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\author{Maarten van Iterson, Elmar Tobi, Roderick Slieker, 
        Wouter den Hollander, Rene Luijk,
  \\Eline Slagboom and Bas Heijmans
  \\Department of Molecular Epidemiology,
  \\Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands}

\title{MethylAid: Visual and Interactive quality control of Illumina Human DNA Methylation array data}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\tableofcontents

\section{Introduction}

\Biocpkg{MethylAid} is specially designed for quality control of large
sets of Illumina Human DNA methylation array data sets e.g.,
epigenomewide association studies (EWAS) using the 450k or 850k (EPIC)
arrays. Extracting intensities from IDAT files can be done in batches
and/or in parallel to reduce memory load and/or overcome long
run-times. It requires two function calls in going from IDAT files to
launch the interactive web application; \Rfunction{summarize} and
\Rfunction{visualize}. For more information see van Iterson 
\emph{et al.} \cite{iterson2014}.

To show the utility of \Biocpkg{MethylAid}, we first show a quick example using
a small set of idat files taken from the \Biocexptpkg{minfiData} package. A
second example uses presummarized data on 500 samples which can be used directly
to launch the web application. A third example shows how level 1 data downloaded
from The Cancer Genome Atlas can be used. Similar, in the fourth example we show
how data downloaded from GEO\cite{Edgar2002} can be used. For example, Liu
\emph{et al.} \cite{Liu2013} studied genome-wide DNA methylation levels to
determine whether Rheumatoid arthritis patients has methylation differences
comparing to normal controls in peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs) and deposit
raw data on GEO. Furthermore, we show how the summarization can be performed in
batches or in parallel using the \Biocpkg{BiocParallel} package which provides a
uniform idiom for parallel computing resources.

\Biocpkg{MethylAid} identifies poorly performing samples that are to be removed 
prior to processing and further analysis of the data. Other 
\R{}/\Bioconductor{}-packages such as, \Biocpkg{wateRmelon, minfi, methylumi, 
lumi, COHCAP, ChAMP}, are available for processing, i.e. background, dye-bias
and probe correction or for further analysis such as the detection of differentially 
methylated regions. Many of these packages include quality control as well. The
package \href{https://github.com/Jfortin1/shinyMethyl}{shinyMethyl} allows quality 
control assessment and interactive exploration of 450k array data in a similar way 
as \Biocpkg{MethylAid}.

We have a demo running at \href{http://shiny.bioexp.nl/MethylAid}{http://shiny.bioexp.nl/MethylAid} using the example-data of the package.

\section{Quick start}
This example shows how to summarize a small set of idat files e.g. the
summarized data fits into the available RAM. The \Biocexptpkg{minfiData}-package
provides such a set. The package contains 450k DNA methylation data on 6 samples
across 2 groups. Since, \Biocpkg{MethylAid} uses internally the function 
\Rfunction{read.metharray.exp} from the \Biocpkg{minfi}-package\cite{Aryee2014}, target
information should be provided in a similar way as is done when using the 
\Biocpkg{minfi}-package.

<<minfiDatatargets, cache=TRUE, message=FALSE>>=
library(MethylAid)
library(minfiData)
baseDir <- system.file("extdata", package = "minfiData")
targets <- read.metharray.sheet(baseDir)
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The function \Rfunction{summarize} performs the summarization of the the control
probes present on the array. The output produced by \Rfunction{summarize} is an
object of class \Robject{summarizedData} which should be passed on to the
function \Rfunction{visualize} which in turn will launch the interactive web
application.

<<minfiDataMethylAid, cache=TRUE, eval=FALSE>>=
data <- summarize(targets)
visualize(data)
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\bioccomment{\Rfunction{visualize} can only be called interactively from within
a \R{} session.}

\section{Example using presummarized 450k data}

For those who directly want to explore the web application we have presummarized
450k data on 500 samples.

<<presummarized, message=FALSE, eval=FALSE>>=
library(MethylAid)
data(exampleData)
visualize(exampleData)
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\bioccomment{\Rfunction{visualize} can only be called interactively from within
  a \R{} session.}

When your webbrowser opens you should see something like Figure
\ref{screenshot_MethylAid}. In the `About` panel a description is given of what
you see and can do.

\begin{figure}
   \centering
   \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{screenshot_MethylAid}
   \caption{Screen shot \Rpackage{MethylAid} interactive web application: The web interface 
     contains three parts; a panel with widgets to control the appearance of the quality 
     control plots, tab-panels for chosing the quality control plot of interest and the 
     interactive plotting area. When the interactive web application is launched the
     rotated M versus U plot is shown. Here using example data from the package on 500
     450k human methylation samples with selected ``scan\_batches'' using the input selector
     widget ``highlight metadata column''. The different ``scan\_batches'' are indicated 
     with different colors. The dashed-vertical line indicated the filter threshold, 
     samples below the threshold should be removed.}
   \label{screenshot_MethylAid}
\end{figure}

\section{Example using 450k data downloaded from The Cancer Genome Atlas}

The Cancer Genome Atlas (\url{http://cancergenome.nih.gov/}) provides a valuable
source of genomic data of various types of different cancers. Here all Breast
invasive carcinoma (BRCA) 450k level 1 DNA methylation data were download from
the TCGA Data Portal. A targets file can be constructed from the sdrf file but
some preprocessing is necessary. The following code chunk show how to make a
minimal targets file from a sdrf file. There is also a check to see if all files
are present otherwise these will be removed from the targets file. \fixme{In the
future this might be added as an internal check.}

<<tcgatargets, eval=FALSE>>=
sdrfFile <- list.files(pattern="sdrf", full.name=TRUE)
targets <- read.table(sdrfFile, header=TRUE, sep="\t")
path <- "path_to_idat_files"
targets <- targets[file.exists(file.path(path, targets$Array.Data.File)),]
targets <- targets[grepl("Red", targets$Array.Data.File),]
targets$Basename <- gsub("_Red.*$", "", file.path(path, targets$Array.Data.File))
rownames(targets) <- basename(targets$Basename)
head(targets)
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Now the $2\times 137$ idat files can be summarized. This could be too much to
read in at once therefore the option \Rcode{batchSize = 15} is used for
summarization of the data in batches of size 15. Furthermore, the summarized
data is stored as an \Rcode{RData}-object for later use, using the option
\Rcode{file = "tcgaBRCA"}. After summarization the data can be loaded into \R{}
and passed to \Rfunction{visualize} for interactive exploration of the data.

<<tcgaMethylAid, eval=FALSE>>=
summarize(targets, batchSize = 15, file = "tcgaBRCA")
load("tcgaBRCA.RData")
visualize(tcgaBRCA)
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\bioccomment{\Rfunction{visualize} can only be called interactive from within a
\R{} session.}

\section{Example using 450k data downloaded from GEO}

Several 450k data sets are available from GEO some include raw idat files
e.g. the study of Liu \emph{et al.} \cite{Liu2013} with GEO series number:
GSE42861. The idat files of this study are available under
GSE42861\_RAW.tar. Target information was extracted using the \Biocpkg{GEOquery}
package. \bioccomment{To run the following code chunk a considerable amount of
  RAM should be available.}

<<geotargets, eval=FALSE, tidy=FALSE>>=
library(GEOquery)
gse <- getGEO("GSE42861")
targets <- pData(phenoData(gse[[1]]))
path <- "path_to_idat_files"
targets$Basename <- file.path(path,
gsub("_Grn.*$", "", basename(targets$supplementary_file)))
rownames(targets) <- basename(targets$Basename)
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Again we store the summarized data for later use and summarize the data in
batches of size 15.

<<geoMethylAid, eval=FALSE>>=
summarize(targets, batchSize = 15, file="RA")
load("RA.RData")
visualize(RA)
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\bioccomment{\Rfunction{visualize} can only be called interactive from within a
\R{} session.}

\section{Parallel summarization}

\Biocpkg{MethylAid} was specially designed for quality control of large set of
DNA methylation data e.g. EWAS studies. Summarization can be performed in
batches to overcome memory problems e.g. when too many idat files are read at
once. Just provide the option \Rcode{batchSize} to the \Rfunction{summarize}
function as we did in the previous example. Too overcome long run-times
summarization can be performed in parallel as well using various computing
resource facilitated by the \Biocpkg{BiocParallel} package.

The \Rfunction{summarize} accepts a \Rcode{bpparam} argument
e.g. \Robject{MulticoreParam} (\bioccomment{unfortunately this is not available
  on Windows}). For example, perform summarization on a multiple core machine
with 8 cores requested is easy as this:

<<tcgaMethylAidmc, eval=FALSE>>=
library(BiocParallel)
tcga <- summarize(targets, batchSize = 15, BPPARAM = MulticoreParam(workers = 8))
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The \Biocpkg{BiocParallel} also allows parallelization on a cluster of computers
using different job schedulers. For example, using the appropriate configuration
file a \Robject{BatchJobsParam}-object can be constructed and passed on to the
\Rfunction{summarize}-function.

<<tcgaMethylAidsge, eval=FALSE, tidy=FALSE>>=
library(BiocParallel)
conffile <- system.file("scripts/config.R", package="MethylAid")
BPPARAM <- BatchJobsParam(workers = 10,
progressbar = FALSE,
conffile = conffile)
summarize(targets, batchSize = 50, BPPARAM = BPPARAM)
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The script folder of the package contains example files for parallel
summarization on a cluster computer using the Sun Grid Engine job scheduler. For
more information on how to setup a configuration file for other job schedulers
see the description of \Rpackage{BatchJobs}
\url{https://github.com/tudo-r/BatchJobs} (\Biocpkg{BiocParallel} relies on the
cran \R{} package \Rpackage{BatchJobs}\cite{Bischl2011}). Probaly, you should at
least set your email address in \Rcode{scripts/summarize.sh} and use the proper
\R{} executable e.g change this in \Rcode{scripts/summarize.sh} and
\Rcode{scripts/sge.tmpl}.


\section{Customize \Biocpkg{MethylAid}}
\subsection{User-defined thresholds}
\Biocpkg{MethylAid} uses pre-defined thresholds in the filter control plots to
determine outlying samples. These thresholds are based on experience with
several 450k data sets that were analysed in the Department of Molecular
Epidemiology (Leiden University Medical Center). The values of these thresholds
are further supported by a large reference set available from the
\Biocpkg{MethylAidData}-package. However, if one wished to use customised
thresholds, e.g. for hydroxymethylation data, these can be given as arguments the
the \Rfunction{visualize}-function.

<<thresholds, eval=FALSE>>=
visualize(exampleData,  
          thresholds = list(MU = 10.5, OP = 11.75, 
              BS = 12.75, HC = 13.25, DP = 0.95))
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\subsection{Generating your own reference dataset}
The \Biocpkg{MethylAidData}-package provides a reference dataset on 2800
samples. A reference data set can be used to compare with another data set.
For example, call \Rfunction{visualize} with the argument \Rcode{background} as
shown below.

<<reference, eval=FALSE>>=
library(MethylAid)
data(exampleData) ##500 samples
library(MethylAidData)
data(exampleDataLarge) ##2800 samples
outliers <- visualize(exampleData, background=exampleDataLarge)
head(outliers)
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Every dataset that has been summarized by \Biocpkg{MethylAid} can be
used as a reference data set. Furthermore, different summarized data sets can be
combined to one bigger reference data set using the \Rfunction{combine}. 

<<combine>>=
library(MethylAid)
data(exampleData)
exampleData
combine(exampleData, exampleData)
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\section{Session info}

Here is the output of \Rfunction{sessionInfo} on the system on which this
document was compiled:

<<sessionInfo, results='asis', echo=FALSE>>=
toLatex(sessionInfo())
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\bibliography{MethylAid}

\end{document}
