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unofficial Python3 client API (SDK) for Genomics England (GEL) PanelApp

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PanelApp_Python3_client_API

A preliminary unofficial Python3 client API (SDK) for PanelApp.

PanelApp has an OpenAPI whose specs also have json definitions.

It is a Swagger 2.0 app, which means that there would be obsolescence problems with the codegens to make a Python3 client API (an SDK). However, there is an incomplete definitions issue, done so from GEL's point of view I am guessing to avoid a circular reference problem. That or I have misunderstood what is going on! Namely in a returned Panel object (from a panel request) the keys strs, genes, regions are returned, which are arrays of objects that follow the Str, Gene and Region definitions.

Basics of the API

There are two forms of successful (200) responses. For a single entry response, the object returned is a Panel, Gene etc. while for a list of entries, the response is a typical Django API or PHP generated one, with counts, previous, next, results, where the parameter page controls which subset and is in the URL in previous/next (or None if absent).

In panel_app_query/basic.py is a barebone retriever that returns a dict or a list of dicts.

from panel_app_query import PanelAppQueryBasic

pa = PanelAppQueryBasic()
panels = pa.get_data('/panels/')
panel = pa.get_data('/panels/234/')
genes = pa.get_data('/genes/')

A panel from the list contains the keys: ['id', 'hash_id', 'name', 'disease_group', 'disease_sub_group', 'status', 'version', 'version_created', 'relevant_disorders', 'stats', 'types'] while from a single query there are additionally genes, strs, regions.

For a gene from a list the keys are: ['gene_data', 'entity_type', 'entity_name', 'confidence_level', 'penetrance', 'mode_of_pathogenicity', 'publications', 'evidence', 'phenotypes', 'mode_of_inheritance', 'tags', 'panel', 'transcript'] while gene_data dictionary contains the keys ['alias', 'biotype', 'hgnc_id', 'gene_name', 'omim_gene', 'alias_name', 'gene_symbol', 'hgnc_symbol', 'hgnc_release', 'ensembl_genes', 'hgnc_date_symbol_changed']

Note that confidence_level for a gene is a string as opposed to an integer and works like star-ratings, that is it goes from 0 (no support) to 4, and potentially 5 (not implemented as far as I can say).

Note also that for each instance of a gene in a panel there is a new gene instance (which will have the same gene data).

Dataclasses

If something more advanced is required In panel_app_query/basic.py is a retriever that returns a list of dataclass instances.

from panel_app_query import PanelAppQuery
pa = PanelAppQuery()
panels = pa.get_data('/panels/234/', formatted=True)  # returns a list of types.Panel
# equivalent to .get_formatted_data
first_panel_gene = panels[0].genes[0]
print(first_panel_gene.entity_name)  # dot notation!
assert isinstance(first_panel_gene, pa.dataclasses['Gene'])
genes = pa.get_data('/genes/')
assert isinstance(genes[0], pa.dataclasses['Gene'])

The list of dataclasses are in the attribute .dataclasses.

The attribute swagger contains the dictionary of definitions. Derived from which is schemata, which contains the schema for each path.

The class attribute extra_fields (Dict[str, List[Tuple]] as accepted by the dataclasses.make_dataclass factory) can be (and is) used to add custom fields (in addition to the openAPI defined one) for a given dataclass name. The class attribute extra_namespaces (Dict[str, Dict[str, Callable]]) is used to assign methods to a given dataclass. See Python documentation for dataclasses for more. The latter can be used therefore to add methods to the dataclasses for extra functionality. Do note __post_init__ is not used. And the PanelAppQueryParsed method _post_init_results is called after all the results are initialised —the lists of dataclass instances aren't handed within the dataclass definitions (sloppy coding).

Pandas

from panel_app_query import PanelAppQuery
pa = PanelAppQuery()
genes = pa.get_dataframe('/genes/')
subset = genes.loc[(genes.panel_id == 234) & (genes.confidence_level >= 3)]
# in a Jupyter notebook:
subset

Uptodateness

The data one can download from the browser for a panel may differ from that from the API. The gene list for the panel (len(subset)) above contained 54 green genes while the website listed 57! To get the web version:

from panel_app_query import PanelAppQuery
web = PanelAppQuery.retrieve_web_panel(234, '34')
print( len(web) ) # pd.DataFrame   # 57
print( len(web['Entity Name'].unique()) )  # 57

However, on further investigation the next day it was 57 for gene, but that is deceiving!

Whereas querying a panel 56 were found:

from panel_app_query import PanelAppQuery
import pandas as pd

pa = PanelAppQuery()
panels = pa.get_dataframe('/panels/234/')
confidence_levels = pd.Series(panels.genes_confidence_level[0]).astype(int)
print(sum(confidence_levels >=3))

returns 56.

However... as mentioned a gene is not a single entity.

from panel_app_query import PanelAppQuery
pa = PanelAppQuery()
genes = pa.get_dataframe('/genes/')
subset = genes.loc[(genes.panel_id == 234) & (genes.confidence_level >= 3)]
len(subset.entity_name.unique())

returns 52 unique genes (not 57).

Whereas

from panel_app_query import PanelAppQuery
import pandas as pd

pa = PanelAppQuery()
panels = pa.get_dataframe('/panels/234/')
entity_names = pd.Series(panels.genes_entity_name[0])
confidence_levels = pd.Series(panels.genes_confidence_level[0]).astype(int)
len(entity_names[confidence_levels >=3].unique())

returns 56 (all).

The odd one out in web is 'ISCA-37432-Loss', which is a region not a gene.

So the /panels/ route is up-to-date, while /genes/ is not, but returns redundancies.

The genes that are absent cannot be explained by me.

absentees = set(web['Entity Name'].unique()) - set(subset.entity_name.unique())
web.loc[web['Entity Name'].isin(absentees)]\
    [['Entity Name', 'Entity type', 'ready', 'Flagged', 'GEL_Status', 'UserRatings_Green_amber_red' ]]\
    .sort_values('Entity Name').to_markdown()
Entity Name Entity type ready Flagged GEL_Status UserRatings_Green_amber_red
12 EYA1 gene True False 3 100;0;0
14 FRAS1 gene True False 3 100;0;0
15 FREM1 gene True False 3 100;0;0
56 ISCA-37432-Loss region False False 3 0;0;0
32 LRIG2 gene True False 3 100;0;0

These genes do exist, but for other panels in the gene list:

absentee_subset = genes.loc[(genes.entity_name.isin(absentees))]
print(subset[['entity_name', 'panel_name', 'panel_id']].sort_values('entity_name').to_markdown())
entity_name panel_name panel_id
32444 EYA1 Severe Paediatric Disorders 921
21614 EYA1 Hearing loss 126
21981 EYA1 Hearing loss 126
17354 EYA1 Fetal anomalies 478
23902 EYA1 Intellectual disability 285
10395 EYA1 Unexplained kidney failure in young people 156
24413 EYA1 Intellectual disability 285
25726 EYA1 Intellectual disability 285
19728 EYA1 DDG2P 484
19804 EYA1 DDG2P 484
7552 EYA1 Ductal plate malformation 209
27371 EYA1 Structural eye disease 509
5319 EYA1 Deafness and congenital structural abnormalities 251
28071 EYA1 Groopman et al 2019 - Genes with diagnostic variants 720
30178 EYA1 Severe Paediatric Disorders 921
10274 EYA1 Unexplained kidney failure in young people 156
.... .... .... ....

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