02: Rescaled introns

Make the plot prettier by rescaling introns into a smaller size

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import RNApysoforms as RNApy
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## Path to your ENSEMBL GTF file
ensembl_gtf_path = "../dash_apps/RNApysoforms/tests/test_data/Homo_sapiens_chr21_and_Y.GRCh38.110.gtf"


## Read ENSEMBL gtf
annotation = RNApy.read_ensembl_gtf(ensembl_gtf_path)


## Filter gene name in annotation and counts matrix
sod1_annotation = RNApy.gene_filtering(annotation=annotation, target_gene="SOD1")

"""
Rescale introns (no need to run function "to_intron", shorten_gaps() already does this
by default if introns aren't already included in annotation.
"""
sod1_annotation = RNApy.shorten_gaps(sod1_annotation)


"""
Create traces for plotting, make sure to pass x_start and x_end
as "rescaled_start" and "rescaled_end" to get shortened introns.
You can also change hover_start and hover_end to reflext the
rescaled coordinates, but I find the original genomic coodrinates
for start and end more informative for the hover display.
"""
traces = RNApy.make_traces(annotation=sod1_annotation, x_start="rescaled_start", x_end="rescaled_end",
                         y='transcript_id', annotation_hue="transcript_biotype",
                         hover_start="start", hover_end="end")

## Put traces into figure
fig = RNApy.make_plot(traces = traces, subplot_titles = ["Transcript Structure"], width=1200, height=500)

## Show figure
fig.show()

You can click on the legend items to make figure elements appear and disappear.

The legend title will get grayed out when clicking on the first legend item. I could not find a workaround for that with the current plotly release (version 5).

The hovering for exons and CDS works best if you hover your mouse over the edges of the CDS/exon boxes.