[Bioc-devel] exptData(SummarizedExperiment)

Vincent Carey stvjc at channing.harvard.edu
Wed May 13 20:15:15 CEST 2015


On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:48 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
kasperdanielhansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> the original workflow idea was exactly that it should go beyond a single
> package.
>

My question here was not about workflow intent.  It was about the vehicle
for maintaining a workflow.  Some
are created as documents only, and a package is generated from the
document; others are
authored as packages and the workflow document is a vignette of the
enclosing package (I think).

Making a valid package is a bit more involved than making a computable
workflow document from which a
package is autogenerated.


> Having domain specific cores might be controversial since we often have
> multiple packages competing in the same domain.  To some extent the
> GenomicRanges/Biostring/etc/etc is a special case of this, where "everyone"
> is using these packages.  To me it sounds too much like an official
> endorsement of a specific combination of packages.  With workflows, all one
> is saying is that "you can use package A,B,C to accomplish tasks 1,2,3";
> there is no official endorsement of a "winner".  I think this is worth
> thinking about: I think the project does benefit from multiple attempts at
> achieving the same result and the resulting competition it creates.
>

Fair point.  Competing workflows are also quite possible.  There's a
tension between simplicity for the user and complexity/cacophony induced by
allowing multiple solutions in the system.  I think the user gains more
from the complex
system even if it is a bit harder to "use".


>
>
> Best,
> Kasper
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Vincent Carey <
> stvjc at channing.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
>> Agreed that the workflow vehicle should get more attention.  Do all
>> workflows correspond to packages?
>>
>> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Michael Lawrence <
>> lawrence.michael at gene.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>> > I like the idea of having multiple, domain-specific cores. Those could
>> also
>> > serve as a vehicle for high-level documentation, including the workflows
>> > but also more "cheat-sheet" and/or cookbook-style documentation. Rafa
>> has
>> > brought this up on the phone calls.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:10 PM, Hervé Pagès <hpages at fredhutch.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > > SummarizedExperiment was just an example. I agree it can be a
>> > > little challenging for end users to know where to find a particular
>> > > functionality but I'm not sure about using "meta" packages to address
>> > > that. At least I feel we should probably avoid creating new "meta"
>> > > packages out of the blue, with arbitrary limits and possibly endless
>> > > discussions about what exactly goes in them. Also I don't think there
>> > > is a single "core" but rather several domain-specific cores.
>> > >
>> > > What about using the existing workflow packages instead?
>> > > A workflow package (like the variants package here
>> > > http://bioconductor.org/help/workflows/variants/)
>> > > covers a specific domain and loading it should load the "core"
>> > > for that domain. Plus the user gets a great vignette as a bonus
>> > > to get started so it's not just an empty shell.
>> > >
>> > > There are probably some shortcomings with workflow packages
>> > > that would need to be addressed before they can serve as
>> > > convenient "meta" packages though e.g. they're treated too
>> > > differently from other BioC packages (e.g. they're not available
>> > > via biocLite() and don't show up under the biocViews tree here
>> > > http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocViews.html).
>> > > Nothing that seems impossible to address though...
>> > >
>> > > H.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On 05/12/2015 03:22 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> It's more general than SummarizedExperiment. I think people would
>> > >> appreciate a simple way to load the core, without having to remember,
>> > >> for example, that VCF reading is in VariantAnnotation.
>> > >>
>> > >> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Hervé Pagès <hpages at fredhutch.org
>> > >> <mailto:hpages at fredhutch.org>> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>     Hi Michael,
>> > >>
>> > >>     On 05/11/2015 05:35 PM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>         Splitting stuff into different packages is good for
>> modularity,
>> > >> but
>> > >>         tough on the mind of the user. What about having some sort of
>> > >> "meta"
>> > >>         package that simply loads the core infrastructure packages?
>> > Named
>> > >>         something simple like "Genomics" or "GenomicsCore".
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>     Don't know if we need this. For example, for all the
>> > >>     SummarizedExperiment use cases I ran into, the end-user generally
>> > >>     only needs to load the corresponding high-level package (DESeq2,
>> > >>     VariantAnnotation, minfi, GenomicAlignments, etc...) and that
>> takes
>> > >>     care of loading all the low-level infrastructure packages.
>> > >>
>> > >>     H.
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>         On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Hervé Pagès
>> > >>         <hpages at fredhutch.org <mailto:hpages at fredhutch.org>
>> > >>         <mailto:hpages at fredhutch.org <mailto:hpages at fredhutch.org>>>
>> > >> wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>              Hi Tim,
>> > >>
>> > >>              The SummarizedExperiment class is being replaced with
>> the
>> > >>              RangedSummarizedExperiment class from the new
>> > >>         SummarizedExperiment
>> > >>              package. This is a work-in-progress and the name and
>> > internal
>> > >>              representation of the RangedSummarizedExperiment class
>> are
>> > >> not
>> > >>              finalized yet. The main goal for now is to move all the
>> > >>              SummarizedExperiment stuff from GenomicRanges to its own
>> > >>         package.
>> > >>
>> > >>              Anyway, metadata() is the replacement for exptData() on
>> > >>              RangedSummarizedExperiment objects. It's on my list to
>> add
>> > >>              an exptData method for backward compatibility.
>> > >>
>> > >>              Cheers,
>> > >>              H.
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>              On 05/11/2015 04:37 PM, Tim Triche, Jr. wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >>                  who determined that breaking this would be a good
>> > idea?!?
>> > >>
>> > >>                  R> ?SummarizedExperiment
>> > >>                  Help on topic 'SummarizedExperiment' was found in
>> the
>> > >>         following
>> > >>                  packages:
>> > >>
>> > >>                      Package               Library
>> > >>                      GenomicRanges
>> > >>                    /home/tim/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2
>> > >>                      SummarizedExperiment
>> > >>
>> > >>         /home/tim/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2
>> > >>
>> > >>                     R> nrows <- 200; ncols <- 6
>> > >>                  R>        counts <- matrix(runif(nrows * ncols, 1,
>> > >>         1e4), nrows)
>> > >>                  R>        rowRanges <- GRanges(rep(c("chr1",
>> "chr2"),
>> > >>         c(50, 150)),
>> > >>                  +                           IRanges(floor(runif(200,
>> > >>         1e5, 1e6)),
>> > >>                  width=100),
>> > >>                  +                           strand=sample(c("+",
>> "-"),
>> > >>         200, TRUE))
>> > >>                  R>        colData <-
>> DataFrame(Treatment=rep(c("ChIP",
>> > >>         "Input"), 3),
>> > >>                  +
>>  row.names=LETTERS[1:6])
>> > >>                  R>        sset <-
>> > >>
>> SummarizedExperiment(assays=SimpleList(counts=counts),
>> > >>                  +                       rowRanges=rowRanges,
>> > >>         colData=colData)
>> > >>                  R>        sset
>> > >>                  class: RangedSummarizedExperiment
>> > >>                  dim: 200 6
>> > >>                  metadata(0):
>> > >>                  assays(1): counts
>> > >>                  rownames: NULL
>> > >>                  rowRanges metadata column names(0):
>> > >>                  colnames(6): A B ... E F
>> > >>                  colData names(1): Treatment
>> > >>                  R>        assayNames(sset)
>> > >>                  [1] "counts"
>> > >>                  R>        assays(sset) <- endoapply(assays(sset),
>> > asinh)
>> > >>                  R>        head(assay(sset))
>> > >>                            A    B    C    D    E    F
>> > >>                  [1,] 6.89 8.81 9.46 9.20 8.88 9.44
>> > >>                  [2,] 5.07 9.70 4.08 7.47 8.91 5.64
>> > >>                  [3,] 9.88 9.84 8.95 9.07 9.86 9.06
>> > >>                  [4,] 9.89 8.88 8.92 8.05 8.46 9.51
>> > >>                  [5,] 9.75 8.48 4.73 9.86 8.43 9.86
>> > >>                  [6,] 9.29 9.13 9.80 9.77 9.50 8.40
>> > >>                  R> exptData(sset)
>> > >>                  Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable)  :
>> > >>                      unable to find an inherited method for function
>> > >>         'exptData'
>> > >>                  for signature
>> > >>                  '"RangedSummarizedExperiment"'
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>                  It's one of those things that's a handy place to put
>> > >>         data when
>> > >>                  you need to
>> > >>                  carry it around for the same set of people/subjects
>> but
>> > >>         don't
>> > >>                  have a handy
>> > >>                  multidimensional container for it.  So it's a bit
>> of a
>> > >>         drag that
>> > >>                  it now
>> > >>                  breaks...
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>                  Bonus:
>> > >>
>> > >>                  R> ?"exptData,SummarizedExperiment-method"
>> > >>
>> > >>                  SummarizedExperiment-class    package:GenomicRanges
>> > R
>> > >>                  Documentation
>> > >>
>> > >>                  SummarizedExperiment instances
>> > >>
>> > >>                  Description:
>> > >>
>> > >>                         The SummarizedExperiment class is a
>> matrix-like
>> > >>         container
>> > >>                  where
>> > >>                         rows represent ranges of interest (as a
>> 'GRanges
>> > >> or
>> > >>                         GRangesList-class') and columns represent
>> > >>         samples (with
>> > >>                  sample
>> > >>                         data summarized as a 'DataFrame-class'). A
>> > >>                  'SummarizedExperiment'
>> > >>                         contains one or more assays, each represented
>> > by a
>> > >>                  matrix-like
>> > >>                         object of numeric or other mode.
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>                  R> sessionInfo()
>> > >>                  R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16)
>> > >>                  Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>> > >>                  Running under: Ubuntu 15.04
>> > >>
>> > >>                  locale:
>> > >>                     [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>> > >>                     [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
>> > LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>> > >>                     [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
>> > LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>> > >>                     [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>> > >>                     [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
>> > >>                  [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>> > >>
>> > >>                  attached base packages:
>> > >>                     [1] grid      stats4    parallel  stats
>>  graphics
>> > >>                  grDevices datasets
>> > >>                     [8] utils     methods   base
>> > >>
>> > >>                  other attached packages:
>> > >>                     [1] disintegrator_0.4.8         vegan_2.2-1
>> > >>                     [3] permute_0.8-3               CCAGFA_1.0.4
>> > >>                     [5] FEM_2.3.0
>>  org.Hs.eg.db_3.1.2
>> > >>                     [7] igraph_0.7.1                corrplot_0.73
>> > >>                     [9] marray_1.47.0
>>  AnnotationDbi_1.31.6
>> > >>                  [11] MotifDb_1.10.0              PWMEnrich_4.5.0
>> > >>                  [13] SCAN.UPC_2.10.0             sva_3.15.0
>> > >>                  [15] genefilter_1.51.0           mgcv_1.8-6
>> > >>                  [17] nlme_3.1-120                affyio_1.37.0
>> > >>                  [19] affy_1.47.0                 oligo_1.33.0
>> > >>                  [21] oligoClasses_1.31.0         SRAdb_1.23.0
>> > >>                  [23] RCurl_1.95-4.6              bitops_1.0-6
>> > >>                  [25] graph_1.47.0                quadprog_1.5-5
>> > >>                  [27] mclust_5.0.1
>> > >>         ConsensusClusterPlus_1.23.0
>> > >>                  [29] simulatorZ_1.5.1            CoxBoost_1.4
>> > >>                  [31] prodlim_1.5.1               rsig_1.0
>> > >>                  [33] survival_2.38-1             DMRcate_1.5.42
>> > >>                  [35] matrixStats_0.14.0          rtracklayer_1.29.5
>> > >>                  [37] Matrix_1.2-0                qvalue_2.1.0
>> > >>                  [39] impute_1.43.0               DMRcatedata_1.5.0
>> > >>                  [41] minfi_1.15.3                bumphunter_1.8.0
>> > >>                  [43] locfit_1.5-9.1              iterators_1.0.7
>> > >>                  [45] foreach_1.4.2               Biostrings_2.37.2
>> > >>                  [47] XVector_0.9.1
>> > >>  SummarizedExperiment_0.1.1
>> > >>                  [49] GenomicRanges_1.21.9        GenomeInfoDb_1.5.2
>> > >>                  [51] IRanges_2.3.8               S4Vectors_0.7.2
>> > >>                  [53] lattice_0.20-31             limma_3.25.3
>> > >>                  [55] ks_1.9.4                    rgl_0.95.1247
>> > >>                  [57] mvtnorm_1.0-2               misc3d_0.8-4
>> > >>                  [59] KernSmooth_2.23-14          dplyr_0.4.1
>> > >>                  [61] GEOmetadb_1.29.0            RSQLite_1.0.0
>> > >>                  [63] DBI_0.3.1                   GEOquery_2.35.4
>> > >>                  [65] Biobase_2.29.1              BiocGenerics_0.15.0
>> > >>                  [67] bigrquery_0.1.0.9000
>> BiocInstaller_1.19.5
>> > >>                  [69] magrittr_1.5                gtools_3.4.2
>> > >>
>> > >>                  loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> > >>                     [1] Hmisc_3.16-0            plyr_1.8.2
>> > >>         splines_3.2.0
>> > >>                     [4] BiocParallel_1.3.9      ggplot2_1.0.1
>> > >>           digest_0.6.8
>> > >>                     [7] SuppDists_1.1-9.1       gdata_2.16.1
>> > >>         GMD_0.3.3
>> > >>                  [10] checkmate_1.5.2         BBmisc_1.9
>> > >>         cluster_2.0.1
>> > >>                  [13] annotate_1.47.0         siggenes_1.43.0
>> > >>                    colorspace_1.2-6
>> > >>                  [16] tcltk_3.2.0             registry_0.2
>> > >>         gtable_0.1.2
>> > >>                  [19] zlibbioc_1.15.0         RGCCA_2.0
>> > >>           evd_2.3-0
>> > >>                  [22] scales_0.2.4            futile.options_1.0.0
>> > >>         pheatmap_1.0.2
>> > >>                  [25] rngtools_1.2.4          Rcpp_0.11.6
>> > >>           xtable_1.7-4
>> > >>                  [28] foreign_0.8-63          bit_1.1-12
>> > >>                  preprocessCore_1.31.0
>> > >>                  [31] Formula_1.2-1           lava_1.4.0
>> > >>         glmnet_2.0-2
>> > >>                  [34] httr_0.6.1              gplots_2.17.0
>> > >>                    RColorBrewer_1.1-2
>> > >>                  [37] acepack_1.3-3.3         ff_2.2-13
>> > >>           reshape_0.8.5
>> > >>                  [40] XML_3.98-1.1            nnet_7.3-9
>> > >>         reshape2_1.4.1
>> > >>                  [43] munsell_0.4.2           tools_3.2.0
>> > >>           stringr_1.0.0
>> > >>                  [46] bootstrap_2015.2        beanplot_1.2
>> > >>         caTools_1.17.1
>> > >>                  [49] doRNG_1.6               nor1mix_1.2-0
>> > >>           biomaRt_2.25.1
>> > >>                  [52] stringi_0.4-1           superpc_1.09
>> > >>                  futile.logger_1.4.1
>> > >>                  [55] GenomicFeatures_1.21.2  survcomp_1.19.0
>> > >>           gbm_2.1.1
>> > >>                  [58] survivalROC_1.0.3       multtest_2.25.0
>> > >>           R6_2.0.1
>> > >>                  [61] latticeExtra_0.6-26     gridExtra_0.9.1
>> > >>                    affxparser_1.41.2
>> > >>                  [64] codetools_0.2-11        lambda.r_1.1.7
>> > >>         seqLogo_1.35.0
>> > >>                  [67] MASS_7.3-40             assertthat_0.1
>> > >>         proto_0.3-10
>> > >>                  [70] pkgmaker_0.22           GenomicAlignments_1.5.8
>> > >>                  Rsamtools_1.21.4
>> > >>                  [73] mixOmics_5.0-4          rpart_4.1-9
>> > >>           base64_1.1
>> > >>                  [76] illuminaio_0.11.0       rmeta_2.16
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>                  Statistics is the grammar of science.
>> > >>                  Karl Pearson
>> > >>         <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grammar_of_Science>
>> > >>
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>> > >>              Hervé Pagès
>> > >>
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>> > >>
>> > >>     Program in Computational Biology
>> > >>     Division of Public Health Sciences
>> > >>     Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
>> > >>     1100 Fairview Ave. N, M1-B514
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>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > > --
>> > > Hervé Pagès
>> > >
>> > > Program in Computational Biology
>> > > Division of Public Health Sciences
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