[BioC] GAGE and PATHVIEW packages
Luo Weijun
luo_weijun at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 7 18:37:17 CEST 2013
Hi Christian,
mol.sum is written to combine or select multiple entries/probes of the same gene/molecule into one value. It should work on the differentially expressed data, i.e. fold changes or t-tests, rather than the original expression data. Because it select probes based on their variances.
For your original expression data, you may follow a similar approach as mol.sum. I would recommend to use "max.abs" to probe set with the max variance as the representative of the gene.
In gage package, we have a vignette named “Gene set and data preparation” to address your issue in detail under the section of “Probe set ID conversion”. The vignette is available at: http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.13/bioc/vignettes/gage/inst/doc/dataPrep.pdf.
Weijun
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On Mon, 10/7/13, Christian De Santis <christian.desantis at stir.ac.uk> wrote:
Subject: RE: GAGE and PATHVIEW packages
Cc: "bioconductor at r-project.org" <bioconductor at r-project.org>
Date: Monday, October 7, 2013, 7:49 AM
Hi Weijun,
Thanks for your prompt reply. It was very helpful to clarify
my doubts, although it generated one more.
"mol.sum" it is an excellent function, thanks for pointing
it out. The default sum.method for this function is "sum". I
am not sure what "sum" is exactly computing (and being a
novice I have difficulties to look at the code directly),
but I assume that it will return the sum of the
intensities associated with replicates ID. The reason why I
am asking is that I am using arrays with an unbalanced
number of replicates probes (i.e. 3 for gene A, 6 for gene
B, etc.). I have the feeling that the "sum" option would, in
my case, put a greater weight on those pathways with core
genes more present on the array (i.e. gene B). I tried two
different methods to test my hypothesis, and by using "sum"
I indeed got one of our target pathways called significant
in the top 3, while it does not show up by using "mean" for
example (most other pathways are consistent). I would
appreciate if you could help me clarify this doubt and make
a decision. Am I correct, based on the design of my arrays,
to avoid choosing the method "sum"?
This should solve most of my doubts about your packages for
now. Thanks again very much for your help.
Best regards,
Christian
-----Original Message-----
Sent: 07 October 2013 01:11
To: Christian De Santis
Cc: bioconductor at r-project.org
Subject: Re: GAGE and PATHVIEW packages
Hi Christian,
Please see my point-to-point answers below.
HTHs,
Weijun
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On Fri, 10/4/13, Christian De Santis <christian.desantis at stir.ac.uk>
wrote:
Subject: GAGE and PATHVIEW packages
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Date: Friday, October 4, 2013, 11:27 AM
Dear Luo and list,
> I am successfully using GAGE and pathview for my
analyses and I like the package a lot. So, thanks for
developing it. I have some points on which I would
appreciate some help and/or clarification.
Thanks for the comments.
> AVERAGE VALUE - The first time I run the analysis with
GAGE, I used an identical setup parameters as the
example prepared by you in the manual. I have 8
replicates per treatment and I initially used unique
column names for each sample (i.e. “DIET02_1,
DIET02_2, DIET02_3, etc.) as per your example with HN
and DCIS. However, I have discovered (following a
casual
mistake) that if instead of having a unique name samples
are named with the treatments they belong (i.e.
“DIET02” for all 8 replicates), the subsequent
gage analysis it generates one single value for that
treatment. By comparing the p values of both the above
cases I have found that they are identical. Am I
correct to assume that in the latter case every value
assigned to the treatment are an average of the
replicates?
It is the average, i.e. p-value is the genometric mean,
while statistics is the mean of the columns with the same
name. The average mechanism is there to accomdate special
needs or mistakes, but it is not recommended to use the same
name for replicate samples.
> DUPLICATE PROBES – My array has got several
duplicate or triplicate probes which are correctly
annotated with the same KO number. How are these
probes handled by the gage analysis? For example, if I
have three probes for my gene X which are annotated
with the same KO number, are these going to be counted
3 times into the “set size”? Or are the values for
that KO number going to be merged into one?
Duplicate probes will be count for multiple times, which is
not good. Because gene set analysis like GAGE really assume
one independent variable per gene. You may summarize over
duplicate probes before feed into GAGE. You can check
?mol.sum in pathview package for that.
> “COMPARE” argument of “gage”
function – My experiment consists of 5 treatments (x
8 replicates). None of the treatments is a
proper “control”. Is it correct if I use as an
argument “1ongroup” choosing one of the treatment
as a ref? I have also tried the “as.group”
option but when I look at the results I do not get a
comparison of the chosen reference with the remaining
groups, but instead one single value named “exp1”.
I have also tried “paired”
which gives completely different results.
If you set ref or samp other than NULL, GAGE assume it is a
two state comparison. Compare argument may assume one value
of 1ongrp, paired, unpaired, as.group based on needs. They
are all for two state comparison, but to do it based on
whether you samples are paired or not etc. If you want to do
multiple state comparison/test, you should do before GAGE on
each gene, then feed the single-column results into gage
with “ref = NULL, samp = NULL”. If you want to do a
two-state comparison, you should specify a control state,
either all 4 groups other than your inntersting group, or
the median of all groups for each gene.
> HEATMAP OUTPUT of “esset.grp” function
– Is there any quick way to generate an output
heatmap (as for sigGeneSet) removing the redundant
pathways identified with function “esset.grp”? At
the moment I am doing this manually and plotting the
results into
heatmap.2 from gplot. Is this the only way?
You can do this quickly using esset.grp+ sigGeneSet,
assuming you follow the examples till you get
gse16873.kegg.esg.up and gse16873.kegg.esg.dn:
ess.sets=c(gse16873.kegg.esg.up$essentialSets,
gse16873.kegg.esg.dn$essentialSets)
gse16873.kegg.p.ess=lapply(gse16873.kegg.p, function(x)
x[ess.sets,])
gse16873.kegg.sig.ess=sigGeneSet(gse16873.kegg.p.ess,
outname="gse16873.kegg.ess")
Any help on the above would be greatly
appreciated.
Regards.
Christian De Santis
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