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**Compiled**: `r date()` ```{r setup, message = FALSE, echo = FALSE} library("PSMatch") ``` # Introduction This vignette is one among several illustrating how to use the `PSMatch` package, focusing on the modelling peptide-protein relations using adjacency matrices and connected componencts. For a general overview of the package, see the `PSMatch` package manual page (`?PSMatch`) and references therein. # Peptide-protein relation Let's start by loading and filter PSM data as illustrated in the [*Working with PSM data*](https://rformassspectrometry.github.io/PSMatch/articles/PSM.html) vignette. ```{r} library("PSMatch") id <- msdata::ident(full.names = TRUE, pattern = "TMT") |> PSM() |> filterPsmDecoy() |> filterPsmRank() id ``` When identification data is stored as a table, the relation between peptides is typically encode in two columns, once containing the peptide sequences and the second the protein identifiers these peptides stem from. Below are the 10 first observations of our identification data table. ```{r} data.frame(id[1:10, c("sequence", "DatabaseAccess")]) ``` This information can however also be encoded as an adjacency matrix with peptides along the rows and proteins along the columns, and a 1 (or more generally a value > 0) indicating that a peptides belongs to the corresponding proteins. Such a matrix is created below for our identification data. ```{r} adj <- makeAdjacencyMatrix(id) dim(adj) adj[1:5, 1:5] ``` This matrix models the relation between the `r length(unique(id$sequence))` peptides and the `r length(unique(id$DatabaseAccess))` is our identification data. These numbers can be verified by checking the number of unique peptides sequences and database accession numbers. ```{r} length(unique(id$sequence)) length(unique(id$DatabaseAccess)) ``` Some values are > 1 because some peptide sequences are observed more than oncce, for example carrying different modification or the same one at different sites. The adjacency matrix can be made binary by setting `madeAdjacencyMatrix(id, binary = TRUE)`. This large matrix is too large to be explored manually and is anyway not interesting on its own. Subsets of this matrix that define proteins defines by a set of peptides (whether shared or unique) is relevant. These are represented by subsets of this large matrix named connected component. We can easily compute all these connected components to produce the multiple smaller and relevant adjacency matrices. ```{r} cc <- ConnectedComponents(adj) length(cc) cc ``` Among the `r length(unique(id$sequence))` and the `r length(unique(id$DatabaseAccess))` proteins, we have `r length(cc)` connected components. 954 thereof, such as the one shown below, correspond to single proteins identified by a single peptide: ```{r} connectedComponents(cc, 1) ``` 7 thereof represent protein groups identified by a single shared peptide: ```{r} connectedComponents(cc, 527) ``` 501 represent single proteins identified by multiple unique peptides: ```{r} connectedComponents(cc, 38) ``` Finally, arguable those that warrant additional exploration are those that are composed of multiple peptides and multiple proteins. There are 14 thereof in this identification; here's an example: ```{r} connectedComponents(cc, 920) ``` # Visualising adjacency matrices Let's identify the connected components that have at least 3 peptides (i.e. rows in the adjacency matrix) and 3 proteins (i.e. columns in the adjacency matrix). ```{r} (i <- which(nrows(cc) > 2 & ncols(cc) > 2)) dims(cc)[i, ] ``` We will use the second adjacency matrix, with index 1082 to learn about the `plotAdjacencyMatrix()` function and explore how to inform our peptides filtering beyond the `filterPsm*()` functions. ```{r} cx <- connectedComponents(cc, 1082) cx ``` We can now visualise the the `cx` adjacency matrix with the `plotAdjacencyMatrix()` function. The nodes of the graph represent proteins and petides - by default, proteins are shown as blue squares and peptides as white circles. Edge connect peptides/circles to proteins/squares, indicating that a peptide belongs to a protein. ```{r} plotAdjacencyMatrix(cx) ``` We can immediately observe that peptide `VVPVGLRALVWVQR` is associated to all four proteins; it holds that protein group together, defines that connected component formed by these four proteins. If we were to drop that peptides, we would obtain two single proteins, `ECA3399` (defined by `KLKPRRR`), `ECA3398` (defined by `RRKRKPDSLKK` and `KPTARRRKRK`) and a protein group formed of `ECA3415` and `ECA3406` (defined by three shared peptides). ## Colouring the graph nodes To help with the interpretation of the graph and the potential benefits of additional manual peptide filtering, it is possible to customise the node colours. Protein and peptide node colours can be controlled with the `protColors` and `pepColors` arguments respectively. Let's start with the former. ### Colouring protein nodes `protColors` can either be a numeric or a character. The default value is 0, which produces the figure above. Any value > 0 will lead to more proteins being highlighted using different colours. Internally, string distances between protein names are computed and define if proteins should be coded with the same colours (if they are separated by small distances, i.e. they have similar names) or different colours (large distance, dissimilar names). By setting the argument to 1, we see that proteins starting with `ECA33` and those starting with `ECA34` are represented with different colours. ```{r} plotAdjacencyMatrix(cx, 1) ``` We can further distinguish `ECA3406`, and `ECA314` and `ECA33*9` by setting `protColors` to 2. ```{r} plotAdjacencyMatrix(cx, 2) ``` `protColors` can also be a character of colours named by protein names. We will illustrate this use below, as it functions the same way as `pepColors`. ### Colouring peptide nodes `pepColors` can either be `NULL` to represent peptides as white nodes (as we have seen in all examples above). Alternatively, it can be set to a character of colours names after the peptides sequences. Let's use the search engine score (here `MS.GF.RawScore`) to annotate the peptide nodes. We can extract this metric from the PSM object we started with and create a colour palette representing the range of scores. The named vector of scores: ```{r} score <- id$MS.GF.RawScore names(score) <- id$sequence head(score) ``` The matching named vector of colours: ```{r} cls <- as.character(cut(score, 12, labels = colorRampPalette(c("white", "red"))(12))) names(cls) <- id$sequence head(cls) ``` Below, we see that all these peptides have relatively low scores (light red), and that two of the three of the `ECA34*` proteins have the highest scores. ```{r} plotAdjacencyMatrix(cx, pepColors = cls) ``` # Using quantitative data To conclude this vignette, we show how this same data modelling and exploration can be initiated from a quantitative dataset. We will use part of the CPTAC data that is available in the `msdata` package. Once we have the path to the tsv data, we identify the columns that contain quantitation values (i.e. those starting with `Intensity.`) and them create a `SummarizedExperiment` using the [readSummarizedExperiment()](https://rformassspectrometry.github.io/QFeatures/reference/readQFeatures.html) function from the `r Biocpkg("QFeatures")` package. ```{r, message = FALSE} basename(f <- msdata::quant(full.names = TRUE)) (i <- grep("Intensity\\.", names(read.delim(f)))) library(QFeatures) se <- readSummarizedExperiment(f, ecol = i, sep = "\t") ``` Below, we create a vector of protein groups (not leading razor protein names) and name it using the peptide sequences. ```{r} prots <- rowData(se)$Proteins names(prots) <- rowData(se)$Sequence head(prots) ``` Below, the `makeAdjacencyMatrix()` will split the protein groups into individual proteins using a `;` (used by default, so not required here) to construct the adjacency matrix, which itself can be used to compute the connected components. ```{r} adj <- makeAdjacencyMatrix(prots, split = ";") dim(adj) adj[1:3, 1:3] cc <- ConnectedComponents(adj) cc ``` # Prioritising connected components The `prioritiseConnectedComponents()` function can be used to help prioritise the most interesting connected components to investigate. The function computes a set of metrics describing the components composed of as least several peptides and proteins (150 in the example above) and ranks them from the most to the least interesting. ```{r} head(cctab <- prioritiseConnectedComponents(cc)) ``` The prioritisation table can then be further summarised using a principal component to identify outliers (for example component 1200 below) or groups of *similar* components to explore. ```{r, message = FALSE} library(factoextra) fviz_pca(prcomp(cctab, scale = TRUE, center = TRUE)) ``` # Session information ```{r si} sessionInfo() ```