Please cite this work as

• Jay JJ, Brouwer C (2016) Lollipops in the Clinic: Information Dense Mutation Plots for Precision Medicine. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0160519. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160519.

A simple 'lollipop' mutation diagram generator that tries to make things simple and easy by automating as much as possible. It uses the UniProt REST API and/or Pfam API to automate translation of Gene Symbols and lookup domain/motif features for display. If variant changes are provided, it will also annotate them to the diagram using the "lollipops" markers that give the tool it's name.

Basic usage is just the gene symbol (ex: TP53) and a list of mutations (ex: R273C R175H T125 R248Q)

./lollipops TP53 R273C R175H T125 R248Q

More advanced usage allows for per-mutation color (e.g. sample type) and size specification (e.g. denoting number of samples), along with text labels, a legend for abbreviated domains, and more:

	./lollipops -legend -labels TP53 R248Q#7f3333@131 R273C R175H T125@5

Usage: lollipops [options] {-U UNIPROT_ID | GENE_SYMBOL} [PROTEIN CHANGES ...]

Where GENE_SYMBOL is the official human HGNC gene symbol. This will use the official API to lookup the UNIPROT_ID. To skip the lookup or use other species, specify the UniProt ID with -U (e.g. -U P04637 for TP53)

Currently only point mutations are supported, and may be specified as:

<AMINO><CODON><AMINO><#COLOR><@COUNT>

Only CODON is required, and AMINO tags are not parsed.

Synonymous mutations are denoted if the first AMINO tag matches the second AMINO tag, or if the second tag is not present. Otherwise the non-synonymous mutation color is used. The COLOR tag will override using the #RRGGBB style provided. The COUNT tag can be used to scale the lollipop marker size so that the area is exponentially proportional to the count indicated. Examples:

R273C            -- non-synonymous mutation at codon 273
T125@5           -- synonymous mutation at codon 125 with "5x" marker sizing
R248Q#00ff00     -- green lollipop at codon 248
R248Q#00ff00@131 -- green lollipop at codon 248 with "131x" marker sizing

N.B. Color must come before count in tags.

  -legend                 draw a legend for colored regions
  -syn-color="#0000ff"    color to use for synonymous mutation markers
  -mut-color="#ff0000"    color to use for non-synonymous mutation markers
  -hide-axis              do not draw the amino position x-axis
  -show-disordered        draw disordered regions on the backbone
  -show-motifs            draw simple motif regions
  -labels                 draw label text above lollipop markers
  -no-patterns            use solid fill instead of patterns (SVG only)

  -o=filename.png         set output filename (.png or .svg supported)
  -w=700                  set diagram pixel width (default = automatic fit)
  -dpi=300                set DPI (PNG output only)

  -uniprot                use UniprotKB as an alternative to Pfam for
                          fetching domain/motif information
  -l=filename.json        use local file instead of Pfam API for graphic data
                            see: http://pfam.xfam.org/help#tabview=tab9

Head over to the Releases to download the latest version for your system in a simple command-line executable.

If you already have Go installed and want the bleeding edge, just go get -u github.com/joiningdata/lollipops to download the latest version.

As of v0.97, lollipops is now easy to embed in other Go applications. The following code prints an SVG for TP53 and some mutations to standard output:

package main

import (
    "os"

    "github.com/joiningdata/lollipops/data"
    "github.com/joiningdata/lollipops/drawing"
)

func main() {
    uniprot_id := "P04637"
    mutations := []string{"R273C", "R175H", "T125@5", "R248Q#7f3333@131"}

    p53_domains, err := data.GetGraphicData(uniprot_id)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }

    drawing.DrawSVG(os.Stdout, mutations, p53_domains)
}

Please submit your bugs and features requests via the Issues tab. Be sure to search closed issues before submitting a new one in case the issue has been previously discussed. Pull Requests are welcome, but please create an issue beforehand to discuss significant changes.

Code contributions are expected to be properly formatted with go fmt, and generally adhere to the standard Golang review guidelines.

Lollipops is released under the GPL license. If your institution requires additional licensing options please contact the author.