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rarelens/pipeline/tests/test_load_db.py
Kemal Yaylali e76ae847a1 fix(science): stop scoring evidence that was never looked up
A review of the ranking's arithmetic found four things wrong, all of which
made the score look better informed than it was. Measurements below are from
this repo, not estimates.

**Components now abstain instead of inventing a number.** A run without a VEP
cache returns no allele frequencies, and rarity_score(None) read that as
"absent from gnomAD, therefore maximally rare" and awarded every variant a
free 0.25. jobs.has_frequencies / has_effect_scores record what the run
actually produced, absent components are dropped from the weighted mean, and
the remaining weights are renormalised so the score keeps its meaning. The UI
shows "not looked up" rather than a bar, and the funnel stops calling a step
"rare" when nothing was filtered.

**Allele frequency is no longer a model feature.** It dominated: the same
missense variant scored 0.887 at AF 0 and 0.0003 at AF 0.01. That double-
counted, because the ranking already scores frequency explicitly, putting
~45% of every rank on one measurement; and it was circular, because ACMG
assigns ClinVar's benign labels using frequency (BA1/BS1). Retraining without
it moves missense AUROC from 0.872 to 0.500 — exactly random. The old figure
was allele frequency, not variant-effect knowledge. The model therefore
abstains unless CADD or AlphaMissense is present, since otherwise it only
restates the consequence class.

**Phenotype matching is weighted by information content** and HPO annotations
are propagated up the ontology. Counting terms alike let "global
developmental delay" (IC 0.93) count as much as "dilated left subclavian
artery" (IC 7.88).

**A real bug in the propagation, found by checking it.** The ancestor walk
read a pre-order DFS backwards, which on a DAG lets a term resolve before one
of its parents and inherit that parent alone instead of its lineage. It
dropped 399 terms out of the phenotype branch, Camptodactyly and Chiari
malformation among them. Now a true post-order, tested against a reference
transitive closure.

The ontology arithmetic moved to rarelens_ml.hpo so it is covered by tests,
and rarelens_ml.benchmark measures the whole thing: across 10,178 published
cases the causal gene ranks first 45.9-81.0% of the time against 5,269 genes,
versus 0.02% for chance. docs/data.md reports that with its contamination
(HPO's annotations come from these same case reports), and includes the
measurement showing information-content weighting earns its place while
propagation does not - kept anyway, for a reason the docs argue rather than
assume.
2026-09-12 11:32:46 +01:00

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import json
import uuid
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
from load_db import (
engine_for,
load,
parse_variant_id,
read_vep_tab,
sources,
to_rows,
vep_version,
)
from set_job_status import set_status
from sqlalchemy import text
HEADER = [
"Uploaded_variation", "Location", "Allele", "Consequence", "IMPACT", "SYMBOL",
"HGVSc", "HGVSp", "gnomADe_AF", "CLIN_SIG", "CADD_PHRED",
]
# A run with a VEP cache and plugins: the fixture header carries gnomADe_AF and CADD_PHRED.
CACHE_RUN = {"has_frequencies": True, "has_effect_scores": True}
# Longer than the old VARCHAR(120) column.
LONG_CLIN_SIG = (
"conflicting_classifications_of_pathogenicity,uncertain_significance,"
"likely_benign,benign,likely_pathogenic,pathogenic"
)
def vep_tab(tmp_path: Path, rows: list[list[str]]) -> Path:
path = tmp_path / "x.vep.tsv"
path.write_text("\n".join([
"## ENSEMBL VARIANT EFFECT PREDICTOR v113.0",
"## Output produced at 2026-09-11 12:00:00",
"#" + "\t".join(HEADER),
*("\t".join(r) for r in rows),
]) + "\n")
return path
ROWS = [
# SNV
["22_19710700_C_T", "22:19710700", "T", "missense_variant", "MODERATE", "TBX1",
"ENST1:c.1C>T", "ENSP1:p.Arg1Trp", "0.0001", "pathogenic", "28.1"],
# Deletion: VEP reports a trimmed allele ("-") and a shifted Location; the ID keeps the VCF truth.
["22_42126611_CT_C", "22:42126612", "-", "frameshift_variant", "HIGH", "CYP2D6",
"-", "-", "-", LONG_CLIN_SIG, "-"],
]
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
("uid", "expected"),
[
("22_19710700_C_T", ("22", 19710700, "C", "T")),
("chrUn_KI270742v1_100_A_AT", ("chrUn_KI270742v1", 100, "A", "AT")),
],
)
def test_parse_variant_id(uid: str, expected: tuple) -> None:
assert parse_variant_id(uid) == expected
@pytest.mark.parametrize("uid", ["rs123", "12345", "22_x_A_G", "."])
def test_parse_variant_id_rejects_ids_not_set_by_normalise(uid: str) -> None:
with pytest.raises(ValueError, match="CHROM_POS_REF_ALT"):
parse_variant_id(uid)
def test_to_rows_takes_alleles_from_the_id_and_nulls_dashes(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
rows = to_rows(read_vep_tab(vep_tab(tmp_path, ROWS)), job_id="j")
snv, deletion = rows
assert (snv["chrom"], snv["pos"], snv["ref"], snv["alt"]) == ("22", 19710700, "C", "T")
assert (deletion["pos"], deletion["ref"], deletion["alt"]) == (42126611, "CT", "C")
assert snv["gnomad_af"] == 0.0001 and deletion["gnomad_af"] is None
assert deletion["hgvsc"] is None and deletion["gene"] == "CYP2D6"
assert deletion["clinvar_sig"] == LONG_CLIN_SIG
ann = json.loads(deletion["annotations"])
assert "-" not in ann.values() and "CADD_PHRED" not in ann
assert json.loads(snv["annotations"])["CADD_PHRED"] == "28.1"
def test_vep_version(tmp_path: Path) -> None:
assert vep_version(vep_tab(tmp_path, ROWS)) == "113.0"
def test_engine_for_uses_psycopg_for_any_postgres_url() -> None:
for url in ("postgresql+asyncpg://u:p@h/db", "postgresql://u:p@h/db"):
assert engine_for(url).url.drivername == "postgresql+psycopg"
def new_job(engine, status: str = "running") -> str:
job_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
with engine.begin() as conn:
conn.execute(text("INSERT INTO jobs (id, status) VALUES (:id, :s)"), {"id": job_id, "s": status})
return job_id
def job_and_count(engine, job_id: str) -> tuple:
with engine.connect() as conn:
job = conn.execute(text("SELECT status, vep_version, log FROM jobs WHERE id=:id"),
{"id": job_id}).one()
n = conn.execute(text("SELECT count(*) FROM variants WHERE job_id=:id"), {"id": job_id}).scalar()
return (*job, n)
def test_load_is_idempotent_and_marks_job_succeeded(engine, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
job_id = new_job(engine)
rows = to_rows(read_vep_tab(vep_tab(tmp_path, ROWS)), job_id=job_id)
load(engine, job_id, rows, vep="113.0", evidence=CACHE_RUN)
# a retried task must not duplicate variants
load(engine, job_id, rows, vep="113.0", evidence=CACHE_RUN)
assert job_and_count(engine, job_id) == ("succeeded", "113.0", None, 2)
def test_load_with_no_variants_still_succeeds(engine, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
job_id = new_job(engine)
rows = to_rows(read_vep_tab(vep_tab(tmp_path, [])), job_id=job_id)
load(engine, job_id, rows, vep="113.0", evidence=CACHE_RUN)
assert job_and_count(engine, job_id) == ("succeeded", "113.0", None, 0)
def test_load_records_which_evidence_the_run_looked_up(engine, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
"""The API must be able to tell "absent from gnomAD" from "nobody asked gnomAD"."""
job_id = new_job(engine)
df = read_vep_tab(vep_tab(tmp_path, ROWS))
load(engine, job_id, to_rows(df, job_id=job_id), vep="113.0", evidence=sources(df))
with engine.begin() as conn:
flags = conn.execute(
text("SELECT has_frequencies, has_effect_scores FROM jobs WHERE id=:id"),
{"id": job_id},
).one()
assert flags == (True, True) # this fixture has gnomADe_AF and CADD_PHRED columns
def test_a_database_mode_run_reports_no_frequencies(engine, tmp_path: Path) -> None:
"""VEP --database emits neither a frequency column nor plugin scores."""
path = tmp_path / "db.vep.tsv"
columns = [c for c in HEADER if c not in ("gnomADe_AF", "CADD_PHRED")]
path.write_text("## ENSEMBL VARIANT EFFECT PREDICTOR v113.0\n#" + "\t".join(columns) + "\n")
assert sources(read_vep_tab(path)) == {"has_frequencies": False, "has_effect_scores": False}
def test_set_status_failed_records_the_reason(engine) -> None:
job_id = new_job(engine)
set_status(engine, job_id, "failed", "workflow annotate-abc Failed")
status, _, log, _ = job_and_count(engine, job_id)
assert (status, log) == ("failed", "workflow annotate-abc Failed")
def test_set_status_never_overrides_a_succeeded_job(engine) -> None:
job_id = new_job(engine, status="succeeded")
set_status(engine, job_id, "failed", "late exit handler")
assert job_and_count(engine, job_id)[0] == "succeeded"
@pytest.mark.parametrize(
("raw", "expected_query"),
[
# asyncpg's ssl= becomes libpq's sslmode= for psycopg.
("postgresql+asyncpg://u:p@h/db?ssl=require", {"sslmode": "require"}),
("postgresql://u:p@h/db?sslmode=require", {"sslmode": "require"}),
("postgresql+asyncpg://u:p@h/db", {}),
],
)
def test_engine_for_translates_ssl_options(raw: str, expected_query: dict) -> None:
url = engine_for(raw).url
assert url.drivername == "postgresql+psycopg"
assert dict(url.query) == expected_query