--- title: "HiCDOC" date: "`r format(Sys.Date(), '%m/%d/%Y')`" author: "Cyril Kurylo & Matthias Zytnicki & Sylvain Foissac & Elise Maigné" output: BiocStyle::html_document: fig_width: 7 fig_height: 5 toc_float: true bibliography: library.bib vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{HiCDOC} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} %\VignettePackage{HiCDOC} --- ```{r, include = FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>" ) options(warn=-1) ``` # Introduction The aim of HiCDOC is to detect significant A/B compartment changes, using Hi-C data with replicates. HiCDOC normalizes intrachromosomal Hi-C matrices, uses unsupervised learning to predict A/B compartments from multiple replicates, and detects significant compartment changes between experiment conditions. It provides a collection of functions assembled into a pipeline: 1. [Filter](#filtering-data): 1. Remove chromosomes which are too small to be useful. 2. Filter sparse replicates to remove uninformative replicates with few interactions. 3. Filter positions (*bins*) which have too few interactions. 2. [Normalize](#normalizing-biases): 1. Normalize technical biases (inter-matrix normalization) using cyclic loess normalization [@multihiccompare], so that matrices are comparable. 2. Normalize biological biases (intra-matrix normalization) using Knight-Ruiz matrix balancing [@kr], so that all the bins are comparable. 3. Normalize the distance effect, which results from higher interaction proportions between closer regions, with a MD loess. 3. [Predict](#predicting-compartments-and-differences): 1. Predict compartments using constrained K-means [@kmeans]. 2. Detect significant differences between experiment conditions. 4. [Visualize](#visualizing-data-and-results): 1. Plot the interaction matrices of each replicate. 2. Plot the overall distance effect on the proportion of interactions. 3. Plot the compartments in each chromosome, along with their concordance (confidence measure) in each replicate, and significant changes between experiment conditions. 4. Plot the overall distribution of concordance differences. 5. Plot the result of the PCA on the compartments' centroids. 6. Plot the boxplots of self interaction ratios (differences between self interactions and the medians of other interactions) of each compartment, which is used for the A/B classification. # Installation HiCDOC can be installed from Bioconductor: ```{r, eval=FALSE} if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly=TRUE)) install.packages("BiocManager") BiocManager::install("HiCDOC") ``` The package can then be loaded: ```{r} library(HiCDOC) ``` # Importing Hi-C data HiCDOC can import Hi-C data sets in various different formats: - Tabular `.tsv` files. - Cooler `.cool` or `.mcool` files. - Juicer `.hic` files. - HiC-Pro `.matrix` and `.bed` files. ## Tabular files A tabular file is a tab-separated multi-replicate sparse matrix with a header: chromosome position 1 position 2 C1.R1 C1.R2 C2.R1 ... Y 1500000 7500000 145 184 72 ... ... The number of interactions between `position 1` and `position 2` of `chromosome` are reported in each `condition.replicate` column. There is no limit to the number of conditions and replicates. To load Hi-C data in this format: ```{r tabFormat, eval = FALSE} hic.experiment <- HiCDOCDataSetFromTabular('path/to/data.tsv') ``` ## Cooler files To load `.cool` or `.mcool` files generated by [Cooler][cooler-documentation] [@cooler]: ```{r coolFormat, eval = FALSE} # Path to each file paths = c( 'path/to/condition-1.replicate-1.cool', 'path/to/condition-1.replicate-2.cool', 'path/to/condition-2.replicate-1.cool', 'path/to/condition-2.replicate-2.cool', 'path/to/condition-3.replicate-1.cool' ) # Replicate and condition of each file. Can be names instead of numbers. replicates <- c(1, 2, 1, 2, 1) conditions <- c(1, 1, 2, 2, 3) # Resolution to select in .mcool files binSize = 500000 # Instantiation of data set hic.experiment <- HiCDOCDataSetFromCool( paths, replicates = replicates, conditions = conditions, binSize = binSize # Specified for .mcool files. ) ``` ## Juicer files To load `.hic` files generated by [Juicer][juicer-documentation] [@juicer]: ```{r hicFormat, eval = FALSE} # Path to each file paths = c( 'path/to/condition-1.replicate-1.hic', 'path/to/condition-1.replicate-2.hic', 'path/to/condition-2.replicate-1.hic', 'path/to/condition-2.replicate-2.hic', 'path/to/condition-3.replicate-1.hic' ) # Replicate and condition of each file. Can be names instead of numbers. replicates <- c(1, 2, 1, 2, 1) conditions <- c(1, 1, 2, 2, 3) # Resolution to select binSize <- 500000 # Instantiation of data set hic.experiment <- HiCDOCDataSetFromHiC( paths, replicates = replicates, conditions = conditions, binSize = binSize ) ``` ## HiC-Pro files To load `.matrix` and `.bed` files generated by [HiC-Pro][hicpro-documentation] [@hicpro]: ```{r hicproFormat, eval = FALSE} # Path to each matrix file matrixPaths = c( 'path/to/condition-1.replicate-1.matrix', 'path/to/condition-1.replicate-2.matrix', 'path/to/condition-2.replicate-1.matrix', 'path/to/condition-2.replicate-2.matrix', 'path/to/condition-3.replicate-1.matrix' ) # Path to each bed file bedPaths = c( 'path/to/condition-1.replicate-1.bed', 'path/to/condition-1.replicate-2.bed', 'path/to/condition-2.replicate-1.bed', 'path/to/condition-2.replicate-2.bed', 'path/to/condition-3.replicate-1.bed' ) # Replicate and condition of each file. Can be names instead of numbers. replicates <- c(1, 2, 1, 2, 1) conditions <- c(1, 1, 2, 2, 3) # Instantiation of data set hic.experiment <- HiCDOCDataSetFromHiCPro( matrixPaths = matrixPaths, bedPaths = bedPaths, replicates = replicates, conditions = conditions ) ``` # Running the HiCDOC pipeline An example dataset can be loaded from the HiCDOC package: ```{r reloadExample} data(exampleHiCDOCDataSet) ``` Once your data is loaded, you can run all the filtering, normalization, and prediction steps with the command : **`HiCDOC(exampleHiCDOCDataSet)`**. This one-liner runs all the steps detailed below. ## Filtering data Remove small chromosomes of length smaller than 100 positions (100 is the default value): ```{r filterSmallChromosomes} hic.experiment <- filterSmallChromosomes(exampleHiCDOCDataSet, threshold = 100) ``` Remove sparse replicates filled with less than 30% non-zero interactions (30% is the default value): ```{r filterSparseReplicates} hic.experiment <- filterSparseReplicates(hic.experiment, threshold = 0.3) ``` Remove weak positions with less than 1 interaction in average (1 is the default value): ```{r filterWeakPositions} hic.experiment <- filterWeakPositions(hic.experiment, threshold = 1) ``` ## Normalizing biases ### Technical biases Normalize technical biases such as sequencing depth (inter-matrix normalization) so that matrices are comparable : ```{r normalizeTechnicalBiases} suppressWarnings(hic.experiment <- normalizeTechnicalBiases(hic.experiment)) ``` This normalization uses uses cyclic loess normalization from [multiHiCcompare package] [@multihiccompare]. **Note** : For large dataset, it is highly recommended to set a value for `cycleLoessSpan` parameter to reduce computing time and necessary memory. See `?HiCDOC::normalizeTechnicalBiases` ### Biological biases Normalize biological biases, such as GC content, number of restriction sites, etc. (intra-matrix normalization): ```{r normalizeBiologicalBiases} hic.experiment <- normalizeBiologicalBiases(hic.experiment) ``` ### Distance effect Normalize the linear distance effect resulting from more interactions between closer genomic regions (20000 is the default value for `loessSampleSize`): ```{r normalizeDistanceEffect} hic.experiment <- normalizeDistanceEffect(hic.experiment, loessSampleSize = 20000) ``` ## Predicting compartments and differences Predict A and B compartments and detect significant differences, here using the default values as parameters: ```{r detectCompartments} hic.experiment <- detectCompartments(hic.experiment) ``` # Visualizing data and results Plot the interaction matrix of each replicate: ```{r plotInteractions} p <- plotInteractions(hic.experiment, chromosome = "Y") p ``` Plot the overall distance effect on the proportion of interactions: ```{r plotDistanceEffect} p <- plotDistanceEffect(hic.experiment) p ``` List and plot compartments with their concordance (confidence measure) in each replicate, and significant changes between experiment conditions: ```{r extractCompartments} compartments(hic.experiment) ``` ```{r extractConcordances} concordances(hic.experiment) ``` ```{r extractDifferences} differences(hic.experiment) ``` ```{r plotCompartmentChanges} p <- plotCompartmentChanges(hic.experiment, chromosome = "Y") p ``` Plot the overall distribution of concordance differences: ```{r plotConcordanceDifferences} p <- plotConcordanceDifferences(hic.experiment) p ``` Plot the result of the PCA on the compartments' centroids: ```{r plotCentroids} p <- plotCentroids(hic.experiment, chromosome = "Y") p ``` Plot the boxplots of self interaction ratios (differences between self interactions and the median of other interactions) of each compartment: ```{r plotSelfInteractionRatios} p <- plotSelfInteractionRatios(hic.experiment, chromosome = "Y") p ``` ## Sanity checks Sometimes, basic assumptions on the data are not met. We try to detect inconsistencies, and warn the user. ### PCA checks We perform a principal component analysis on the centroids. Each centroid represent an ideal bin, located either on compartment A or B, in each sample, and each chromosome. Given a chromosome, if all the centroids of the A compartment do not have the same sign on the first principal component, we issue a warning for this chromosome. Likewise for the B compartment. We also check that the inertia on the first principal component is at least 75%. These checks make sure that centroids of the same compartments do cluster together. If the conditions are too different from each other, they may cluster together. This case is detected by this check. ### Compartment assignemnt We use "self-interaction" in order to classify centroids to A and B compartments. The self-interaction of a bin is the ratio of the number of pairs that link this bin with other bins of the same compartment, divided by the number of pairs The self-interactions should be different from compartments A and B. We perform a Wilcoxon t-test. If it is not significant, then a warning is issued. ### Warnings If at least of the PCA checks fail, the warnings are printed on the PCA plot. If the compartment assignment check fail, the warning is printed on the corresponding plot. When accessing the compartments and the concordances, chromosomes which fail to pass the checks are removed (unless the appropriate parameter is set). # Session info ```{r sessionInfo} sessionInfo() ``` # References [cooler-documentation]: https://cooler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ [juicer-documentation]: https://github.com/aidenlab/juicer/wiki/Data [hicpro-documentation]: https://github.com/nservant/HiC-Pro