run_pcor: Wrapper for partial correlations from corpcor

In dnapath: Differential Network Analysis using Gene Pathways

Wrapper for partial correlations from corpcor

Description

Conducts co-expression analysis using full partial correlations; these are computed using the shrinkage approach for covariance estimation \insertCiteschafer05dnapath from the corpcor package \insertCitecorpcordnapath. Can be used for the network_inference argument in dnapath.

Usage

run_pcor(x, weights = NULL, ranks = FALSE, verbose = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x	A n by p matrix of gene expression data (n samples and p genes).
weights	An optional vector of weights. This is used by dnapath() to apply the probabilistic group labels to each observation when estimating the group-specific network.
ranks	If TRUE, the gene expression values will be converted to ranks (across samples) prior to covariance estimation.
verbose	Argument is passed into pcor.shrink.
...	Additional arguments are ignored.

Value

A p by p matrix of association scores.

References

\insertRef

schafer05dnapath

\insertRef

corpcordnapath

See Also

run_aracne, run_bc3net, run_c3net, run_clr, run_corr, run_dwlasso, run_genie3, run_glasso, run_mrnet, and run_silencer

Examples

data(meso)
data(p53_pathways)

# To create a short example, we subset on two pathways from the p53 pathway list,
# and will only run 3 permutations for significance testing.
pathway_list <- p53_pathways[c(8, 13)]
n_perm <- 3

# Use this method to perform differential network analysis.
results <- dnapath(x = meso$gene_expression,
                   pathway_list = pathway_list,
                   group_labels = meso$groups,
                   n_perm = n_perm,
                   network_inference = run_pcor)
summary(results)

# The group-specific association matrices can be extracted using get_networks().
nw_list <- get_networks(results[[1]]) # Get networks for pathway 1.


# nw_list has length 2 and contains the inferred networks for the two groups.
# The gene names are the Entrezgene IDs from the original expression dataset.
# Renaming the genes in the dnapath results to rename those in the networks.
# NOTE: The temporary directory, tempdir(), is used in this example. In practice,
#       this argument can be removed or changed to an existing directory
results <- rename_genes(results, to = "symbol", species = "human",
                        dir_save = tempdir())
nw_list <- get_networks(results[[1]]) # The genes (columns) will have new names.

# (Optional) Plot the network using SeqNet package (based on igraph plotting).
# First rename entrezgene IDs into gene symbols.
SeqNet::plot_network(nw_list[[1]])

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