--- title: "Introduction to tidyCoverage" output: BiocStyle::html_document: self_contained: yes toc: true toc_float: true toc_depth: 2 code_folding: show date: "`r doc_date()`" package: "`r pkg_ver('tidyCoverage')`" vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Introduction to tidyCoverage} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>", crop = NULL, width = 180, dpi = 72, fig.align = "center", fig.width = 5, fig.asp = 0.7, dev = 'jpeg' ) ``` ```{r warning = FALSE, include = FALSE, echo = FALSE, message = FALSE, results = FALSE} library(tidyCoverage) ``` # Introduction Genome-wide assays provide powerful methods to profile the composition, the conformation and the activity of the chromatin. Linear "coverage" tracks (generally stored as `.bigwig` files) are one of the outputs obtained when processing raw high-throughput sequencing data. These coverage tracks can be inspected in genome interactive browsers (e.g. `IGV`) to visually appreciate local or global variations in the coverage of specific genomic assays. The coverage signal aggregated over multiple genomic features can also be computed. This approach is very efficient to summarize and compare the coverage of chromatin modalities (e.g. protein binding profiles from ChIP-seq, transcription profiles from RNA-seq, chromatin accessibility from ATAC-seq, ...) over hundreds and up to thousands of genomic features of interest. This unlocks a more quantitative description of the coverage over groups of genomic features. `tidyCoverage` implements the `CoverageExperiment` and the `AggregatedCoverage` classes built on top of the `SummarizedExperiment` class. These classes formalize the extraction and aggregation of coverage tracks over sets of genomic features of interests. # Installation `tidyCoverage` package can be installed from Bioconductor using the following command: ```{r eval = FALSE} if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE)) install.packages("BiocManager") BiocManager::install("tidyCoverage") ``` # `CoverageExperiment` and `AggregatedCoverage` classes ## `CoverageExperiment` `tidyCoverage` package defines the `CoverageExperiment`, directly extending the `SummarizedExperiment` class. This means that all standard methods available for `SummarizedExperiment`s are available for `CoverageExperiment` objects. ```{r} library(tidyCoverage) showClass("CoverageExperiment") data(ce) ce rowData(ce) rowRanges(ce) colData(ce) assays(ce) assay(ce, 'coverage') ``` Note that whereas traditional `SummarizedExperiment` objects store atomic values stored in individual cells of an assay, each cell of the `CoverageExperiment` `coverage` assay contains a list of length 1, itself containing an array. This array stores the per-base coverage score of a genomic track (from `colData`) over a set of genomic ranges of interest (from `rowData`). ```{r} assay(ce, 'coverage') assay(ce, 'coverage')[1, 1] |> class() assay(ce, 'coverage')[1, 1] |> length() assay(ce, 'coverage')[1, 1][[1]] |> class() assay(ce, 'coverage')[1, 1][[1]] |> dim() # Compare this to `rowData(ce)$n` and `width(ce)` rowData(ce)$n width(ce) assay(ce[1, 1], 'coverage')[[1]][1:10, 1:10] ``` ## `AggregatedCoverage` `AggregatedCoverage` also directly extends the `SummarizedExperiment` class. ```{r} showClass("AggregatedCoverage") data(ac) ac rowData(ac) rowRanges(ac) colData(ac) assays(ac) assay(ac, 'mean') ``` It stores per-base coverage statistical metrics in assays (e.g. `mean`, `median`, ...). Each assay thus contains an **matrix of vectors**. ```{r} assay(ac[1, 1], 'mean')[[1]] |> dim() assay(ac[1, 1], 'mean')[[1]] |> length() assay(ac[1, 1], 'mean')[[1]][1:10] ``` # Manipulate `CoverageExperiment` objects ## Create a `CoverageExperiment` object One can use `CoverageExperiment()` constructor along with: - A single `bigwig` file imported `as = "Rle"` and a `GRanges` or a *named* `GRangesList`; - A *named* list of `bigwig` files imported `as = "Rle"` and a `GRanges` or a *named* `GRangesList`; - A `BigWigFile` object and a `GRanges` or a *named* `GRangesList`; - A *named* `BigWigFileList` object and a `GRanges` or a *named* `GRangesList`; A numeric `width` argument also needs to be specified. It is used to center `features` to their midpoint and resize them to the chosen `width`. For example: ```{r} library(rtracklayer) bw_file <- system.file("extdata", "MNase.bw", package = "tidyCoverage") bw_file bed_file <- system.file("extdata", "TSSs.bed", package = "tidyCoverage") bed_file CE <- CoverageExperiment( tracks = import(bw_file, as = "Rle"), features = import(bed_file), width = 3000 ) CE ``` And this works as well (note that in this case the names of the `GRangesList` are being used as `rownames`): ```{r} library(rtracklayer) bw_file <- system.file("extdata", "MNase.bw", package = "tidyCoverage") bw_file bed_file <- system.file("extdata", "TSSs.bed", package = "tidyCoverage") bed_file CoverageExperiment( tracks = BigWigFile(bw_file), features = GRangesList('TSSs' = import(bed_file)), width = 3000 ) ``` ## Bin a `CoverageExperiment` object By default, `CoverageExperiment` objects store _per-base_ track coverage. This implies that any cell from the `coverage` assay has as many columns as the `width` provided in the constructor function. ```{r} assay(CE, 'coverage')[1, 1][[1]] |> ncol() ``` If _per-base_ resolution is not needed, one can use the `window` argument in the constructor function to average the coverage score over non-overlapping bins. ```{r} CE2 <- CoverageExperiment( tracks = import(bw_file, as = "Rle"), features = import(bed_file), width = 3000, window = 20 ) CE2 assay(CE2, 'coverage')[1, 1][[1]] |> ncol() ``` If a `CoverageExperiment` object has already been computed, the `coarsen()` function can be used afterwards to reduce the resolution of the object. ```{r} CE3 <- coarsen(CE, window = 20) CE3 identical(CE2, CE3) ``` ## Expand a `CoverageExperiment` object The `expand` method from the `tidyr` package is adapted to `CoverageExperiment` objects to return a tidy `tibble`. This reformated object contains several columns: 1. `track`: storing `colnames`, i.e. names of tracks used in the original `CoverageExperiment`; 2. `features`: storing `rownames`, i.e. names of features used in the original `CoverageExperiment`; 3. `chr`: features `seqnames` from the `CoverageExperiment`; 4. `ranges`: features from the `CoverageExperiment` coerced as `character`; 5. `strand`: features `strand` from the `CoverageExperiment`; 6. `coord`: exact genomic position from the `CoverageExperiment`; 7. `coverage`: coverage score extracted from corresponding `track` at `chr:coord`; 8. `coord.scaled`: 0-centered genomic position; ```{r} expand(CE) ``` Note that if the `CoverageExperiment` object has been coarsened using `window = ...`, the `coord` and `coord.scaled` are handled correspondingly. ```{r} expand(CE3) ``` ## Plot coverage of a set of tracks over a single genomic locus To illustrate how to visualize coverage tracks from a `CoverageExperiment` object over a single genomic locus of interest, let's use sample data provided in the `tidyCoverage` package. ```{r} # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Import coverage tracks into a named list ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # tracks <- list( Scc1 = system.file("extdata", "Scc1.bw", package = "tidyCoverage"), RNA_fwd = system.file("extdata", "RNA.fwd.bw", package = "tidyCoverage"), RNA_rev = system.file("extdata", "RNA.rev.bw", package = "tidyCoverage"), PolII = system.file("extdata", "PolII.bw", package = "tidyCoverage"), MNase = system.file("extdata", "MNase.bw", package = "tidyCoverage") ) |> BigWigFileList() locus <- GRanges("II:450001-475000") # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Instantiate a CoverageExperiment object ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # CE_chrII <- CoverageExperiment( tracks = tracks, features = locus, width = width(locus) ) CE_chrII ``` From there, it is easy to (optionally) `coarsen` then `expand` the `CoverageExperiment` into a `tibble` and use `ggplot2` for visualization. ```{r} library(ggplot2) CE_chrII |> coarsen(window = 10) |> expand() |> ggplot(aes(x = coord, y = coverage)) + geom_col(aes(fill = track, col = track)) + facet_grid(track~., scales = 'free') + scale_x_continuous(expand = c(0, 0)) + theme_bw() + theme(legend.position = "none", aspect.ratio = 0.1) ``` In this plot, each facet represents the coverage of a different genomic track over a single region of interest (`chrII:450001-475000`). Each facet has independent scaling thanks to `facet_grid(..., scales = free)`. # Manipulate `AggregatedCoverage` objects ## Aggregate a `CoverageExperiment` into an `AggregatedCoverage` object It is often useful to `aggregate()` genomic `tracks` coverage over a set of genomic `features`. ```{r} AC <- aggregate(CE) AC assay(AC, 'mean')[1, 1][[1]] |> length() ``` ```{r} AC20 <- aggregate(CE, bin = 20) AC20 assay(AC20, 'mean')[1, 1][[1]] |> length() ``` The resulting `AggregatedCoverage` objects can be readily coerced into a `tibble`. ```{r} as_tibble(AC20) ``` Note that the `coarsen-then-aggregate` or `aggregate-by-bin` are **NOT** equivalent. This is due to the certain operations being not commutative with `mean` (e.g. `sd`, `min`/`max`, ...). ```{r} # Coarsen `CoverageExperiment` with `window = ...` then per-bin `aggregate`: CoverageExperiment( tracks = import(bw_file, as = "Rle"), features = import(bed_file), width = 3000 ) |> coarsen(window = 20) |> ## FIRST COARSEN... aggregate() |> ## ... THEN AGGREGATE as_tibble() # Per-base `CoverageExperiment` then `aggregate` with `bin = ...`: CoverageExperiment( tracks = import(bw_file, as = "Rle"), features = import(bed_file), width = 3000 ) |> aggregate(bin = 20) |> ## DIRECTLY AGGREGATE BY BIN as_tibble() ``` ## `AggregatedCoverage` over multiple tracks / feature sets As en example for the rest of this vignette, we compute an `AggregatedCoverage` object using multiple genomic track files and multiple sets of genomic ranges. ```{r} library(purrr) library(plyranges) # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Import genomic features into a named list ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # features <- list( TSSs = system.file("extdata", "TSSs.bed", package = "tidyCoverage"), `Convergent transcription` = system.file("extdata", "conv_transcription_loci.bed", package = "tidyCoverage") ) |> map(import) |> map(filter, strand == '+') # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Import coverage tracks into a named list ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # tracks <- list( Scc1 = system.file("extdata", "Scc1.bw", package = "tidyCoverage"), RNA_fwd = system.file("extdata", "RNA.fwd.bw", package = "tidyCoverage"), RNA_rev = system.file("extdata", "RNA.rev.bw", package = "tidyCoverage"), PolII = system.file("extdata", "PolII.bw", package = "tidyCoverage"), MNase = system.file("extdata", "MNase.bw", package = "tidyCoverage") ) |> map(import, as = 'Rle') # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Compute aggregated coverage ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # CE <- CoverageExperiment(tracks, features, width = 5000, scale = TRUE, center = TRUE) CE AC <- aggregate(CE) AC ``` ## Plot aggregated coverages with `ggplot2` Because `AggregatedCoverage` objects can be easily coerced into `tibble`s, the full range of `ggplot2` functionalities can be exploited to plot aggregated coverage signal of multiple tracks over multiple sets of genomic ranges. ```{r} AC |> as_tibble() |> ggplot() + geom_aggrcoverage() ``` Oopsie, a little busy here. Let's color by tracks and split facets by `features`: ```{r} AC |> as_tibble() |> ggplot(aes(col = track)) + geom_aggrcoverage() + facet_grid(features ~ .) ``` Nearly there, few cosmetic changes and we are done! ```{r} AC |> as_tibble() |> ggplot(aes(col = track, linetype = track %in% c('RNA_fwd', 'RNA_rev'))) + geom_aggrcoverage() + facet_grid(features ~ .) + labs(x = 'Distance from genomic feature', y = 'Mean coverage (± 95% conf. intervale)') + theme_bw() + theme(legend.position = 'top') ``` # Use a tidy grammar `tidySummarizedExperiment` package implements native `tidyverse` functionalities to `SummarizedExperiment` objects and their extensions. It tweaks the way `CoverageExperiment` and `AggregatedCoverage` objects look and feel, but do not change the underlying data or object. In particular, this means that data wrangling _verbs_ provided by `dplyr` can directly work on `CoverageExperiment` and `AggregatedCoverage` objects, provided that the `tidySummarizedExperiment` package is loaded. ```{r} library(tidySummarizedExperiment) CE AC <- CE |> filter(track == 'Scc1') |> filter(features == 'Convergent transcription') |> aggregate() AC ``` This also means that `as_tibble()` coercing step is facultative if the `tidySummarizedExperiment` package id loaded. ```{r} AC |> ggplot() + geom_aggrcoverage() + labs(x = 'Distance from locus of convergent transcription', y = 'Scc1 coverage') + theme_bw() + theme(legend.position = 'top') ``` **Note:** To read more about the `tidySummarizedExperiment` package and the overall `tidyomics` project, read the preprint [here](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.10.557072v2). ## Example workflow using tidy grammar ```{r} CoverageExperiment(tracks, features, width = 5000, scale = TRUE, center = TRUE) |> filter(track == 'RNA_fwd') |> aggregate(bin = 20) |> ggplot(col = features) + geom_aggrcoverage(aes(col = features)) + labs(x = 'Distance to center of genomic features', y = 'Forward RNA-seq coverage') + theme_bw() + theme(legend.position = 'top') ``` # Example use case: `AnnotationHub` and `TxDb` resources ## Recover TSSs of forward human genes Let's first fetch features of interest from the human `TxDb` resources. ```{r} txdb <- TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene::TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene TSSs <- GenomicFeatures::genes(txdb) |> filter(strand == '+') |> anchor_5p() |> mutate(width = 1) ``` These 1bp-wide `GRanges` correspond to forward TSSs genomic positions. ## Recover H3K4me3 coverage track from ENCODE Let's also fetch a real-life ChIP-seq dataset (e.g. `H3K4me3`) from ENCODE stored in the `AnnotationHub`: ```{r} library(AnnotationHub) ah <- AnnotationHub() ah['AH34904'] H3K4me3_bw <- ah[['AH34904']] H3K4me3_bw ``` ## Compute the aggregated coverage of H3K4me3 ± 3kb around the TSSs of forward human genes We can now extract the coverage of `H3K4me3` over all the human forward TSSs (± 3kb) and aggregate this coverage. ```{r} CoverageExperiment( H3K4me3_bw, TSSs, width = 6000, scale = TRUE, center = TRUE ) |> aggregate() |> ggplot() + geom_aggrcoverage(aes(col = track)) + facet_grid(track ~ .) + labs(x = 'Distance from TSSs', y = 'Mean coverage') + theme_bw() + theme(legend.position = 'top') ``` We obtain the typical profile of enrichment of `H3K4me3` over the +1 nucleosome. ## With more genomic tracks This more complex example fetches a collection of 15 different ChIP-seq genomic tracks to check their profile of enrichment over human forward TSSs. ```{r eval = FALSE} # ~~~~~~~~~~ Recover 15 different histone PTM ChIP-seq tracks ~~~~~~~~~~ # ids <- c( 'AH35163', 'AH35165', 'AH35167', 'AH35170', 'AH35173', 'AH35176', 'AH35178', 'AH35180', 'AH35182', 'AH35185', 'AH35187', 'AH35189', 'AH35191', 'AH35193', 'AH35196' ) names(ids) <- mcols(ah[ids])$title |> gsub(".*IMR90.", "", x = _) |> gsub("\\..*", "", x = _) bws <- map(ids, ~ ah[[.x]]) |> map(resource) |> BigWigFileList() names(bws) <- names(ids) # ~~~~~~~~~~ Computing coverage over TSSs ~~~~~~~~~~ # AC <- CoverageExperiment( bws, TSSs, width = 4000, scale = TRUE, center = TRUE ) |> aggregate() # ~~~~~~~~~~ Plot the resulting AggregatedCoverage object ~~~~~~~~~~ # AC |> as_tibble() |> mutate( histone = dplyr::case_when( stringr::str_detect(track, 'H2A') ~ "H2A", stringr::str_detect(track, 'H2B') ~ "H2B", stringr::str_detect(track, 'H3') ~ "H3" ) ) |> ggplot() + geom_aggrcoverage(aes(col = track)) + facet_grid(~histone) + labs(x = 'Distance from TSSs', y = 'Mean histone PTM coverage') + theme_bw() + theme(legend.position = 'top') + hues::scale_colour_iwanthue() + hues::scale_fill_iwanthue() ``` ![](../man/figures/PTMs-TSSs.png) # Session info ```{r} sessionInfo() ```