callPeaksReplicates {chromstaR} | R Documentation

## Fit a multivariate Hidden Markov Model to multiple ChIP-seq replicates

### Description

Fit an HMM to multiple ChIP-seq replicates and derive correlation measures. Input is a list of `uniHMM`s generated by `callPeaksUnivariate`.

### Usage

    callPeaksReplicates(hmm.list, max.states = 32, force.equal = FALSE,
      eps = 0.01, max.iter = NULL, max.time = NULL, keep.posteriors = TRUE,
      num.threads = 1, max.distance = 0.2, per.chrom = TRUE)

### Arguments

`hmm.list` | A list of `uniHMM`s generated by `callPeaksUnivariate`, e.g. `list(hmm1,hmm2,...)` or `c("file1","file2",...)`. Alternatively, this parameter also accepts a `multiHMM` and will check if the distance between replicates is greater than `max.distance`.
`max.states` | The maximum number of combinatorial states to consider. The default (32) is sufficient to treat up to 5 replicates exactly and more than 5 replicates approximately.
`force.equal` | The default (`FALSE`) allows replicates to differ in their peak-calls, although the majority will usually be identical. If `force.equal=TRUE`, all peaks will be identical among all replicates.
`eps` | Convergence threshold for the Baum-Welch algorithm.
`max.iter` | The maximum number of iterations for the Baum-Welch algorithm. The default `NULL` is no limit.
`max.time` | The maximum running time in seconds for the Baum-Welch algorithm. If this time is reached, the Baum-Welch will terminate after the current iteration finishes. The default `NULL` is no limit.
`keep.posteriors` | If set to `TRUE`, posteriors will be available in the output. This is useful to change the post.cutoff later, but increases the necessary disk space to store the result immense.
`num.threads` | Number of threads to use. Setting this to >1 may give increased performance.
`max.distance` | This number is used as a cutoff to group replicates based on their distance matrix. The lower this number, the more similar replicates have to be to be grouped together.
`per.chrom` | If `per.chrom=TRUE` chromosomes will be treated separately. This tremendously speeds up the calculation but results might be noisier as compared to `per.chrom=FALSE`, where all chromosomes are concatenated for the HMM.

### Value

Output is a `multiHMM` object with additional entry `replicateInfo`. If only one `uniHMM` was given as input, a simple list() with the `replicateInfo` is returned.

### Author(s)

Aaron Taudt

### See Also

`multiHMM`, `callPeaksUnivariate`, `callPeaksMultivariate`

### Examples

    # Let's get some example data with 3 replicates
    file.path <- system.file("extdata","euratrans", package='chromstaRData')
    files <- list.files(file.path, pattern="H3K27me3.*SHR.*bam$", full.names=TRUE)[1:3]
    # Obtain chromosome lengths. This is only necessary for BED files. BAM files are
    # handled automatically.
    data(rn4_chrominfo)
    # Define experiment structure
    exp <- data.frame(file=files, mark='H3K27me3', condition='SHR', replicate=1:3,
                     pairedEndReads=FALSE, controlFiles=NA)
    # We use bin size 1000bp and chromosome 12 to keep the example quick
    binned.data <- list()
    for (file in files) {
     binned.data[[basename(file)]] <- binReads(file, binsizes=1000, stepsizes=500,
                                               experiment.table=exp,
                                               assembly=rn4_chrominfo, chromosomes='chr12')
    }
    # The univariate fit is obtained for each replicate
    models <- list()
    for (i1 in 1:length(binned.data)) {
     models[[i1]] <- callPeaksUnivariate(binned.data[[i1]], max.time=60, eps=1)
    }
    # Obtain peak calls considering information from all replicates
    multi.model <- callPeaksReplicates(models, force.equal=TRUE, max.time=60, eps=1)

[Package chromstaR version 1.6.2 Index]