--- title: "Pathway activity inference from scRNA-seq" author: - name: Pau Badia-i-Mompel affiliation: - Heidelberg Universiy output: BiocStyle::html_document: self_contained: true toc: true toc_float: true toc_depth: 3 code_folding: show package: "`r pkg_ver('decoupleR')`" vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Pathway activity activity inference from scRNA-seq} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup, include=FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>" ) ``` scRNA-seq yield many molecular readouts that are hard to interpret by themselves. One way of summarizing this information is by inferring pathway activities from prior knowledge. In this notebook we showcase how to use `decoupleR` for pathway activity inference with a down-sampled PBMCs 10X data-set. The data consists of 160 PBMCs from a Healthy Donor. The original data is freely available from 10x Genomics [here](https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell/pbmc3k/pbmc3k_filtered_gene_bc_matrices.tar.gz) from this [webpage](https://support.10xgenomics.com/single-cell-gene-expression/datasets/1.1.0/pbmc3k). # Loading packages First, we need to load the relevant packages, `Seurat` to handle scRNA-seq data and `decoupleR` to use statistical methods. ```{r "load packages", message = FALSE} ## We load the required packages library(Seurat) library(decoupleR) # Only needed for data handling and plotting library(tidyverse) library(patchwork) library(ggplot2) library(pheatmap) ``` # Loading the data-set Here we used a down-sampled version of the data used in the `Seurat` [vignette](https://satijalab.org/seurat/articles/pbmc3k_tutorial.html). We can open the data like this: ```{r "load data"} inputs_dir <- system.file("extdata", package = "decoupleR") data <- readRDS(file.path(inputs_dir, "sc_data.rds")) ``` We can observe that we have different cell types: ```{r "umap", message = FALSE, warning = FALSE} DimPlot(data, reduction = "umap", label = TRUE, pt.size = 0.5) + NoLegend() ``` # PROGENy model [PROGENy](https://saezlab.github.io/progeny/) is a comprehensive resource containing a curated collection of pathways and their target genes, with weights for each interaction. For this example we will use the human weights (mouse is also available) and we will use the top 100 responsive genes ranked by p-value. We can use `decoupleR` to retrieve it from `OmniPath`: ```{r "progeny", message=FALSE} net <- get_progeny(organism = 'human', top = 100) net ``` # Activity inference with Weighted Mean To infer activities we will run the Weighted Mean method (`wmean`). It infers regulator activities by first multiplying each target feature by its associated weight which then are summed to an enrichment score `wmean`. Furthermore, permutations of random target features can be performed to obtain a null distribution that can be used to compute a z-score `norm_wmean`, or a corrected estimate `corr_wmean` by multiplying `wmean` by the minus log10 of the obtained empirical p-value. In this example we use `wmean` but we could have used any other. To see what methods are available use `show_methods()`. To run `decoupleR` methods, we need an input matrix (`mat`), an input prior knowledge network/resource (`net`), and the name of the columns of net that we want to use. ```{r "wmean", message=FALSE} # Extract the normalized log-transformed counts mat <- as.matrix(data@assays$RNA@data) # Run wmean acts <- run_wmean(mat=mat, net=net, .source='source', .target='target', .mor='weight', times = 100, minsize = 5) acts ``` # Visualization From the obtained results, we will select the `norm_wmean` activities and store them in our object as a new assay called `pathwayswmean`: ```{r "new_assay", message=FALSE} # Extract norm_wmean and store it in pathwayswmean in data data[['pathwayswmean']] <- acts %>% filter(statistic == 'norm_wmean') %>% pivot_wider(id_cols = 'source', names_from = 'condition', values_from = 'score') %>% column_to_rownames('source') %>% Seurat::CreateAssayObject(.) # Change assay DefaultAssay(object = data) <- "pathwayswmean" # Scale the data data <- ScaleData(data) data@assays$pathwayswmean@data <- data@assays$pathwayswmean@scale.data ``` This new assay can be used to plot activities. Here we visualize the Trail pathway, associated with apoptosis, which seems that in B and NK cells is more active. ```{r "projected_acts", message = FALSE, warning = FALSE, fig.width = 8, fig.height = 4} p1 <- DimPlot(data, reduction = "umap", label = TRUE, pt.size = 0.5) + NoLegend() + ggtitle('Cell types') p2 <- (FeaturePlot(data, features = c("Trail")) & scale_colour_gradient2(low = 'blue', mid = 'white', high = 'red')) + ggtitle('Trail activity') p1 | p2 ``` # Exploration We can also see what is the mean activity per group across pathways: ```{r "mean_acts", message = FALSE, warning = FALSE} # Extract activities from object as a long dataframe df <- t(as.matrix(data@assays$pathwayswmean@data)) %>% as.data.frame() %>% mutate(cluster = Idents(data)) %>% pivot_longer(cols = -cluster, names_to = "source", values_to = "score") %>% group_by(cluster, source) %>% summarise(mean = mean(score)) # Transform to wide matrix top_acts_mat <- df %>% pivot_wider(id_cols = 'cluster', names_from = 'source', values_from = 'mean') %>% column_to_rownames('cluster') %>% as.matrix() # Choose color palette palette_length = 100 my_color = colorRampPalette(c("Darkblue", "white","red"))(palette_length) my_breaks <- c(seq(-2, 0, length.out=ceiling(palette_length/2) + 1), seq(0.05, 2, length.out=floor(palette_length/2))) # Plot pheatmap(top_acts_mat, border_color = NA, color=my_color, breaks = my_breaks) ``` In this specific example, we can observe that Trail is more active in B and NK cells. # Session information ```{r session_info, echo=FALSE} options(width = 120) sessioninfo::session_info() ```