--- title: "Methrix tutorial" author: "CompEpigen" date: "`r Sys.Date()`" output: html_document: toc: true toc_depth: 3 toc_float: true self_contained: yes highlight: pygments vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Methrix tutorial} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>" ) options(tinytex.verbose = TRUE) ``` ## Introduction This vignette describes basic usage of the package intended to process several large [bedgraph](https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/bedgraph.html) files in R. `Methrix` provides set of function which allows easy importing of various flavors of bedgraphs generated by methylation callers, and many downstream analysis to be performed on large matrices. ## Overview and usage functions of the package ![](overview.png) ## Reading bedgraph files `read_bedgraphs` function is a versatile bedgraph reader intended to import bedgraph files generated virtually by any sort of methylation calling program. It requires user to provide indices for chromosome names, start position and other required fields. There are also presets available to import `bedgraphs` from most common programs such as `Bismark`, `MethylDackel`, and `MethylcTools`. ```{r, message=FALSE, warning=FALSE, eval=TRUE} #Load library library(methrix) ``` ```{r, eval=FALSE} #Genome of your preference to work with if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE)) install.packages("BiocManager") library(BiocManager) if(!requireNamespace("BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19")) { BiocManager::install("BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19") } library(BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19) ``` ```{r} #Example bedgraph files bdg_files <- list.files( path = system.file('extdata', package = 'methrix'), pattern = "*bedGraph\\.gz$", full.names = TRUE ) print(basename(bdg_files)) #Generate some sample annotation table sample_anno <- data.frame( row.names = gsub( pattern = "\\.bedGraph\\.gz$", replacement = "", x = basename(bdg_files) ), Condition = c("cancer", 'cancer', "normal", "normal"), Pair = c("pair1", "pair2", "pair1", "pair2"), stringsAsFactors = FALSE ) print(sample_anno) ``` We can import bedgraph files with the function `read_bedgraphs` which reads in the bedgraphs, adds CpGs missing from the reference set, and creates a methylation/coverage matrices. Once the process is complete - it returns an object of class `methrix` which in turn inherits [SummarizedExperiment](https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/SummarizedExperiment/inst/doc/SummarizedExperiment.html) class. `methrix` object contains 'methylation' and 'coverage' matrices (either in-memory or as on-disk HDF5 arrays) along with pheno-data and other basic info. This object can be passed to all downstream functions for various analysis. ```{r, warning=FALSE, eval=TRUE} #First extract genome wide CpGs from the desired reference genome hg19_cpgs <- suppressWarnings(methrix::extract_CPGs(ref_genome = "BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19")) ``` ```{r, eval=TRUE} #Read the files meth <- methrix::read_bedgraphs( files = bdg_files, ref_cpgs = hg19_cpgs, chr_idx = 1, start_idx = 2, M_idx = 3, U_idx = 4, stranded = FALSE, zero_based = FALSE, collapse_strands = FALSE, coldata = sample_anno ) ``` Note: Use the argument `pipeline` if your bedgraphs are generated with "Bismark", "MethylDeckal", or "MethylcTools". This will automatically figure out the file formats for you, and you dont have to use the arguments `chr_idx` `start_idx` and so.. ```{r, eval=TRUE} #Typing meth shows basic summary. meth ``` ## HTML QC report Get basic summary statistics of the `methrix` object with `methrix_report` function which produces an interactive html report ```{r, eval=FALSE} methrix::methrix_report(meth = meth, output_dir = tempdir()) ``` ## Filtering ### Remove uncovered loci Usual task in analysis involves removing uncovered CpGs. i.e, those loci which are not covered across all sample (in other words covered only in subset of samples resulting `NA` for rest of the samples ). ```{r, eval=TRUE} meth = methrix::remove_uncovered(m = meth) ``` ```{r, eval=TRUE} meth ``` ### Remove SNPs One can also remove CpG sites overlaping with common SNPs based on minor allele frequencies. ```{r, eval=FALSE} if(!require(MafDb.1Kgenomes.phase3.hs37d5)) { BiocManager::install("MafDb.1Kgenomes.phase3.hs37d5")} if(!require(GenomicScores)) { BiocManager::install("GenomicScores")} ``` ```{r, eval=TRUE} library(MafDb.1Kgenomes.phase3.hs37d5) library(GenomicScores) meth_snps_filtered <- methrix::remove_snps(m = meth) ``` ## Basic operations ### Extract methylation/coverage matrices ```{r} #Example data bundled, same as the previously generated meth data("methrix_data") #Coverage matrix coverage_mat <- methrix::get_matrix(m = methrix_data, type = "C") head(coverage_mat) ``` ```{r} #Methylation matrix meth_mat <- methrix::get_matrix(m = methrix_data, type = "M") head(meth_mat) ``` ```{r} #If you prefer you can attach loci info to the matrix and output in GRanges format meth_mat_with_loci <- methrix::get_matrix(m = methrix_data, type = "M", add_loci = TRUE, in_granges = TRUE) meth_mat_with_loci ``` ### Coverage filter Furthermore if you prefer you can filter sites based on coverage conditions. ```{r} #e.g; Retain all loci which are covered at-least in two sample by 3 or more reads methrix::coverage_filter(m = methrix_data, cov_thr = 3, min_samples = 2) ``` ## Subset operations Subset operations in `methrix` make use of `data.table`s [fast binary search](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/data.table/vignettes/datatable-keys-fast-subset.html) which is several orders faster than `bsseq` or other similar packages. ### Subset by chromosome ```{r} #Retain sites only from chromosme chr21 methrix::subset_methrix(m = methrix_data, contigs = "chr21") ``` ### Subset by genomic regions Regions can be data.table or [GRanges](https://kasperdanielhansen.github.io/genbioconductor/html/GenomicRanges_GRanges.html#granges) format. ```{r} #e.g; Retain sites only in TP53 loci target_loci <- GenomicRanges::GRanges("chr21:27867971-27868103") print(target_loci) methrix::subset_methrix(m = methrix_data, regions = target_loci) ``` ### Subset by samples ```{r} methrix::subset_methrix(m = methrix_data, samples = "C1") #Or you could use [] operator to subset by index methrix_data[,1] ``` ## Summary statsitcis ### Basic summaries ```{r} meth_stats <- get_stats(m = methrix_data) print(meth_stats) ``` ```{r} #Draw mean coverage per sample plot_stats(plot_dat = meth_stats, what = "C", stat = "mean") #Draw mean methylation per sample plot_stats(plot_dat = meth_stats, what = "M", stat = "mean") ``` ## PCA ```{r} mpca <- methrix_pca(m = methrix_data, do_plot = FALSE) #Plot PCA results plot_pca(pca_res = mpca, show_labels = TRUE) #Color code by an annotation plot_pca(pca_res = mpca, m = methrix_data, col_anno = "Condition") ``` ## Plotting ### Methylation ```{r} #Violin plots methrix::plot_violin(m = methrix_data) ``` ### Coverage ```{r} methrix::plot_coverage(m = methrix_data, type = "dens") ``` ## Converting methrix to BSseq If you prefer to work with [bsseq](https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/bsseq/inst/doc/bsseq.html#3_using_objects_of_class_bsseq) object, you can generate `bsseq` object from methrix with the `methrix2bsseq`. ```{r eval=FALSE} if(!require(bsseq)) { BiocManager::install("bsseq")} ``` ```{r} library(bsseq) bs_seq <- methrix::methrix2bsseq(m = methrix_data) bs_seq ``` ## SessionInfo ```{r} sessionInfo() ```