ROntoTools (version 2.0.0)

pe: Pathway-Express: Pathway analysis of signaling pathways

Description

Pathway-Express: Pathway analysis of signaling pathways

Usage

pe(x, graphs, ref = NULL, nboot = 2000, verbose = TRUE, cluster = NULL, seed = NULL)

Arguments

x

named vector of log fold changes for the differentially expressed genes; names(x) must use the same id's as ref and the nodes of the graphs

graphs

list of pathway graphs as objects of type graph (e.g., graphNEL); the graphs must be weighted graphs (i.e., have an attribute weight for both nodes and edges)

ref

the reference vector for all genes in the analysis; if the reference is not provided or it is identical to names(x) a cut-off free analysis is performed

nboot

number of bootstrap iterations

verbose

print progress output

cluster

a cluster object created by makeCluster for parallel computations

seed

an integer value passed to set.seed() during the boostrap permutations

Value

An object of class peRes-class.

Details

See details in the cited articles.

References

Voichita C., Donato M., Draghici S.: "Incorporating gene significance in the impact analysis of signaling pathways", IEEE Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), 2012 11th International Conference on, Vol. 1, p.126-131, 2012

Tarca AL., Draghici S., Khatri P., Hassan SS., Kim J., Kim CJ., Kusanovic JP., Romero R.: "A Signaling Pathway Impact Analysis for Microarray Experiments", 2008, Bioinformatics, 2009, 25(1):75-82.

Khatri P., Draghici S., Tarca AL., Hassan SS., Romero R.: "A system biology approach for the steady-state analysis of gene signaling networks". Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 4756:32-41, November 2007.

Draghici S., Khatri P., Tarca A.L., Amin K., Done A., Voichita C., Georgescu C., Romero R.: "A systems biology approach for pathway level analysis". Genome Research, 17, 2007.

See Also

Summary, plot,peRes,missing-method, keggPathwayGraphs, setNodeWeights, setEdgeWeights

Examples

# load a multiple sclerosis study (public data available in Array Express 
# ID: E-GEOD-21942)
# This file contains the top table, produced by the limma package with 
# added gene information. All the probe sets with no gene associate to them,
# have been removed. Only the most significant probe set for each gene has been
# kept (the table is already ordered by p-value)
# The table contains the expression fold change and signficance of each  
# probe set in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from 12 MS patients
# and 15 controls.
load(system.file("extdata/E-GEOD-21942.topTable.RData", package = "ROntoTools"))
head(top)

# select differentially expressed genes at 1% and save their fold change in a 
# vector fc and their p-values in a vector pv
fc <- top$logFC[top$adj.P.Val <= .01]
names(fc) <- top$entrez[top$adj.P.Val <= .01]

pv <- top$P.Value[top$adj.P.Val <= .01]
names(pv) <- top$entrez[top$adj.P.Val <= .01]

# alternativly use all the genes for the analysis
# NOT RUN: 
# fc <- top$logFC
# names(fc) <- top$entrez

# pv <- top$P.Value
# names(pv) <- top$entrez

# get the reference
ref <- top$entrez

# load the set of pathways
kpg <- keggPathwayGraphs("hsa")

# set the beta information (see the citated documents for meaning of beta)
kpg <- setEdgeWeights(kpg)

# inlcude the significance information in the analysis (see Voichita:2012 
# for more information)
# set the alpha information based on the pv with one of the predefined methods
kpg <- setNodeWeights(kpg, weights = alphaMLG(pv), defaultWeight = 1)

# perform the pathway analysis
# in order to obtain accurate results the number of boostraps, nboot, should 
# be increase to a number like 2000
peRes <- pe(fc, graphs = kpg, ref = ref, nboot = 100, verbose = TRUE)

# obtain summary of results
head(Summary(peRes))