dcGOR (version 1.0.6)

dcAlgoPropagate: Function to propagate ontology annotations according to an input file

Description

dcAlgoPropagate is supposed to propagate ontology annotations, given an input file. This input file contains original annotations between domains/features and ontology terms, along with the hypergeometric scores (hscore) in support for their annotations. The annotations are propagated to the ontology root (either retaining the maximum hscore or additively accumulating the hscore). After the propogation, the ontology terms of increasing levels are determined based on the concept of Information Content (IC) to product a slim version of ontology. It returns an object of S3 class "HIS" with three components: "hscore", "ic" and "slim".

Usage

dcAlgoPropagate(input.file, ontology = c(NA, "GOBP", "GOMF", "GOCC",
"DO",
"HPPA", "HPMI", "HPON", "MP", "EC", "KW", "UP"), propagation = c("max",
"sum"), output.file = "HIS.RData", verbose = T,
RData.ontology.customised = NULL,
RData.location =
"https://github.com/hfang-bristol/RDataCentre/blob/master/dcGOR")

Arguments

input.file

an input file used to build the object. This input file contains original annotations between domains/features and ontology terms, along with the hypergeometric scores (hscore) in support for their annotations. For example, a file containing original annotations between SCOP domain architectures and GO terms can be found in http://dcgor.r-forge.r-project.org/data/Feature/Feature2GO.sf.txt. As seen in this example, the input file must contain the header (in the first row) and three columns: 1st column for 'Feature_id' (here SCOP domain architectures), 2nd column for 'Term_id' (GO terms), and 3rd column for 'Score' (hscore). Alternatively, the input.file can be a matrix or data frame, assuming that input file has been read. Note: the file should use the tab delimiter as the field separator between columns

ontology

the ontology identity. It can be "GOBP" for Gene Ontology Biological Process, "GOMF" for Gene Ontology Molecular Function, "GOCC" for Gene Ontology Cellular Component, "DO" for Disease Ontology, "HPPA" for Human Phenotype Phenotypic Abnormality, "HPMI" for Human Phenotype Mode of Inheritance, "HPON" for Human Phenotype ONset and clinical course, "MP" for Mammalian Phenotype, "EC" for Enzyme Commission, "KW" for UniProtKB KeyWords, "UP" for UniProtKB UniPathway. For details on the eligibility for pairs of input domain and ontology, please refer to the online Documentations at http://supfam.org/dcGOR/docs.html. If NA, then the user has to input a customised RData-formatted file (see RData.ontology.customised below)

propagation

how to propagate the score. It can be "max" for retaining the maximum hscore (by default), "sum" for additively accumulating the hscore

output.file

an output file used to save the HIS object as an RData-formatted file (see 'Value' for details). If NULL, this file will be saved into "HIS.RData" in the current working local directory. If NA, there will be no output file

verbose

logical to indicate whether the messages will be displayed in the screen. By default, it sets to TRUE for display

RData.ontology.customised

a file name for RData-formatted file containing an object of S4 class 'Onto' (i.g. ontology). By default, it is NULL. It is only needed when the user wants to perform customised analysis using their own ontology. See dcBuildOnto for how to creat this object

RData.location

the characters to tell the location of built-in RData files. See dcRDataLoader for details

Value

an object of S3 class HIS, with following components:

• hscore: a list of features, each with a term-named vector containing hscore
• ic: a term-named vector containing information content (IC). Terms are ordered first by IC and then by longest-path level, making sure that for terms with the same IC, parental terms always come first
• slim: a list of four slims, each with a term-named vector containing information content (IC). Slim '1' for very general terms, '2' for general terms, '3' for specific terms, '4' for very specific terms

See Also

dcRDataLoader, dcConverter, dcAlgo, dcList2Matrix

Examples

## Not run: 
# # build an "HIS" object for GO Molecular Function
# input.file <-
# "http://dcgor.r-forge.r-project.org/data/Feature/Feature2GO.sf.txt"
# Feature2GOMF.sf <- dcAlgoPropagate(input.file=input.file,
# ontology="GOMF", output.file="Feature2GOMF.sf.RData")
# names(Feature2GOMF.sf)
# Feature2GOMF.sf$hscore[1]
# Feature2GOMF.sf$ic[1:10]
# Feature2GOMF.sf$slim[1]
# 
# # extract hscore as a matrix with 3 columns (Feature_id, Term_id, Score)
# hscore <- Feature2GOMF.sf$hscore
# hscore_mat <- dcList2Matrix(hscore)
# colnames(hscore_mat) <- c("Feature_id", "Term_id", "Score")
# dim(hscore_mat)
# hscore_mat[1:10,]
# ## End(Not run)