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Python client pyCGA

pyCGA is the Python client library for OpenCGA RESTful Web Services, all the web services are accessible through this client, and it offers a quick way to query OpenCGA projects programmatically from custom scripts. In the same way than in  Using RESTful Web Services URL tutorial, we will focus on those end points more interesting for HGVA users. In order to make it easy to follow we will use the same examples used in Using RESTful Web Services URL.

Installing pyCGA

The Python client library is distributed with the rest of the OpenCGA code. The OpenCGA code can be cloned in your machine by executing in your terminal. Checkout the latest code (release-1.1.0 branch). You can easily install pyCGA using pip tool: 

How To Install pyCGA
git clone https://github.com/opencb/opencga.git
git checkout v1.3.6
cd opencga/opencga-client/src/main/python
[sudo] pip install .  [ --upgrade ]

Configuring pyCGA for HGVA

Configuration parameters can be passed as a JSON file, YAML file or a Python Dictionary:

Configuration File - JSON format
{
    "version": "v1",
    "rest": {
        "hosts": [
            "bioinfo.hpc.cam.ac.uk/hgva"
        ]
    }
}


Configuration File - YAML format
---
version: v1
rest:
  hosts:
  - bioinfo.hpc.cam.ac.uk/hgva


Configuration Dictionary Python
configuration = {
    'version': 'v1',
    'rest': {
        'hosts': [
            'bioinfo.hpc.cam.ac.uk/hgva'
        ]
    }
}


Load the configuration will be the first step, to use the python client. We will use the ConfigClient class, passing the name of the path of the configuration file or the dictionary with the configuration. After that the instance created will be passed to the Client.

Initialising the client
from pyCGA.opencgarestclients import OpenCGAClient



# configuration = '/path/to/configuration_file.json'
# configuration = '/path/to/configuration_file.yaml'
configuration = {
    'version': 'v1',
    'rest': {
        'hosts': [
            'bioinfo.hpc.cam.ac.uk/hgva'
        ]
    }
}

# This will skip the login and allow the user query hgva as Anonymous
oc = OpenCGAClient(configuration=configuration, session_id=' ')
oc.session_id = None
oc._create_clients()

Once the library is imported and configured, you can proceed to run the examples below.

Examples

Getting information about genomic variants

Getting information about genomic variants
# Get TTN variants from the Genome of the Netherlands study, which is framed within the reference_grch37 project ('limit=3' limit the number of results to 3) 
# If the response status is 200 (OK), the response will be a dictionary with the responses, this dictionary is equivalent to the json response obtained through the Web Services.  
for page in oc.analysis_variant.query(data={'gene':'TTN', 'studies':'reference_grch37:GONL'}, limit=3, pag_size=100):
    for result in page.get():
        print result

Getting information about projects

Getting information about genomic variants
# Getting all metadata for the reference_grch37 project
result = oc.projects.info('reference_grch37').get('reference_grch37')


# Getting all studies and their metadata for the cancer_grch37 project
result = oc.projects.studies('reference_grch37').get('reference_grch37')

Getting information about studies

Getting information about genomic variants
# Getting all metadata for all available studies
responses = oc.studies.search(data={})


#  Getting summary data for study 1kG_phase3 which is framed within project reference_grch37
responses = oc.studies.summary('reference_grch37:1kG_phase3').get('reference_grch37:1kG_phase3')

# Getting all metadata for study GONL  which is framed within the project reference_grch37
responses = oc.studies.info('reference_grch37:GONL').get('reference_grch37:GONL')


# Getting all samples metadata for study 1kG_phase3 which is framed within project reference_grch3
responses = oc.studies.samples('reference_grch37:1kG_phase3').get('reference_grch37:1kG_phase3')

Getting information about samples

Getting information about genomic variants
# Get all metadata for sample HG00096 of the 1kG_phase3 study which is framed within the reference_grch37 project
responses =oc.samples.info('HG00096', study='reference_grch37:1kG_phase3').get('HG00096')

Getting information about cohorts

Getting information about genomic variants
# Get all samples metadata for cohort GBR from study 1kG_phase3 which is framed within project reference_grch37
responses = oc.cohorts.samples('GBR', study='reference_grch37:1kG_phase3').get('GBR')

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