\documentclass{article} \usepackage{fullpage} \usepackage{hyperref} %\VignetteIndexEntry{Using bcellViper} \title{bcellViper, a data package required for the examples and vignette of the viper package} \author{Mariano J. Alvarez, Federico Giorgi, Andrea Califano\\Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University, New York, USA} \date{\today} \begin{document} \SweaveOpts{concordance=TRUE} \maketitle %----------- \section{Overview of bcellViper data package}\label{sec:overview} The \emph{bcellViper} data package provides some example datasets and a small B-cell context-specific transcriptional regulatory network (interactome). \paragraph{Human B-cell expression dataset} The human B-cell dataset (Gene Expression Omnibus series GSE2350) \cite{Basso2005} consists of 211 normal and tumor human B-cell phenotypes whose expression was profiled on Affymatrix HG-U95Av2 arrays, and it is contained in an ExpressionSet object with 6,249 features x 211 samples. The features (probe-clusters) were generated by the cleaner algorithm \cite{Alvarez2009b}. We can access this dataset with the following code: <>= library(bcellViper) data(bcellViper) print(dset) @ \paragraph{B-cell context-specific transcriptional network} The B-cell interactome represents 172,240 inferred regulatory interactions between 621 transcription factors and 6,249 target genes. It is contained in a \emph{regulon} class S3 object, and methods to access it are included in the \emph{viper} package. <>= targets <- unlist(lapply(regulon, function(x) names(x$tfmode)), use.names = FALSE) cat("Regulators: ", length(regulon), "\nTargets: ", length(unique(targets)), "\nInteractions: ", length(targets), "\n", sep="") @ \paragraph{B-cell ARACNe results} A subset of the results of running ARACNe \cite{Margolin2006} on the B-cell dataset are included in the bcellViper package in the adjacency matrix format generated by ARACNe. The following code shows how this matrix can be parsed into a \emph{regulon} S3 class object by the \texttt{aracne2regulon} function from the \emph{viper} package. %----------- \begin{thebibliography}{00} \bibitem{Basso2005} Basso,K. et al. (2005) Reverse engineering of regulatory networks in human B cells. Nat. Genet., 37, 382-90. \bibitem{Alvarez2009b} Alvarez,M.J. et al. (2009) Correlating measurements across samples improves accuracy of large-scale expression profile experiments. Genome Biol., 10, R143. \bibitem{Margolin2006} Margolin,A.A. et al. (2006) ARACNE: an algorithm for the reconstruction of gene regulatory networks in a mammalian cellular context. BMC Bioinformatics, 7 Suppl 1, S7. \end{thebibliography} %---------- \end{document}