makeBackground {PWMEnrich} | R Documentation

## Make a background for a set of position frequency matrices

### Description

This is a convenience front-end function to compile new backgrounds for a set of PFMs. Currently only supports D. melanogaster, but in the future should support other common organisms as well.

### Usage

      makeBackground(motifs, organism = "dm3", type = "logn",
        quick = FALSE, bg.seq=NULL, ...)

### Arguments

`motifs` | a list of position frequency matrices (4xL matrices)
`organism` | either a name of the organisms for which the background should be compiled (currently supported names are "dm3", "mm9" and "hg19"), or a `BSgenome` object (see `BSgenome` package).
`type` | the type of background to be compiled. Possible types are: "logn" - estimate a lognormal background "cutoff" - estimate a Z-score background with fixed log-odds cutoff (in log2) "pval" - estimate a Z-score background with a fixed P-value cutoff. Note that this may require a lot of memory since the P-value of motif hits is first estimated from the empirical distribution. "empirical" - create an empirical P-value background. Note that this may require a lot of memory (up to 10GB in default "slow" mode (quick=FALSE) for 126 JASPAR motifs and 1000 D. melanogaster promoters). "GEV" - estimate a generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution background by fitting linear regression to distribution parameters in log space
`quick` | if to preform fitting on a reduced set of 100 promoters. This will not give as good results but is much quicker than fitting to all the promoters (~10k). Usage of this parameter is recommended only for testing and rough estimates.
`bg.seq` | a set of background sequences to use. This parameter overrides the "organism" and "quick" parameters.
`...` | other named parameters that backend function makePWM***Background functions take.

### Author(s)

Robert Stojnic, Diego Diez

### Examples

    # load in the two example de-novo motifs
    motifs = readMotifs(system.file(package="PWMEnrich", dir="extdata", file="example.transfac"), remove.acc=TRUE)

    ## Not run:
      # construct lognormal background
      bg.logn = makeBackground(motifs, organism="dm3", type="logn")

      # alternatively, any BSgenome object can also be used
      if(require("BSgenome.Dmelanogaster.UCSC.dm3"))
        bg.logn = makeBackground(motifs, organism=Dmelanogaster, type="logn")

      # construct a Z-score of hits with P-value background
      bg.pval = makeBackground(motifs, organism="dm3", type="pval", p.value=1e-3)

      # now we can use them to scan for enrichment in sequences (in this case there is a consensus Tin binding site)
      motifEnrichment(DNAString("TGCATCAAGTGTGTAGTG"), bg.logn)
      motifEnrichment(DNAString("TGCATCAAGTGTGTAGTG"), bg.pval)

    ## End(Not run)

[Package PWMEnrich version 4.16.0 Index]