--- title: "fssemR: Fused Sparse Structural Equation Models to Jointly Infer Gene Regulatory Networks" author: "Xin Zhou" date: "`r Sys.Date()`" output: pdf_document vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{fssemR-introduction} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = ">" ) ``` In this vignette, we introduce the functionality of the `fssemR` package to estimate the differential gene regulatory network by gene expression and genetic perturbation data. To meet the space and time constraints in building this vignette within the `fssemR` package, we are going to simulate gene expression and genetic perturbation data instead of using a real dataset. For this purpose, we will use function `randomFSSEMdata2` in `fssemR` to generate simulated data, and then apply fused sparse structural equation model (FSSEM) to estimate the GRNs under two different conditions and their differential GRN. Also, please go to `https://github.com/Ivis4ml/fssemR/tree/master/inst` for more large dataset analysis. In conlcusion, this vignette is composed by three sections as follow, - Simulating two GRNs and their eQTL effects under two different conditions - Estimating GRNs from the simulated gene expression data and genetic perturbation data - Differential GRN Visualization For user using package `fssemR`, please cite the following article: Xin Zhou and Xiaodong Cai. Inference of Differential Gene Regulatory Networks Based on Gene Expression and Genetic Perturbation Data. Bioinformatics, submitted. ## Simulating two GRNs and their eQTL effects under two different conditions (Acyclic example) We are going to simulate two GRNs and their corresponding gene expression and genetic perturbation data in the following steps: 1. Load the necessary packages ```{r} library(fssemR) library(network) library(ggnetwork) library(Matrix) ``` 2. Simulate 20 genes expression data from a directed acyclic networks (DAGs) under two conditions, and each gene is simulated having average 3 cis-eQTLs. Also, the genotypes of corresponding eQTLs are generated from F2-cross. ```{r} n = c(100, 100) # number of observations in two conditions p = 20 # number of genes in our simulation k = 3 # each gene has nonzero 3 cis-eQTL effect sigma2 = 0.01 # simulated noise variance prob = 3 # average number of edges connected to each gene type = "DG" # `fssemR` also offers simulated ER and directed graph (DG) network dag = TRUE # if DG is simulated, user can select to simulate DAG or DCG ## seed = as.numeric(Sys.time()) # any seed acceptable seed = 1234 # set.seed(100) set.seed(seed) data = randomFSSEMdata2(n = n, p = p, k = p * k, sparse = prob / 2, df = 0.3, sigma2 = sigma2, type = type, dag = T) ``` ```{r, echo=FALSE, eval=TRUE} # genes 1 to 20 are named as g1, g2, ..., g20 rownames(data$Vars$B[[1]]) = colnames(data$Vars$B[[1]]) = paste("g", seq(1, p), sep = "") rownames(data$Vars$B[[2]]) = colnames(data$Vars$B[[2]]) = paste("g", seq(1, p), sep = "") rownames(data$Data$Y[[1]]) = rownames(data$Data$Y[[2]]) = paste("g", seq(1, p), sep = "") names(data$Data$Sk) = paste("g", seq(1, p), sep = "") # qtl 1 to qtl 60 are named as rs1, rs2, ..., rs60 rownames(data$Vars$F) = paste("g", seq(1, p), sep = "") colnames(data$Vars$F) = paste("rs", seq(1, p * k), sep = "") rownames(data$Data$X[[1]]) = rownames(data$Data$X[[2]]) = paste("rs", seq(1, p * k), sep = "") ``` + Summary of simulated GRNs under two conditions, for simplicity, we named our simulated genes as `g{%d}` and eQTLs as `rs{%d}`. ```{r, fig.align="center", fig.cap = "Simulated GRN under condition 1"} # data$Vars$B[[1]] ## simulated GRN under condition 1 GRN_1 = network(t(data$Vars$B[[1]]) != 0, matrix.type = "adjacency", directed = TRUE) plot(GRN_1, displaylabels = TRUE, label = network.vertex.names(GRN_1), label.cex = 0.5) ``` ```{r, fig.align="center", fig.cap = "Simulated GRN under condition 2"} # data$Vars$B[[2]] ## simulated GRN under condition 2 GRN_2 = network(t(data$Vars$B[[2]]) != 0, matrix.type = "adjacency", directed = TRUE) plot(GRN_2, displaylabels = TRUE, label = network.vertex.names(GRN_2), label.cex = 0.5) ``` ```{r, fig.align="center", fig.cap = "Simulated differential GRN (GRN2 - GRN1), up-regulated are red and down-regulated are blue"} # data$Vars$B[[2]] ## simulated GRN under condition 2 diffGRN = network(t(data$Vars$B[[2]] - data$Vars$B[[1]]) != 0, matrix.type = "adjacency", directed = TRUE) ecol = 3 - sign(t(data$Vars$B[[2]] - data$Vars$B[[1]])) plot(diffGRN, displaylabels = TRUE, label = network.vertex.names(GRN_2), label.cex = 0.5, edge.col = ecol) ``` + Simulated eQTLs's effect for 20 genes. ```{r} library(Matrix) print(Matrix(data$Vars$F, sparse = TRUE)) ``` Therefore, the $B$ matrices and $F$ matrix in `data$Vars` are the true values in our simulated model. We then need to estimated the $\hat{B}$ and $\hat{F}$ by the FSSEM algorithm. ## Estimating GRNs from the simulated gene expression data and genetic perturbation data We need to input the gene expression and corresponding genotype data of two conditions into the FSSEM algorithm. They are stored in the `data$Data`. 1. 20 simulated gene expression under two conditions ```{r} head(data$Data$Y[[1]]) head(data$Data$Y[[2]]) ``` 2. 60 corresponding cis-eQTLs' genotype under two conditions ```{r} head(data$Data$X[[1]] - 1) head(data$Data$X[[2]] - 1) ``` 3. `data$Data$Sk` stores each gene's cis-eQTL's indices. In real data application, we recommend to use package `MatrixEQTL` to search the significant cis-eQTLs for genes of interested and build `Sk` for your research ```{r} head(data$Data$Sk) ``` ### Initialization of `fssemR` by ridge regression We implement our fssemR by the observed gene expression data and genetic perturbations data that stored in `data$Data`, and it is initialized by ridge regression, the $l_2$ norm penalty's hyperparameter $\gamma$ is selected by 5-fold cross-validation. ```{r} Xs = data$Data$X ## eQTL's genotype data Ys = data$Data$Y ## gene expression data Sk = data$Data$Sk ## cis-eQTL indices gamma = cv.multiRegression(Xs, Ys, Sk, ngamma = 50, nfold = 5, n = data$Vars$n, p = data$Vars$p, k = data$Vars$k) fit0 = multiRegression(data$Data$X, data$Data$Y, data$Data$Sk, gamma, trans = FALSE, n = data$Vars$n, p = data$Vars$p, k = data$Vars$k) ``` ### Run fssemR algorithm for data Then, we chose the `fit0` object from ridge regression as intialization, and implement the `fssemR` algorithm, BIC is used to select optimal hyperparameters $\lambda, \rho$, where `nlambda` is the number of candidate lambda values for $l_1$ regularized term, and `nrho` is the number of candidate rho values for fused lasso regularized term. ```{r} fitOpt <- opt.multiFSSEMiPALM2(Xs = Xs, Ys = Ys, Bs = fit0$Bs, Fs = fit0$Fs, Sk = Sk, sigma2 = fit0$sigma2, nlambda = 10, nrho = 10, p = data$Vars$p, q = data$Vars$k, wt = TRUE) fit <- fitOpt$fit ``` ### Comparing our estimated GRNs and differential GRN with ground truth ```{r} cat("Power of two estimated GRNs = ", (TPR(fit$Bs[[1]], data$Vars$B[[1]]) + TPR(fit$Bs[[2]], data$Vars$B[[2]])) / 2) cat("FDR of two estimated GRNs = ", (FDR(fit$Bs[[1]], data$Vars$B[[1]]) + FDR(fit$Bs[[2]], data$Vars$B[[2]])) / 2) cat("Power of estimated differential GRN = ", TPR(fit$Bs[[1]] - fit$Bs[[2]], data$Vars$B[[1]] - data$Vars$B[[2]])) cat("FDR of estimated differential GRN = ", FDR(fit$Bs[[1]] - fit$Bs[[2]], data$Vars$B[[1]] - data$Vars$B[[2]])) ``` From these 4 metrics, we can get the performance of our `fssemR` algorithm comparing to the ground truth (if we know) ## Differential GRN Visualization ```{r, fig.align="center", fig.cap = "estimated differential GRN by fssemR"} # data$Vars$B[[2]] ## simulated GRN under condition 2 diffGRN = network(t(fit$Bs[[2]] - fit$Bs[[1]]) != 0, matrix.type = "adjacency", directed = TRUE) # up-regulated edges are colored by `red` and down-regulated edges are colored by `blue` ecol = 3 - sign(t(fit$Bs[[2]] - fit$Bs[[1]])) plot(diffGRN, displaylabels = TRUE, label = network.vertex.names(GRN_2), label.cex = 0.5, edge.col = ecol) ``` Additionally, the differeitial effect of two GRN are also estimated. Therefore, we can tell how the interactions in two GRNs change. ```{r} diffGRN = Matrix::Matrix(fit$Bs[[1]] - fit$Bs[[2]], sparse = TRUE) rownames(diffGRN) = colnames(diffGRN) = rownames(data$Vars$B[[1]]) diffGRN ``` From the diffGRN, we can determined how the gene-gene interactions in GRN changes across two conditions, then, we can find out the key genes for condition-specific gene regulatory network. Additionally, for more applications and the replications of our real data analysis, please go to the `https://github.com/Ivis4ml/fssemR/tree/master/inst` for more cases. ## Session Information ```{r} sessionInfo() ```