Sequence Alignment Cont’d

Linear-space alignment Iterate this procedure to the left and right! N-k * M/2 k*k*

The Four-Russian Algorithm Main structure of the algorithm: Divide N  N DP matrix into K  K log 2 N-blocks that overlap by 1 column & 1 row For i = 1……K For j = 1……K Compute D i,j as a function of A i,j, B i,j, C i,j, x[l i …l’ i ], y[r j …r’ j ] Time: O(N 2 / log 2 N) times the cost of step 4 t t t

Heuristic Local Aligners BLAST, WU-BLAST, BlastZ, MegaBLAST, BLAT, PatternHunter, ……

State of biological databases Sequenced Genomes: Human 3  10 9 Yeast1.2  10 7 Mouse2.7  10 9  12 different strains Rat2.6  10 9 Neurospora 4  more fungi within next year Fugu fish 3.3  10 8 Tetraodon 3  10 8 ~250 bacteria/viruses Mosquito 2.8  10 8 Next year: Drosophila 1.2  10 8 Dog, Chimpanzee, Chicken Worm 1.0  sea squirts  1.6  10 8 Current rate of sequencing: Rice 1.0  big labs  3  10 9 bp /year/lab Arabidopsis 1.2  s small labs

State of biological databases Number of genes in these genomes:  Vertebrate: ~30,000  Insects: ~14,000  Worm: ~17,000  Fungi: ~6,000-10,000  Small organisms: 100s-1,000s Each known or predicted gene has an associated protein sequence >1,000,000 known / predicted protein sequences

Some useful applications of alignments Given a newly discovered gene,  Does it occur in other species?  How fast does it evolve? Assume we try Smith-Waterman: The entire genomic database Our new gene

Some useful applications of alignments Given a newly sequenced organism, Which subregions align with other organisms?  Potential genes  Other biological characteristics Assume we try Smith-Waterman: The entire genomic database Our newly sequenced mammal 3 

BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) Main idea: 1.Construct a dictionary of all the words in the query 2.Initiate a local alignment for each word match between query and DB Running Time: O(MN) However, orders of magnitude faster than Smith-Waterman query DB

BLAST  Original Version Dictionary: All words of length k (~11) Alignment initiated between words of alignment score  T (typically T = k) Alignment: Ungapped extensions until score below statistical threshold Output: All local alignments with score > statistical threshold …… query DB query scan

BLAST  Original Version A C G A A G T A A G G T C C A G T C C C T T C C T G G A T T G C G A Example: k = 4, T = 4 The matching word GGTC initiates an alignment Extension to the left and right with no gaps until alignment falls < 50% Output: GTAAGGTCC GTTAGGTCC

Gapped BLAST A C G A A G T A A G G T C C A G T C T G A T C C T G G A T T G C G A Added features: Pairs of words can initiate alignment Extensions with gaps in a band around anchor Output: GTAAGGTCCAGT GTTAGGTC-AGT

Gapped BLAST A C G A A G T A A G G T C C A G T C T G A T C C T G G A T T G C G A Added features: Pairs of words can initiate alignment Nearby alignments are merged Extensions with gaps until score < T below best score so far Output: GTAAGGTCCAGT GTTAGGTC-AGT

Variants of BLAST MEGABLAST:  Optimized to align very similar sequences Works best when k = 4i  16 Linear gap penalty PSI-BLAST:  BLAST produces many hits  Those are aligned, and a pattern is extracted  Pattern is used for next search; above steps iterated WU-BLAST: (Wash U BLAST)  Optimized, added features BlastZ  Combines BLAST/PatternHunter methodology

Example Query: gattacaccccgattacaccccgattaca (29 letters) [2 mins] Database: All GenBank+EMBL+DDBJ+PDB sequences (but no EST, STS, GSS, or phase 0, 1 or 2 HTGS sequences) 1,726,556 sequences; 8,074,398,388 total letters >gi| |gb|AC | Oryza sativa chromosome 3 BAC OSJNBa0087C10 genomic sequence, complete sequence Length = Score = 34.2 bits (17), Expect = 4.5 Identities = 20/21 (95%) Strand = Plus / Plusgi| |gb|AC | Query: 4 tacaccccgattacaccccga 24 ||||||| ||||||||||||| Sbjct: tacacccagattacaccccga Score = 34.2 bits (17), Expect = 4.5 Identities = 20/21 (95%) Strand = Plus / Plus Query: 4 tacaccccgattacaccccga 24 ||||||| ||||||||||||| Sbjct: tacacccagattacaccccga >gi| |gb|AC | Oryza sativa chromosome 3 BAC OSJNBa0052F07 genomic sequence, complete sequence Length = Score = 34.2 bits (17), Expect = 4.5 Identities = 20/21 (95%) Strand = Plus / Plusgi| |gb|AC | Query: 4 tacaccccgattacaccccga 24 ||||||| ||||||||||||| Sbjct: 3891 tacacccagattacaccccga 3911

Example Query: Human atoh enhancer, 179 letters[1.5 min] Result: 57 blast hits 1. gi| |gb|AF |AF Homo sapiens ATOH1 enhanc e-95 gi| |gb|AF |AF gi| |gb|AC | Mus musculus Strain C57BL6/J ch e-68gi| |gb|AC |264 3.gi| |gb|AF |AF Mus musculus Atoh1 enhanc e-66gi| |gb|AF |AF gi| |gb|AF | Gallus gallus CATH1 (CATH1) gene e-12gi| |gb|AF |78 5.gi| |emb|AL | Zebrafish DNA sequence from clo e-05gi| |emb|AL |54 6.gi| |gb|AC | Oryza sativa chromosome 10 BAC O gi| |gb|AC |44 7.gi| |ref|NM_ | Mus musculus suppressor of Ty gi| |ref|NM_ |42 8.gi| |gb|BC | Mus musculus, Similar to suppres gi| |gb|BC |42 gi| |gb|AF |AF218258gi| |gb|AF |AF Mus musculus Atoh1 enhancer sequence Length = 1517 Score = 256 bits (129), Expect = 9e-66 Identities = 167/177 (94%), Gaps = 2/177 (1%) Strand = Plus / Plus Query: 3 tgacaatagagggtctggcagaggctcctggccgcggtgcggagcgtctggagcggagca 62 ||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||| Sbjct: 1144 tgacaatagaggggctggcagaggctcctggccccggtgcggagcgtctggagcggagca 1203 Query: 63 cgcgctgtcagctggtgagcgcactctcctttcaggcagctccccggggagctgtgcggc 122 |||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||| |||||||||||||||| ||||| Sbjct: 1204 cgcgctgtcagctggtgagcgcactc-gctttcaggccgctccccggggagctgagcggc 1262 Query: 123 cacatttaacaccatcatcacccctccccggcctcctcaacctcggcctcctcctcg 179 ||||||||||||| || ||| |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||| Sbjct: 1263 cacatttaacaccgtcgtca-ccctccccggcctcctcaacatcggcctcctcctcg 1318

BLAT: Blast-Like Alignment Tool Differences with BLAST: 1.Dictionary of the DB(BLAST: query) 2.Initiate alignment on any # of matching hits (BLAST: 1 or 2 hits) 3.More aggressive stitching-together of alignments 4.Special code to align mature mRNA to DNA Result: very efficient for: Aligning many seqs to a DB Aligning two genomes

PatternHunter Main features: Non-consecutive position words Highly optimized 5 hits 3 hits 7 hits Consecutive PositionsNon-Consecutive Positions 6 hits On a 70% conserved region: Consecutive Non-consecutive Expected # hits: Prob[at least one hit]:

Advantage of Non-Consecutive Words 11 positions 10 positions

Hidden Markov Models 1 2 K … 1 2 K … 1 2 K … … … … 1 2 K … x1x1 x2x2 x3x3 xKxK 2 1 K 2

Outline for our next topic Hidden Markov models – the theory Probabilistic interpretation of alignments using HMMs Later in the course: Applications of HMMs to biological sequence modeling and discovery of features such as genes

Example: The Dishonest Casino A casino has two dice: Fair die P(1) = P(2) = P(3) = P(5) = P(6) = 1/6 Loaded die P(1) = P(2) = P(3) = P(5) = 1/10 P(6) = 1/2 Casino player switches back-&-forth between fair and loaded die once every 20 turns Game: 1.You bet $1 2.You roll (always with a fair die) 3.Casino player rolls (maybe with fair die, maybe with loaded die) 4.Highest number wins $2

Question # 1 – Evaluation GIVEN A sequence of rolls by the casino player QUESTION How likely is this sequence, given our model of how the casino works? This is the EVALUATION problem in HMMs

Question # 2 – Decoding GIVEN A sequence of rolls by the casino player QUESTION What portion of the sequence was generated with the fair die, and what portion with the loaded die? This is the DECODING question in HMMs

Question # 3 – Learning GIVEN A sequence of rolls by the casino player QUESTION How “loaded” is the loaded die? How “fair” is the fair die? How often does the casino player change from fair to loaded, and back? This is the LEARNING question in HMMs

The dishonest casino model FAIRLOADED P(1|F) = 1/6 P(2|F) = 1/6 P(3|F) = 1/6 P(4|F) = 1/6 P(5|F) = 1/6 P(6|F) = 1/6 P(1|L) = 1/10 P(2|L) = 1/10 P(3|L) = 1/10 P(4|L) = 1/10 P(5|L) = 1/10 P(6|L) = 1/2

Definition of a hidden Markov model Definition: A hidden Markov model (HMM) Alphabet  = { b 1, b 2, …, b M } Set of states Q = { 1,..., K } Transition probabilities between any two states a ij = transition prob from state i to state j a i1 + … + a iK = 1, for all states i = 1…K Start probabilities a 0i a 01 + … + a 0K = 1 Emission probabilities within each state e i (b) = P( x i = b |  i = k) e i (b 1 ) + … + e i (b M ) = 1, for all states i = 1…K K 1 … 2

A HMM is memory-less At each time step t, the only thing that affects future states is the current state  t P(  t+1 =k | “whatever happened so far”) = P(  t+1 =k |  1,  2, …,  t, x 1, x 2, …, x t )= P(  t+1 =k |  t ) K 1 … 2

A parse of a sequence Given a sequence x = x 1 ……x N, A parse of x is a sequence of states  =  1, ……,  N 1 2 K … 1 2 K … 1 2 K … … … … 1 2 K … x1x1 x2x2 x3x3 xKxK 2 1 K 2

Likelihood of a parse Given a sequence x = x 1 ……x N and a parse  =  1, ……,  N, To find how likely is the parse: (given our HMM) P(x,  ) = P(x 1, …, x N,  1, ……,  N ) = P(x N,  N |  N-1 ) P(x N-1,  N-1 |  N-2 )……P(x 2,  2 |  1 ) P(x 1,  1 ) = P(x N |  N ) P(  N |  N-1 ) ……P(x 2 |  2 ) P(  2 |  1 ) P(x 1 |  1 ) P(  1 ) = a 0  1 a  1  2 ……a  N-1  N e  1 (x 1 )……e  N (x N ) 1 2 K … 1 2 K … 1 2 K … … … … 1 2 K … x1x1 x2x2 x3x3 xKxK 2 1 K 2

Example: the dishonest casino Let the sequence of rolls be: x = 1, 2, 1, 5, 6, 2, 1, 6, 2, 4 Then, what is the likelihood of  = Fair, Fair, Fair, Fair, Fair, Fair, Fair, Fair, Fair, Fair? (say initial probs a 0Fair = ½, a oLoaded = ½) ½  P(1 | Fair) P(Fair | Fair) P(2 | Fair) P(Fair | Fair) … P(4 | Fair) = ½  (1/6) 10  (0.95) 9 = = 0.5  10 -9

Example: the dishonest casino So, the likelihood the die is fair in all this run is just  OK, but what is the likelihood of  = Loaded, Loaded, Loaded, Loaded, Loaded, Loaded, Loaded, Loaded, Loaded, Loaded? ½  P(1 | Loaded) P(Loaded, Loaded) … P(4 | Loaded) = ½  (1/10) 8  (1/2) 2 (0.95) 9 = = 7.9  Therefore, it is after all 6.59 times more likely that the die is fair all the way, than that it is loaded all the way

Example: the dishonest casino Let the sequence of rolls be: x = 1, 6, 6, 5, 6, 2, 6, 6, 3, 6 Now, what is the likelihood  = F, F, …, F? ½  (1/6) 10  (0.95) 9 = 0.5  10 -9, same as before What is the likelihood  = L, L, …, L? ½  (1/10) 4  (1/2) 6 (0.95) 9 = = 0.5  So, it is 100 times more likely the die is loaded

The three main questions on HMMs 1.Evaluation GIVEN a HMM M, and a sequence x, FIND Prob[ x | M ] 2.Decoding GIVENa HMM M, and a sequence x, FINDthe sequence  of states that maximizes P[ x,  | M ] 3.Learning GIVENa HMM M, with unspecified transition/emission probs., and a sequence x, FINDparameters  = (e i (.), a ij ) that maximize P[ x |  ]

Let’s not be confused by notation P[ x | M ]: The probability that sequence x was generated by the model The model is: architecture (#states, etc) + parameters  = a ij, e i (.) So, P[ x |  ], and P[ x ] are the same, when the architecture, and the entire model, respectively, are implied Similarly, P[ x,  | M ] and P[ x,  ] are the same In the LEARNING problem we always write P[ x |  ] to emphasize that we are seeking the  that maximizes P[ x |  ]