Example data for multiWGCNA is stored in ExperimentHub. Access it like this:
# Load expression matrix and metadata
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## rank, rbind, rownames, sapply, saveRDS, table, tapply, unique,
## unsplit, which.max, which.min## Loading required package: AnnotationHub## Loading required package: BiocFileCache## Loading required package: dbplyreh = ExperimentHub()
eh_query = query(eh, c("multiWGCNAdata"))
## download the autism data and metadata
autism_se = eh_query[["EH8219"]]## see ?multiWGCNAdata and browseVignettes('multiWGCNAdata') for documentation## loading from cache## require("SummarizedExperiment")Now, proceed with the multiWGCNA analysis:
# Load multiWGCNA R package
library(multiWGCNA)## Loading required package: ggalluvial## Loading required package: ggplot2## # Obtain metadata
sampleTable = colData(autism_se)
# Randomly sample 2000 genes from the expression matrix
set.seed(1)
autism_se = autism_se[sample(rownames(autism_se), 2000),]
# Check the data
assays(autism_se)[[1]][1:5, 1:5]## GSM706412 GSM706413 GSM706414 GSM706415 GSM706416
## ILMN_1672121 11.034264 10.446682 11.473705 11.732849 11.43105
## ILMN_2151368 10.379812 9.969130 9.990030 9.542288 10.26247
## ILMN_1757569 9.426955 9.050024 9.347505 9.235251 9.38837
## ILMN_2400219 12.604047 12.886037 12.890658 12.446960 12.98925
## ILMN_2222101 12.385019 12.748229 12.418027 11.690253 13.10915sampleTable## DataFrame with 58 rows and 3 columns
## Sample Status Tissue
## <character> <character> <character>
## GSM706412 GSM706412 autism FC
## GSM706413 GSM706413 autism FC
## GSM706414 GSM706414 autism FC
## GSM706415 GSM706415 autism FC
## GSM706416 GSM706416 autism FC
## ... ... ... ...
## GSM706465 GSM706465 controls TC
## GSM706466 GSM706466 controls TC
## GSM706467 GSM706467 controls TC
## GSM706468 GSM706468 controls TC
## GSM706469 GSM706469 controls TC# Set the alpha level for statistical analyses and the soft power for network construction
alphaLevel = 0.05
softPower = 10
# If your sample traits include numbers that you'd like to be considered numerical
# variables rather than categorical variables, set detectNumbers = TRUE
detectNumbers = FALSEWe now perform network construction, module eigengene calculation, module-trait correlation.
# Define our conditions for trait 1 (disease) and 2 (brain region)
conditions1 = unique(sampleTable[,2])
conditions2 = unique(sampleTable[,3])
# Construct the combined networks and all the sub-networks (autism only, controls only, FC only, and TC only)
# Same parameters as Tommasini and Fogel. BMC Bioinformatics
myNetworks = constructNetworks(autism_se, sampleTable, conditions1, conditions2,
networkType = "signed", TOMType = "unsigned",
power = softPower, minModuleSize = 100, maxBlockSize = 25000,
reassignThreshold = 0, minKMEtoStay = 0, mergeCutHeight = 0,
numericLabels = TRUE, pamRespectsDendro = FALSE,
deepSplit = 4, verbose = 3)Carry on with the multiWGCNA analysis according to the generalWorkflow.Rmd vignette!
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