make_sparse_matrix {BUSpaRse} | R Documentation

## Convert the Output of `kallisto bus` into Gene by Gell Matrix

### Description

This function takes the output file of `kallisto bus`, after being sorted and converted into text with `bustools`. See vignettes on the website of this package for a tutorial. The `bustools` output has 4 columns: barcode, UMI, equivalence class, and counts. This function converts that file into a sparse matrix that can be used in downstream analyses.

### Usage

    make_sparse_matrix(
      bus_path,
      tr2g,
      est_ncells,
      est_ngenes,
      whitelist = NULL,
      gene_count = TRUE,
      TCC = TRUE,
      single_gene = TRUE,
      verbose = TRUE,
      progress_unit = 5e+06
    )

### Arguments

`bus_path` | Path to the sorted text `bus` output file.
`tr2g` | A Data frame with columns `gene` and `transcript`, in the same order as in the transcriptome index for `kallisto`. This argument can be missing or is ignored if only the TCC matrix, not the gene count matrix, is made.
`est_ncells` | Estimated number of cells; providing this argument will speed up computation as it minimizes memory reallocation as vectors grow.
`est_ngenes` | Estimated number of genes or equivalence classes.
`whitelist` | A character vector with valid cell barcodes. This is an optional argument, that defaults to `NULL`. When it is `NULL`, all cell barcodes present that have some UMI assignable to genes or ECs will be included in the sparse matrix whether they are known to be valid or not. Barcodes with only UMIs that are not assignable to genes or ECs will still be excluded.
`gene_count` | Logical, whether the gene count matrix should be returned.
`TCC` | Logical, whether the TCC matrix should be returned.
`single_gene` | Logical, whether to use single gene mode. In single gene mode, only UMIs that can be uniquely mapped to one gene are kept. Without single gene mode, UMIs mapped to multiple genes will be evenly distributed to those genes.
`verbose` | Whether to display progress.
`progress_unit` | How many iteration to print one progress update when reading in the `kallisto bus` file.

### Details

This function can generate both the gene count matrix and the transcript compatibility count (TCC) matrix. The TCC matrix has barcodes in the columns and equivalence classes in the rows. See Ntranos et al. 2016 for more information about the RCC matrix.

For 10x data sets, you can find a barcode whitelist file that comes with CellRanger installation. You don't need to run CellRanger to get that. An example path to get the whitelist file is `cellranger-2.1.0/cellranger-cs/2.1.0/lib/python/cellranger/barcodes/737K-august-2016.txt` for v2 chemistry.

### Value

If both gene count and TCC matrices are returned, then this function returns a list with two matrices, each with genes/equivalence classes in the rows and barcodes in the columns. If only one of gene count and TCC matrices is returned, then a `dgCMatrix` with genes/equivalence classes in the rows and barcodes in the columns. These matrices are unfiltered. Please filter the empty droplets before downstream analysis.

### See Also

`EC2gene`

### Examples

    # Load toy example for testing
    toy_path <- system.file("testdata", package = "BUSpaRse")
    load(paste(toy_path, "toy_example.RData", sep = "/"))
    out_fn <- paste0(toy_path, "/output.sorted.txt")
    # With whitelist
    m <- make_sparse_matrix(out_fn, tr2g_toy, 10, 3, whitelist = whitelist,
      gene_count = TRUE, TCC = FALSE, single_gene = TRUE,
      verbose = FALSE)

[Package BUSpaRse version 1.6.1 Index]