---
title: "UCSC RepeatMasker AnnotationHub Resource Metadata"
author:
- name: Robert Castelo
  affiliation: 
  - &id Dept. of Medicine and Life Sciences,
    Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
  email: robert.castelo@upf.edu
package: "`r pkg_ver('UCSCRepeatMasker')`"
abstract: >
  UCSC RepeatMasker annotations are available as Bioconductor AnnotationHub
  resources. The UCSCRepeatMasker annotation package stores the metadata for
  these resources and provides this vignette to illustrate how to use them.
vignette: >
  %\VignetteIndexEntry{UCSC RepeatMasker AnnotationHub Resource Metadata}
  %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown}
  %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}
output: 
  BiocStyle::html_document:
    toc: true
    toc_float: true
    number_sections: true
---

```{r setup, echo=FALSE}
options(width=80)
```

# Retrieval of UCSC RepeatMasker annotations through AnnotationHub resources

The `UCSCRepeatMasker` package provides metadata for
`r Biocpkg("AnnotationHub")` resources associated with UCSC RepeatMasker
annotations. The original data can be found through UCSC download URLs
`https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/XXXX/database/rmsk.txt.gz`,
where `XXXX` is the corresponding code to a UCSC genome version.
Details about how those original data were processed into
`r Biocpkg("AnnotationHub")` resources can be found in the source
file:

```
UCSCRepeatMasker/scripts/make-data_UCSCRepeatMasker.R
```
while details on how the metadata for those resources has been generated
can be found in the source file:

```
UCSCRepeatMasker/scripts/make-metadata_UCSCRepeatMasker.R
```

UCSC RepeatMasker annotations can be retrieved using the
`r Biocpkg("AnnotationHub")`,
which is a web resource that provides a central location where genomic files
(e.g., VCF, bed, wig) and other resources from standard (e.g., UCSC, Ensembl)
and distributed sites, can be found. A Bioconductor `r Biocpkg("AnnotationHub")`
web resource creates and manages a local cache of files retrieved by the user,
helping with quick and reproducible access.

For example, to list the available UCSC RepeatMasker annotations for the human
genome, we should first load the `r Biocpkg("AnnotationHub")` package:

```{r message=FALSE, cache=FALSE}
library(AnnotationHub)
```
and then query the annotation hub as follows:

```{r message=FALSE, cache=FALSE}
ah <- AnnotationHub()
query(ah, c("UCSC", "RepeatMasker", "Homo sapiens"))
```

We can retrieve the desired resource, e.g., UCSC RepeatMasker annotations
for hg38, using the following syntax:

```{r message=FALSE, cache=FALSE}
rmskhg38 <- ah[["AH99003"]]
rmskhg38
```
Note that the data is returned using a `GRanges` object, please consult the
vignettes from the `r Biocpkg("GenomicRanges")` package for details on how to
manipulate this type of object. The contents of the 11 metadata columns are
described at the UCSC Genome Browser web page for the
[RepeatMasker database schema](https://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTables?db=hg38&hgta_group=rep&hgta_track=rmsk&hgta_table=rmsk&hgta_doSchema=describe+table+schema).
Please consult the credits and references sections on that page for information
on how to cite these data.

The `GRanges` object contains further metadata accessible with the `metadata()`
method as follows:

```{r message=FALSE, cache=FALSE}
metadata(rmskhg38)
```

# Session information

```{r session_info, cache=FALSE}
sessionInfo()
```