experiment-class: experiment class definition
In ORFik: Open Reading Frames in Genomics

Description Details See Also Examples

It is an object to massivly simplify your coding, by having a table of all libraries of an experiment. That contains filepaths and info for each library in the experiment. It also tries to guess grouping / types / pairs by the file names.
Act as a way of extension of SummarizedExperiment by allowing more ease to find not only counts, but rather information about libraries, and annotation, so that more tasks are possible. Like coverage per position in some transcript etc.

## Constructor:
Simplest way to make is to call:
create.experiment(dir)
On some folder with NGS libraries (usually bam files) and see what you get. Some of the fields might be needed to fill in manually. Each resulting row must be unique (not including filepath, they are always unique), that means if it has replicates then that must be said explicit. And all filepaths must be unique and have files with size > 0.

Here all the columns in the experiment will be described: name (column info): examples

libtype: library type: rna-seq, ribo-seq, CAGE etc
stage: stage or tissue: 64cell, Shield, HEK293
rep: replicate: 1,2,3 etc
condition: treatment or condition: : WT (wild-type), control, target, mzdicer, starved
fraction: fraction of total: 18, 19 (TCP / RCP fractions), or other ways to split library.
filepath: Full filepath to file
reverse: optional: 2nd filepath or info, only used if paired files

Special rules:
Supported:
Single/paired end bam, bed, wig, ofst + compressions of these
The reverse column of the experiments says "paired-end" if bam file. If a pair of wig files, forward and reverse strand, reverse is filepath to '-' strand wig file. Paired forward / reverse wig files, must have same name except _forward / _reverse in name
Paired end bam, when creating experiment, set pairedEndBam = c(T, T, T, F). For 3 paired end libraries, then one single end.
Naming: Will try to guess naming for tissues / stages, replicates etc. If it finds more than one hit for one file, it will not guess. Always check that it guessed correctly.

Other ORFik_experiment: ORFik.template.experiment(), bamVarName(), create.experiment(), filepath(), libraryTypes(), organism.df(), outputLibs(), read.experiment(), save.experiment(), validateExperiments()

## To see an internal ORFik example
df <- ORFik.template.experiment()
## See libraries in experiment
df
## See organism of experiment
organism.df(df)
## See file paths in experiment
filepath(df, "default")
## Output objects in R, to .GlobalEnv
#outputLibs(df)

## This is how to make it:
## Not run: 
library(ORFik)

# 1. Update path to experiment data  directory (bam, bed, wig files etc)
exp_dir = "/data/processed_data/RNA-seq/Lee_zebrafish_2013/aligned/"

# 2. Set a short character name for experiment, (Lee et al 2013 -> Lee13, etc)
exper_name = "Lee13"

# 3. Create a template experiment (gtf and fasta genome)
temp <- create.experiment(exp_dir, exper_name, saveDir = NULL,
 txdb = "/data/references/Zv9_zebrafish/Danio_rerio.Zv9.79.gtf",
 fa = "/data/references/Zv9_zebrafish/Danio_rerio.Zv9.fa",
 organism = "Homo sapiens")

# 4. Make sure each row(sample) is unique and correct
# You will get a view open now, check the data.frame that it is correct:
# library type (RNA-seq, Ribo-seq), stage, rep, condition, fraction.
# Let say it did not figure out it is RNA-seq, then we do:"

temp[5:6, 1] <- "RNA" # [row 5 and 6, col 1] are library types

# You can also do this in your spread sheet program (excel, libre office)
# Now save new version, if you did not use spread sheet.
saveName <- paste0("/data/processed_data/experiment_tables_for_R/",
 exper_name,".csv")
save.experiment(temp, saveName)

# 5. Load experiment, this will validate that you actually made it correct
df <- read.experiment(saveName)

# Set experiment name not to be assigned in R variable names
df@expInVarName <- FALSE
df

## End(Not run)