Single-Cell Consensus Clustering (SC3
) is a tool for unsupervised clustering of scRNA-seq data. SC3
achieves high accuracy and robustness by consistently integrating different clustering solutions through a consensus approach. An interactive graphical implementation makes SC3
accessible to a wide audience of users. In addition, SC3
also aids biological interpretation by identifying marker genes, differentially expressed genes and outlier cells. A manuscript describing SC3
in details is published in Nature Methods.
scater
SC3
is a purely clustering tool and it does not provide functions for the sequencing quality control (QC) or normalisation. On the contrary it is expected that these preprocessing steps are performed by a user in advance. To encourage the preprocessing, SC3
is built on top of the Bioconductor’s scater
package. To our knowledge the scater
is the most comprehensive toolkit for the QC and normalisation analysis of the single-cell RNA-Seq data.
The basic scater
data container is an SCESet
object. SC3
implements several methods that allow one to perform clustering of the expression data contained in the SCESet
object. All results of SC3
calculations are written to the sc3
slot of the SCESet
object.
SC3
InputIf you already have an SCESet
object created and QCed using scater
then proceed to the next chapter.
If you have a matrix containing expression data that was QCed and normalised by some other tool, then we first need to form an SCESet
object containing the data. For illustrative purposes we will use an example expression matrix provided with SC3
. This matrix (treutein
) represents FPKM gene expression of 80 cells derived from the distal lung epithelium of mice. The authors (Treutlein et al.) had computationally identified 5 clusters in the data. The rows in the treutlein
dataset correspond to genes and columns correspond to cells. Column names correspond to clusters identified by the authors.
library(scater)
library(SC3)
treutlein[1:3, 1:3]
## 2 4 3
## 0610005C13Rik 0 0.00000 0
## 0610007C21Rik 0 17.74195 0
## 0610007L01Rik 0 290.31680 0
It is easy to create an SCESet
object from treutlein
expression matrix. We will follow the scater
’s manual:
# cell annotation
ann <- data.frame(cell_type1 = colnames(treutlein))
pd <- new("AnnotatedDataFrame", data = ann)
# cell expression
tmp <- treutlein
colnames(tmp) <- rownames(ann)
# SCESEt object
sceset <- newSCESet(fpkmData = tmp, phenoData = pd, logExprsOffset = 1)
It is also essential for SC3
that the QC metrics is computed for the created object:
is_exprs(sceset) <- exprs(sceset) > 0
sceset <- calculateQCMetrics(sceset)
The treutlein_cell_info
dataframe contains just cell_type1
column which correspond to the cell labels provided by authors of the original publication. Note that in general it can also contain more information about the cells, such as plate, run, well, date etc.
After the SCESet
object is created and QC is run, scater
allows a user to quickly visualize and assess the data, for example using a PCA plot:
plotPCA(sceset, colour_by = "cell_type1")
If you would like to explore clustering of your data in the range of k
s (the number of clusters) from 2 to 4, you just need to run the main sc3
method and define the range of k
s using the ks
parameter (here we also ask SC3
to calculate biological features based on the identified cell clusters):
# Note that n_cores = 1 is required for compilation of this vignette.
# Please remove this parameter when running on your computer:
# sceset <- sc3(sceset, ks = 2:4, biology = TRUE)
sceset <- sc3(sceset, ks = 2:4, biology = TRUE, n_cores = 1)
## Setting SC3 parameters...
## Setting a range of k...
## Calculating distances between the cells...
## Performing transformations and calculating eigenvectors...
## Performing k-means clustering...
## Calculating consensus matrix...
## Calculating biology...
To quickly and easily explore the SC3
solutions using an interactive Shiny application use the following method:
sc3_interactive(sceset)
Visual exploration can provide a reasonable estimate of the number of clusters k
. Once a preferable k
is chosen it is also possible to export the results into an Excel file:
sc3_export_results_xls(sceset)
This will write all results to sc3_results.xls
file. The name of the file can be controlled by the filename
parameter.
SC3
writes all its results obtained for cells to the phenoData
slot of the SCESet
object by adding additional columns to it. This slot also contains all other cell features calculated by the scater
package either automatically during the SCESet
object creation or during the calculateQCMetrics
call. One can identify the SC3
results using the "sc3_"
prefix:
p_data <- pData(sceset)
head(p_data[ , grep("sc3_", colnames(p_data))])
## sc3_2_clusters sc3_3_clusters sc3_4_clusters sc3_2_log2_outlier_score
## 1 1 1 1 0
## 2 1 1 1 0
## 3 1 3 4 0
## 4 1 1 1 0
## 5 1 1 1 0
## 6 1 1 1 0
## sc3_3_log2_outlier_score sc3_4_log2_outlier_score
## 1 0.000000 0.000000
## 2 3.294804 3.232004
## 3 0.000000 0.000000
## 4 3.422047 3.312717
## 5 0.000000 0.000000
## 6 3.355677 3.262667
Additionally, having SC3
results stored in the same slot makes it possible to highlight them during any of the scater
’s plotting function call, for example:
plotPCA(
sceset,
colour_by = "sc3_3_clusters",
size_by = "sc3_3_log2_outlier_score"
)
SC3
writes all its results obtained for features (genes/transcripts) to the featureData
slot of the SCESet
object by adding additional columns to it. This slot also contains all other feature values calculated by the scater
package either automatically during the SCESet
object creation or during the calculateQCMetrics
call. One can identify the SC3
results using the "sc3_"
prefix:
f_data <- fData(sceset)
head(f_data[ , grep("sc3_", colnames(f_data))])
## sc3_gene_filter sc3_2_markers_clusts sc3_2_markers_padj
## 0610005C13Rik FALSE NA NA
## 0610007C21Rik TRUE 2 1
## 0610007L01Rik TRUE 2 1
## 0610007N19Rik TRUE 1 1
## 0610007P08Rik TRUE 2 1
## 0610007P14Rik TRUE 2 1
## sc3_2_markers_auroc sc3_3_markers_clusts sc3_3_markers_padj
## 0610005C13Rik NA NA NA
## 0610007C21Rik 0.6709957 2 1
## 0610007L01Rik 0.6250000 2 1
## 0610007N19Rik 0.7662338 1 1
## 0610007P08Rik 0.5043290 1 1
## 0610007P14Rik 0.6060606 2 1
## sc3_3_markers_auroc sc3_4_markers_clusts sc3_4_markers_padj
## 0610005C13Rik NA NA NA
## 0610007C21Rik 0.6709957 2 1
## 0610007L01Rik 0.6250000 3 1
## 0610007N19Rik 0.6203175 3 1
## 0610007P08Rik 0.5187302 3 1
## 0610007P14Rik 0.6060606 2 1
## sc3_4_markers_auroc sc3_2_de_padj sc3_3_de_padj
## 0610005C13Rik NA NA NA
## 0610007C21Rik 0.6709957 1 1
## 0610007L01Rik 0.6734234 1 1
## 0610007N19Rik 0.7139640 1 1
## 0610007P08Rik 0.5202703 1 1
## 0610007P14Rik 0.6060606 1 1
## sc3_4_de_padj
## 0610005C13Rik NA
## 0610007C21Rik 1
## 0610007L01Rik 1
## 0610007N19Rik 1
## 0610007P08Rik 1
## 0610007P14Rik 1
Because the biological features were also calculated for each k
, one can find ajusted p-values for both differential expression and marker genes, as well as the area under the ROC curve values (see ?sc3_calcl_biology
for more information).
Again, having SC3
results stored in the same slot makes it possible to highlight them during any of the scater
’s plotting function call, for example:
plotFeatureData(
sceset,
aes(
x = sc3_3_markers_clusts,
y = sc3_3_markers_auroc,
colour = sc3_3_markers_padj
)
)
## Warning: Removed 17518 rows containing missing values
## (position_quasirandom).
The default settings of SC3
allow to cluster (using a single k
) a dataset of 2,000 cells in about 20-30 minutes.
For datasets with more than 2,000 cells SC3
automatically adjusts some of its parameters (see below). This allows to cluster a dataset of 5,000 cells in about 20-30 minutes. The parameters can also be manually adjusted for datasets with any number of cells.
For datasets with more than 5,000 cells SC3
utilizes a hybrid approach that combines unsupervised and supervised clusterings (see below). Namely, SC3
selects a subset of cells uniformly at random, and obtains clusters from this subset. Subsequently, the inferred labels are used to train a Support Vector Machine (SVM), which is employed to assign labels to the remaining cells. Training cells can also be manually selected by providing their indeces.
SC3
also provides methods for plotting all figures from the interactive session.
The consensus matrix is a N by N matrix, where N is the number of cells in the input dataset. It represents similarity between the cells based on the averaging of clustering results from all combinations of clustering parameters. Similarity 0 (blue) means that the two cells are always assigned to different clusters. In contrast, similarity 1 (red) means that the two cells are always assigned to the same cluster. The consensus matrix is clustered by hierarchical clustering and has a diagonal-block structure. Intuitively, the perfect clustering is achieved when all diagonal blocks are completely red and all off-diagonal elements are completely blue.
sc3_plot_consensus(sceset, k = 3)
It is also possible to annotate cells (columns of the consensus matrix) with any column of the phenoData
slot of the SCESet
object.
sc3_plot_consensus(
sceset, k = 3,
show_pdata = c(
"cell_type1",
"log10_total_features",
"sc3_3_clusters",
"sc3_3_log2_outlier_score"
)
)
A silhouette is a quantitative measure of the diagonality of the consensus matrix. An average silhouette width (shown at the bottom left of the silhouette plot) varies from 0 to 1, where 1 represents a perfectly block-diagonal consensus matrix and 0 represents a situation where there is no block-diagonal structure. The best clustering is achieved when the average silhouette width is close to 1.
sc3_plot_silhouette(sceset, k = 3)
The expression panel represents the original input expression matrix (cells in columns and genes in rows) after cell and gene filters. Genes are clustered by kmeans with k = 100 (dendrogram on the left) and the heatmap represents the expression levels of the gene cluster centers after log2-scaling.
sc3_plot_expression(sceset, k = 3)
It is also possible to annotate cells (columns of the expression matrix) with any column of the phenoData
slot of the SCESet
object.
sc3_plot_expression(
sceset, k = 3,
show_pdata = c(
"cell_type1",
"log10_total_features",
"sc3_3_clusters",
"sc3_3_log2_outlier_score"
)
)
Stability index shows how stable each cluster is accross the selected range of k
s. The stability index varies between 0 and 1, where 1 means that the same cluster appears in every solution for different k
.
sc3_plot_cluster_stability(sceset, k = 3)
Differential expression is calculated using the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test. A significant p-value indicates that gene expression in at least one cluster stochastically dominates one other cluster. SC3 provides a list of all differentially expressed genes with adjusted p-values < 0.01 and plots gene expression profiles of the 50 genes with the lowest p-values. Note that the calculation of differential expression after clustering can introduce a bias in the distribution of p-values, and thus we advise to use the p-values for ranking the genes only.
sc3_plot_de_genes(sceset, k = 3)
It is also possible to annotate cells (columns of the matrix containing DE genes) with any column of the phenoData
slot of the SCESet
object.
sc3_plot_de_genes(
sceset, k = 3,
show_pdata = c(
"cell_type1",
"log10_total_features",
"sc3_3_clusters",
"sc3_3_log2_outlier_score"
)
)
To find marker genes, for each gene a binary classifier is constructed based on the mean cluster expression values. The classifier prediction is then calculated using the gene expression ranks. The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is used to quantify the accuracy of the prediction. A p-value is assigned to each gene by using the Wilcoxon signed rank test. By default the genes with the area under the ROC curve (AUROC) > 0.85 and with the p-value < 0.01 are selected and the top 10 marker genes of each cluster are visualized in this heatmap.
sc3_plot_markers(sceset, k = 3)
It is also possible to annotate cells (columns of the matrix containing marker genes) with any column of the phenoData
slot of the SCESet
object.
sc3_plot_markers(
sceset, k = 3,
show_pdata = c(
"cell_type1",
"log10_total_features",
"sc3_3_clusters",
"sc3_3_log2_outlier_score"
)
)
The main sc3
method explained above is a wrapper that calls several other SC3
methods in the following order:
sc3_prepare
sc3_estimate_k
sc3_calc_dists
sc3_calc_transfs
sc3_kmeans
sc3_calc_consens
sc3_calc_biology
Let us go through each of them independently.
sc3_prepare
We start with sc3_prepare
. This method prepares an object of SCESet
class for SC3
clustering. This method also defines all parameters needed for clustering and stores them in the sc3
slot. The parameters have their own defaults but can be manually changed. For more information on the parameters please use ?sc3_prepare
.
# Note that n_cores = 1 is required for compilation of this vignette.
# Please remove this parameter when running on your computer:
# sceset <- sc3_prepare(sceset, ks = 2:4)
sceset <- sc3_prepare(sceset, ks = 2:4, n_cores = 1)
## Setting SC3 parameters...
## Setting a range of k...
str(sceset@sc3)
## List of 6
## $ kmeans_iter_max: num 1e+09
## $ kmeans_nstart : num 1000
## $ n_dim : int [1:4] 3 4 5 6
## $ rand_seed : num 1
## $ n_cores : num 1
## $ ks : int [1:3] 2 3 4
sc3_estimate_k
When the SCESet
object is prepared for clustering, SC3
can also estimate the optimal number of clusters k
in the dataset. SC3
utilizes the Tracy-Widom theory on random matrices to estimate k
. sc3_estimate_k
method creates and populates the following items of the sc3
slot:
k_estimation
- contains the estimated value of k
.sceset <- sc3_estimate_k(sceset)
## Estimating k...
str(sceset@sc3)
## List of 7
## $ kmeans_iter_max: num 1e+09
## $ kmeans_nstart : num 1000
## $ n_dim : int [1:4] 3 4 5 6
## $ rand_seed : num 1
## $ n_cores : num 1
## $ ks : int [1:3] 2 3 4
## $ k_estimation : num 3
sc3_calc_dists
Now we are ready to perform the clustering itself. First SC3
calculates distances between the cells. Method sc3_calc_dists
calculates the distances, creates and populates the following items of the sc3
slot:
distances
- contains a list of distance matrices corresponding to Euclidean, Pearson and Spearman distances.sceset <- sc3_calc_dists(sceset)
## Calculating distances between the cells...
names(sceset@sc3$distances)
## [1] "euclidean" "pearson" "spearman"
sc3_calc_transfs
Next the distance matrices are transformed using PCA and graph Laplacian. Method sc3_calc_transfs
calculates transforamtions of the distance matrices contained in the distances
item of the sc3
slot. It then creates and populates the following items of the sc3
slot:
transformations
- contains a list of transformations of the distance matrices corresponding to PCA and graph Laplacian transformations.sceset <- sc3_calc_transfs(sceset)
## Performing transformations and calculating eigenvectors...
names(sceset@sc3$transformations)
## [1] "euclidean_pca" "pearson_pca" "spearman_pca"
## [4] "euclidean_laplacian" "pearson_laplacian" "spearman_laplacian"
It also removes the previously calculated distances
item from the sc3
slot:
sceset@sc3$distances
## NULL
sc3_kmeans
kmeans should then be performed on the transformed distance matrices contained in the transformations
item of the sc3
slot. Method sc3_kmeans
creates and populates the following items of the sc3
slot:
kmeans
- contains a list of kmeans clusterings.By default the nstart
parameter passed to kmeans
defined in sc3_prepare
method, is set 1000 and written to kmeans_nstart
item of the sc3
slot. If the number of cells in the dataset is more than 2,000, this parameter is set to 50. A user can also manually define this parameter by changing the value of the kmeans_nstart
item of the sc3
slot.
sceset <- sc3_kmeans(sceset)
## Performing k-means clustering...
names(sceset@sc3$kmeans)
## [1] "euclidean_pca_2_3" "pearson_pca_2_3"
## [3] "spearman_pca_2_3" "euclidean_laplacian_2_3"
## [5] "pearson_laplacian_2_3" "spearman_laplacian_2_3"
## [7] "euclidean_pca_3_3" "pearson_pca_3_3"
## [9] "spearman_pca_3_3" "euclidean_laplacian_3_3"
## [11] "pearson_laplacian_3_3" "spearman_laplacian_3_3"
## [13] "euclidean_pca_4_3" "pearson_pca_4_3"
## [15] "spearman_pca_4_3" "euclidean_laplacian_4_3"
## [17] "pearson_laplacian_4_3" "spearman_laplacian_4_3"
## [19] "euclidean_pca_2_4" "pearson_pca_2_4"
## [21] "spearman_pca_2_4" "euclidean_laplacian_2_4"
## [23] "pearson_laplacian_2_4" "spearman_laplacian_2_4"
## [25] "euclidean_pca_3_4" "pearson_pca_3_4"
## [27] "spearman_pca_3_4" "euclidean_laplacian_3_4"
## [29] "pearson_laplacian_3_4" "spearman_laplacian_3_4"
## [31] "euclidean_pca_4_4" "pearson_pca_4_4"
## [33] "spearman_pca_4_4" "euclidean_laplacian_4_4"
## [35] "pearson_laplacian_4_4" "spearman_laplacian_4_4"
## [37] "euclidean_pca_2_5" "pearson_pca_2_5"
## [39] "spearman_pca_2_5" "euclidean_laplacian_2_5"
## [41] "pearson_laplacian_2_5" "spearman_laplacian_2_5"
## [43] "euclidean_pca_3_5" "pearson_pca_3_5"
## [45] "spearman_pca_3_5" "euclidean_laplacian_3_5"
## [47] "pearson_laplacian_3_5" "spearman_laplacian_3_5"
## [49] "euclidean_pca_4_5" "pearson_pca_4_5"
## [51] "spearman_pca_4_5" "euclidean_laplacian_4_5"
## [53] "pearson_laplacian_4_5" "spearman_laplacian_4_5"
## [55] "euclidean_pca_2_6" "pearson_pca_2_6"
## [57] "spearman_pca_2_6" "euclidean_laplacian_2_6"
## [59] "pearson_laplacian_2_6" "spearman_laplacian_2_6"
## [61] "euclidean_pca_3_6" "pearson_pca_3_6"
## [63] "spearman_pca_3_6" "euclidean_laplacian_3_6"
## [65] "pearson_laplacian_3_6" "spearman_laplacian_3_6"
## [67] "euclidean_pca_4_6" "pearson_pca_4_6"
## [69] "spearman_pca_4_6" "euclidean_laplacian_4_6"
## [71] "pearson_laplacian_4_6" "spearman_laplacian_4_6"
sc3_calc_consens
In this step SC3
will provide you with a clustering solution. Let’s first check that there are no SC3
related columns in the phenoData
slot:
p_data <- pData(sceset)
head(p_data[ , grep("sc3_", colnames(p_data))])
## data frame with 0 columns and 6 rows
When calculating consensus for each value of k
SC3
averages the clustering results of kmeans
using a consensus approach. Method sc3_calc_consens
calculates consensus matrices based on the clustering solutions contained in the kmeans
item of the sc3
slot. It then creates and populates the following items of the sc3
slot:
consensus
- for each value of k
it contains: a consensus matrix, an hclust
object, corresponding to hierarchical clustering of the consensus matrix and the Silhouette indeces of the clusters.sceset <- sc3_calc_consens(sceset)
## Calculating consensus matrix...
names(sceset@sc3$consensus)
## [1] "2" "3" "4"
names(sceset@sc3$consensus$`3`)
## [1] "consensus" "hc" "silhouette"
It also removes the previously calculated kmeans
item from the sc3
slot:
sceset@sc3$kmeans
## NULL
As mentioned before all the clustering results (cell-related information) are written to the phenoData
slot of the SCESet
object:
p_data <- pData(sceset)
head(p_data[ , grep("sc3_", colnames(p_data))])
## sc3_2_clusters sc3_3_clusters sc3_4_clusters
## 1 1 1 1
## 2 1 1 1
## 3 1 3 4
## 4 1 1 1
## 5 1 1 1
## 6 1 1 1
We can see that SC3
calculated clusters for k = 2, 3
and 4
and wrote them to the phenoData
slot of the SCESet
object.
sc3_calc_biology
SC3
can also calculates DE genes, marker genes and cell outliers based on the calculated consensus clusterings. Similary to the clustering solutions, method sc3_calc_biology
writes the results for the cell outliers (cell-related information) to the phenoData
slot of the SCESet
object. In contrast, DE and marker genes results (gene-related information) is are written to the featureData
slot. In addition biology
item of the sc3
slot is set to TRUE
.
sceset <- sc3_calc_biology(sceset)
## Calculating biology...
Now we can see that cell outlier scores have been calculated for each value of k
:
p_data <- pData(sceset)
head(p_data[ , grep("sc3_", colnames(p_data))])
## sc3_2_clusters sc3_3_clusters sc3_4_clusters sc3_2_log2_outlier_score
## 1 1 1 1 0
## 2 1 1 1 0
## 3 1 3 4 0
## 4 1 1 1 0
## 5 1 1 1 0
## 6 1 1 1 0
## sc3_3_log2_outlier_score sc3_4_log2_outlier_score
## 1 0.000000 0.000000
## 2 3.224458 3.258437
## 3 0.000000 0.000000
## 4 3.306006 3.310073
## 5 0.000000 0.000000
## 6 3.269309 3.300530
For more information on how the cell outliers are calculated please see ?get_outl_cells
.
We can also see that DE and marker genes characteristics (adjusted p-values and area under the ROC curve) have been calculated for each value of k
f_data <- fData(sceset)
head(f_data[ , grep("sc3_", colnames(f_data))])
## sc3_gene_filter sc3_2_markers_clusts sc3_2_markers_padj
## 0610005C13Rik FALSE NA NA
## 0610007C21Rik TRUE 2 1
## 0610007L01Rik TRUE 2 1
## 0610007N19Rik TRUE 1 1
## 0610007P08Rik TRUE 2 1
## 0610007P14Rik TRUE 2 1
## sc3_2_markers_auroc sc3_3_markers_clusts sc3_3_markers_padj
## 0610005C13Rik NA NA NA
## 0610007C21Rik 0.6709957 2 1
## 0610007L01Rik 0.6250000 2 1
## 0610007N19Rik 0.7662338 1 1
## 0610007P08Rik 0.5043290 1 1
## 0610007P14Rik 0.6060606 2 1
## sc3_3_markers_auroc sc3_4_markers_clusts sc3_4_markers_padj
## 0610005C13Rik NA NA NA
## 0610007C21Rik 0.6709957 2 1
## 0610007L01Rik 0.6250000 3 1
## 0610007N19Rik 0.6203175 3 1
## 0610007P08Rik 0.5187302 3 1
## 0610007P14Rik 0.6060606 2 1
## sc3_4_markers_auroc sc3_2_de_padj sc3_3_de_padj
## 0610005C13Rik NA NA NA
## 0610007C21Rik 0.6709957 1 1
## 0610007L01Rik 0.6734234 1 1
## 0610007N19Rik 0.7139640 1 1
## 0610007P08Rik 0.5202703 1 1
## 0610007P14Rik 0.6060606 1 1
## sc3_4_de_padj
## 0610005C13Rik NA
## 0610007C21Rik 1
## 0610007L01Rik 1
## 0610007N19Rik 1
## 0610007P08Rik 1
## 0610007P14Rik 1
For more information on how the DE and marker genes are calculated please see ?get_de_genes
and ?get_marker_genes
.
SVM
ApproachFor datasets with more than 5,000 cells SC3
automatically utilizes a hybrid approach that combines unsupervised and supervised clusterings. Namely, SC3
selects a subset of cells uniformly at random (5,000), and obtains clusters from this subset. The inferred labels can be used to train a Support Vector Machine (SVM
), which is employed to assign labels to the remaining cells.
The hybrid approach can also be triggered by defining either the svm_num_cells
parameter (the number of training cells, which is different from 5,000) or svm_train_inds
parameter (training cells are manually selected by providing their indexes).
Let us first save the SC3
results for k = 3
obtained without using the hybrid approach:
no_svm_labels <- pData(sceset)$sc3_3_clusters
Now let us trigger the hybrid approach by asking for 50 training cells:
# Note that n_cores = 1 is required for compilation of this vignette.
# Please remove this parameter when running on your computer:
# sceset <- sc3(sceset, ks = 2:4, svm.num.cells = 50)
sceset <- sc3(sceset, ks = 2:4, biology = TRUE, svm_num_cells = 50, n_cores = 1)
## Setting SC3 parameters...
## Defining training cells for SVM using svm_num_cells parameter...
## Setting a range of k...
## Calculating distances between the cells...
## Performing transformations and calculating eigenvectors...
## Performing k-means clustering...
## Calculating consensus matrix...
## Calculating biology...
Note that when SVM
is used all results (including marker genes, DE genes and cell outliers) correspond to the training cells only (50 cells), and values of all other cells are set to NA
:
p_data <- pData(sceset)
head(p_data[ , grep("sc3_", colnames(p_data))])
## sc3_2_clusters sc3_3_clusters sc3_4_clusters sc3_2_log2_outlier_score
## 1 NA NA NA NA
## 2 NA NA NA NA
## 3 2 3 4 0.000000
## 4 2 1 1 2.372392
## 5 2 1 1 0.000000
## 6 2 1 3 0.000000
## sc3_3_log2_outlier_score sc3_4_log2_outlier_score
## 1 NA NA
## 2 NA NA
## 3 0.000000 0.000000
## 4 2.438169 3.305473
## 5 0.000000 0.000000
## 6 1.752293 0.000000
Now we can run the SVM
and predict labels of all the other cells:
sceset <- sc3_run_svm(sceset)
p_data <- pData(sceset)
head(p_data[ , grep("sc3_", colnames(p_data))])
## sc3_2_clusters sc3_3_clusters sc3_4_clusters sc3_2_log2_outlier_score
## 1 2 1 1 NA
## 2 2 1 1 NA
## 3 2 3 4 0.000000
## 4 2 1 1 2.372392
## 5 2 1 1 0.000000
## 6 2 1 3 0.000000
## sc3_3_log2_outlier_score sc3_4_log2_outlier_score
## 1 NA NA
## 2 NA NA
## 3 0.000000 0.000000
## 4 2.438169 3.305473
## 5 0.000000 0.000000
## 6 1.752293 0.000000
Note that the cell outlier scores (and also DE and marker genes values) were not updated and they still contain NA
values for non-training cells. To recalculate biological characteristics using the labels predicted by SVM
one need to clear the svm_train_inds
item in the sc3
slot and rerun the sc3_calc_biology
method:
sceset@sc3$svm_train_inds <- NULL
sceset <- sc3_calc_biology(sceset)
## Calculating biology...
p_data <- pData(sceset)
head(p_data[ , grep("sc3_", colnames(p_data))])
## sc3_2_clusters sc3_3_clusters sc3_4_clusters sc3_2_log2_outlier_score
## 1 2 1 1 0
## 2 2 1 1 0
## 3 2 3 4 0
## 4 2 1 1 0
## 5 2 1 1 0
## 6 2 1 3 0
## sc3_3_log2_outlier_score sc3_4_log2_outlier_score
## 1 0 0.000000
## 2 0 0.000000
## 3 0 0.000000
## 4 0 2.654047
## 5 0 0.000000
## 6 0 0.000000
Now the biological characteristics are calculated for all cells (including those predicted by the SVM
)
svm_labels <- pData(sceset)$sc3_3_clusters
Now we can compare the labels using the adjusted rand index (ARI
):
if (require("mclust")) {
adjustedRandIndex(no_svm_labels, svm_labels)
}
## Loading required package: mclust
## Package 'mclust' version 5.2.3
## Type 'citation("mclust")' for citing this R package in publications.
## [1] 0.6212237
ARI
is less than 1
, which means that SVM
results are different from the non-SVM
results, however ARI
is still pretty close to 1
meaning that the solutions are very similar.