calculate_expression_similarity_counts: Calcualate the expression levels and expression levels similarity matrices using the count matrix
Description
This function generates an average similarity (correlation/inverse distance) coefficient
for every sliding window, for each sample in the expression matrix.
That is done by comparing the distribution of genes in each window across samples.
one of the correlation or distance metrics to be used,
defaults to pearson correlation; list of all methods in
get_methods_correlation_distance
n.elements.per.window
number of elements to have in a window,
default 10% of the number of rows
n.step
step size to slide across, default 1% of n.elements.per.window
n.step.fraction
an alternative way to specify the step size, as a fraction of
the window length; default is 5%
...
arguments passed on to other methods
Value
A list with three elements: the first element is the expression matrix,
as supplied; the other two are the expression levels matrix and
expression levels similarity matrix;
they have the same # of columns as the expression matrix,
and n.elements.per.window * n.step rows.