Usage
first_GBM_step(E, K, tfs, targets, Ntfs, Ntargets, lf, M, nu,s_f, no_iterations)
Arguments
E
N-by-p expression matrix. Columns correspond to genes, rows correspond to experiments. E is expected to be already normalized using standard methods, for example RMA. Colnames of E is the set of all genes.
K
N-by-p initial perturbation matrix. It directly corresponds to E matrix, e.g. if K[i,j] is equal to 1, it means that gene j was knocked-out in experiment i. Single gene knock-out experiments are rows of K with only one value 1. Colnames of K is set to be the set of all genes. By default it's a matrix of zeros of the same size as E, e.g. unknown initial perturbation state of genes. tfs
List of names of transcription factors. In case of presence of prior mechanistic network it is a subset of all the p genes whereas in absence of such a mechanistic network it is a list of names of all the p genes.
targets
List of names of target genes. In case of presence of prior mechanistic network it is a subset of all the p genes whereas in absence of such a mechanistic network it is a list of names of all the p genes.
Ntfs
Total number of transcription factors used in the experiment.
Ntargets
Total number of target genes used in the experiment.
lf
Loss Function: 1 -> Least Squares and 2 -> Least Absolute Deviation
M
Number of extensions in boosting model, e.g. number of iterations of the main loop of RGBM algorithm. By default it's 5000.
nu
Shrinkage factor, learning rate, 0<nu<=1. Each extension to boosting model will be multiplied by the learning rate. By default it's 0.001.
s_f
Sampling rate of transcription factors, 0<s_f<=1. Fraction of transcription factors from E, as indicated by tfs vector, which will be sampled without replacement to calculate each extesion in boosting model. By default it's 0.3.
no_iterations
Number of iterations to perform equivalent to building that many core LS-Boost/LAD-Boost models and then averaging them to have smooth edge-weights in the inferred intermediate GRN.