CallRegions {BAC} | R Documentation

## Call and merge regions using joint posterior probabilities calculated by BAC.

### Description

Call and merge regions using joint posterior probabilities calculated by BAC.

### Usage

    CallRegions(position,jointPP,cutoff=0.5,maxGap=500)

### Arguments

`position` | A vector containing the probe genomic positions
`jointPP` | A vector containing the joint posterior probabilities as returned by BAC.
`cutoff` | The cutoff used to call regions.
`maxGap` | The maximum gap allowed between regions. Regions that are less than maxGap bps away will be merged.

### Value

A vector containing the region index for each probe. Probes with the same positive index belong to the same region, whereas probe with index zero are background probes (not part of a bound region). These indices can be used to form a BED file, see example below.

### Author(s)

Raphael Gottardo, raph@stat.ubc.ca

### See Also

BAC

### Examples

    # Load the data
    data(ER)
    # Only select the first 5000 probes for speed-up
    ER<-ER[1:5000,]
    # Calculate the joint posterior probabilities
    #Only use 100 iterations for speed up (You should use more! See default value)
    BAConER<-BAC(ER[,5:7], ER[,2:4], B=100,verbose=FALSE,w=5)
    # For Regions using 0.5 cut-off for the joint posterior probabilities
    ERregions<-CallRegions(ER[,1],BAConER$jointPP,cutoff=0.5,maxGap=500)
    # Create the BED file
    nRegions<-max(ERregions)
    BED<-matrix(0,nRegions,4)
    for(i in 1:nRegions)
    {
    BED[i,2:3]<-range(ER[ERregions==i,1])
    #The score should be between 0 and 1000
    BED[i,4]<-max(BAConER$jointPP[ERregions==i])*1000
    }
    BED<-data.frame(BED)
    # The ER data is a subset of chr 21
    BED[,1]<-"chr21"
    names(BED)<-c("chrom","chromStart","chromEnd","Score")
    # print it
    print(BED)

[Package BAC version 1.0.0 Index]