--- title: 'Alakazam: Topology analysis of lineage trees' author: "Jason Anthony Vander Heiden" date: '`r Sys.Date()`' output: pdf_document: dev: pdf fig_height: 4 fig_width: 7.5 highlight: pygments toc: yes html_document: fig_height: 4 fig_width: 7.5 highlight: pygments theme: readable toc: yes md_document: fig_height: 4 fig_width: 7.5 preserve_yaml: no toc: yes geometry: margin=1in fontsize: 11pt vignette: > %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteIndexEntry{Topology analysis} %\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} --- This vignette covers the basics of analyzing the topologies of Ig lineage trees built using `buildPhylipLineage`, using some built-in alakazam functions that focus on quantifying annotation relationships within lineages. ## Example data A small set of annotated example trees, `ExampleTrees`, are included in the `alakazam` package. The trees are `igraph` objects with the following tree annotations (graph attributes): * `clone`: An identifier for the clonal group. These entries correspond to the `clone_id` column in the `ExampleDb` data.frame from which the trees were generated. * `v_gene`: IGHV gene name. * `j_gene`: IGHJ gene name. * `junc_len`: Length of the junction region (nucleotides). And the following node annotations (vertex attributes): * `sample_id`: Time point in relation to influenza vaccination. * `c_call`: The isotype(s) assigned to the sequence. Multiple isotypes are delimited by comma, and reflect identical V(D)J sequences observed with more than one isotype. * `duplicate_count`: The copy number (duplicate count), which indicates the total number of reads with the same V(D)J sequence. ```{r, eval=TRUE, warning=FALSE, message=FALSE} # Load required packages library(alakazam) library(igraph) library(dplyr) # Load example trees data(ExampleTrees) # Select one tree for example purposes graph <- ExampleTrees[[24]] # And add some annotation complexity to the tree V(graph)$sample_id[c(2, 7)] <- "-1h" V(graph)$c_call[c(2, 7)] <- "IGHM" # Make a list of example trees excluding multi-isotype trees graph_list <- ExampleTrees[sapply(ExampleTrees, function(x) !any(grepl(",", V(x)$c_call)))] ``` ## Plotting annotations on a tree There are many options for configuring how an igraph object is plotted which are helpful for visualizing annotation topologies. Below is an extensive example of how to plot a tree by configuring the colors, labels, shapes and sizes of different visual elements according to annotations embedded in the graph. ```{r, eval=TRUE} # Set node colors V(graph)$color[V(graph)$sample_id == "-1h"] <- "seagreen" V(graph)$color[V(graph)$sample_id == "+7d"] <- "steelblue" V(graph)$color[V(graph)$name == "Germline"] <- "black" V(graph)$color[grepl("Inferred", V(graph)$name)] <- "white" # Set node labels V(graph)$label <- paste(V(graph)$sample_id, V(graph)$c_call, sep=", ") V(graph)$label[V(graph)$name == "Germline"] <- "" V(graph)$label[grepl("Inferred", V(graph)$name)] <- "" # Set node shapes V(graph)$shape <- "crectangle" V(graph)$shape[V(graph)$name == "Germline"] <- "circle" V(graph)$shape[grepl("Inferred", V(graph)$name)] <- "circle" # Set node sizes V(graph)$size <- 60 V(graph)$size[V(graph)$name == "Germline"] <- 30 V(graph)$size[grepl("Inferred", V(graph)$name)] <- 15 # Remove large default margins par(mar=c(0, 0, 0, 0) + 0.05) # Plot the example tree plot(graph, layout=layout_as_tree, vertex.frame.color="grey", vertex.label.color="black", edge.label.color="black", edge.arrow.mode=0) # Add legend legend("topleft", c("Germline", "Inferred", "-1h", "+7d"), fill=c("black", "white", "seagreen", "steelblue"), cex=0.75) ``` ## Summarizing node properties Various annotation dependent node statistics can be calculated using the `summarizeSubtrees` and `getPathLengths` functions. `getPathLengths` calculates distances from the root (germline) *to child nodes*, whereas `summarizeSubtrees` calculates paths and subtree statistics *from child nodes*. ### Calculating distance from the germline To determine the shortest path from the germline sequence to any node, we use `getPathLengths`, which returns the distance both as the number of "hops" (`steps`) and the number of mutational events (`distance`). ```{r, eval=TRUE} # Consider all nodes getPathLengths(graph, root="Germline") ``` Note, the `STEPS` counted in the above example include traversal of inferred intermediates. If you want to exclude such nodes and consider only nodes associated with observed sequences, you can specify an annotation field and value that will be excluded from the number of steps. In the example below we are excluding `NA` values in the `c_call` annotation (`field="c_call", exclude=NA`). ```{r, eval=TRUE} # Exclude nodes without an isotype annotation from step count getPathLengths(graph, root="Germline", field="c_call", exclude=NA) ``` Note, `steps` has changed with respect to the previous example, but `distance` remains the same. ### Calculating subtree properties The `summarizeSubtrees` function returns a table of each node with the following properties for each node: * `name`: The node identifier. * `parent`: The identifier of the node's parent. * `outdegree`: The number of edges leading from the node. * `size`: The total number of nodes within the subtree rooted at the node. * `depth`: The depth of the subtree that is rooted at the node. * `pathlength`: The maximum path length beneath the node. * `outdegree_norm`: The `outdegree` normalized by the total number of edges. * `size_norm`: The `size` normalized by the total tree size. * `depth_norm`: The `depth` normalized by the total tree depth. * `pathlength_norm`: The `pathlength` normalized by the longest path. The `fields=c("sample_id", "c_call")` argument in the example below simply defines which annotations we wish to retain in the output. This argument has no effect on the results, in constast to the behavior of `getPathLengths`. ```{r, eval=TRUE} # Summarize tree df <- summarizeSubtrees(graph, fields=c("sample_id", "c_call"), root="Germline") print(df[1:4]) print(df[c(1, 5:8)]) print(df[c(1, 9:12)]) ``` Distributions of normalized subtree statistics for a population of trees can be plotted using the `plotSubtrees` function. In the example below, we have specified `silent=TRUE` which causes `plotSubtrees` to return the ggplot object without rendering the plot. The ggplot object are then plotting using the `gridPlot` function which places each individual plot in a separate panel of the same figure. ```{r, eval=TRUE} # Set sample colors sample_colors <- c("-1h"="seagreen", "+7d"="steelblue") # Box plots of node outdegree by sample p1 <- plotSubtrees(graph_list, "sample_id", "outdegree", colors=sample_colors, main_title="Node outdegree", legend_title="Time", style="box", silent=TRUE) # Box plots of subtree size by sample p2 <- plotSubtrees(graph_list, "sample_id", "size", colors=sample_colors, main_title="Subtree size", legend_title="Time", style="box", silent=TRUE) # Violin plots of subtree path length by isotype p3 <- plotSubtrees(graph_list, "c_call", "pathlength", colors=IG_COLORS, main_title="Subtree path length", legend_title="Isotype", style="violin", silent=TRUE) # Violin plots of subtree depth by isotype p4 <- plotSubtrees(graph_list, "c_call", "depth", colors=IG_COLORS, main_title="Subtree depth", legend_title="Isotype", style="violin", silent=TRUE) # Plot in a 2x2 grid gridPlot(p1, p2, p3, p4, ncol=2) ``` ## Counting and testing node annotation relationships Given a set of annotated trees, you can determine the abundance of specific parent-child relationships within individual trees using the `tableEdges` function and the signficance of these relationships in population of trees using the `testEdges` function. Annotation relationships over edges can be calculated as direct or indirect relationships, where a direct relationship is a parent-child pair and an indirect relationship is a decent relationship that travels through another node (or nodes) first. ### Tabulating edges for a single tree Tabulating all directparent-child annotation relationships in the tree by isotype annotation can be performed like so: ```{r, eval=TRUE} # Count direct edges between isotypes tableEdges(graph, "c_call") ``` The above output is cluttered with the `NA` annotations from the germline and inferred nodes. We can perform the same direct tabulation, but exclude any nodes annotated with either `Germline` or `NA` for c_call using the `exclude` argument: ```{r, eval=TRUE} # Direct edges excluding germline and inferred nodes tableEdges(graph, "c_call", exclude=c("Germline", NA)) ``` As there are inferred nodes in the tree, we might want to consider indirect parent-child relationships that traverse through inferred nodes. This is accomplished using the same arguments as above, but with the addition of the `indirect=TRUE` argument which will skip over the excluded nodes when tabulating annotation pairs: ```{r, eval=TRUE} # Count indirect edges walking through germline and inferred nodes tableEdges(graph, "c_call", indirect=TRUE, exclude=c("Germline", NA)) ``` ### Significance testing of edges in a population of trees Given a population of trees, as a list of annotated igraph objects, you can determine if there is enrichment for specific annotation pairs using the `testEdges` function. This has the same options as `tableEdges`, except that the values `c("Germline", NA)` are excluded by default. `testEdges` performs a permutation test to generated a null distribution, excluding permutation of of any annotations specified to the `exclude` argument (these annotation remain fix in the tree). P-values output by `testEdges` are one-sided tests that the annotation pair is observed more often than expected. ```{r, eval=TRUE} # Test isotype relationships edge_test <- testEdges(graph_list, "c_call", nperm=10) # Print p-value table print(edge_test) # Plot null distributions for each annotation pair plotEdgeTest(edge_test, color="steelblue", main_title="Isotype Edges", style="hist") ``` ## Counting and testing MRCA annotations The most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of an Ig lineage we define herein as the most ancestral observed (or inferred) sequences in the lineage tree. Meaning, the node that is most proximal (by some measure) to the germline/root node. The `getMRCA` and `testMRCA` functions provide extraction and significance testing of MRCA sequences by annotation value, respectively. ### Extracting MRCAs from a tree Extracting the MRCA from a tree is accomplished using the `getMRCA` function. The germline distance criteria are as described above for `getPathLengths` and can be either node hops or mutational events, with or without exclusion of nodes with specific annotations. To simply extract the annotations for the node(s) immediately below the germline, you can use the `path=steps` argument without any node exclusion: ```{r, eval=TRUE} # Use unweighted path length and do not exclude any nodes mrca_df <- getMRCA(graph, path="steps", root="Germline") # Print subset of the annotation data.frame print(mrca_df[c("name", "sample_id", "c_call", "steps", "distance")]) ``` To use mutational distance and consider only observed (ie, non-germline and non-inferred) nodes, we specify the exclusion field (`field="c_call"`) and exclusion value within that field (`exclude=NA`): ```{r, eval=TRUE} # Exclude nodes without an isotype annotation and use weighted path length mrca_df <- getMRCA(graph, path="distance", root="Germline", field="c_call", exclude=NA) # Print excluding sequence, label, color, shape and size annotations print(mrca_df[c("name", "sample_id", "c_call", "steps", "distance")]) ``` ### Significance testing of MRCA annotations Similar to `testEdges`, the function `testMRCA` will perform a permutation test to determine the significance of an annotation appearing at the MRCA over a population of trees. P-values output by `testMRCA` are one-sided tests that the annotation is observed more often than expected in the MRCA position. ```{r, eval=TRUE} # Test isotype MRCA annotations mrca_test <- testMRCA(graph_list, "c_call", nperm=10) # Print p-value table print(mrca_test) # Plot null distributions for each annotation plotMRCATest(mrca_test, color="steelblue", main_title="Isotype MRCA", style="hist") ```