annoFuse: an R Package to annotate, prioritize, and interactively explore putative oncogenic RNA fusions
Gaonkar KS, Marini F, Rathi KS, Jain P, Zhu Y, Chimicles NA, Brown MA, Naqvi AS, Zhang B, Storm PB, Maris JM, Raman P, Resnick AC, Strauch K, Taroni JN, Rokita JL. annoFuse: an R Package to annotate, prioritize, and interactively explore putative oncogenic RNA fusions. BMC Bioinformatics. 2020 Dec 14;21(1):577. doi: 10.1186/s12859-020-03922-7. PMID: 33317447; PMCID: PMC7737294.
Using annoFuse, users can filter out fusions known to be artifactual and retained high-quality fusion calls using support of at least one junction read and remove false calls if there is disproportionate spanning fragment support of more than 100 reads compared to the junction read count.
For prioritization, users can capture known as well as putative driver fusions reported in TCGA, or fusions containing gene partners that are known oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, or COSMIC genes.
Finally, users can also determine recurrent fusions across the cohort and recurrently-fused genes within each histology. By providing a standardized filtering and annotation method from multiple callers (STAR-Fusion and Arriba) users are able to merge, filter and prioritize putative oncogenic fusions across the PBTA.
These instructions will get you a copy of the package up and running on your local machine.
devtools::install_github("d3b-center/annoFuse", dependencies = TRUE)
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merge calls from each caller for you cohort and a column
annotswith additional annotation (eg from FusionAnnotator or caller specific annotation we have used FusionAnnotator in our vignettes) -
reference folder with a gene genelistreference.txt and fusionreference.txt inst/extdata has reference files we've used in our vignettes. The fusion reference is a compilation of the annotations listed in the table below.
| Annotation | File | Source |
|---|---|---|
| pfamID | http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/database/pfamDesc.txt.gz | UCSC pfamID Description database |
| Domain Location | http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/database/ucscGenePfam.txt.gz | UCSC pfamID Description database |
| TCGA fusions | https://tumorfusions.org/PanCanFusV2/downloads/pancanfus.txt.gz | TumorFusions: an integrative resource for cancer-associated transcript fusions PMID: 29099951 |
| Oncogenes | OncoKB - last updated 20240704 | https://www.oncokb.org/cancer-genes |
| Tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) | OncoKB - last updated 20240704 | https://www.oncokb.org/cancer-genes |
| Tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) | https://bioinfo.uth.edu/TSGene/Human_TSGs.txt?csrt=5027697123997809089 | Tumor Suppressor Gene Database 2.0 PMIDs: 23066107, 26590405 |
| Kinases | http://kinase.com/human/kinome/tables/Kincat_Hsap.08.02.xls | The protein kinase complement of the human genome PMID: 12471243 |
| COSMIC genes | https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/census | Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer |
| Pediatric-specific oncogenes | MYBL1, SNCAIP, FOXR2, TTYH1, TERT | doi:10.1073/pnas.1300252110, doi:10.1038/nature11327, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.015, doi:10.1038/ng.2849, doi:10.1038/ng.3438, doi:10.1002/gcc.22110, doi:10.1016/j.canlet.2014.11.057, doi:10.1007/s11910-017-0722-5 |
| Pediatric-specific TSGs | BCOR, QKI | doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.015, doi:10.1038/ng.3500 |
- expression matrix with GeneSymbol per row and samples as columns
- STAR-Fusion star-fusion.fusion_predictions.tsv
- Arriba fusions.tsv
- RSEM genes.results.gz
To browse vignettes
devtools::install_github("d3b-center/annoFuse", build_vignettes=TRUE, dependencies = TRUE)
browseVignettes("annoFuse")
Krutika S. Gaonkar, Federico Marini, Komal S. Rathi, Jaclyn N. Taroni, Jo Lynne Rokita
Krutika S. Gaonkar, Federico Marini, Komal S. Rathi, Payal Jain, Yuankun Zhu, Nicholas A. Chimicles, Miguel A. Brown, Ammar S. Naqvi, Bo Zhang, Phillip B. Storm, John M. Maris, Pichai Raman, Adam C. Resnick, Konstantin Strauch, Jaclyn N. Taroni & Jo Lynne Rokita (2020). annoFuse: an R Package to annotate, prioritize, and interactively explore putative oncogenic RNA fusions. BMC Bioinformatics, 21(1), 577. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-020-03922-7
This project is licensed under the MIT License