Let’s see now how do we connect our GUI to the the pymotif file (I changed the name because of some conflicts with the app name [my bad!], the git repo was updated accordingly). And also how to display the results, in a simpler manner.

Ok, first to connecting the script to the function file, pymotif.py. The file is already imported in our script and we have used it before. We need to find the exact point and which parameters to pass. pytmotif.py is a slightly modified version of your command line script, and the code is below.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import fasta
import sys
from collections import defaultdict

def choose(n, k):
    if 0 <= k <= n:
        ntok = 1
        ktok = 1
        for t in xrange(1, min(k, n - k) + 1):
            ntok *= n
            ktok *= t
            n -= 1
        return ntok // ktok
    else:
        return 0

def get_quorums(seqs, mlen):
    """
    add seq id_no to a set
    use explicit counter to create seq_no
    """
    quorum = defaultdict(int)
    for seq in seqs:
        for n in range(len(seq) - mlen):
            quorum[seq[n:n + mlen]] += 1
    return quorum

def calculate_motifs(input_seqs, input_seqs2):

    input_seqs = fasta.read_seqs(open('celladhesion1000.fa').readlines())
    input_seqs2 = fasta.read_seqs(open('celladhesion1000C.fa').readlines())

    foreground = get_quorums(input_seqs, 10)
    background = get_quorums(input_seqs2, 10)

    N = len(input_seqs) + len(input_seqs2)

    res_motifs = []
    for i in foreground:
        term1 = choose(background[i], foreground[i])
        term2 = choose((N - background[i]), len(input_seqs) - 1)
        term3 = choose(N, len(input_seqs))
        p = (float(term1) * float(term2)) / term3
        if 0 < p <= 0.0001:
            res_motifs.append(i + 't' + str(foreground[i]) + 't' + str(background[i]) + 't' + str(p))

    res_motifs.sort()
    return res_motifs

So, basically the line we are interested is this one

def calculate_motifs(input_seqs, input_seqs2):

We replace the wx.MessageBox line in our run_finder function and use the input files selected by the user as parameters for calculate_motifs, and we are done

def run_finder(self, event):
	result = pymotif.calculate_motifs(self.fore_file, self.back_file)

Very simple and direct. This should take care of everything except the motif width, what we will see in the next post. We still need a place to write the overrepresented motifs. We can add a text box to the frame, and we do that by adding an extra declaration in our __do_layout function. This time we need to add some extra style to the box, so it can show multiple lines and has a scroll bar.

self.results = wx.TextCtrl(panel, -1, '', (150, 50), (200, 100), wx.TE_MULTILINE | wx.TE_AUTO_SCROLL | wx.HSCROLL)

Notice the wx. flags added. MULTILINE allows the box to have multiple lines and the other two turn on the auto scroll and horizontal scroll. Great. And how do we write the results. Notice above that the function that calculates the motifs, returns a list where each item has the motif sequence and the p value, sorted. So the only thing we need to do is to iterate over the list and print each line to the result box. That simple, and we accomplish it by using the WriteText method, that receives as a parameter a string, either literal or a string object. Our run_finder function will have a couple of extra lines

def run_finder(self, event):
	result = pymotif.calculate_motifs(self.fore_file, self.back_file)
	for motif in result:
		self.results.WriteText(motif + 'n')

That will present in a very simplistic way the resulting overrepresented motifs, but it’s enough for now. Our GUI script will be

#!/usr/bin/env python

import wx
import pymot
import pymotif
import fasta
import os

class pymot(wx.App):

    def __init__(self, redirect=False):
        wx.App.__init__(self, redirect)

class pymotGUI(wx.Frame):

    def __init__(self, parent, id):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, id,  'Python Motif Finder', style=wx.DEFAULT_FRAME_STYLE)
        self.__do_layout()
        self.fore_file = ''
        self.back_file = ''

    def __do_layout(self):

        #adding the panel
        panel = wx.Panel(self)

        #defines the menubar
        menubar = wx.MenuBar()

        #file menu
        filemenu = wx.Menu()
        foreground_menu = filemenu.Append(-1, 'Select foreground file')
        background_menu = filemenu.Append(-1, 'Select background file')
        sep = filemenu.AppendSeparator()
        quitmenu = filemenu.Append(-1, 'Quit')

        #appends the menu to the menubar and creates it
        menubar.Append(filemenu, 'File')
        self.SetMenuBar(menubar)

        #input box for motif width, and label
        self.one_label = wx.StaticText(panel, -1, 'Motif width', (10,50))
        self.motif_width = wx.TextCtrl(panel, -1, '10', (95, 50), (40,18))
        #result textbox
        self.results = wx.TextCtrl(panel, -1, '', (150, 50), (200, 100), wx.TE_MULTILINE | wx.TE_AUTO_SCROLL | wx.HSCROLL)

        #run bbutton
        self.run_button = wx.Button(panel, -1, 'Run', (10, 80))

        #labels
        self.fore_label = wx.StaticText(panel, -1, 'Select the foreground file', (10, 10))
        self.back_label = wx.StaticText(panel, -1, 'Select the background file', (10, 30))

        #binding the menus to functions
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.on_foreground, foreground_menu)
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.on_background, background_menu)
        self.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.run_finder, self.run_button)

    def on_foreground(self, event):
        dialog = wx.FileDialog(self, style=wx.OPEN)
        if dialog.ShowModal() == wx.ID_OK:
            fore_file = dialog.GetPath()
            self.fore_label.SetLabel(fore_file)

    def on_background(self, event):
        dialog = wx.FileDialog(self, style=wx.OPEN)
        if dialog.ShowModal() == wx.ID_OK:
            back_file = dialog.GetPath()
            self.back_label.SetLabel(back_file)

    def run_finder(self, event):
        result = pymotif.calculate_motifs(self.fore_file, self.back_file)
        for motif in result:
            self.results.WriteText(motif + 'n')
        #wx.MessageBox('It should run, eh?')

#if __name__ == '__main__':
app = pymot()
frame = pymotGUI(parent=None, id = -1)
#frame.CentreOnScreen()
frame.Show()
app.MainLoop()