Abstract
Protein domain-based approaches to analyzing sequence data are valuable tools for examining and exploring genomic architecture across genomes of different organisms. Here, we present a complete dataset of domains from the publicly available sequence data of 9,051 reference viral genomes. The data provided contain information such as sequence position and neighboring domains from 30,947 pHMM-identified domains from each reference viral genome. Domains were identified from viral whole-genome sequence using automated profile Hidden Markov Models (pHMM). This study also describes the framework for constructing “domain neighborhoods”, as well as the dataset representing it. These data can be used to examine shared and differing domain architectures across viral genomes, to elucidate potential functional properties of genes, and potentially to classify viruses.
Measurement(s) | Protein Domain • RNA viral genome • DNA viral genome • protein domain neighborhoods • protein domain cluster |
Technology Type(s) | digital curation • bioinformatics method • Cluster Analysis |
Factor Type(s) | Viral Genome |
Sample Characteristic - Organism | Viruses |
Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12319631
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Background and Summary
Advancements in sequencing technology and the construction of large, publicly available genomic databases have widely expanded the potential for comparative genomics and discovery. But in viruses and bacteria, even protein-coding genomic regions are difficult to functionally characterize. Take E. coli, the best-studied bacteria, where one third of the proteome consists of proteins of unknown function. Here, we ask if (1) genomes can be decomposed into a series of functional building blocks that (2) do not rely on annotated genes and that (3) can be used to classify new species or genes, and if (4) protein domains can serve as these building blocks.
Automatically defined protein domains provide just such building blocks and allow the decoding of some of this ambiguity across genomes. This approach will be based off of the identification of viral domains using profile Hidden Markov models (pHMM) with HMMER3 http://hmmer.org/, v3.2.11. Unlike sequence alignment, pHMMs are able to link two extremely divergent sequences that belong to the same type of protein domain. We referenced the profile databases PFAM2, vFAM3, and pVOG4. Although vFAM and pVOG have not been updated as recently as PFAM, they include many viral-associated domains not found in PFAM. The contents of these three profile-HMM databases form the “PFAM database” referred to throughout this manuscript. Here, we describe the construction of a reference-virus-complete, genome-wide, domain-based database. Domains are identified from the genome sequence, and domain-based “neighborhoods” are constructed. We describe this new dataset, comprising 9,051 viruses, and show some examples of novel queries to answer new biological questions that can be applied to any genome or set of genomes.
Domain-based approaches have been previously used in functional studies of mammalian genes, characterization and identification of pathogenic viruses, and phylogenetic analysis in bacteria5,6,7,8. Dissecting the domains of novel proteins has led both to a better evolutionary understanding of the driving forces of the genes5, insights into taxonomic characterization and evolution9,10 and to the discovery of new enzymatic function11. Domain neighborhoods are also being used as tools for species classification6 and as an alternative to the standard taxonomic classification of 16s-rRNA sequence8,12. The success of domain-based classification in bacteria also has the potential to improve difficult viral classification, since there are no genes conserved across every virus.
A slew of recent papers has leveraged groups of protein domains to try to more broadly elucidate function. These include a secretion resource13, bacterial pathogenesis14,15, and the study of temperature reactive domains16. Both GRAViTy (Genome Relationships Applied to Virus Taxonomy) and ClassiPhage 2.0 are tools for examining taxonomy using pHMM-based or genomic structural methods8,17. Another paper18, describes a new algorithm, MMSeqs. 2 for improving the throughput of the domain detection. Additionally, metagenomic data is difficult to analyze, and is sometimes simply converted to an approximation of species abundance. Instead, a domain-based approach allows for the preservation of the functional complexity within the metagenome, but with a simpler dictionary and a more complete analysis19, which we also enable with this work.
Methods
Data acquisition and processing
The data used to build these datasets were retrieved from publicly available sources. 9,051 viral genomes were downloaded from NCBI in the GenBank GBK and FAA format using the NCBI file transfer protocol (ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/Viruses/) a full list of accession numbers for the viral genomes used in this work has been included (Accession Number List20). The viral genomes include both eukaryotic and prokaryotic viruses spanning a wide range of viral families. While this reference file set will be used as an example, the domain-centric workflow is designed to be used with any set of sequence data, including genomic, RNA, protein, and metagenome. The overall pipeline is abstracted in Fig. 1. Each sequence file is processed (Figure 1.1), headers and gene positions are recorded, then the sequences are aggregated (optional) in a standardized FNA (nucleotide FastA) format (Figure 1.2). As each genome is processed and compiled, a tracking file is created and modified to document the progress of each genome through the pipeline (asterisks in Fig. 1). Next, each nucleotide sequence file is six-frame translated with each frame of translation being outputted as a separate file in FAA (amino acid FastA) format (Figure 1.3). The approach of six frame translating genomes and directly searching them enables new un-annotated open reading frames and domains to be found and annotated. All source code is provided (https://gitlab.com/buchserlab/viraldomains).
Sequence windowing
HMMER3’s hmmsearch is sensitive to the length of sequence (target sequence) that is being searched. Our goal was to get a comprehensive look at all the protein domains, even allowing for some overlap (discussed later). Therefore, we used three different approaches to extract domains from each genome. 1) Whole genome search, 2) Gene search, 3) Window search. The whole genome search method simply feeds each entire contig (one of the 6 frames at a time) into hmmsearch. In the Gene-based method, we use the existing gene annotations to only feed the identified gene region to hmmsearch (open reading frames, ORFs, could also be used in this approach). In the Window method (Figure 1.4), each translated sequence is partitioned into overlapping 200 amino acid ‘windows’. No new sequence information is introduced during this process. Each 200 amino acid segment is then offset by 13 amino acids from the prior segment. As expected, feeding hmmsearch smaller sequences (as in the window method) increases its sensitivity to finding established domains compared with providing the algorithm with the entire genomics sequence. A comparison of the genome/window vs. the gene search method is done in the Technical Validation section.
HMM/HMMER3
The domain profiles used in the pHMM model are from the PFAM, the protein family database provided by the European Bioinformatics Institute (downloaded 2/2018), vFAM, and pVOG databases, totaling 30,947 domains. A complete list of pHMMs is included (pHMM Domains20). The vFAM and pVOG databases have been added in order to ensure that any viral domains not included in PFAM have been captured. This database also provides the profile framework for the HMM model2. Compiled FAA files are automatically examined to see if they have been previously run, then are copied onto a scratch location in a computing cluster. We then automatically generate new script commands, which run hmmsearch on a computing cluster (Figure 1.5).
The following command is used:
hmmsearch–noali –domT -5 -o /dev/null–domtblout OutName HMMProfiles FAAFile
Where OutName is the output file name, HMMProfiles is one of 40 pre-compiled profile HMMs (each file contains around 774 individual profiles), and FAAFile is the translated genome region that is currently being processed. For a set of genomes, 240 (6 frames x 40 pHMMs) are spawned and run in parallel on the cluster. Profile HMMs were bundled together in order to streamline execution and reduce computational burden. The resulting output files are monitored and if they are complete, they are moved to a different working directory (Figure 1.6). After processing has finished, the tracking logs are updated, but only for the correctly completed files, and the process is repeated, recovering any missing data. Next, the output files from hmmsearch (which contain the domain metadata) are compiled together to form a single large table (Figure 1.7). At this step, some filtering is performed. The per-domain independent E-values (iEvalues) are adjusted twice: first, they are scaled to account for the sequence search space size; second, they are scaled again linearly by the ratio of the viral genome size to the window size to adjust for the effects of the windowing. Domains with adjusted E-values > 1 are excluded. While the per-domain bit score and per-domain iEvalue (after accounting for search space size) provide nearly the same information, E-values were used because they are easier to scale, and E-values would most likely be more familiar to a potential researcher using this database. Finally, domains that are 100% overlapping are pruned down to a single copy.
De-Overlapping
After compilation, the domains are automatically examined to remove spurious results (Figure 1.8). This is mostly from overlapping portions of domains and domains that are part of the same PFAM clan. The steps are, (1) Look at overlap on a per-frame basis (each frame separately), (2) Compare domain start/end and also the calculated start (where the domain would normally start up to 20 AA before). 3a) If neighbor domains are in the same clan, only allow overlap of <33%. 3b) If domains are in different clans, keep both if each are significant; if not, then only allow overlap of <45% (if one domain is 10,000-fold better than the other in E-value). (4) Consider nearest neighbor domains and ‘skip-1’ neighbors (ABC, consider A-B, B-C, AND A-C). In order to address overlapping domains from vFAM/pVOG overtop PFAM, additional logic was constructed. Only in the case that the log10 E-value of the vFAM or pVOG is five times higher than that of the overlapping PFAM domain is the vFAM/pVOG domain preserved.
Domain neighborhood construction
Next, we want to be able to ask questions of genome neighborhoods at the level of protein domains. Therefore, we want to map these domains onto the genome and reconstruct their ordering (Figure 1.9). There are several concerns to executing this correctly (listed in Usage Notes). The domains are ordered, and the user selects any number of “Domains of Interest”. These domains will act as the center of a genomic neighborhood, and the neighboring domains will list their coordinates in reference to this domain. This step produces the final dataset, and the tables are used to build the domain tracks, clustering, and other figures in the examples.
The final dataset described above can be explored using a variety of clustering methods. In order to demonstrate this, we used a fuzzy clustering method, by keying the domains by their clan (thus allowing related domains to be grouped) and assigning weights to the domains based on their inverse square distance (ordered domain distance, where Dom1 Dom2 Dom3 the domain distance between Dom1 and Dom3 is 2, rather than amino acid distance) as in Fig. 2. The pre-clustered data is a matrix where domains are columns and viruses are rows. The values are the inverse square distance. So referenced to Domain A, the column for Domainb that is 4 domains away from Domaina in Virusi would get a value of 1/42 = 0.0625. If Domainb is missing in Virusi, that cell in the matrix gets a value of 0.
Data Records
The primary data is available in several tables, available on https://figshare.com/. The first table is comprised of all accession numbers of viral genomes included (Accession Numbers20). Next, in (Trimmed Domain Compile File20) we provide the table of every domain within each of the reference viral genomes. Examination of domains in close proximity offers insight into conserved structure across genomes and commonly co-occurring domains. The method developed here allows domains found within a genome to be viewed within a “Domain Neighborhood.” The neighborhood comprises domains found in close genomic proximity to one another. This neighborhood is itself often a conserved unit, even when nucleotide sequence conservation is low, similar to genomic synteny, but without relying on primary sequence. The raw tables representing domain neighborhoods are available in (Domain Spacing File20). A lookup table containing column descriptors can be found in (Column Lookup Table20). A smaller version of the neighborhood file is available as a SQL database containing the necessary tables in (Domain Spacing SQL Database File20). Neighborhoods consist of a center domain of interest, which takes the zero position, and surrounding domains which have a negative or positive distance values based on whether they are upstream or downstream of the domain of interest, respectively. The structure of the data provided allows any domain to be used as the domain of interest, enabling the broadest spectrum of potential neighborhoods.
Domain Neighborhoods can be visualized using a domain “track” approach as shown in Fig. 3. Each tile represents a domain upstream or downstream of the center domain. The center domain in Fig. 3 are helicase-associated domains (DNAB_C, DEAD, HELICASE_C, etc). The genomes containing helicase-associated domains in Fig. 3a correspond to the adjacent neighborhoods shown in Fig. 3b. Some conservation can be observed in the domains immediately flanking the center domain (position zero); however, the neighborhoods diverge in more upstream/downstream domains. Figure 3c shows the implementation of the clustering method described above for helicase-associated domains. A broad view of the domain neighborhoods for all genomes that contain helicase-associated domains is shown in Fig. 3d. Using helicase-associated domains as the center domain in clustering resulted in the majority of viruses from the same family being clustered together (Fig. 3e). This data show that by using a fuzzy clustering method, domain neighborhood conservation within viral families can be visualized. In addition to viewing the data as domain neighborhood tracks, mosaic plots can also be used to view domains that commonly occur in the vicinity of the center domain. The size of each tile in the mosaic plot reflects the frequency of the co-proximity with the center domain. In the case of using helicase domains, the most commonly proximal domains are AAA domains (ATPase domains, Fig. 3f).
Technical Validation
In order to ensure that the domains being identified by our approach are accurate and reproducible our pipeline was validated in two ways. The first validation approach was undertaken to ensure that domain annotation data was properly managed as it progressed through this pipeline. This is critical considering the large scale that HMMER3 is being run and the hundreds of thousands of output files that are produced during this process. In order to ensure that data integrity was maintained, we used the coordinates from the domain metadata of identified domains to extract sequence data from the FNA files. The sequences were reprocessed using the same pipeline to ensure that the same domains were identified. The extracted sequences yielded the same domains that were originally identified. Second, by doing gene/based domain extraction side-by-side with genome/contig based domain extraction, we were able to validate the identity of the domains (Figs. 4 and 5).
Contig-Based Domain-Finding Produces a Rich Set of Functional Domains. After running the pipeline on the set of reference viral genomes, we first sought to determine the completeness of the various methods. Both the translated genome method and the gene method yielded similar numbers of domains. Slightly more domains were found using the whole genome method (Fig. 4) drawn from the “compiled” domain-metadata dataset (Trimmed Domain Compile File20). In Fig. 5, two example viral genomes are shown, with gene annotations and the newly annotated domains schematized. Most viral genomes showed good correspondence between identified domains whether looking at the whole genome or looking in genes. Some genomes had gaps of gene annotations, but the genome/contig method was still able to find high-quality domains in these cases (Fig. 5b). Any dataset that relies on gene annotations may have incomplete data, in this case there are ORFs in these positions, but the NCBI database doesn’t have them annotated as genes. Additionally, even lack of ORFs can be misleading (due to pseudogenes and mutations).
Viral genomes are particularly interesting since they are known to perform double coding (overlapping reading frames). An examination of Human Papilloma Virus domains from this dataset showed Domain VFAM_11 and AAA_34 on the positive and negative strand as expected.
The goal of this analysis is to redefine any sequence contig as a series of domains and be able to compare those sequences to determine whether they have shared or related domain neighborhoods. This can be used for a variety of purposes, and one of them is to help establish phylogenetic similarity. While this is not the focus of this manuscript, it provides another useful metric to validate the results. By comparing the clustering described above to virus families, we can create a contingency matrix, a scaled version of which is shown in Fig. 6. The adjusted rand index21 of these two classifications is 0.53, showing that there is a high statistical correspondence between domain neighborhood-generated clusters and taxonomy. Newer approaches using these types of protein domains are generating exciting connections across biology22.
Usage Notes
Neighborhood conservation within family-specific domains
The data from (Domain Spacing File20), in addition to enabling domain comparison using widely present domains, allow for domain examination of family-specific and/or less common domains. This is made possible by using all available PFAM domain profiles as domains of interest. Figure 7 uses the Flavivirus NS1 domain as a domain of interest to examine a family-specific neighborhood. The flavivirus nonstructural protein 1 (NS1) is a glycoprotein that has a diverse set of functions during flavivirus infection impacting replication, immune evasion, and host vasculature disruption23. The wide range of roles attributed to this domain makes it a good candidate for further examination. Figure 7a shows clustered flavi NS1 containing genomes. A high level of domain conservation is seen in the domain neighborhoods surrounding flavi NS1 shown in Fig. 7b. The mosaic plot of the NS1 domain shows that other flavivirus associated with replication and immune evasion co-occur with NS1 (Fig. 7c). Flavi NS2A is most commonly found alongside NS1 (Fig. 7b,c). NS2A has also been shown to be involved in immune evasion, specifically interferon inhibition24. This targeted approach to domain analysis allows the user of this dataset to gain insights into family specific domains to direct further research.
Viral classification using domain neighborhoods
While most of the viral genomes contained in the dataset have been assigned to known viral families, a small subset of the genomes analyzed were recorded as unclassified or unknown with regards to family membership, these will serve as an example of inferring membership from these domain neighborhoods. Figure 8a shows the clustered domain neighborhood for all helicase_C-containing genomes. After zooming into a region with an unclassified bacterial virus (Fig. 8b) with the accompanying domain neighborhoods shown in Fig. 8c. Neighborhood-based clustering has placed this virus as a member of the Siphoviridae family. This dataset provides evidence, using a domain-based approach, that this unclassified virus likely belongs to the Siphoviridae family. It is in fact Enterobacteria YYZ-2008, a relative of the mEp213 that was clustered next to it (confirmed siphoviridae). Online-only Table 1 provides the nearest neighboring genomes to other unclassified or unknown viruses contained within this dataset. This example shows the potential for using these neighborhoods to infer additional virus’s family membership. These techniques can also be extended to domains of unknown function (DUFs).
We leveraged “BI” software to visualize and organize the domain neighborhoods. We used Tibco Spotfire Analyst for this task, but Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and other software can also effectively display these datasets. Additionally, Matlab or R (CRAN) can be used.
Below we provide additional concerns on creating domain neighborhoods and domain-based approaches.
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Genome Completeness. We focused our efforts on complete ‘closed’ reference genomes so there would be no question of completeness. If extending these tools beyond viruses to bacteria, some species have additional chromosomes and plasmids which can house the genome neighborhoods. Our software also works on un-assembled genomes (which usually exist as distinct contigs). In these cases, there can be some redundancy and there can also be missing information.
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Quality of Domain. We used hmmsearch to identify every possible query domain in the target sequence and reports the iE-value for the profile alignment. We store all these domains but set cutoffs when assembling genome neighborhoods. All domains with E-values less than ~10−7 are considered high quality, since a domain in a single genome would be considered high quality with an E-value of less than 0.01, and this threshold is divided by 9,051 to account for the size of the virome database.
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Overlapping Domains. There are two main types of overlapping domains in a genomic region. One type is inherent to the nature of similar domains given that domains in the same clan can often be detected in the same region. This is expected and easy to untangle by taking only the domain with the best E-value for an overlapping region. The second is the result of lower-quality domains being present, or very large domains which can have smaller domains nested inside them. We used the ‘de-overlap’ algorithm (in methods) to address this.
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Splicing, Ribosomal Slippage. Most viruses and bacteria have continuous coding regions, but introns do exist25. Although rare, it is also possible that a single domain is split across two frames due to ribosomal slippage26. Our program does not currently account for splicing or slippage, so these domains would be missed or would show up with an artificially low E-values (since they could be split up).
Code availability
All source code is provided at (https://gitlab.com/buchserlab/viraldomains). The software is designed to be compiled and run with the publicly available DotNetCore, which can be downloaded free with VS Code, or Visual Studio Community Edition.
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We would like to thank the Department of Genetics for supporting this research. We would also specifically like to thank Kow Essuman, Kate Matsunaga, and Will Lee for their assistance and dialogue with this project. Finally, we would like to thank Siddarth Venkatesh and James Weagley in the Jeffrey Gordon laboratory for their insight.
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J.B. developed the methodologies, analyses, wrote and reviewed the manuscript. A.Y. implemented methods, performed data analysis, performed revisions. M.Z. helped conceive of the project, methodologies and helped with data analysis and revisions. A.D. and J.M. helped conceive of the project and edit the manuscript. W.B. conceived of the project, methodologies, analysis, and edited the manuscript.
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Bramley, J.C., Yenkin, A.L., Zaydman, M.A. et al. Domain-centric database to uncover structure of minimally characterized viral genomes. Sci Data 7, 202 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0536-1
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