# artMS: Analytical R Tools for Mass Spectrometry

David Jimenez-Morales

#### 2020-02-10

# 1 OVERVIEW

artMS is a Bioconductor package that provides a set of tools for the analysis and integration of large-scale proteomics (mass-spectrometry-based) datasets obtained using the popular proteomics software MaxQuant.

artMS also perfoms basic quality control and relative quantification for metabolomics datasets obtained using the alignment table generated by MarkerView.

The functions available in artMS can be grouped into the following categories:

- Multiple quality control (QC) functions.
- Relative quantification using MSstats.
- Downstream analysis and integration of quantifications (enrichment, clustering, PCA, summary plots, etc)
- Generation of input files for other tools, including SAINTq, SAINTexpress, Photon, and Phosfate

## 1.1 How to install

Before you begin, ensure that your system is running an `R version >= 3.6` or the installation of `artMS` won’t work. You can check the R version running on your system by executing the function `getRversion()`

If the outcome is `>= 3.6.0`, congratulations! you can move forward. If it is not, then you need to install the latest version of R in your system.

Two options to install artMS:

- Official BioConductor releases (recommended). artMS is available in BioConductor. Instructions on how to install the package are available here.

(Why Bioconductor? Here you can find a nice summary of many good reasons).

- Development version from Github. (Warning: not stable, but it has the latest). Assuming that you have an `R (>= 3.6)` version running on your system, follow these steps:

    install.packages("devtools")
    library(devtools)
    install_github("biodavidjm/artMS")

Once installed, the package can be loaded and attached to your current workspace as follows:

    library(artMS)

## 1.2 Input files

artMS performs the different analyses taking as input the following files:

- evidence.txt file: output of the quantitative proteomics software package MaxQuant.
- keys.txt (tab-delimited) txt file generated by the user describing the experimental design.
- contrast.txt (tab-delimited) txt file generated by the user with the comparisons between conditions to be quantified.

Check below to find out more about generating the input files.

## 1.3 Configuration file

`artmsQuantification()` requires a large number of arguments, specially those related to the statistical package MSstats. To facilite the task of providing all those arguments, the function `artmsQuantification()` takes a config file (in `yaml` format) for the customization of the parameters for quantification (using `MSstats`) and other operations, including QC analyses, charts, and annotations.

A configuration file template can be generated by running `artmsWriteConfigYamlFile()`

Check below to learn the details of the configuration file.

## 1.4 Basic workflows

### 1.4.1 Proteomics

- Generate the input files: Check the input files section for details

- Quality Control: if you are interested in performing only quality control analysis, run the following functions:

  - `artmsQualityControlEvidenceBasic()`: QC based on the `evidence.txt` file
  - `artmsQualityControlEvidenceExtended()`: based on the `evidence.txt` file
  - `artmsQualityControlSummaryExtended()`: based on the `summary.txt` file

- Relative Quantification: fill up the configuration file and run the following function:

  - `artmsQuantification(yaml_config_file = "config.yaml")` (here the details)

- Analysis of Quantifications: performs annotations, clustering analysis, PCA analysis, enrichment analysis by running the function

  - `artmsAnalysisQuantifications()` (here the details)

- Miscellaneous functions: Check below to discover more useful functions provided by the `artMS` package.

### 1.4.2 Metabolomics

artMS also enables the relative quantification of untargeted polar metabolites using the alignment table generated by MarkerView. This means that the metabolites do not need to have an `ID`, as the `m/z` and `retention time` will be used as identifiers. Typical workflow:

- Run QC on the metabolomics dataset: `artmsQualityControlMetabolomics()`

- Relative quantification: `artmsQuantification()` (notice that a few options must be changed in the config file before running the function)

Please, keep in mind that most of the functions won’t work for metabolomics data due to annotation issues (protein/gene ids are the primary ids for most of the functions). Check the metabolomics section to find out more.

# 2 REQUIRED INPUT FILES

## 2.1 Input files

Three basic (tab-delimited) files are required to perform the full pack of operations:

### 2.1.1 `evidence.txt`

The output of the quantitative proteomics software package MaxQuant. It combines all the information about the identified peptides.

### 2.1.2 `keys.txt`

Tab delimited file generated by the user. It summarizes the experimental design of the evidence file. `artMS` merges the `keys.txt` and `evidence.txt` by the “RawFile” column. Each RawFile corresponds to a unique individual experimental technical replicate / biological replicate / Condition / Run.

For any basic label-free proteomics experiment, the keys file must contain the following columns and rules:

- RawFile: The name of the RAW-file for which the mass spectral data was derived from.
- IsotopeLabelType: `'L'` for label free experiments (`'H'` will be used for SILAC experiments, see below)
- Condition: The conditions names must follow these rules:
  - Use only letters (A - Z, both uppercase and lowercase) and numbers (0 - 9). The only special character allowed is underscore (`_`).
  - Very important: A condition name cannot begin with a number (R limitation).
- BioReplicate: biological replicate number. It is based on the condition name. Use as prefix the corresponding `Condition` name, and add as suffix `dash (-)` plus the biological replicate number. For example, if condition `H1N1_06H` has too biological replicates, name them `H1N1_06H-1` and `H1N1_06H-2`
- Run: a unique number for all the MS runs (from 1 to the total number of raw files). It will be specially useful when having technical replicates. A special case is SILAC experiments (H and L label are run simultaneously. See below to find out more)

Example of keys file: check the artMS data object `artms_data_ph_keys`

RawFile | IsotopeLabelType | Condition | BioReplicate | Run
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
qx006145 | L | Cal_33 | Cal_33-1 | 1
qx006148 | L | Cal_33 | Cal_33-4 | 4
qx006151 | L | HSC6 | HSC6-2 | 6
qx006152 | L | HSC6 | HSC6-3 | 7

Tip: it is recommended to use Microsoft Excel (OpenOffice Cal / or similar) to generate the keys file. Do not forget to choose the format = Tab Delimited Text (.txt) when saving the file (use save as option)

### 2.1.3 `contrast.txt`

The comparisons between conditions that the user wants to quantify.

- Example #1: the comparison for the keys described above would be:

    HSC6-Cal_33

- Example #2: let’s quantify changes in protein abundance between wild type (`WT_A549`) relative to two additional experimental conditions with drugs (`WT_DRUG_A` and `WT_DRUG_B`), but also changes in protein abundance between `DRUG_A` and `DRUG_B`, the contrast file would look like this:

    WT_DRUG_A-WT_A549
    WT_DRUG_B-WT_A549
    WT_DRUG_A-WT_DRUG_B

Requirements:

- The two conditions to be compared must be separated by a dash symbol (`-`), and only one dash symbol is allowed, i.e., only one comparison per line.

As a result of the quantification, the condition on the left will take the positive log2FC sign -if the protein is more abundant in condition on the left (numerator), and the condition on the right the negative log2FC -if a protein is more abundant in condition on the right term (denominator).

Example of wrong comparisons

Only condition names are allowed. Individual Bioreplicates cannot be compared. For example, this is wrong:

    HSC6-Cal_33-1

## 2.2 The artMS configuration file

The configuration file (in `yaml` format) contains a variety of options available for the QC, quantification, and annotations performed by `artMS`.

To generate a sample configuration file, go to the project folder (`setwd(/path/to/your/working/folder/)`) and execute:

    library(artMS)

    ##

    ##

    artmsWriteConfigYamlFile(config_file_name = "config.yaml",
                             verbose = FALSE)

Open the `config.yaml` file with your favorite editor (RStudio for example). Although it might look complex, the default options work very well.

The configuration (`yaml`) file contains the following sections:

### 2.2.1 Section: `files`

    files :
      evidence : /path/to/the/evidence.txt
      keys : /path/to/the/keys.txt
      contrasts : /path/to/the/contrast.txt
      summary: /path/to/the/summary.txt # Optional
      output : /path/to/the/results_folder/ph-results.txt

The file `path/name` of the required files. It is recommended to create a new folder in your folder project (for example, `results_folder`). The results file name (e.g. `-results.txt`) will be used as prefix for the several files (`txt` and `pdf`) that will be generated.

### 2.2.2 Section: `qc`

    qc:
      basic: 1 # 1 = yes; 0 = no
      extended: 1 # 1 = yes; 0 = no
      extendedSummary: 0 # 1 = yes; 0 = no

Select to perform both ‘basic’ and ‘extended’ quality control based on the `evidence.txt` file or ‘extendedSummary’ based on the `summary.txt` file. Read below to find out more about the details of each type of analysis.

### 2.2.3 Section: `data`

    data:
      enabled : 1 # 1 = yes; 0 = no
      fractions:
        enabled : 0 # 1 for protein fractionation
      silac:
        enabled : 0 # 1 for SILAC experiments
      filters:
        enabled : 1
        contaminants : 1
        protein_groups : remove # remove, keep
        modifications : AB # PH, UB, AB, APMS
      sample_plots : 1 # correlation plots

Let’s break it down `data`:

- `enabled : 1`: to pre-process the data provided in the files section. `0`: won’t process the data (and a pre-generated MSstats file will be expected)

- `fractions`: Multiple fractionation or separation methods are often combined in proteomics to improve signal-to-noise and proteome coverage and to reduce interference between peptides in quantitative proteomics.
  - `enabled : 1` for fractionation dataset. See Special case: Protein Fractionation below for details
  - `enabled : 0` no fractions
- `silac`:
  - `enabled : 1`: check if the files belong to a SILAC experiment. See Special case: SILAC below for details
  - `enabled : 0`: no silac experiment (default)
- `filters`:
  - `enabled : 1` Enables filtering (this section)
  - `contaminants : 1` Removes contaminants (`CON__` and `REV__` labeled by MaxQuant)
  - `protein_groups : remove` choose whether `remove` or `keep` protein groups
  - `modifications : AB` any of the proteomics experiments, `PH`, `UB`, or `AC` for posttranslational modifications, `AB` or `APMS` otherwise.
- `sample_plots`
  - `1` Generate correlation plots
  - `0` otherwise

### 2.2.4 Section: `MSstats`

    msstats :
      enabled : 1
      msstats_input : # `-mss.txt` file or blank (default)
      profilePlots : none
      normalization_method : equalizeMedians
      normalization_reference :  # blank (default) if equalizeMedians
      summaryMethod : TMP
      censoredInt : NA
      cutoffCensored : minFeature
      MBimpute : 1
      feature_subset: all

Let’s break it down:

- `enabled :` Choose `1` to run MSstats, `0` otherwise.
- `msstats_input :` leave it blank if MSstats will be run (previous `enabled : 1`). But if MSstats was already run and the `evidence-mss.txt` file is available, then choose `enabled : 0` and provide here the `evidence-mss.txt` file path/name
- `profilePlots :` Choose one of the following options:
  - `before` plot before normalization
  - `after` plot after normalization
  - `before-after`: recommended, although computational expensive
  - `none` no normalization plots
- `normalization_method :` available options:
  - `equalizeMedians`
  - `quantile`
  - `0`: no normalization (not recommended)
  - `globalStandards` if selected, specified the reference protein in `normalization_reference` (next)
- `normalization_reference :` UniProt id if `globalStandards` is chosen as the `normalization_method` (above)
- `summaryMethod :` TMP # “TMP”(default) means Tukey’s median polish, which is robust estimation method. “linear” uses linear mixed model. “logOfSum” conducts log2 (sum of intensities) per run.
- `censoredInt :`
  - `NA` (default) Missing values are censored or at random. ‘NA’ assumes that all ‘NA’s in ’Intensity’ column are censored.
  - `0` uses zero intensities as censored intensity. In this case, NA intensities are missing at random. The output from Skyline should use `0`. Null assumes that all `NA` intensities are randomly missing.
- `cutoffCensored :`
  - `minFeature` Cutoff value for censoring. Only with `censoredInt : NA` or `0`. Default is ‘minFeature’, which uses minimum value for each feature.
  - `minFeatureNRun` uses the smallest between minimum value of corresponding feature and minimum value of corresponding run.
  - `minRun` uses minimum value for each run.
- `MBimpute :`
  - `TRUE` only for `summaryMethod="TMP"` and `censoredInt='NA'` or `0`. TRUE (default) imputes ‘NA’ or ‘0’ (depending on censoredInt option) by Accelerated failure model.
  - `FALSE` uses the values assigned by cutoffCensored.
- `feature_subset :`
  - `all` : default
  - `highQuality` : this option seems to be buggy right now

Check MSstats documentation to find out more about every option.

### 2.2.5 Section: `output_extras`

      enabled : 1 # if 0, won't process anything on this section
      annotate :
        enabled: 1
        species : HUMAN
      plots:
        volcano: 1
        heatmap: 1
        LFC : -1.5 1.5 # Range of minimal log2fc
        FDR : 0.05
        heatmap_cluster_cols : 0
        heatmap_display : log2FC # log2FC or pvalue

Extra actions to perform based on the MSstats results, including annotations and plots (heatmaps and volcano plots). Let’s break it down:

- `enabled :` 1 (default) enables this section, 0 turns it off
- `annotate :`
  - `enabled`: 1 (default), will generate a `-results-annotated.txt` file that includes `Gene` and `Protein.Name` (only for supported species)
  - `species`: The supported species are: HUMAN, MOUSE, ANOPHELES, ARABIDOPSIS, BOVINE, WORM, CANINE, FLY, ZEBRAFISH, ECOLI_STRAIN_K12, ECOLI_STRAIN_SAKAI, CHICKEN, RHESUS, MALARIA, CHIMP, RAT, YEAST, PIG, XENOPUS
- `plots :` options for additional plots
  - `volcano :` 1
  - `LFC :` log2 fold change cutoff (minimal negative and positive value)
  - `FDR :` false discovery rate cutoff for significance (recommended: 0.05)
  - `heatmap :` correlation plots
  - `heatmap_cluster_cols :` 1 perfoms clustering of columns, 0 (default) doesn’t
  - `heatmap_display :` choose to display either `log2FC` or `pvalue`

## 2.3 Special case: Protein fractionation

To handle protein fractionation experiments, two options must be activated

1. `keys.txt`: The keys file must contain an additional column named “`FractionKey`” with the information about fractions. For example:

Raw.file | IsotopeLabelType | Condition | BioReplicate | Run | FractionKey
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
S9524_Fx1 | L | AB | AB-1 | 1 | 1
S9524_Fx2 | L | AB | AB-1 | 1 | 2
S9524_Fx3 | L | AB | AB-1 | 1 | 3
S9524_Fx4 | L | AB | AB-1 | 1 | 4
S9524_Fx5 | L | AB | AB-1 | 1 | 5
S9524_Fx6 | L | AB | AB-1 | 1 | 6
S9524_Fx7 | L | AB | AB-1 | 1 | 7
S9524_Fx8 | L | AB | AB-1 | 1 | 8
S9524_Fx9 | L | AB | AB-1 | 1 | 9
S9524_Fx10 | L | AB | AB-1 | 1 | 10
S9525_Fx1 | L | AB | AB-2 | 2 | 1
S9525_Fx2 | L | AB | AB-2 | 2 | 2
S9525_Fx3 | L | AB | AB-2 | 2 | 3
S9525_Fx4 | L | AB | AB-2 | 2 | 4
S9525_Fx5 | L | AB | AB-2 | 2 | 5
S9525_Fx6 | L | AB | AB-2 | 2 | 6
S9525_Fx7 | L | AB | AB-2 | 2 | 7
S9525_Fx8 | L | AB | AB-2 | 2 | 8
S9525_Fx9 | L | AB | AB-2 | 2 | 9
S9525_Fx10 | L | AB | AB-2 | 2 | 10
S9526_Fx1 | L | AB | AB-3 | 3 | 1
S9526_Fx2 | L | AB | AB-3 | 3 | 2
S9526_Fx3 | L | AB | AB-3 | 3 | 3
S9526_Fx4 | L | AB | AB-3 | 3 | 4
S9526_Fx5 | L | AB | AB-3 | 3 | 5
S9526_Fx6 | L | AB | AB-3 | 3 | 6
S9526_Fx7 | L | AB | AB-3 | 3 | 7
S9526_Fx8 | L | AB | AB-3 | 3 | 8
S9526_Fx9 | L | AB | AB-3 | 3 | 9
S9526_Fx10 | L | AB | AB-3 | 3 | 10

2. `config.yaml`: Enable fractions in the configuration file as follow:

    fractions:
      enabled : 1 # 1 for protein fractions, 0 otherwise

## 2.4 Special case: SILAC

One of the most widely used techniques that enable relative protein quantification is stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture (SILAC). The `keys.txt` file can capture the typical SILAC experiment. The following example shows a SILAC experiment with two conditions, two biological replicates, and two technical replicates:

RawFile | IsotopeLabelType | Condition | BioReplicate | Run
--- | --- | --- | --- | ---
QE20140321-01 | H | iso | iso-1 | 1
QE20140321-02 | H | iso | iso-1 | 2
QE20140321-04 | L | iso | iso-2 | 3
QE20140321-05 | L | iso | iso-2 | 4
QE20140321-01 | L | iso_M | iso_M-1 | 1
QE20140321-02 | L | iso_M | iso_M-1 | 2
QE20140321-04 | H | iso_M | iso_M-2 | 3
QE20140321-05 | H | iso_M | iso_M-2 | 4

It is also required to activate the silac option in the yaml file as follows:

    silac:
      enabled : 1 # 1 for SILAC experiments

# 3 QUALITY CONTROL

`artMS` provides 3 functions to perform QC analyses.

## 3.1 Basic QC (`evidence.txt`-based)

The basic quality control analysis takes as input both the `evidence.txt` and keys.txt files and generates several QC plots exploring different aspects of the MS data. Run it as follows:

    artmsQualityControlEvidenceBasic(evidence_file = artms_data_ph_evidence,
                                     keys_file = artms_data_ph_keys,
                                     prot_exp = "PH")

The following `pdf` files are generated by default:

- -basicReproducibility.pdf: correlation dot plot for all the combinations of biological replicates of every condition, based on MS Intensity values of features (peptide+charge)
- -correlationMatrixBR.pdf: It contains 3 pages. Correlation matrix for all the biological replicates using MS Intensity values, Clustering matrix of the MS Intensities, and correlation distribution histogram.
- -correlationMatrixBR.pdf: Same as the previous one, but based on MS Intensity values of Conditions
- -IntensityDistributions.pdf: 2 pages. Box-dot plot and Jitter plot of MS (raw) intensity values for each biological replicate.
- -intensityStats.pdf: several pages, including bar plots of Total Sum of Intensities in BioReplicates, Total Sum of Intensities in Conditions, Total Peptide Counts in BioReplicates, Total Peptide Counts in conditions grouped by categories (`CON`: contaminants, `PROT` peptides, `REV` reversed sequences used by MaxQuant to estimate the FDR); Box plots of MS Intensity values per biological replicates and conditions; bar plots of total intensity (excluding contaminants) by bioreplicates and conditions; Bar plots of total feature counts by bioreplicates and conditions.
- -ptmStats.pdf: If any PTM is selected (`PH`, `UB`, `AC`) an extra pdf file will be generated with stats related to the selected modification, including: bar plot of peptide counts and intensities, broken by `PTM/other` categories; bar plots of total sum-up of MS intensity values by other/PTM categories.

Check `?artmsQualityControlEvidenceBasic()` to find out more options about this function.

Next, for illustration purposes, let’s show how to generate only one plot (e.g. INTDIST):

    # But for illustration purposes printing only INTDIST plot:
    library(artMS)
    suppressWarnings(
    artmsQualityControlEvidenceBasic(evidence_file = artms_data_ph_evidence,
                                     keys_file = artms_data_ph_keys,
                                     prot_exp = "PH",
                                     plotINTDIST = TRUE,
                                     plotREPRO = FALSE,
                                     plotCORMAT = FALSE,
                                     plotINTMISC = FALSE,
                                     plotPTMSTATS = FALSE,
                                     printPDF = FALSE,
                                     verbose = FALSE))

## 3.2 Extended QC (`evidence.txt`-based)

It takes as input the `evidence.txt` and `keys.txt` files as follows:

    artmsQualityControlEvidenceExtended(evidence_file = artms_data_ph_evidence,
                                        keys_file = artms_data_ph_keys)

and generates the following QC plots:

- plotPSM (QC_Plots_PSM.pdf) : it generates peptide-spectrum-matches (PSMs) statistics plot: Page 1 shows the number of PSMs confidently identified in each BioReplicate. If replicates are present, Page 2 shows the mean number of PSMs per condition with error bar showing the standard error of the mean. Note that potential contaminant proteins are plotted separately.
- plotIONS (QC_Plots_IONS.pdf) : it generates peptide ion statistics plot: A peptide ion is defined in the context of m/z, in other words, an unique peptide sequence may give rise to multiple ions with different charge state and/or amino acid modification. Page 1 shows the number of ions confidently identified in each BioReplicate . If replicates are present, Page 2 shows the mean number of peptide ions per condition with error bar showing the standard error of the mean. Note that potential contaminant proteins are plotted separately.
- plotTYPE (QC_Plots_TYPE.pdf): it generates identification type statistics plot: MaxQuant classifies each peptide identification into different categories (e.g., MSMS, MULTI-MSMS, MULTI-SECPEP). Page 1 shows the distribution of identification type in each BioReplicate
- plotPEPTIDES (QC_Plots_PEPTIDES.pdf): it generates peptide statistics plot: Page 1 shows the number of unique peptide sequences (disregard the charge state or amino acid modifications) confidently identified in each BioReplicate. If replicates are present, Page 2 shows the mean number of peptides per condition with error bar showing the standard error of the mean. Note that potential contaminant proteins are plotted separately. Pages 3 and 4 show peptide identification intersection between BioReplicates (the bars are ordered by degree or frequency, respectively), and Page 4 shows the intersections across conditions instead of BioReplicates.
- plotPROTEINS (QC_Plots_PROTEINS.pdf): it generates protein statistics plot: Page 1 shows the number of protein groups confidently identified in each BioReplicate. If replicates are present, Page 2 shows the mean number of protein groups per condition with error bar showing the standard error of the mean. Note that potential contaminant proteins are plotted separately. Pages 3 and 4 show peptide identification intersection between BioReplicates (the bars are ordered by degree or frequency, respectively), and Page 4 shows the intersections across conditions instead of BioReplicates.
- plotPIO (QC_Plots_PepIonOversampling.pdf): it generates oversampling statistics plot: Page 1 shows the proportion of all peptide ions (including peptides matched across runs) fragmented once, twice and thrice or more. Page 2 shows the proportion of peptide ions (with intensity detected) fragmented once, twice and thrice or more. Page 3 shows the proportion of peptide ions (with intensity detected and MS/MS identification) fragmented once, twice and thrice or more
- plotCS (QC_Plots_CHARGESTATE.pdf): it generates charge state plot: Page 1 shows the charge state distribution of PSMs confidently identified in each BioReplicate.
- plotME (QC_Plots_MASSERROR.pdf): it generates precursor mass error plot: Page 1 shows the distribution of precursor error for all PSMs confidently identified in each BioReplicate.
- plotMOCD (QC_Plots_MZ.pdf): it generates precursor mass-over-charge plot: Page 1 shows the distribution of precursor mass-over-charge for all PSMs confidently identified in each BioReplicate.
- plotPEPICV (QC_Plots_PEPINT.pdf): it generates peptide intensity coefficient of variance (CV) plot: The CV is calculated for each feature (peptide ion) identified in more than one replicate. Page 1 shows the distribution of CV’s for each condition, while Page 2 shows the distribution of CV’s within 4 bins of intensity (i.e., 4 quantiles of average intensity).
- plotPEPDETECT (QC_Plots_PepDetect.pdf): it generates peptide detection frequency plot: Page 1 summarizes the frequency that each peptide is detected across BioReplicates of each condition, showing the percentage of peptides detected once, twice, thrice, and so on (for whatever number of replicates each condition has).
- plotPROTICV (QC_Plots_ProtInt.pdf): it generates protein intensity coefficient of variance (CV) plot: The CV is calculated for each protein (after summing the peptide intensities) identified in more than one replicate. Page 1 shows the distribution of CV’s for each condition, while Page 2 shows the distribution of CV’s within 4 bins of intensity (i.e., 4 quantiles of average intensity).
- plotPROTDETECT (QC_Plots_ProtDetect.pdf): it generates protein detection frequency plot: Page 1 summarizes the frequency that each protein group is detected across BioReplicates of each condition, showing the percentage of proteins detected once, twice, thrice, and so on (for whatever number of replicates each condition has). Page 2 shows the feature (peptide ion) intensity distribution within each BioReplicate (potential contaminant proteins are plot separately). Page 3 shows the density of feature intensity for different feature types (i.e., MULTI-MSMS, MULTI-SECPEP).
- plotIDoverlap (QC-ID-Overlap.pdf): it generates pairwise identification heatmap overlap: Pages 1 and 2 show pairwise peptide and protein overlap between any 2 BioReplicates, respectively.
- plotIC (QC-IntCorrelation.pdf): it generates pairwise intensity correlation: Page 1 and 3 show pairwise peptide and protein intensity correlation and scatter plot between any 2 BioReplicates, respectively. Page 2 and 4 show principal component analysis at the intensity level for both peptide and proteins, respectively.
- plotSP (QC-SamplePrep.pdf): it generates sample quality metrics: Page 1 shows missing cleavage distribution of all peptides confidently identified in each BioReplicate. Page 2 shows the fraction of peptides with at least one methionine oxidized in each BioReplicate.

## 3.3 Extended QC (`summary.txt` based)

It requires two files:

- keys.txt file
- MaxQuant `summary.txt` file. As described by MaxQuant’s `table.pdf`, the summary file contains summary information for all the raw files processed with a single MaxQuant run, including statistics on the peak detection. The QC analysis of this file gathers a quick overview on the quality of every RawFile based on this `summary.txt`. Run it as follows:

    artmsQualityControlSummaryExtended(summary_file = "summary.txt",
                                        keys_file = artms_data_ph_keys)

It generates the following `pdf` plots:

- plotMS1SCANS: generates MS1 scan counts plot: Page 1 shows the number of MS1 scans in each BioReplicate. If replicates are present, Page 2 shows the mean number of MS1 scans per condition with error bar showing the standard error of the mean. If `isFractions` is `TRUE`, each fraction is a stack on the individual bar graphs.

- plotMS2: generates MS2 scan counts plot: Page 1 shows the number of MSs scans in each BioReplicate. If replicates are present, Page 2 shows the mean number of MS1 scans per condition with error bar showing the standard error of the mean. If `isFractions` is `TRUE`, each fraction is a stack on the individual bar graphs.

- plotMSMS: generates MS2 identification rate (%) plot: Page 1 shows the fraction of MS2 scans confidently identified in each BioReplicate. If replicates are present, Page 2 shows the mean rate of MS2 scans confidently identified per condition with error bar showing the standard error of the mean. If `isFractions` `TRUE`, each fraction is a stack on the individual bar graphs.

- plotISOTOPE: generates Isotope Pattern counts plot: Page 1 shows the number of Isotope Patterns with charge greater than 1 in each BioReplicate. If replicates are present, Page 2 shows the mean number of Isotope Patterns with charge greater than 1 per condition with error bar showing the standard error of the mean. If `isFractions` `TRUE`, each fraction is a stack on the individual bar graphs.

# 4 RELATIVE QUANTIFICATION

The relative quantification is a fundamental step in the analysis of MS data. `artMS` facilitates and simplifies the analysis using MSstats, a fantastic statistical package for the relative quantification of Mass-Spectrometry based proteomics.

All the options and parameters required to run a relative quantification analysis using `MSstats` (in addition to other options) are summarized in `artMS` through a configuration file in `.yaml` format. Check the input-files section to find out more about each of the options.

Different types of proteomics experiments can be quantified including changes in global protein abundance (AB), affinity purification mass spectrometry (APMS), and different type of posttranslational modifications, including phosphorylation (PH), ubiquitination (UB), and acetylation (AC).

`artMS` also enables the relative quantification of untargeted polar metabolites using the alignment table generated by MarkerView. This means that `artMS` does not require an ID for the metabolites, as the m/z and retention time will be combined and used as identifiers.

## 4.1 Quantification of Changes in Global Protein Abundance

The quantification of changes in protein abundance between different conditions requires to fill up the following sections of the config file:

    files:
      evidence : /path/to/the/evidence.txt
      keys : /path/to/the/keys.txt
      contrasts : /path/to/the/contrast.txt
      output : /path/to/the/output/results_ptmGlobal/results.txt
      .
      .
      .
    data:
      .
      .
      .
      filters:
        modifications : AB

The remaining options can be left unmodified (and run the default parameters). Then run the following `artMS` function:

    artmsQuantification(
      yaml_config_file = '/path/to/config/file/artms_ab_config.yaml')

## 4.2 Quantification of Changes in Global Phosphorylation or Ubiquitination

Warning: This quantification is only possible for experiments that have used methods to enrich phosphopeptides or ubiquitinated peptides prior to the mass spectrometry analysis.

The global phosphorylation or ubiquitination quantification analysis calculates changes in phosphorylation or ubiquitination at the protein level. This means that all the modified peptides are used to quantify changes in protein phosphorylation or ubiquitination between different conditions. The site-specific analysis (explained next) would quantify changes at the peptide level, i.e., each modified peptide is quantify independently between the different conditions.

Only two sections need to be filled up in the default configuration file:

    files:
      evidence : /path/to/the/evidence.txt
      keys : /path/to/the/keys.txt
      contrasts : /path/to/the/contrast.txt
      output : /path/to/the/output/results_ptmGlobal/results.txt
      .
      .
      .
    data:
      .
      .
      .
      filters:
        modifications : PH # Use UB for ubiquination

The remaining options can be left unmodified.

Once the configuration `yaml` file is ready, run the following command:

    artmsQuantification(
      yaml_config_file = '/path/to/config/file/artms_phglobal_config.yaml')

## 4.3 PTM-Site/Peptide-specific Quantification of Changes (PH or UB)

Warning: This quantification is only possible for experiments that have used methods to enrich phosphopeptides or ubiquitinated peptides prior to the mass spectrometry analysis.

The `site-specific` analysis quantifies changes at the modified peptide level. This means that changes in every modified (PH or UB) peptide of a given protein will be quantified individually. The caveat is that the proportion of missing values should increase relative to the global analysis. Both sites and global ptm analysis are highly correlated due to the fact that only one or two peptides drive the overall changes in PTMs for every protein.

To run a site/peptide specific analysis follow these steps:

1. Important pre-processing step on the evidence file to enable the ptm-site/peptide-specific analysis. This step takes any of the Proteins id columns selected by the user (either `Leading razor protein`, `Leading protein`, or `Proteins`) and re-annotates it to incorporate the ptm-site/peptide-specific information. By default, this function converts the column `Leading razor protein`. This step is computational expensive, which means that it might take several minutes to finish (depending on the size of the fasta database, evidence file, computer power, etc)

It also requires the same reference proteome (fasta sequence database) used for the MaxQuant search.

For phosphorylation:

    artmsProtein2SiteConversion(
      evidence_file = "/path/to/the/evidence.txt",
      ref_proteome_file = "/path/to/the/reference_proteome.fasta",
      output_file = "/path/to/the/output/ph-sites-evidence.txt",
      mod_type = "PH")

As a result, the IDs in the “Leading razor protein” column will contain site/peptide-specific notation. For example:

Before: `P12345` After: `P12345_S23_S45`

For ubiquitination:

    artmsProtein2SiteConversion(
      evidence_file = "/path/to/the/evidence.txt",
      ref_proteome_file = "/path/to/the/reference_proteome.fasta",
      output_file = "/path/to/the/output/ub-sites-evidence.txt",
      mod_type = "UB")

Tip: How to re-annotate all the Protein columns on the same file.

By default, `artmsProtein2SiteConversion` doesn’t allow to overwrite the `evidence.txt` file for security reasons (you don’t want to lose the evidence file if something goes wrong). To overwrite the evidence file the argument `overwrite_evidence` must be turned on (`overwrite_evidence = TRUE`).

If the `column_name` argument is not used, `artmsProtein2SiteConversion` converts the `Leading razor protein` column, which is used in the quantification step when `protein_groups : remove` is selected (default). However, if `protein_groups : keep` is used, `artMS` will use the `Proteins` column. To convert the `Proteins` column to the site/peptide-specific notation, then add the argument `column_name = "Proteins"`.

To annotate both columns of the same file, first generate the “site-evidence.txt” file, and then use this same output file as the `evidence_file` and activate `overwrite.evidence = TRUE`.

In summary, to annotate both the “Leading razor protein” and `Proteins` columns follow these steps:

    # Convert 'Leading razor protein'
    artmsProtein2SiteConversion(
      evidence_file = "/path/to/the/evidence.txt", # ORIGINAL
      column_name = "Leading razor protein",
      ref_proteome_file = "/path/to/the/reference_proteome.fasta",
      output_file = "/path/to/the/phsites-evidence.txt", # SITES VERSION
      mod_type = "PH")

    # Convert 'Proteins'
    artmsProtein2SiteConversion(
      evidence_file = "/path/to/the/phsites-evidence.txt", # <- USE SITES VERSION
      column_name = "Proteins",
      overwrite_evidence = TRUE, # <--- TURN ON
      ref_proteome_file = "/path/to/the/reference_proteome.fasta",
      output_file = "/path/to/the/phsites-evidence.txt", # <- SITES VERSION
      mod_type = "PH")

2. Generate a new configuration file (`phsites_config.yaml` or `ubsites_config.yaml`) as explained above, but using the “new” `sites-evidence.txt` file instead of the original `evidence.txt` file:

    files:
      evidence : /path/to/the/evidence-site.txt
      keys : /path/to/the/keys.txt
      contrasts : /path/to/the/contrast.txt
      output : /path/to/the/output/results_ptmSITES/sites-results.txt # <- this one
      .
      .
      .
    data:
      .
      .
      .
      filters:
        modifications : PH # <- Don't forget this one.

Once the new `yaml` file has been created, execute:

    artmsQuantification(
      yaml_config_file = '/path/to/config/file/phsites_config.yaml')

## 4.4 Output files

The files generated after succesfully running `artmsQuantification` are (based on MSstats documentation):

### 4.4.1 TXT (tab delimited) files

- results.txt: the results of the quantification in long format, i.e., each line is a protein for each comparison. It includes the following columns:
  - `Protein`: Protein ID
  - `Label`: comparison (from contrast.txt)
  - `log2FC`: log2 fold change
  - `SE`: standard error
  - `Tvalue`: test statistic of the Student test
  - `DF`: degree of freedom of the Student test
  - `pvalue`: raw p-values
  - `adj.pvalue`: p-values adjusted among all the proteins in the specific comparison using the approach by Benjamini and Hochberg
  - `issue`: shows if there is any issue for inference in corresponding protein and comparison, for example, OneConditionMissing or CompleteMissing.
  - `MissingPercentage`: percentage of random and censored missing in the corresponding run and protein out of the total number of feature in the corresponding protein.
  - `ImputationPercentage`: percentage of imputation
  - Note: If a protein is completely missed in one of the conditions of a given comparison, it would get the flag `OneConditionMission` with `adj.pvalue=0` and `log2FC=Inf` or `-Inf` even though `pvalue=NA`. For example, if for the comparison `Condition A - Condition B` one protein is completely missed for condition B, then `log2FC = Inf` and `adj.pvalue = 0`. `SE`, `Tvalue`, and `pvalue` will all be `NA`.
- results-annotated.txt: same as `results.txt` but 3 more columns of annotations, i.e., `Gene`, `ProteinName`, and `EntrezID`
- Different outputs from the MSstats dataProcess step (Normalizing and summarizing data, check MSstats documentation to find out more), including:
  - `results_ModelQC.txt`
  - `results_RunlevelData.txt`
  - `results-mss-groupQuant.txt`
  - `results-mss-normalized.txt`
  - `results-mss-sampleQuant.txt`
- Sample size and power calculation:
  - `results_sampleSize.txt`
  - `results_experimentPower.txt`

### 4.4.2 Plots (pdf)

- `results-heatmap.pdf`
- `results-peptidecounts-perBait.pdf`
- `results-peptidecounts.pdf`
- `results-sign.pdf`
- `results-volcano.pdf`

# 5 ANALYSIS OF QUANTIFICATIONS

Comprehensive analysis of the quantifications outputs obtained from the function artmsQuantification() section to find out more). It includes:

`artmsAnalysisQuantifications()` performs a comprehensive analysis of the quantifications outputs obtained from the function artmsQuantification(). It includes:

- Annotations
- Summary files in different formats (xls, txt) and shapes (long, wide)
- Basic Imputation (see Notes on Imputation and input option `mnbr` below)
- Numerous summary plots
- Enrichment analysis using Gprofiler
- PCA of protein abundance
- PCA of quantifications
- Clustering analysis

## 5.1 Inputs

It takes as input two files generated from the previous quantification step (artmsQuantification())

- `-results.txt` : MSstats quantification results
- `-results_ModelQC.txt` : MSstats normalized abundance values. It will be used to extract details about reproducibility.

To run this analysis:

1. Set as the working directory the folder with the results obtained from `artmsQuantification()`.

    setwd('~/path/to/the/results_quantification/')

And then run the following function (e.g., for a protein abundance “AB” experiment)

    artmsAnalysisQuantifications(log2fc_file = "ab-results.txt",
                                  modelqc_file = "ab-results_ModelQC.txt",
                                  species = "human",
                                  output_dir = "AnalysisQuantifications")

A few comments on the available options for `artmsAnalysisQuantifications`:

- `isPTM`: two options:
  - `"noptm"`: use for protein abundance (`AB`), Affinity Purification-Mass Spectrometry (`APMS`), and global analysis of posttranslational modifications (`PH` and `UB`) use the option .
  - `"ptmsites"`: use for site specific PTM analysis.
- `species`: this downstream analysis supports (for now) `"human"` and `"mouse"` only.
- `outliers`: outliers can be kept (default) or could be removed from the abundance data. Options:
  - `keep`: keeps the outliers
  - `iqr`: removes any outlier outside 6 times interquartile range from the mean (recommended)
  - `std`: it removes any outliers outside 6x the standard deviation from the mean
- `enrich`: If `TRUE`, it will perform enrichment analysis using `gProfileR`
- `isBackground`. If `enrich = TRUE`, the user can provide a background gene list (add the file path as well)
- `mnbr`: Minimal Number of Biological Replicates for imputation. Missing values will be imputed. This argument is set to specify the minimal number of biological replicates that are required in at least one of the conditions, for all the proteins. For example, `mnbr = 2` would indicate that only proteins found in at least two biological replicates will be imputed. CAUTION: `mnbr` would also add the constrain that any protein must be identified in at least `nmbr` biological replicates of the same condition or it will be filtered out. That is, if `mnbr = 2`, a protein found in two conditions but only in one biological replicate in each of them, it would be removed.
- `l2fc_thres`: log2fc cutoff for enrichment analysis, absolute value, e.g., if it is set to 1, it will consider significant `log2fc > +1` and `log2fc < -1`.
- `ipval`: select whether `pvalue` or `adjpvalue` id used for the analysis. The default option is `adjpvalue` (multiple testing correction). But if the number of biological replicates for a given experiment is too low (for example n = 2), then `pvalue` is recommended.

Notes on Imputation: artMS imputes the missing values by default. The `nmbr` can be used to specify the minimal number of biological replicates required to impute the missing values on the condition for which the protein is not missed (default: 2). That is, if one protein is fully missed in one condition but found in at least 2 biological replicates, the MS intensity value will be imputed for that protein in the missed condition and the log2FC value recalculated. The missing values will be imputed from randomly sampling the range within the lowest 5 MS intensities.

## 5.2 Outputs

Summary file (`summary.xlsx`)

Reminder: for any given relative quantification, as for example WT-Mutant:

- Proteins with positive log2fc values (i.e. `log2fc > 0`) are more abundant in the condition on the left / numerator (WT)
- Proteins with negative log2fc values (i.e. `log2fc < 0`) are more abundant in the condition on the right / denominator (Mutant)

The summary excel file (`results-summary.xlsx`) gathers several tabs:

- `log2fcImputed`: includes quantitative results.
  - Self-defining columns: Protein, Gene, ProteinName, EntrezID, Comparison, log2FC, pvalue, adj.pvalue.
  - Not self-defining columns:
    - imputed (`yes/no`) indicates whether the iLog2FC value has been imputed according to the `nmbr` criteria (see above)
    - iLog2FC, iPvalue: in addition to the model based log2fc and pvalues, these columns include imputed log2fc and pvalues (when completely missed in one of the conditions), followed by as many columns as the number of conditions, indicating the number of biological replicates in which each protein/ptmsite was identified.
    - CMA stands for “Condition Most Abundant”, i.e. condition in which each protein was found more abundantly (based on the log2fc).
- `wide_iLog2fc`: log2fc values (including imputed values) in wide format, i.e., each row is a unique protein/ptmsite. The columns shows the values for each of the comparisons.
- `wide_iPvalue`: same as before, but for pvalues (including imputed)
- `enrichALL`: enrichment analysis using GProfileR for all the proteins changing significantly in any direction (ab(log2fc) > 0 and pvalue < 0.05)
- `enrich-MACpos`: enrichment of only the positive significant changes (log2fc > 1, pvalue < 0.05)
- `enirch-MACneg`: enrichment of only the negative significant changes (log2fc < -1, pvalue < 0.05)
- `enMACallCorum, enMACposCorum, enMACnegCorum`: same as above but only for protein complex enrichment analysis (based on CORUM)

Text files

- `results-log2fc-long.txt`: same as the `log2fcImputed` tab from the summary file
- `results-log2fc-wide.txt`: wide version (i.e., each row is an individual protein) of pvalues and adj.pvalues for each comparison

Gene Enrichment analysis: enrichment analysis only supported for human and mouse. Check the GprofileR documentation to find out more about the details:

- `results-enrich-MAC-allsignificants.txt`: all significant changes (abs(log2fc) > 1 & pvalue < 0.05)
- `results-enrich-MAC-positives.txt`: only positive significant changes (log2fc > 1 & pvalue < 0.05)
- `results-enrich-MAC-negatives.txt`: all significant changes (based on p-value only)

Protein Complex Enrichment analysis (based on CORUM)

- `results-enrich-MAC-allsignificants-corum.txt`
- `results-enrich-MAC-positives-corum.txt`

- `results-enrich-MAC-negatives-corum.txt`

- `results-enrich-MAC-allsignificants-corum.pdf`
- `results-enrich-MAC-negatives-corum.pdf`

- `results-enrich-MAC-positives-corum.pdf`

Clustering

- `results.clustering.log2fc.all-overview.pdf`
- `results.clustering.log2fc.all-zoom.pdf`
- `results.clustering.log2fcSign.all-overview.pdf`

- `results.clustering.log2fcSign.all-zoom.pdf`

- `results.log2fc-clusterheatmap-enriched.txt`
- `results.log2fc-clusterheatmap.txt`
- `results.log2fc-clusterheatmap.pdf`

- `results.log2fc-clusters.pdf`

Correlations

- `results.correlationConditions.pdf`
- `results.reproducibilityAbundance.pdf`
- `results.correlationQuantifications.pdf`
- `results.log2fc-corr.pdf`

Miscellaneous

- `results.relativeABUNDANCE.pdf`

- `results.distributions.pdf`
- `results.distributionsFil.pdf`
- `results.imputation.pdf`

- `results.TotalQuantifications.pdf`

PCA

Based on relative abundance

- `results-pca-pca01.pdf`
- `results-pca-pca02.pdf`
- `results-pca-pca03.pdf`

Based on significant changes

- `results.log2fc-dendro.pdf`
- `results.log2fc-individuals-pca.pdf`

# 6 MISCELLANEOUS FUNCTIONS

`artMS` also provides a number of very handy functions.

## 6.1 Annotate data.frame with Gene Symbol, Name, ENTREZ based on Uniprot IDs

Takes the given `columnid` (of Uniprot IDs) from the input data.frame, and map the gene symbol, name, and entre id (source: bioconductor annotation packages)

    # This example adds annotations to the evidence file available in
    # artMS, based on the column 'Proteins'.

    evidence_anno <- artmsAnnotationUniprot(x = artms_data_ph_evidence,
                                            columnid = 'Proteins',
                                            species = 'human')

## 6.2 Average Intensity, RT, CR

Taking as input the evidence file, it will summarize and return back the average intensity, average retention time, and the average calibrated retention time for each protein. If a list of proteins is provided, then only those proteins will be summarized and returned. Check `?artmsAvgIntensityRT()` to find out more options.

    artmsAvgIntensityRT(evidence_file = '/path/to/the/evidence.txt)

## 6.3 Change column name

Changes a given column name in the input data.frame

    artms_data_ph_evidence <- artmsChangeColumnName(
                                   dataset = artms_data_ph_evidence,
                                   oldname = "Phospho..STY.",
                                   newname = "PH_STY")

## 6.4 Individual abundance dot plots

Protein abundance dot plots for each unique uniprot id. It can take a long time

    artmsDataPlots(input_file = "results/ab-results-mss-normalized.txt",
                   output_file = "results/ab-results-mss-normalized.pdf")

## 6.5 Enrichment analysis function

Enrichment analysis based on a data.frame with `Gene` and `Comparison`/`Label` protein (i.e, typical MSstats results)

    # The data must be annotated (Protein and Gene columns)
    data_annotated <- artmsAnnotationUniprot(
                          x = artms_data_ph_msstats_results,
                          columnid = "Protein",
                          species = "human")
    # And then the enrichment
    enrich_set <- artmsEnrichLog2fc(
                       dataset = data_annotated,
                       species = "human",
                       background = unique(data_annotated$Gene),
                       verbose = FALSE)

## 6.6 Enrichment analysis using gProfileR

Function that simplifies enrichment analysis using gProfileR

    # annotate the MSstats results to get the Gene name
    data_annotated <- artmsAnnotationUniprot(
                                         x = artms_data_ph_msstats_results,
                                         columnid = "Protein",
                                         species = "human")

    # Filter the list of genes with a log2fc > 2
    filtered_data <-
    unique(data_annotated$Gene[which(data_annotated$log2FC > 2)])

    # And perform enrichment analysis
    data_annotated_enrich <- artmsEnrichProfiler(
                                       x = filtered_data,
                                       categorySource = c('KEGG'),
                                       species = "hsapiens",
                                       background = unique(data_annotated$Gene))

## 6.7 MaxQuant evidence file to SAINTexpress format

Converts the MaxQuant evidence file to the 3 required files by SAINTexpress. Choose one of the following quantitative MS metrics:

- MS spectral counts (use msspc)
- MS intensities (use msint)

    artmsEvidenceToSaintExpress(evidence_file = "/path/to/evidence.txt",
                                keys_file = "/path/to/keys.txt",
                                ref_proteome_file = "/path/to/org.proteome.fasta")

## 6.8 MaxQuant evidence file to SAINTq format

Converts the MaxQuant evidence file to the required files by SAINTq. The user can filter based on either peptides with spectral counts (use `msspc`) or all the peptides (use `all`) for the analysis. The quantitative metric can be also chosen (either MS intensity or spectral counts)

    artmsEvidenceToSAINTq(evidence_file = "/path/to/evidence.txt",
                          keys_file = "/path/to/keys.txt",
                          output_dir = "saintq_input_files")

## 6.9 Generate Phosfate input file

It generates the Phosfate input file from the `imputedL2fcExtended.txt` file resulting from running the `artmsAnalysisQuantifications()` on a ph-site quantification (see above). Notice that the only species suported by PHOTON is humans.

    artmsPhosfateOutput(inputFile = "your-imputedL2fcExtended.txt")

## 6.10 Generate Photon input file

It generates the Photon input file from the `imputedL2fcExtended.txt` file resulting from running the `artmsAnalysisQuantifications()` on a ph-site quantification (see above). Please, notice that the only species suported by PHOTON is humans.

    artmsPhotonOutput(inputFile = "your-imputedL2fcExtended.txt")

## 6.11 Remove contaminants and empty proteins from the MaxQuant evidence file

Remove contaminants and erroneously identified ‘reverse’ sequences by MaxQuant, in addition to empty protein ids

    evidencefiltered <- artmsFilterEvidenceContaminants(x = artms_data_ph_evidence)

## 6.12 Generate ph-site specific evidence file

Generate extended detailed ph-site file, where every line is a ph site instead of a peptide. Therefore, if one peptide has multiple ph sites it will be breaking down in multiple extra lines for each of the sites.

    artmsGeneratePhSiteExtended(df = dfobject,
                                species = "mouse",
                                ptmType = "ptmsites",
                                output_name = log2fc_file)

# 7 METABOLOMICS

`artMS` enables the relative quantification of untargeted polar metabolites using the alignment table generated by MarkerView. This means that the metabolites do not need to have an id in order to perform the quantification, as the m/z and retention time will be used as identifiers.

MarkerView is an ABSciex software that supports the files generated by Analyst software (`.wiff`) used to run our specific mass spectrometer (ABSciex Triple TOF 5600+). It also supports `.t2d` files generated by the Applied Biosystems 4700/4800 MALDI-TOF.

Markview is used to align mass spectrometry data from several samples for comparison. Using the import feature in the software, `.wiff` files (also `.t2d` MALDI-TOF files and tab-delimited `.txt` mass spectra data in mass-intensity format) are loaded for retention time alignment. Once the data files are selected, a series of windows will appear wherein peak finding, alignment, and filtering options can be entered and selected. These options include minimum spectral peak width, minimum retention time peak width, retention time and mass tolerance, and the ability to filter out peaks that do not appear in more than a user selected number of samples.

The alignment file is further processed and formatted to perform QC and relative quantification using the following `artMS` functions:

## 7.1 Convert Metabolomics

Pre-process the markview `.txt` file to generate an “evidence-like” file by running:

    artmsConvertMetabolomics(input_file = "markview-output.txt",
                             out_file = "metabolomics-evidence.txt")

## 7.2 QC Metabolomics

Perform quality control analysis on the metabolomics data by running:

    artmsQualityControlMetabolomics(evidence_file = "metabolomics-evidence.txt",
                                    keys_file = "metabolomics-keys.txt")

It generates the following plots:

- `plotINTDIST.pdf` contains both Box-dot plot and Jitter plot of biological replicates based on MS (raw) intensity values.
- `plotREPRO.pdf` correlation dotplot for all the combinations of biological replicates of conditions, based on MS Intensity values using features (mz_rt+charge)
- `plotCORMAT.pdf`, includes up to 3 pdf files for technical replicates, biological replicates, and conditions. Each pdf file contains:
  - Correlation matrix for all the biological replicates using MS Intensity values,
  - Clustering matrix of the MS Intensities and correlation distribution
  - histogram of the distribution of correlations
- `plotINTMISC.pdf` the pdf contains several pages, including bar plots of Total Sum of Intensities in BioReplicates, Total Sum of Intensities in Conditions, Total Feature Counts in BioReplicates, Total Feature Counts in conditions separated by categories (INT: has a intensity value NOINT: no intensity value ) Box plots of MS Intensity values per biological replicates and conditions; bar plots of total intensity by bioreplicates and conditions; Barplots of total feature counts by bioreplicates and conditions.

## 7.3 Relative Quantification:

The relative quantification is performed using `MSstats`. It requires a configuration file (`yaml` format, please check above). A template can be generated by running: `artmsWriteConfigYamlFile(config_file_name = "metab_config.yaml")`. The relative quantification is performed by running:

    artmsQuantification(yaml_config_file = "metabConfig.yaml")

# 8 TESTING FILES

The artMS package provides the following testing datasets

Phosphoproteomics dataset: example dataset consisting of two head and neck cancer cell lines (conditions `"Cal33"` and `"HSC6"`), 2 biological replicates each). The number of peptides was reduced to 1/8 due to bioconductor limitations on data size.

- Evidence file: `artms_data_ph_evidence`
- Keys file: `artms_data_ph_keys`
- Results file: `artms_data_ph_msstats_results`: results after running `artmsQuantification()` on the reduced version

The full data set (2 conditions, 4 biological replicates) can be found at the following urls:

- `url_evidence <- 'http://kroganlab.ucsf.edu/artms/ph/evidence.txt'`
- `url_keys <- 'http://kroganlab.ucsf.edu/artms/ph/keys.txt'`

Protein Complexes dataset: downloaded (2017-08-01) from CORUM database
and further enriched with annotations of mouse mitochondrial complexes not available at CORUM. Used for complex enrichment calculations.

- `artms_data_corum_mito_database`

Pathogens Uniprot IDs:

- `artms_data_pathogen_LPN`: Legionella pneumophila philadelphia (downloaded 2017-07-17)
- `artms_data_pathogen_TB`: Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain ATCC 35801 / TMC 107 / Erdman (downloaded 2018-04-01)

Check the individual help pages (e.g, `?artms_data_ph_evidence`) to find out more about them.

# 9 HELP

- Errors or warnings? Please, submit them as a new issue at the official Github repository
- Any other inquiries: artms.help@gmail.com