motifKernel {kebabs} | R Documentation

## Motif Kernel

### Description

Create a motif kernel object and the kernel matrix

### Usage

    motifKernel(motifs, r = 1, annSpec = FALSE, distWeight = numeric(0),
      normalized = TRUE, exact = TRUE, ignoreLower = TRUE, presence = FALSE)

    ## S4 method for signature 'MotifKernel'
    getFeatureSpaceDimension(kernel, x)

### Arguments

`motifs` | a set of motif patterns specified as character vector. The order in which the patterns are passed for creation of the kernel object also determines the order of the features in the explicit representation. Lowercase characters in motifs are always converted to uppercase. For details concerning the definition of motif patterns see below and in the examples section.
`r` | exponent which must be > 0 (see details section in spectrumKernel). Default=1
`annSpec` | boolean that indicates whether sequence annotation should be taken into account (details see on help page for `annotationMetadata`). Default=FALSE
`distWeight` | a numeric distance weight vector or a distance weighting function (details see on help page for `gaussWeight`). Default=NULL
`normalized` | generated data from this kernel will be normalized (details see below). Default=TRUE
`exact` | use exact character set for the evaluation (details see below). Default=TRUE
`ignoreLower` | ignore lower case characters in the sequence. If the parameter is not set lower case characters are treated like uppercase. default=TRUE
`presence` | if this parameter is set only the presence of a motif will be considered, otherwise the number of occurances of the motif is used; Default=FALSE
`kernel` | a sequence kernel object
`x` | one or multiple biological sequences in the form of a `DNAStringSet`, `RNAStringSet`, `AAStringSet` (or as `BioVector`)

### Details

Creation of kernel object
The function 'motif' creates a kernel object for the motif kernel for a set of given DNA-, RNA- or AA-motifs. This kernel object can then be used to generate a kernel matrix or an explicit representation for this kernel. The individual patterns in the set of motifs are built similar to regular expressions through concatination of following elements in arbitrary order:

- a specific character from the used character set - e.g. 'A' or 'G' in DNA patterns for matching a specific character

- the wildcard character '.' which matches any valid character of the character set except '-'

- a substitution group specified by a collection of characters from the character set enclosed in square brackets - e.g. [AG] - which matches any of the listed characters; with a leading '^' the character list is inverted and matching occurs for all characters of the character set which are not listed except '-'

For values different from 1 (=default value) parameter `r` leads to a transfomation of similarities by taking each element of the similarity matrix to the power of r. For the annotation specific variant of this kernel see annotationMetadata, for the distance weighted variants see positionMetadata. If `normalized=TRUE`, the feature vectors are scaled to the unit sphere before computing the similarity value for the kernel matrix. For two samples with the feature vectors `x` and `y` the similarity is computed as:

s=(x^T y)/(|x| |y|)

For an explicit representation generated with the feature map of a normalized kernel the rows are normalized by dividing them through their Euclidean norm. For parameter `exact=TRUE` the sequence characters are interpreted according to an exact character set. If the flag is not set ambigous characters from the IUPAC characterset are also evaluated.

The annotation specific variant (for details see annotationMetadata) and the position dependent variants (for details see positionMetadata) either in the form of a position specific or a distance weighted kernel are supported for the motif kernel. The generation of an explicit representation is not possible for the position dependent variants of this kernel.

Hint: For a normalized motif kernel with a feature subset of a normalized spectrum kernel the explicit representation will not be identical to the subset of an explicit representation for the spectrum kernel because the motif kernel is not aware of the other kmers which are used in the spectrum kernel additionally for normalization.
Creation of kernel matrix
The kernel matrix is created with the function `getKernelMatrix` or via a direct call with the kernel object as shown in the examples below.

### Value

motif: upon successful completion, the function returns a kernel object of class `MotifKernel`.

of getDimFeatureSpace: dimension of the feature space as numeric value

### Author(s)

Johannes Palme <kebabs@bioinf.jku.at>

### References

http://www.bioinf.jku.at/software/kebabs
(Ben-Hur, 2003) – A. Ben-Hur, and D. Brutlag. Remote homology detection: a motif based approach.
(Bodenhofer, 2009) – U. Bodenhofer, K. Schwarzbauer, M. Ionescu and S. Hochreiter. Modelling position specificity in sequence kernels by fuzzy equivalence relations.
(Mahrenholz, 2011) – C.C. Mahrenholz, I.G. Abfalter, U. Bodenhofer, R. Volkmer and S. Hochreiter. Complex networks govern coiled-coil oligomerizations - predicting and profiling by means of a machine learning approach.
J. Palme, S. Hochreiter, and U. Bodenhofer (2015) KeBABS: an R package for kernel-based analysis of biological sequences. Bioinformatics, 31(15):2574-2576, 2015. DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv176.

### See Also

`kernelParameters-method`, `getKernelMatrix`, `getExRep`, `spectrumKernel`, `mismatchKernel`, `gappyPairKernel`

### Examples

    ## instead of user provided sequences in XStringSet format
    ## for this example a set of DNA sequences is created
    ## RNA- or AA-sequences can be used as well with the motif kernel
    dnaseqs <- DNAStringSet(c("AGACTTAAGGGACCTGGTCACCACGCTCGGTGAGGGGGACGGGGTGT",
                              "ATAAAGGTTGCAGACATCATGTCCTTTTTGTCCCTAATTATTTCAGC",
                              "CAGGAATCAGCACAGGCAGGGGCACGGCATCCCAAGACATCTGGGCC",
                              "GGACATATACCCACCGTTACGTGTCATACAGGATAGTTCCACTGCCC",
                              "ATAAAGGTTGCAGACATCATGTCCTTTTTGTCCCTAATTATTTCAGC"))
    names(dnaseqs) <- paste("S", 1:length(dnaseqs), sep="")

    ## create the kernel object with the motif patterns
    mot <- motifKernel(c("A[CG]T","C.G","G[^A][AT]"), normalized=FALSE)
    ## show details of kernel object
    mot

    ## generate the kernel matrix with the kernel object
    km <- mot(dnaseqs)
    dim(km)
    km

    ## alternative way to generate the kernel matrix
    km <- getKernelMatrix(mot, dnaseqs)

    ## Not run:
    ## plot heatmap of the kernel matrix
    heatmap(km, symm=TRUE)

    ## generate rectangular kernel matrix
    km <- mot(x=dnaseqs, selx=1:3, y=dnaseqs, sely=4:5)
    dim(km)
    km

    ## End(Not run)

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