adjclust: Adjacency-constrained clustering

adjclust is a package that provides methods to perform adjacency-constrained hierarchical agglomerative clustering. Adjacency-constrained hierarchical agglomerative clustering is hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) in which each observation is associated to a position, and the clustering is constrained so as only adjacent clusters are merged. It is useful in bioinformatics (e.g. Genome Wide Association Studies or Hi-C data analysis).

adjclust provides three user level functions: adjClust, snpClust and hicClust, which are briefly explained below.

Installation

You can install adjclust from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("pneuvial/adjclust")

adjClust

adjClust performs adjacency-constrained HAC for standard and sparse, similarity and dissimilarity matrices and dist objects. Matrix::dgCMatrix and Matrix::dsCMatrix are the supported sparse matrix classes. Let’s look at a basic example

library("adjclust")

sim <- matrix(c(1.0, 0.5, 0.2, 0.1,
                0.5, 1.0, 0.1, 0.2,
                0.2, 0.1, 1.0, 0.6,
                0.1, 0.2 ,0.6 ,1.0), nrow=4)
h <- 3
fit <- adjClust(sim, "similarity", h)
plot(fit)

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The result is of class chac. It can be plotted as a dendrogram (as shown above). Successive merge and heights of clustering can be obtained by fit$merge and fit$height respectively.

snpClust

snpClust performs adjacency-constrained HAC for specific application of Genome Wide Association Studies (GWAS). A minimal example is given below. See GWAS Vignette for details.

library("snpStats")
#> Loading required package: survival
#> Loading required package: Matrix
data("ld.example", package = "snpStats")
geno <- ceph.1mb[, -316]  ## drop one SNP leading to one missing LD value
h <- 100
ld.ceph <- ld(geno, stats = "R.squared", depth = h)
image(ld.ceph, lwd = 0)

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fit <- snpClust(geno, stats = "R.squared", h = h)
#> Warning in run.snpClust(x, h = h, stats = stats): Forcing the LD similarity to
#> be smaller than or equal to 1
#> Note: 133 merges with non increasing heights.
plot(fit)
#> Warning: 
#> Detected reversals in dendrogram: mode = 'corrected', 'within-disp' or 'total-disp' might be more relevant.

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sel_clust <- select(fit, "bs")
plotSim(as.matrix(ld.ceph), clustering = sel_clust, dendro = fit)
#> Warning: 
#> Detected reversals in dendrogram: mode = 'corrected', 'within-disp' or 'total-disp' might be more relevant.
#> Warning: Removed 602 rows containing missing values (`geom_text()`).

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hicClust

hicClust performs adjacency-constrained HAC for specific application of Hi-C data analysis. A minimal example is given below. See Hi-C Vignette for details.

library("HiTC")

load(system.file("extdata", "hic_imr90_40_XX.rda", package = "adjclust"))
binned <- binningC(hic_imr90_40_XX, binsize = 5e5)
#> Bin size 'xgi' =500488 [1x500488]
#> Bin size 'ygi' =500488 [1x500488]
mapC(binned)
#> minrange= 104  - maxrange= 36776.8

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fitB <- hicClust(binned)
#> Note: 5 merges with non increasing heights.
plot(fitB)
#> Warning: 
#> Detected reversals in dendrogram: mode = 'corrected', 'within-disp' or 'total-disp' might be more relevant.

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plotSim(intdata(binned), dendro = fitB) # default: log scale for colors
#> Warning: 
#> Detected reversals in dendrogram: mode = 'corrected', 'within-disp' or 'total-disp' might be more relevant.
#> Warning: Removed 41 rows containing missing values (`geom_text()`).

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Credits

Version 0.4.0 of this package was completed by Shubham Chaturvedi as a part of the Google Summer of Code 2017 program.