pluto.tools.load_mutations¶

pluto.tools.load_mutations(filename)[source]¶

Load the mutations from a tabular .maf file

Parameters

filename (str) – path to input file

Returns

list – a list of comment lines from the file
list – a list of dicts containing the records from the file

Examples

Example usage:

>>> row1 = {'Hugo_Symbol': 'SOX9', 'Chromosome': '1'}
>>> row2 = {'Hugo_Symbol': 'BRCA', 'Chromosome': '7'}
>>> comments = [ ['# version 2.4'] ]
>>> lines = dicts2lines([row1, row2], comments)
>>> output_path = write_table('.', 'output.maf', lines)
>>> comments, mutations = load_mutations(output_path)
>>> comments
['# version 2.4']
>>> mutations
[OrderedDict([('Hugo_Symbol', 'SOX9'), ('Chromosome', '1')]), OrderedDict([('Hugo_Symbol', 'BRCA'), ('Chromosome', '7')])]