Matching TCGA Aliquot ID to UUID or Barcode
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Dario Strbenac ★ 1.5k
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Genomic Data Commons hosts a gene-wise copy number summary for each cancer, which has genes as rows and samples as columns. The column headings are aliquot UUIDs. How may these be matched to other data types, such as a MAF file of SNVs which contains TCGA barcodes as the sample identifier?

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@marcel-ramos-7325
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Hi Dario, Thanks for your question. I've added support for this in TCGAutils 1.5.5.

library(TCGAutils)
UUIDtoBarcode("d85d8a17-8aea-49d3-8a03-8f13141c163b", "aliquot_ids")
#>            analytes.aliquots.aliquot_id analytes.aliquots.submitter_id
#> 13 d85d8a17-8aea-49d3-8a03-8f13141c163b   TCGA-CV-5443-01A-01D-1510-01

Created on 2019-07-17 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)

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Hi, thank you very much for this library.

I seem to have noticed a mismatch on some UUID when converting from file_id. For example, '56467ebd-af89-4413-84b5-1e00699a2744' returns 'TCGA-2L-AAQM-01A-11D-A396-01' but the GDC portal returns 'TCGA-IB-A5SO' instead. I am converting the masked copy number segment data and I noticed that a number of these mismatch comes from those cases with multiple aliquots. Could you confirm this or perhaps I have done something wrong?

My code is simply: UUIDtoBarcode('56467ebd-af89-4413-84b5-1e00699a2744', fromtype = "fileid")

Thank you in advance.

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Hi e0338272, Thank you for your report. I will look into this today. It seems like the function should be returning multiple identifiers. I'll check the package's tests. Follow this issue for updates: https://github.com/waldronlab/TCGAutils/issues/24 Best, Marcel

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It seems the UUID you have '56467ebd-af89-4413-84b5-1e00699a2744' is the file ID that contains multiple Barcodes (https://imgshare.io/image/vYlHe)

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Thanks this has been fixed.
-Marcel

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@tiago-chedraoui-silva-8877
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In TCGAbiolinks, when reading the copy number data we use the GDC API to map the aliquot id to barcode: https://github.com/BioinformaticsFMRP/TCGAbiolinks/blob/master/R/prepare.R#L1182-L1211

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It looks like the function takes a barcode as input and returns the aliquot ID. What about converting an aliquot ID to a barcode?

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Hi Dario, I just tested Marcel code and it is working fine. I think that is the easiest way would be using TCGAutils.

From my code you would need to change the filter from barcode to aliquot ID.

https://github.com/BioinformaticsFMRP/TCGAbiolinks/blob/master/R/prepare.R#L1190 -> cases.submitterid to samples.portions.analytes.aliquots.aliquotid. But this would give you all aliquots/barcodes to a patient.

So, Marcel code is a better solution.

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Hi Dario, I just tested Marcel code and it is working fine. I think that is the easiest way would be using TCGAutils.

From my code you would need to change the filter from barcode to aliquot ID.

https://github.com/BioinformaticsFMRP/TCGAbiolinks/blob/master/R/prepare.R#L1190 -> cases.submitterid to samples.portions.analytes.aliquots.aliquotid. But this would give you all aliquots/barcodes to a patient.

So, Marcel code is a better solution.

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Hi Dario, I just tested Marcel code and it is working fine. I think that is the easiest way would be using TCGAutils.

From my code you would need to change the filter from barcode to aliquot ID.

https://github.com/BioinformaticsFMRP/TCGAbiolinks/blob/master/R/prepare.R#L1190 -> cases.submitterid to samples.portions.analytes.aliquots.aliquotid. But this would give you all aliquots/barcodes to a patient.

So, Marcel code is a better solution.

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Hi Dario, I just tested Marcel code and it is working fine. I think that is the easiest way would be using TCGAutils.

From my code you would need to change the filter from barcode to aliquot ID.

https://github.com/BioinformaticsFMRP/TCGAbiolinks/blob/master/R/prepare.R#L1190 -> cases.submitterid to samples.portions.analytes.aliquots.aliquotid. But this would give you all aliquots/barcodes to a patient.

So, Marcel code is a better solution.

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