junctionDUreport {ASpli} | R Documentation

## Differential junction usage estimation

### Description

Estimate differential usage at junction level. When targets has only two conditions, and contrast is not set, the estimation of differential expression and usage is done with an exact test, otherwise is estimated using a generalized linear model.

### Usage

      junctionDUreport( counts,
                        targets,
                        appendTo = NULL,
                        minGenReads = 10,
                        minRds = 0.05,
                        threshold = 5,
                        offset = FALSE,
                        offsetUseFitGeneX = TRUE,
                        contrast = NULL,
                        forceGLM = FALSE)

### Arguments

`counts` | An object of class `ASpliCounts`
`targets` | A dataframe containing sample, bam and experimental factor columns.
`appendTo` | An object of class `ASpliDU` to which append the results of junction differential usage. If `appendTo` is `NULL` a new `ASpliDU` is created
`minGenReads` | Junctions within genes with at least an average of `minGenReads` reads for all conditions are included into the differential junction usage test. Default value is 10 reads.
`minRds` | Junctions within genes with at least an average of `minRds` read density for all conditions are included into the differential bin usage test. Junctions with at least an average of `minRds` read density for any condition are included into the differential junction usage test. Default value is 0.05.
`threshold` | Junction with at least `threshold` counts are included into the differential usage test.
`offset` | Corrects junction counts using an offset matrix derived from gene expression data. Default = FALSE
`offsetUseFitGeneX` | Fit a GLM using gene counts to build the offset matrix. This argument is used only when 'offset' argument is set to TRUE. The default value is TRUE
`contrast` | Define the comparison between conditions to be tested. `contrast` should be a vector with length equal to the number of experimental conditions defined by `targets`. The values of this vector are the coefficients that will be used to weight each condition, the order of the values corresponds to the order given by `getConditions` function. When `contrast` is NULL, defaults to a vector containing -1, as the first value, 1 as the second an zero for all the remaining values, this corresponds to a pair comparison where the first condition is assumed to be a control and the second condition is the treatment, all other conditions are ignored. Default = NULL
`forceGLM` | Force the use of a generalized linear model to estimate differential expression and usage. Default = FALSE

### Value

An `ASpliDU` object with results of differential usage of junctions

### Author(s)

Estefania Mancini, Javier Iserte, Marcelo Yanovsky, Ariel Chernomoretz

### See Also

`edgeR`, `DUreport` Accessors: `junctionsDU` Export: `writeDU`

### Examples

      # Create a transcript DB from gff/gtf annotation file.
      # Warnings in this examples can be ignored.
      library(GenomicFeatures)
      genomeTxDb <- makeTxDbFromGFF( system.file('extdata','genes.mini.gtf',
                                     package="ASpli") )

      # Create an ASpliFeatures object from TxDb
      features <- binGenome( genomeTxDb )

      # Define bam files, sample names and experimental factors for targets.
      bamFileNames <- c( "A_C_0.bam", "A_C_1.bam", "A_C_2.bam",
                         "A_D_0.bam", "A_D_1.bam", "A_D_2.bam" )
      targets <- data.frame(
                   row.names = paste0('Sample_',c(1:6)),
                   bam = system.file( 'extdata', bamFileNames, package="ASpli" ),
                   factor1 = c( 'C','C','C','D','D','D') )

      # Load reads from bam files
      bams <- loadBAM( targets )

      # Read counts from bam files
      counts   <- readCounts( features, bams, targets, cores = 1, readLength = 100,
                              maxISize = 50000 )

      # Calculate differential usage of junctions only
      du       <- junctionDUreport( counts, targets )

      # Calculate differential usage of genes, bins and junctions
      du2       <- DUreport( counts, targets )
      du2       <- junctionDUreport( counts, targets, appendTo = du2 )

      # Export results
      writeDU( du = du, output.dir = "only_du" )

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