countGenes: Tabulates V(D)J allele, gene or family usage within each...

In alakazam: Immunoglobulin Clonal Lineage and Diversity Analysis

Tabulates V(D)J allele, gene or family usage within each locus.

Description

Determines the count and relative abundance of V(D)J alleles, genes or families within groups. If sequences from multiple loci are present, the frequency is calculated within each locus.

Usage

countGenes(
  data,
  gene,
  groups = NULL,
  copy = NULL,
  clone = NULL,
  fill = FALSE,
  first = TRUE,
  collapse = TRUE,
  mode = c("gene", "allele", "family", "asis"),
  cell_id = "cell_id",
  remove_na = TRUE
)

Arguments

data	data.frame with AIRR-format or Change-O style columns.
gene	column containing allele assignments. Only the first allele in the column will be considered when mode is "gene", "family" or "allele". The value will be used as it is with mode="asis".
groups	columns containing grouping variables. If NULL do not group.
copy	name of the data column containing copy numbers for each sequence. If this value is specified, then total copy abundance is determined by the sum of copy numbers within each gene. This argument is ignored if clone is specified.
clone	name of the data column containing clone identifiers for each sequence. If this value is specified, then one gene will be considered for each clone. Note, this is accomplished by using the most common gene within each clone identifier. As such, ambiguous alleles within a clone will not be accurately represented.
fill	logical of c(TRUE, FALSE) specifying when if groups (when specified) lacking a particular gene should be counted as 0 if TRUE or not (omitted).
first	if TRUE return only the first allele/gene/family call for computing the frequency; if FALSE return all calls delimited by commas.
collapse	if TRUE check for duplicates and return only unique allele/gene/family assignments per sequence; if FALSE return all assignments (faster). Has no effect if first=TRUE.
mode	one of c("gene", "family", "allele", "asis") defining the degree of specificity regarding allele calls. Determines whether to return counts for genes (calling getGene), families (calling getFamily), alleles (calling getAllele) or using the value as it is in the column gene, without any processing.
cell_id	name of the data column containing the cell identifiers for each sequence.
remove_na	removes rows with NA values in the gene column if TRUE and issues a warning. Otherwise, keeps those rows and considers NA as a gene in the final counts and relative abundances.

Value

A data.frame summarizing family, gene or allele counts and frequencies with columns:

• locus: locus of the gene (IGH, IGK, IGL, TRA, TRB, TRD, TRG). Note that frequencies are calculated within each locus.

• gene: name of the family, gene or allele.

• seq_count: total number of sequences for the gene in the locus.

• locus_count: total number of sequences in the locus.

• seq_freq: frequency of the gene as a fraction of the total number of sequences within each grouping.

• copy_count: sum of the copy counts in the copy column. for each gene. Only present if the copy argument is specified.

• locus_copy_count: sum of the copy counts in the copy column. for all gene in the locus. Only present if the copy argument is specified.

• copy_freq: frequency of the gene as a fraction of the total copy number within each group. Only present if the copy argument is specified.

• clone_count: total number of clones for the gene. Only present if the clone argument is specified.

• clone_freq: frequency of the gene as a fraction of the total number of clones within each grouping. Only present if the clone argument is specified.

Additional columns defined by the groups argument will also be present.

Examples

# Without copy numbers
genes <- countGenes(ExampleDb, gene = "v_call", groups = "sample_id", mode = "family")
genes <- countGenes(ExampleDb, gene = "v_call", groups = "sample_id", mode = "gene")
genes <- countGenes(ExampleDb, gene = "v_call", groups = "sample_id", mode = "allele")

# With copy numbers and multiple groups
genes <- countGenes(ExampleDb,
    gene = "v_call", groups = c("sample_id", "c_call"),
    copy = "duplicate_count", mode = "family"
)

# Count by clone
genes <- countGenes(ExampleDb,
    gene = "v_call", groups = c("sample_id", "c_call"),
    clone = "clone_id", mode = "family"
)

# Count absent genes
genes <- countGenes(ExampleDb,
    gene = "v_call", groups = "sample_id",
    mode = "allele", fill = TRUE
)

alakazam documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 6:55 p.m.