WGCNA (version 1.68)

sampledHierarchicalConsensusModules: Hierarchical consensus module identification in sampled data

Description

This function repeatedly resamples the samples (rows) in supplied data and identifies hierarchical consensus modules on the resampled data.

Usage

sampledHierarchicalConsensusModules(
  multiExpr,
  multiWeights = NULL,

networkOptions, consensusTree,

nRuns, startRunIndex = 1, endRunIndex = startRunIndex + nRuns -1, replace = FALSE, fraction = if (replace) 1.0 else 0.63, randomSeed = 12345, checkSoftPower = TRUE, nPowerCheckSamples = 2000, individualTOMFilePattern = "individualTOM-Run.%r-Set%s-Block.%b.RData", keepConsensusTOMs = FALSE, consensusTOMFilePattern = "consensusTOM-Run.%r-%a-Block.%b.RData", skipUnsampledCalculation = FALSE, ..., verbose = 2, indent = 0, saveRunningResults = TRUE, runningResultsFile = "results.tmp.RData")

Arguments

multiExpr

Expression data in the multi-set format (see checkSets). A vector of lists, one per set. Each set must contain a component data that contains the expression data, with rows corresponding to samples and columns to genes or probes.

multiWeights

optional observation weights in the same format (and dimensions) as multiExpr. These weights are used for correlation calculations with data in multiExpr.

networkOptions

A single list of class NetworkOptions giving options for network calculation for all of the networks, or a multiData structure containing one such list for each input data set.

consensusTree

A list specifying the consensus calculation. See details.

nRuns

Number of network construction and module identification runs.

startRunIndex

Number to be assigned to the start run. The run number or index is used to make saved files unique; it has no effect on the actual results of the run.

endRunIndex

Number (index) of the last run. If given, nRuns is ignored.

replace

Logical: should samples (observations or rows in entries in multiExpr) be sampled with replacement?

fraction

Fraction of samples to sample for each run.

randomSeed

Integer specifying the random seed. If non-NULL, the random number generator state is saved before the seed is set and restored at the end of the function. If NULL, the random number generator state is not changed nor saved at the start, and not restored at the end.

checkSoftPower

Logical: should the soft-tresholding power be adjusted to approximately match the connectivity distribution of the sampled data set and the full data set?

nPowerCheckSamples

Number of genes to be sampled from the full data set to calculate connectivity and match soft-tresholding powers.

individualTOMFilePattern

Pattern for file names for files holding individual TOMs. The tags "%r, %a, %b" are replaced by run number, analysis name and block number, respectively. The TOM files are usually temporary but can be retained, see keepConsensusTOM below.

keepConsensusTOMs

Logical: should the (final) consensus TOMs of each sampled calculation be retained after the run ends? Note that for large data sets (tens of thousands of nodes) the TOM files are rather large.

consensusTOMFilePattern

skipUnsampledCalculation

Logical: should a calculation on original (not resampled) data be skipped?

Other arguments to hierarchicalConsensusModules.

verbose

integer level of verbosity. Zero means silent, higher values make the output progressively more and more verbose.

indent

indentation for diagnostic messages. Zero means no indentation, each unit adds two spaces.

saveRunningResults

Logical: should the cumulative results be saved after each run on resampled data?

runningResultsFile

File name of file in which to save running results into. In case of a parallel execution (say on several nodes of a cluster), one should choose a unique name for each process to avoid overwriting the same file.

Value

A list with one component per run. Each component is a list with the following components:

mods

The output of the function hierarchicalConsensusModules on the resampled data.

samples

Indices of the samples selected for the resampled data step for this run.

powers

Actual soft-thresholding powers used in this run.

Details

For each run, samples (but not genes) are randomly sampled to obtain a perturbed data set; a full network analysis and module identification is carried out, and the results are returned in a list with one component per run.

For each run, the soft-thresholding power can optionally be adjusted such that the mean adjacency in the re-sampled data set equals the mean adjacency in the original data.

See Also

hierarchicalConsensusModules for consensus networ analysis and module identification;

sampledBlockwiseModules for a similar resampling analysis for a single data set.