, BLAST attempts to find a local alignment that extends the seed.
Seeds on the same diagonal are combined (as in FASTA), then extended as far as possible in a greedy manner without gap.
During the extension phase, the search stops when the score passes below some lower bound computed by BLAST (to save time).
For the best ungap alignment do a banded SW an assign a probabilistic score.
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Why use probability to define and/or interpret a scoring function ?
• Similarity is probabilistic in nature because biological changes like mutation, recombination, and selection, are not deterministic.
• We could answer questions such as:• How probable two sequences are similar?• Is the similarity found significant or random?• How to change a similarity score when, say, mutation rate of a specific area on the chromosome becomes known ?
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A Probabilistic Model
For now, we will focus on alignment without indels. For now, we assume each position (nucleotide
/amino-acid) is independent of other positions. We consider two options:
M: the sequences are Matched (related)
R: the sequences are Random (unrelated)
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Unrelated Sequences
Our random model of unrelated sequences is simple Each position is sampled independently from a
distribution over the alphabet We assume there is a distribution q() that
describes the probability of letters in such positions.
Then:
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Related Sequences
We assume that each pair of aligned positions (s[i],t[i]) evolved from a common ancestor
Let p(a,b) be a distribution over pairs of letters. p(a,b) is the probability that some ancestral letter
evolved into this particular pair of letters.
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Odd-Ratio Test for Alignment
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If Q > 1, then the two strings s and t are more likely tobe related (M) than unrelated (R).
If Q < 1, then the two strings s and t are more likely tobe unrelated (R) than related (M).
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Score(s[i],t[i])
Log Odd-Ratio Test for AlignmentTaking logarithm of Q yields
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If log Q > 0, then s and t are more likely to be related.If log Q < 0, then they are more likely to be unrelated.
How can we relate this quantity to a score function ?
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Probabilistic Interpretation of Scores
We define the scoring function via
Then, the score of an alignment is the log-ratio between the two models:
Score > 0 Model is more likely
Score < 0 Random is more likely
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Estimating Probabilities
Suppose we are given a long string s[1..n] of letters from
We want to estimate the distribution q(·) that generated the sequence
How should we go about this?
We build on the theory of parameter estimation in statistics using either maximum likelihood estimation or the Bayesian approach .
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Estimating q()
Suppose we are given a long string s[1..n] of letters from
s can be the concatenation of all sequences in our database
We want to estimate the distribution q()
That is, q is defined per letter
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Likelihood function:
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Estimating q() (cont.)
How do we define q?
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Likelihood function:
ML parameters
(Maximum Likelihood)
MAP parameters(Maximum A posteriori Probability)
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Estimating p(·,·)
Intuition: Find pair of aligned sequences s[1..n], t[1..n], Estimate probability of pairs:
Again, s and t can be the concatenation of many aligned pairs from the database
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Number of times a is
aligned with b in (s,t)
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Problems in Estimating p(·,·)
How do we find pairs of aligned sequences? How far is the ancestor ?
earlier divergence low sequence similarity later divergence high sequence similarity
Does one letter mutate to the other or are they both mutations of a common ancestor having yet another residue/nucleotide acid ?
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