make_DBscores {universalmotif} | R Documentation

## Create P-value databases.

### Description

Generate data used by `compare_motifs()` for P-value calculations. By default, `compare_motifs()` uses an internal database based on the JASPAR2018 core motifs (Khan et al. 2018). Parameters for distributions are are estimated for every combination of motif `widths`.

### Usage

    make_DBscores(db.motifs, method = c("PCC", "EUCL", "SW", "KL", "WEUCL",
      "ALLR", "BHAT", "HELL", "WPCC", "SEUCL", "MAN", "ALLR_LL"),
      shuffle.db = TRUE, shuffle.k = 3, shuffle.method = "linear",
      rand.tries = 1000, widths = 5:30, min.position.ic = 0,
      normalise.scores = c(FALSE, TRUE), min.overlap = 6, min.mean.ic = 0.25,
      progress = TRUE, nthreads = 1, tryRC = TRUE, score.strat = c("sum",
      "a.mean", "g.mean", "median", "wa.mean", "wg.mean", "fzt"))

### Arguments

`db.motifs` | `list` Database motifs.
`method` | `character(1)` One of PCC, EUCL, SW, KL, ALLR, BHAT, HELL, SEUCL, MAN, ALLR_LL, WEUCL, WPCC. See details.
`shuffle.db` | `logical(1)` Deprecated. Does nothing. generate random motifs with `create_motif()`.
`shuffle.k` | `numeric(1)` See `shuffle_motifs()`.
`shuffle.method` | `character(1)` See `shuffle_motifs()`.
`rand.tries` | `numeric(1)` Approximate number of comparisons to perform for every combination of `widths`.
`widths` | `numeric` Motif widths to use in P-value database calculation.
`min.position.ic` | `numeric(1)` Minimum information content required between individual alignment positions for it to be counted in the final alignment score. It is recommended to use this together with `normalise.scores = TRUE`, as this will help punish scores resulting from only a fraction of an alignment.
`normalise.scores` | `logical(1)` Favour alignments which leave fewer unaligned positions, as well as alignments between motifs of similar length. Similarity scores are multiplied by the ratio of aligned positions to the total number of positions in the larger motif, and the inverse for distance scores.
`min.overlap` | `numeric(1)` Minimum overlap required when aligning the motifs. Setting this to a number higher then the width of the motifs will not allow any overhangs. Can also be a number between 0 and 1, representing the minimum fraction that the motifs must overlap.
`min.mean.ic` | `numeric(1)` Minimum mean information content between the two motifs for an alignment to be scored. This helps prevent scoring alignments between low information content regions of two motifs. Note that this can result in some comparisons failing if no alignment passes the mean IC threshold. Use `average_ic()` to filter out low IC motifs to get around this if you want to avoid getting `NA`s in your output.
`progress` | `logical(1)` Show progress.
`nthreads` | `numeric(1)` Run `compare_motifs()` in parallel with `nthreads` threads. `nthreads = 0` uses all available threads.
`tryRC` | `logical(1)` Try the reverse complement of the motifs as well, report the best score.
`score.strat` | `character(1)` How to handle column scores calculated from motif alignments. "sum": add up all scores. "a.mean": take the arithmetic mean. "g.mean": take the geometric mean. "median": take the median. "wa.mean", "wg.mean": weighted arithmetic/geometric mean. "fzt": Fisher Z-transform. Weights are the total information content shared between aligned columns.

### Details

See `compare_motifs()` for more info on comparison parameters.

To replicate the internal universalmotif DB scores, run `make_DBscores()` with the default settings. Note that this will be a slow process.

Arguments `widths`, `method`, `normalise.scores` and `score.strat` are vectorized; all combinations will be attempted.

### Value

A `DataFrame` with score distributions for the input database. If more than one `make_DBscores()` run occurs (i.e. args `method`, `normalise.scores` or `score.strat` are longer than 1), then the function args are included in the `metadata` slot.

### Author(s)

Benjamin Jean-Marie Tremblay, benjamin.tremblay@uwaterloo.ca

### References

Khan A, Fornes O, Stigliani A, Gheorghe M, Castro-Mondragon JA, van der Lee R, Bessy A, Cheneby J, Kulkarni SR, Tan G, Baranasic D, Arenillas DJ, Sandelin A, Vandepoele K, Lenhard B, Ballester B, Wasserman WW, Parcy F, Mathelier A (2018). “JASPAR 2018: update of the open-access database of transcription factor binding profiles and its web framework.” Nucleic Acids Research, 46, D260-D266.

### See Also

`compare_motifs()`

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    library(MotifDb)
    motifs <- convert_motifs(MotifDb[1:100])
    scores <- make_DBscores(motifs, method = "PCC")
    compare_motifs(motifs, 1:100, db.scores = scores)

    ## End(Not run)

[Package universalmotif version 1.10.2 Index]