1 Installation

if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("SingleCellMultiModal")

2 Load libraries

library(MultiAssayExperiment)
library(SingleCellMultiModal)

3 CITE-seq dataset

CITE-seq data are a combination of two data types extracted at the same time from the same cell. First data type is scRNA-seq data, while the second one consists of about a hundread of antibody-derived tags (ADT). In particular this dataset is provided by Stoeckius et al. (2017).

3.1 Downloading datasets

The user can see the available dataset by using the default options

CITEseq(DataType="cord_blood", modes="*", dry.run=TRUE, version="1.0.0")
## Dataset: cord_blood
## snapshotDate(): 2022-10-31
##    ah_id            mode file_size rdataclass rdatadateadded rdatadateremoved
## 1 EH3795    scADT_Counts    0.2 Mb     matrix     2020-09-23             <NA>
## 2 EH3796 scRNAseq_Counts   22.2 Mb     matrix     2020-09-23             <NA>

Or simply by setting dry.run = FALSE it downloads the data and creates the MultiAssayExperiment object.

In this example, we will use one of the two available datasets scADT_Counts:

mae <- CITEseq(
    DataType="cord_blood", modes="*", dry.run=FALSE, version="1.0.0"
)

mae
## A MultiAssayExperiment object of 2 listed
##  experiments with user-defined names and respective classes.
##  Containing an ExperimentList class object of length 2:
##  [1] scADT: matrix with 13 rows and 8617 columns
##  [2] scRNAseq: matrix with 36280 rows and 8617 columns
## Functionality:
##  experiments() - obtain the ExperimentList instance
##  colData() - the primary/phenotype DataFrame
##  sampleMap() - the sample coordination DataFrame
##  `$`, `[`, `[[` - extract colData columns, subset, or experiment
##  *Format() - convert into a long or wide DataFrame
##  assays() - convert ExperimentList to a SimpleList of matrices
##  exportClass() - save data to flat files

Example with actual data:

experiments(mae)
## ExperimentList class object of length 2:
##  [1] scADT: matrix with 13 rows and 8617 columns
##  [2] scRNAseq: matrix with 36280 rows and 8617 columns

3.2 Exploring the data structure

Check row annotations:

rownames(mae)
## CharacterList of length 2
## [["scADT"]] CD3 CD4 CD8 CD45RA CD56 CD16 CD10 CD11c CD14 CD19 CD34 CCR5 CCR7
## [["scRNAseq"]] ERCC_ERCC-00104 HUMAN_A1BG ... MOUSE_n-R5s25 MOUSE_n-R5s31

Take a peek at the sampleMap:

sampleMap(mae)
## DataFrame with 17234 rows and 3 columns
##          assay          primary          colname
##       <factor>      <character>      <character>
## 1        scADT CTGTTTACACCGCTAG CTGTTTACACCGCTAG
## 2        scADT CTCTACGGTGTGGCTC CTCTACGGTGTGGCTC
## 3        scADT AGCAGCCAGGCTCATT AGCAGCCAGGCTCATT
## 4        scADT GAATAAGAGATCCCAT GAATAAGAGATCCCAT
## 5        scADT GTGCATAGTCATGCAT GTGCATAGTCATGCAT
## ...        ...              ...              ...
## 17230 scRNAseq TTGCCGTGTAGATTAG TTGCCGTGTAGATTAG
## 17231 scRNAseq GGCGTGTAGTGTACTC GGCGTGTAGTGTACTC
## 17232 scRNAseq CGTATGCCGTCTTCTG CGTATGCCGTCTTCTG
## 17233 scRNAseq TACACGACGCTCTTCC TACACGACGCTCTTCC
## 17234 scRNAseq ACACGACGCTCTTCCG ACACGACGCTCTTCCG

3.3 scRNA-seq data

The scRNA-seq data are accessible with the name scRNAseq, which returns a matrix object.

head(experiments(mae)$scRNAseq)[, 1:4]
##                 CTGTTTACACCGCTAG CTCTACGGTGTGGCTC AGCAGCCAGGCTCATT
## ERCC_ERCC-00104                0                0                0
## HUMAN_A1BG                     0                0                0
## HUMAN_A1BG-AS1                 0                0                0
## HUMAN_A1CF                     0                0                0
## HUMAN_A2M                      0                0                0
## HUMAN_A2M-AS1                  0                0                0
##                 GAATAAGAGATCCCAT
## ERCC_ERCC-00104                0
## HUMAN_A1BG                     0
## HUMAN_A1BG-AS1                 0
## HUMAN_A1CF                     0
## HUMAN_A2M                      0
## HUMAN_A2M-AS1                  0

3.4 scADT data

The scADT data are accessible with the name scADT, which returns a matrix object.

head(experiments(mae)$scADT)[, 1:4]
##        CTGTTTACACCGCTAG CTCTACGGTGTGGCTC AGCAGCCAGGCTCATT GAATAAGAGATCCCAT
## CD3                  60               52               89               55
## CD4                  72               49              112               66
## CD8                  76               59               61               56
## CD45RA              575             3943              682              378
## CD56                 64               68               87               58
## CD16                161              107              117               82

4 SingleCellExperiment object conversion

Because of already large use of some methodologies (such as in the SingleCellExperiment vignette or CiteFuse Vignette where the SingleCellExperiment object is used for CITE-seq data, we provide a function for the conversion of our CITE-seq MultiAssayExperiment object into a SingleCellExperiment object with scRNA-seq data as counts and scADT data as altExps.

sce <- CITEseq(DataType="cord_blood", modes="*", dry.run=FALSE, version="1.0.0",
              DataClass="SingleCellExperiment")
sce
## class: SingleCellExperiment 
## dim: 36280 8617 
## metadata(0):
## assays(1): counts
## rownames(36280): ERCC_ERCC-00104 HUMAN_A1BG ... MOUSE_n-R5s25
##   MOUSE_n-R5s31
## rowData names(0):
## colnames(8617): CTGTTTACACCGCTAG CTCTACGGTGTGGCTC ... TACACGACGCTCTTCC
##   ACACGACGCTCTTCCG
## colData names(0):
## reducedDimNames(0):
## mainExpName: NULL
## altExpNames(1): scADT

5 Session Info

sessionInfo()
## R version 4.2.3 (2023-03-15)
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References

Stoeckius, Marlon, Christoph Hafemeister, William Stephenson, Brian Houck-Loomis, Pratip K Chattopadhyay, Harold Swerdlow, Rahul Satija, and Peter Smibert. 2017. “Simultaneous Epitope and Transcriptome Measurement in Single Cells.” Nature Methods 14 (9): 865.