qpFunctionalCoherence {qpgraph} | R Documentation

## Functional coherence estimation

### Description

Estimates functional coherence for a given transcriptional regulatory network specified either as an adjacency matrix with a list of transcription factor gene identifiers or as a list of transcriptional regulatory modules, whose element names determine which genes encode for transcription factor proteins.

### Usage

    ## S4 method for signature 'lsCMatrix'
    qpFunctionalCoherence(object, TFgenes, geneUniverse=rownames(object),
                                                chip, minRMsize=5, removeGOterm="transcription",
                                                verbose=FALSE, clusterSize=1)
    ## S4 method for signature 'lspMatrix'
    qpFunctionalCoherence(object, TFgenes, geneUniverse=rownames(object),
                                                chip, minRMsize=5, removeGOterm="transcription",
                                                verbose=FALSE, clusterSize=1)
    ## S4 method for signature 'lsyMatrix'
    qpFunctionalCoherence(object, TFgenes, geneUniverse=rownames(object),
                                                chip, minRMsize=5, removeGOterm="transcription",
                                                verbose=FALSE, clusterSize=1)
    ## S4 method for signature 'matrix'
    qpFunctionalCoherence(object, TFgenes, geneUniverse=rownames(object),
                                             chip, minRMsize=5, removeGOterm="transcription",
                                             verbose=FALSE, clusterSize=1)
    ## S4 method for signature 'list'
    qpFunctionalCoherence(object, geneUniverse=unique(c(names(object), unlist(object, use.names=FALSE))),
                                           chip, minRMsize=5, removeGOterm="transcription",
                                           verbose=FALSE, clusterSize=1)

### Arguments

`object` | object containing the transcriptional regulatory modules for which we want to estimate their functional coherence. It can be an adjacency matrix of the undirected graph representing the transcriptional regulatory network or a list of gene target sets where the name of the entry should be the transcription factor gene identifier.
`TFgenes` | when the input object is a matrix, it is required to provide a vector of transcription factor gene identifiers (which should match somewhere in the row and column names of the matrix.
`geneUniverse` | vector of all genes considered in the analysis. By default it equals the rows and column names of `object` when it is a matrix, or the set of all different gene identifiers occuring in `object` when it is a list.
`chip` | name of the `.db` package containing the Gene Ontology (GO) annotations.
`minRMsize` | minimum size of the target gene set in each regulatory module where functional enrichment will be calculated and thus where functional coherence will be estimated.
`removeGOterm` | word, or regular pattern, matching GO terms that should be excluded in the transcription factor gene GO annotations, and in the target gene if the regulatory module has only one gene, prior to the calculation of functional coherence.
`verbose` | logical; if TRUE the function will show progress on the calculations; if FALSE the function will remain quiet (default).
`clusterSize` | size of the cluster of processors to employ if we wish to speed-up the calculations by performing them in parallel. A value of 1 (default) implies a single-processor execution. The use of a cluster of processors requires having previously loaded the packages `snow` and `rlecuyer`.

### Details

This function estimates the functional coherence of a transcriptional regulatory network represented by means of an undirected graph encoded by either an adjacency matrix and a vector of transcription factor genes, or a list of regulatory modules each of them defined by a transcription factor gene and its targets. The functional coherence of a transcriptional regulatory network is calculated as specified by Castelo and Roverato (2009) and corresponds to the distribution of individual functional coherence values of every of the regulatory modules of the network each of them defined as a transcription factor and its set of putatively regulated target genes. In the calculation of the functional coherence value of a regulatory module, Gene Ontology (GO) annotations are employed through the given annotation `.db` package and the conditional hyper-geometric test implemented in the `GOstats` package from Bioconductor.

When a regulatory module has only one target gene, then no functional enrichment is calculated and, instead, the GO trees, grown from the GO annotations of the transcription factor gene and its target, are directly compared.

### Value

A list with the following elements: the transcriptional regulatory network as a list of regulatory modules and their targets; the previous list of regulatory modules but excluding those with no enriched GO BP terms. When the regulatory module has only one target, then instead the GO BP annotations of the target gene are included; a vector of functional coherence values.

### Author(s)

R. Castelo and A. Roverato

### References

Castelo, R. and Roverato, A. Reverse engineering molecular regulatory networks from microarray data with qp-graphs. J. Comp. Biol., 16(2):213-227, 2009.

### See Also

`qpAvgNrr` `qpGraph`

### Examples

    ## example below takes about minute and a half to execute and for
    ## that reason it is not executed by default
    ## Not run:
    library(GOstats)
    library(org.EcK12.eg.db)

    ## load RegulonDB data from this package
    data(EcoliOxygen)

    ## pick two TFs from the RegulonDB data in this package

    TFgenes <- c("mhpR", "iscR")

    ## get their Entrez Gene Identifiers
    TFgenesEgIDs <- unlist(mget(TFgenes, AnnotationDbi::revmap(org.EcK12.egSYMBOL)))

    ## get all genes involved in their regulatory modules from
    ## the RegulonDB data in this package
    mt <- match(filtered.regulon6.1[,"EgID_TF"], TFgenesEgIDs)

    allGenes <- as.character(unique(as.vector(
                as.matrix(filtered.regulon6.1[!is.na(mt),
                                              c("EgID_TF","EgID_TG")]))))

    mtTF <- match(filtered.regulon6.1[,"EgID_TF"],allGenes)
    mtTG <- match(filtered.regulon6.1[,"EgID_TG"],allGenes)

    ## select the corresponding subset of the RegulonDB data in this package
    subset.filtered.regulon6.1 <- filtered.regulon6.1[!is.na(mtTF) & !is.na(mtTG),]
    TFi <- match(subset.filtered.regulon6.1[,"EgID_TF"], allGenes)
    TGi <- match(subset.filtered.regulon6.1[,"EgID_TG"], allGenes)
    subset.filtered.regulon6.1 <- cbind(subset.filtered.regulon6.1,
                                        idx_TF=TFi, idx_TG=TGi)

    ## build an adjacency matrix representing the transcriptional regulatory
    ## relationships from these regulatory modules
    p <- length(allGenes)
    adjacencyMatrix <- matrix(FALSE, nrow=p, ncol=p)
    rownames(adjacencyMatrix) <- colnames(adjacencyMatrix) <- allGenes
    idxTFTG <- as.matrix(subset.filtered.regulon6.1[,c("idx_TF","idx_TG")])
    adjacencyMatrix[idxTFTG] <-
      adjacencyMatrix[cbind(idxTFTG[,2],idxTFTG[,1])] <- TRUE

    ## calculate functional coherence on these regulatory modules
    fc <- qpFunctionalCoherence(adjacencyMatrix, TFgenes=TFgenesEgIDs,
                                chip="org.EcK12.eg.db")

    print(sprintf("the %s module has a FC value of %.2f",
                  mget(names(fc$functionalCoherenceValues),org.EcK12.egSYMBOL),
                  fc$functionalCoherenceValues))

    ## End(Not run)

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