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Two-Way Latent Structure Clustering Model

Description

Implementation of a Bayesian two-way latent structure model for integrative genomic clustering. The model clusters samples in relation to distinct data sources, with each subject-dataset receiving a latent cluster label, though cluster labels have across-dataset meaning because of the model formulation. A common scaling across data sources is unneeded, and inference is obtained by a Gibbs Sampler. The model can fit multivariate Gaussian distributed clusters or a heavier-tailed modification of a Gaussian density. Uniquely among integrative clustering models, the formulation makes no nestedness assumptions of samples across data sources – the user can still fit the model if a study subject only has information from one data source. The package provides a variety of post-processing functions for model examination including ones for quantifying observed alignment of clusterings across genomic data sources. Run time is optimized so that analyses of datasets on the order of thousands of features on fewer than 5 datasets and hundreds of subjects can converge in 1 or 2 days on a single CPU. See "Swanson DM, Lien T, Bergholtz H, Sorlie T, Frigessi A, Investigating Coordinated Architectures Across Clusters in Integrative Studies: a Bayesian Two-Way Latent Structure Model, 2018, <doi:10.1101/387076>, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory" at <https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/08/07/387076.full.pdf> for model details.

Details

The DESCRIPTION file:

Package: twl
Type: Package
Title: Two-Way Latent Structure Clustering Model
Version: 1.0
Date: 2018-08-17
Author: Michael Swanson
Maintainer: Michael Swanson <dms866@mail.harvard.edu>
Description: Implementation of a Bayesian two-way latent structure model for integrative genomic clustering. The model clusters samples in relation to distinct data sources, with each subject-dataset receiving a latent cluster label, though cluster labels have across-dataset meaning because of the model formulation. A common scaling across data sources is unneeded, and inference is obtained by a Gibbs Sampler. The model can fit multivariate Gaussian distributed clusters or a heavier-tailed modification of a Gaussian density. Uniquely among integrative clustering models, the formulation makes no nestedness assumptions of samples across data sources -- the user can still fit the model if a study subject only has information from one data source. The package provides a variety of post-processing functions for model examination including ones for quantifying observed alignment of clusterings across genomic data sources. Run time is optimized so that analyses of datasets on the order of thousands of features on fewer than 5 datasets and hundreds of subjects can converge in 1 or 2 days on a single CPU. See "Swanson DM, Lien T, Bergholtz H, Sorlie T, Frigessi A, Investigating Coordinated Architectures Across Clusters in Integrative Studies: a Bayesian Two-Way Latent Structure Model, 2018, <doi:10.1101/387076>, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory" at <https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/08/07/387076.full.pdf> for model details.
License: GPL (>= 2)
Imports: Rfast
Depends: data.table, MCMCpack, corrplot
RoxygenNote: 6.0.1
LazyData: true

Index of help topics:

TWLsample               Main function to obtain posterior samples from
                        a TWL model.
clus_save               Output samples
cross_dat_analy         Compares clustering across datasets using
                        metrics described in associated TWL manuscript
misaligned              Progressively misaligned cluster annotation
misaligned_mat          Progressively misaligned cluster data matrices
outpu_new               Output PSMs
pairwise_clus           Create posterior similarity matrix from
                        outputted list of clustering samples
post_analy_clus         Assigns cluster labels by building dendrogram
                        and thresholding at specified height
post_analy_cor          Creates and saves correlation plots based on
                        posterior similarity matrices
twl-package             Two-Way Latent Structure Clustering Model

Author(s)

Michael Swanson

Maintainer: Michael Swanson <dms866@mail.harvard.edu>

References

Swanson DM, Lien T, Bergholtz H, Sorlie T, Frigessi A, Investigating Coordinated Architectures Across Clusters in Integrative Studies: a Bayesian Two-Way Latent Structure Model, 2018, doi: 10.1101/387076, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/08/07/387076.full.pdf.


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