「R-Crawler」根据uniprot ID批量检测基因的亚细胞定位

课题遇到一个需求,需要从uniprot 网站数据库中查询目标蛋白的亚细胞定位情况,徒手一个一个搞肯定不行,这就需要使用爬虫了

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应用场景

得到一组基因后想看这些基因或者蛋白质在uniprot中亚细胞定位的结果,我们以一个actin基因为例,我们之前从蛋白组数据中得知该基因的UniprotKB号为:P07830,打开uniprot搜索P07830得到:uniprot-P07830.
uniprot annotation中我们发现定位只有细胞骨架(cytoskeleton),此外还有一个GO term cell component的注释,这里面除了在细胞骨架外还有注释到其他部位。

如果一个一个搜,5000多个要搜很久,关键是数量阅读,手工搜越容易出错,所以通过对网页观察,写一个爬虫,批量搜索是必要的。

特征

首先我们在点击左边导航栏的Subcellular location,我们再看地址栏的url变成了

https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P07830#subcellular_location

其实对于不同的基因来说,亚细胞定位的网址规则就为

https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/ + UniprotKB + #subcellular_location

整体信息提取的思路就清晰了:

  1. 通过上述网址规则逐个将每个基因的亚细胞定位信息从uniprot爬取下来。
  2. 通过正则或者其他手段检测我们需要的亚细胞定位信息。
  3. 整理表格输出。

运行

这里我们检测一系列蛋白是否会定位到叶绿体,
所以我们需要提取的信息就很简单了,看亚细胞定位的结果中包不包含叶绿体(chloroplastic)

这里用R的rvest包进行

首先我们看用rvest爬取效果

## 先测试下 UniprotKB 为 P19366 
url_test = "https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/P19366#subcellular_location"
read_html(url_test) %>% 
      rvest::html_text() 
## 结果
[1] "atpB - ATP synthase subunit beta, chloroplastic - Arabidopsis thaliana (Mouse-ear cress) - atpB gene & protein\n\t\t\tvar BASE = '/';\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tuniprot.isInternal = false;\n\t\t\t\tuniprot.namespace = 'uniprot';\n\t\t\t\tuniprot.releasedate = '2021_03';\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t;\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t// variable to store annotation data\n\t\t\t\tvar annotations = [];\n\t\t\t\tvar entryId = 'P19366';\n\t\t\t\tvar isObsolete = false || !true;\n\t\t\t\r\n                                    <p>An evidence describes the source of an annotation, e.g. an experiment that has been published in the scientific literature, an orthologous protein, a record from another database, etc.</p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"/manual/evidences\">More...</a></p>\r\n                                Skip Header   UniProtKBxUniProtKBProtein knowledgebaseUniParcSequence archiveHelpHelp pages, FAQs, UniProtKB manual, documents, news archive and Biocuration projects.UniRefSequence clustersProteomesProtein sets from fully sequenced genomesAnnotation systemsSystems used to automatically annotate proteins with high accuracy:UniRule (Expertly curated rules)ARBA (System generated rules)Supporting dataSelect one of the options below to target your search:Literature citationsTaxonomyKeywordsSubcellular locationsCross-referenced databasesHuman diseasesAdvancedSearchxHomeBLASTAlignRetrieve/ID mappingPeptide searchSPARQLContactHelpYou are using a version of browser that may not display all the features of this website. Please consider upgrading your browser.\n\t\tThe new UniProt website is here! \n\t\tTake me to UniProt BETAxUniProtKB - P19366\n\t\t\t(ATPB_ARATH)Basket 0(max 400 entries)x\n\t\t\t\t\tYou...

我们看结果中有对该基因的注释中有大量的叶绿体(chloroplast)字段,看了下这些字段首先出现在.svg的图片中,说明是亚细胞定位的图片,其次是【pubmed】引用文献,最后是同源基因的描述,所以基本可以确定这个P19366是定位在叶绿体了,同时从他的基因annotation中也可以看出这个基因是叶绿体基因组编码的。所以接下来就直接用grepl去判断爬出来的这段乱七八糟的字符串中包不包含叶绿体(chloroplast)就可以判断了。

# 加载包
library(rvest)
library(tidyverse)
## 读取UniprotKB 信息
test.p = read.delim("~/15.PostDoc/02.Project/13.cyl/result.txt",header = T,sep = "\t")
head(test.p)
## 提取accession
acc = test.p$Accession
## 制作一个acc为第一列,第二列先填写0,用于后面循环中提取结果的放置
df = data.frame(
  Accession = acc,
  Chlo_TorF = 0
)

## 开始爬数据
for (i in 1:length(acc)) {
  Sys.sleep(0.5)
  tryCatch({
    url = paste0("https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/",acc[i],"#subcellular_location")
    torf = read_html(url) %>% 
      rvest::html_text() %>% 
      grepl(pattern = "chloroplast",x = .)
    df[i,2] = as.character(torf)
    print(paste0(acc[i]," finish"))
  },error = function(e) {
    print(paste0(acc[i]," has no search result in uniprot"))}
  )
}
## 由于网络问题,有部分基因可能会爬取失败,没有打包function,就找到他们再来一遍最后合并一下。如果还有没有爬出来的,再重复一遍
## 给每个基因编号
df$seq = c(1:nrow(df)
## 找到搜索失败的基因对应的编号
df %>% 
  filter(x == 0) %>% 
  select(seq) %>% ->xx
## 处理成向量形式
xx = xx$seq
## 重新填充
for (i in xx) {
  Sys.sleep(0.5)
  tryCatch({
    url = paste0("https://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/",acc[i],"#subcellular_location")
    torf = read_html(url) %>% 
      rvest::html_text() %>% 
      grepl(pattern = "chloroplast",x = .)
    df[i,2] = as.character(torf)
    print(paste0(acc[i]," finish"))
  },error = function(e) {
    print(paste0(acc[i]," has no search result in uniprot"))}
  )
}

结果我们会得到一张表格,第一列是UniprotKB ID,第二列是判断是否包含叶绿体,这样就把我们query中的基因是否在亚细胞定位结果中出现叶绿体做了批量判断。