Contents

1 Citing GenomicSuperSignature

Please cite GenomicSuperSignature as follows:

Oh, S., Geistlinger, L., Ramos, M. et al. GenomicSuperSignature facilitates interpretation of RNA-seq experiments through robust, efficient comparison to public databases. Nat Commun 13, 3695 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31411-3

2 Setup

2.1 Install and load package

if (!require("BiocManager"))
    install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("GenomicSuperSignature")
library(GenomicSuperSignature)

2.2 Download RAVmodel

You can download GenomicSuperSignature from Google Cloud bucket using GenomicSuperSignature::getModel function. Currently available models are built from top 20 PCs of 536 studies (containing 44,890 samples) containing 13,934 common genes from each of 536 study’s top 90% varying genes based on their study-level standard deviation. There are two versions of this RAVmodel annotated with different gene sets for GSEA: MSigDB C2 (C2) and three priors from PLIER package (PLIERpriors). In this vignette, we are showing the C2 annotated model.

Note that the first interactive run of this code, you will be asked to allow R to create a cache directory. The model file will be stored there and subsequent calls to getModel will read from the cache.

RAVmodel <- getModel("C2", load=TRUE)
#> [1] "downloading"

3 Content of RAVmodel

RAVindex is a matrix containing genes in rows and RAVs in columns. colData slot provides the information on each RAVs, such as GSEA annotation and studies involved in each cluster. metadata slot stores model construction information. trainingData slot contains the information on individual studies in training dataset, such as MeSH terms assigned to each study.

RAVmodel
#> class: PCAGenomicSignatures 
#> dim: 13934 4764 
#> metadata(8): cluster size ... version geneSets
#> assays(1): RAVindex
#> rownames(13934): CASKIN1 DDX3Y ... CTC-457E21.9 AC007966.1
#> rowData names(0):
#> colnames(4764): RAV1 RAV2 ... RAV4763 RAV4764
#> colData names(4): RAV studies silhouetteWidth gsea
#> trainingData(2): PCAsummary MeSH
#> trainingData names(536): DRP000987 SRP059172 ... SRP164913 SRP188526

version(RAVmodel)
#> [1] "1.1.1"
geneSets(RAVmodel)
#> [1] "MSigDB C2 version 7.1"

3.1 RAVindex

Replicable Axis of Variation (RAV) index is the main component of GenomicSuperSignature. It serves as an index connecting new datasets and the existing database. You can access it through GenomicSuperSignature::RAVindex (equivalent of SummarizedExperiment::assay). Rows are genes and columns are RAVs.

Here, RAVmodel consists of 13,934 genes and 4,764 RAVs.

class(RAVindex(RAVmodel))
#> [1] "matrix" "array"
dim(RAVindex(RAVmodel))
#> [1] 13934  4764
RAVindex(RAVmodel)[1:4, 1:4]
#>                RAV1          RAV2         RAV3         RAV4
#> CASKIN1 0.002449532 -2.845471e-03  0.001601715 -0.009366156
#> DDX3Y   0.006093438  1.870528e-03 -0.004346019 -0.006094526
#> MDGA1   0.009999975  2.610302e-03 -0.002831447 -0.006710757
#> EIF1AY  0.007923652  8.507021e-05  0.002322275 -0.007850784

3.2 Metadata for RAVmodel

Metadata slot of RAVmodel contains information related to the model building.

names(metadata(RAVmodel))
#> [1] "cluster"    "size"       "k"          "n"          "MeSH_freq" 
#> [6] "updateNote" "version"    "geneSets"
  • cluster : cluster membership of each PCs from the training dataset
  • size : an integer vector with the length of clusters, containing the number of PCs in each cluster
  • k : the number of all clusters in the given RAVmodel
  • n : the number of top PCs kept from each study in the training dataset
  • geneSets : the name of gene sets used for GSEA annotation
  • MeSH_freq : the frequency of MeSH terms associated with the training dataset. MeSH terms like ‘Humans’ and ‘RNA-seq’ are top ranked (which is very expected) because the training dataset of this model is Human RNA sequencing data.
  • updateNote : a brief note on the given model’s specification
  • version : the version of the given model
head(metadata(RAVmodel)$cluster)
#> DRP000987.PC1 DRP000987.PC2 DRP000987.PC3 DRP000987.PC4 DRP000987.PC5 
#>             1             2             3             4             5 
#> DRP000987.PC6 
#>             6
head(metadata(RAVmodel)$size)
#> RAV1 RAV2 RAV3 RAV4 RAV5 RAV6 
#>    6   21    4    7    3    3
metadata(RAVmodel)$k
#> [1] 4764
metadata(RAVmodel)$n
#> [1] 20
geneSets(RAVmodel)
#> [1] "MSigDB C2 version 7.1"
head(metadata(RAVmodel)$MeSH_freq)
#> 
#>                 Humans                RNA-Seq          Transcriptome 
#>                   1163                    591                    576 
#>                    RNA Whole Exome Sequencing        Sequencing, RNA 
#>                    372                    284                    277
updateNote(RAVmodel)  
#> [1] "GSEA with set.seed"
metadata(RAVmodel)$version
#> [1] "1.1.1"

3.3 Studies in each RAV

You can find which studies are in each cluster using studies method. Output is a list with the length of clusters, where each element is a character vector containing the name of studies in each cluster.

length(studies(RAVmodel))
#> [1] 4764
studies(RAVmodel)[1:3]
#> $Cl4764_01
#> [1] "DRP000987" "SRP059172" "SRP059959" "SRP118741" "SRP144178" "SRP183186"
#> 
#> $Cl4764_02
#>  [1] "DRP000987" "ERP022839" "ERP104463" "ERP106996" "ERP109789" "ERP114435"
#>  [7] "SRP059039" "SRP059172" "SRP065317" "SRP071547" "SRP073061" "SRP074274"
#> [13] "SRP075449" "SRP092158" "SRP096736" "SRP107337" "SRP111402" "SRP125008"
#> [19] "SRP133442" "SRP135684" "SRP155483"
#> 
#> $Cl4764_03
#> [1] "DRP000987" "SRP001540" "SRP056840" "SRP125396"

You can check which PC from different studies are in RAVs using PCinRAV.

PCinRAV(RAVmodel, 2)
#>  [1] "DRP000987.PC2" "ERP022839.PC2" "ERP104463.PC1" "ERP106996.PC2"
#>  [5] "ERP109789.PC2" "ERP114435.PC1" "SRP059039.PC3" "SRP059172.PC2"
#>  [9] "SRP065317.PC1" "SRP071547.PC3" "SRP073061.PC2" "SRP074274.PC5"
#> [13] "SRP075449.PC2" "SRP092158.PC2" "SRP096736.PC2" "SRP107337.PC3"
#> [17] "SRP111402.PC1" "SRP125008.PC2" "SRP133442.PC1" "SRP135684.PC4"
#> [21] "SRP155483.PC2"

3.4 Silhouette width for each RAV

Silhouette width ranges from -1 to 1 for each cluster. Typically, it is interpreted as follows:
- Values close to 1 suggest that the observation is well matched to the assigned cluster
- Values close to 0 suggest that the observation is borderline matched between two clusters
- Values close to -1 suggest that the observations may be assigned to the wrong cluster

For RAVmodel, the average silhouette width of each cluster is a quality control measure and suggested as a secondary reference to choose proper RAVs, following validation score.

x <- silhouetteWidth(RAVmodel)
head(x)   # average silhouette width of the first 6 RAVs
#>           1           2           3           4           5           6 
#> -0.05470163  0.06426256 -0.01800335 -0.04005584  0.05786189 -0.02520973

3.5 GSEA on each RAV

Pre-processed GSEA results on each RAV are stored in RAVmodel and can be accessed through gsea function.

class(gsea(RAVmodel))
#> [1] "list"
class(gsea(RAVmodel)[[1]])
#> [1] "data.frame"
length(gsea(RAVmodel))
#> [1] 4764
gsea(RAVmodel)[1]
#> $RAV1
#>                                                           Description       NES
#> REACTOME_MITOCHONDRIAL_TRANSLATION REACTOME_MITOCHONDRIAL_TRANSLATION  2.503359
#> REACTOME_TRANSLATION                             REACTOME_TRANSLATION  2.271857
#> CROONQUIST_STROMAL_STIMULATION_UP   CROONQUIST_STROMAL_STIMULATION_UP -3.634893
#>                                         pvalue      qvalues
#> REACTOME_MITOCHONDRIAL_TRANSLATION 1.00000e-10 9.218794e-08
#> REACTOME_TRANSLATION               1.00000e-10 9.218794e-08
#> CROONQUIST_STROMAL_STIMULATION_UP  1.20798e-10 9.218794e-08

3.6 MeSH terms for each study

You can find MeSH terms associated with each study using mesh method. Output is a list with the length of studies used for training. Each element of this output list is a data frame containing the assigned MeSH terms and the detail of them. The last column bagOfWords is the frequency of the MeSH term in the whole training dataset.

length(mesh(RAVmodel))
#> [1] 536
mesh(RAVmodel)[1]
#> $DRP000987
#>          score identifier  concept                   name  explanation
#> 35822     1000  DRP000987 C0042333      Genetic Variation Forced N....
#> 58627    18575  DRP000987 C0017431               Genotype Forced L....
#> 149067   37162  DRP000987 C0021247              Indonesia RtM via:....
#> 216848   74145  DRP000987 C0030498              Parasites RtM via:....
#> 716101   22634  DRP000987 C4760607                RNA-Seq RtM via:....
#> 761253   55509  DRP000987 C0024530                Malaria RtM via:....
#> 832289   96999  DRP000987 C0024535    Malaria, Falciparum RtM via:....
#> 1116527 161422  DRP000987 C0032150  Plasmodium falciparum RtM via:....
#> 1230230   7197  DRP000987 C0020969 Innate Immune Response Entry Te....
#> 1468242 162422  DRP000987 C0003062                Animals Parasite....
#> 1573542  19938  DRP000987 C0035668                    RNA RtM via: RNA
#> 1596889 162422  DRP000987 C0086418                 Humans Forced L....
#> 1627781  36315  DRP000987 C0752248 Transcriptome Analysis Entry Te....
#> 1689323  57176  DRP000987 C3178810          Transcriptome RtM via:....
#>         bagOfWords
#> 35822           11
#> 58627           20
#> 149067           2
#> 216848           7
#> 716101         591
#> 761253           6
#> 832289           4
#> 1116527          5
#> 1230230          8
#> 1468242        209
#> 1573542        372
#> 1596889       1163
#> 1627781         66
#> 1689323        576

3.7 PCA summary for each study

PCA summary of each study can be accessed through PCAsummary method. Output is a list with the length of studies, where each element is a matrix containing PCA summary results: standard deviation (SD), variance explained by each PC (Variance), and the cumulative variance explained (Cumulative).

length(PCAsummary(RAVmodel))
#> [1] 536
PCAsummary(RAVmodel)[1]
#> $DRP000987
#>            DRP000987.PC1 DRP000987.PC2 DRP000987.PC3 DRP000987.PC4
#> SD            42.6382804   21.97962707   12.94848367   11.89265640
#> Variance       0.3580557    0.09514629    0.03302091    0.02785537
#> Cumulative     0.3580557    0.45320196    0.48622287    0.51407824
#>            DRP000987.PC5 DRP000987.PC6 DRP000987.PC7 DRP000987.PC8
#> SD           10.89460616   10.53655583    9.47278967    8.97268098
#> Variance      0.02337622    0.02186495    0.01767287    0.01585607
#> Cumulative    0.53745446    0.55931942    0.57699228    0.59284836
#>            DRP000987.PC9 DRP000987.PC10 DRP000987.PC11 DRP000987.PC12
#> SD            8.43652010     7.90810771     7.60865968    7.076401846
#> Variance      0.01401774     0.01231676     0.01140165    0.009862254
#> Cumulative    0.60686609     0.61918285     0.63058449    0.640446748
#>            DRP000987.PC13 DRP000987.PC14 DRP000987.PC15 DRP000987.PC16
#> SD             6.89881271    6.766783788    6.703417100      6.6042884
#> Variance       0.00937346    0.009018116    0.008850009      0.0085902
#> Cumulative     0.64982021    0.658838324    0.667688332      0.6762785
#>            DRP000987.PC17 DRP000987.PC18 DRP000987.PC19 DRP000987.PC20
#> SD             6.44257163    6.245257583    6.042236748    5.992461574
#> Variance       0.00817466    0.007681604    0.007190294    0.007072317
#> Cumulative     0.68445319    0.692134796    0.699325091    0.706397408

4 Other relevant code

The workflow to build the RAVmodel is available from https://github.com/shbrief/model_building which is archived in Zenodo with the identifier https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6496552. All analyses presented in the GenomicSuperSignatures manuscript are reproducible using code accessible from https://github.com/shbrief/GenomicSuperSignaturePaper/ and archived in Zenodo with the identifier [https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6496612].

5 Session Info

sessionInfo()
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