Single Cell Analysis
Compiled: December 12, 2024
Introduction
In this vignette, we will cover some of the possible sources for publicly available single-cell data, how to format it for and process it with MCIA and how to run a basic analysis in order to annotate the data and use the results as metadata for exploring the decomposition results.
Installation
To install the development version from GitHub:
# devel version
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("Muunraker/nipalsMCIA", ref = "devel",
force = TRUE, build_vignettes = TRUE) # devel versionTo install the released Bioconductor version:
# release version
if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("nipalsMCIA")# note that the TENxPBMCData package is not included in this list as you may
# decide to pull data from another source or use our provided objects
library(BiocFileCache)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(ggpubr)
library(nipalsMCIA)
library(piggyback)
library(Seurat)
# NIPALS starts with a random vector
set.seed(42)# if you would like to save any of the data loaded/created locally
path_data <- file.path("..", "data")To manage the data used in this vignette, we will be using BiocFileCache:
# as suggested in: https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/BiocFileCache/inst/doc/BiocFileCache.html#cache-to-manage-package-data
# since we only use the cache in this vignette, we don't need wrapper functions
# initialize the cache in a temporary directory
bfc <- BiocFileCache::BiocFileCache()
# set up or load the unique resource ids
rid <- BiocFileCache::bfcquery(bfc, query = "vignette_2", "rname")$rid
# rid <- bfcrid(bfc) # we only have one rname, so you could also just use this
# if the data is not in the cache, download and add it
if (length(rid) == 0) {
# specify `tag = ` to use a different release other than latest
urls <-
piggyback::pb_download_url(repo = "Muunraker/nipalsMCIA", tag = "latest")
# you could add all of the urls to rid at once, but it would throw this error
# when it comes to downloading them:
# "Error in parse_url(url) : length(url) == 1 is not TRUE"
for (url in urls) {
# the rids are numbered in the order they are added e.g. BFC1, BFC2, ...
message(paste("Downloading file", url))
rid <- names(BiocFileCache::bfcadd(bfc, rname = "vignette_2", url))
# check if the cached data needs updating and download it if needed
if (!isFALSE(BiocFileCache::bfcneedsupdate(bfc, rid))) {
# this will overwrite existing files without asking
BiocFileCache::bfcdownload(bfc, rid, ask = FALSE)
}
}
}
# return the paths to the cached files
# BiocFileCache::bfcrpath(bfc, rid = rid)The temporary directory being used is:
# you can also run tools::R_user_dir("BiocFileCache", which = "cache")
BiocFileCache::getBFCOption("CACHE")## [1] "/home/biocbuild/.cache/R/BiocFileCache"Vignette Pipeline
The lines for the data_sc_sce.Rda are dotted because we do not provide this object below; however, the code describing how to generate it is still included.
Data
We will be using the 10x Genomics “pbmc5k-CITEseq” dataset, which was published in May 2019 and processed using Cell Ranger 3.0.2. It contains 5,247 detected cells from PBMCs and 33,538 genes along with 32 cell surface markers. We chose this dataset due to it containing both gene expression (GEX) and cell surface protein (ADT) data as well as being relatively recent, publicly available and from a widely used platform.
The following code details several ways in which to load in this dataset. You may prefer to use data from other sources outside of 10x Genomics, in which case you will have to format it to work with nipalsMCIA.
All Sources
We have the objects described below available in data files which you can download and load in here if you do not want to run the following sections. Note: the processed object that you will need in order to run MCIA (data_blocks_sc.Rda) is currently commented out as we do not actively use it in this vignette and instead read in the results directly to save on rendering time and memory. You can still download it if you choose to as we provide the file.
# list all of the currently available files in the latest release
piggyback::pb_list(repo = "Muunraker/nipalsMCIA", tag = "latest")Get the file paths from the cache (for clarity, we actually read in each file in the following sections instead of loading them in here):
# files needed for running MCIA
path_metadata_sc <-
BiocFileCache::bfcquery(bfc, query = "metadata_sc")$rpath
# MCIA results
# path_data_blocks <- bfcquery(bfc, query = "data_blocks")$rpath
path_mcia_results <-
BiocFileCache::bfcquery(bfc, query = "mcia_results_sc")$rpath
# marker genes for cell type annotation with Seurat
path_marker_genes <-
BiocFileCache::bfcquery(bfc, query = "marker_genes")$rpath
# the Seurat data's metric summary file from 10x Genomics
path_metrics_summary <-
BiocFileCache::bfcquery(bfc, query = "metrics_summary")$rpath
# Seurat objects in different stages of processing
path_obj_raw <-
BiocFileCache::bfcquery(bfc, query = "CITEseq_raw")$rpath
path_obj_annotated <-
BiocFileCache::bfcquery(bfc, query = "CITEseq_annotated")$rpathBioconductor
There are several Bioconductor packages which provide single-cell data for users as part of the package. The TENxPBMCData contains 9 different publicly available datasets from 10x Genomics (stored as SingleCellExperiment classes), including the one that we will be analyzing.
Note that the CITE-Seq information is being stored as an “alternative experiment” within the SingleCellExperiment object. Both the GEX ("mainExpName: Gene Expression") and ADT ("altExpNames(1): Antibody Capture") data were stored in the DelayedMatrix format since they are so large. In this object, the rows represent the features and the columns represent the cells.
# read in the data as a SingleCellExperiment object
tenx_pbmc5k <- TENxPBMCData::TENxPBMCData(dataset = "pbmc5k-CITEseq")
# examine the data
tenx_pbmc5k
## class: SingleCellExperiment
## dim: 33538 5247
## metadata(0):
## assays(1): counts
## rownames(33538): ENSG00000243485 ENSG00000237613 ... ENSG00000277475 ENSG00000268674
## rowData names(4): ENSEMBL_ID Symbol_TENx Type Symbol
## colnames: NULL
## colData names(11): Sample Barcode ... Individual Date_published
## reducedDimNames(0):
## mainExpName: Gene Expression
## altExpNames(1): Antibody Capture
counts(tenx_pbmc5k)
## <33538 x 5247> sparse matrix of class DelayedMatrix and type "integer":
## [, 1] [, 2] [, 3] [, 4] ... [, 5244] [, 5245] [, 5246] [, 5247]
## ENSG00000243485 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## ENSG00000237613 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## ENSG00000186092 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## ENSG00000238009 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## ENSG00000239945 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## ... . . . . . . . . .
## ENSG00000277856 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## ENSG00000275063 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## ENSG00000271254 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## ENSG00000277475 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
## ENSG00000268674 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0
counts(altExp(tenx_pbmc5k))
## <32 x 5247> sparse matrix of class DelayedMatrix and type "integer":
## [, 1] [, 2] [, 3] [, 4] ... [, 5244] [, 5245] [, 5246] [, 5247]
## CD3 25 959 942 802 . 402 401 6 1773
## CD4 164 720 1647 1666 . 1417 1 46 1903
## CD8a 16 8 21 5 . 8 222 3 9
## CD11b 3011 12 11 11 . 15 7 1027 9
## CD14 696 12 13 9 . 9 17 382 8
## ... . . . . . . . . .
## HLA-DR 573 15 11 19 . 6 40 184 32
## TIGIT 10 3 3 3 . 2 15 1 12
## IgG1 4 4 2 4 . 1 0 2 4
## IgG2a 1 3 0 6 . 4 0 4 2
## IgG2b 6 2 4 8 . 0 0 2 5
# examine the metadata:
head(colData(tenx_pbmc5k), n = 3)
## DataFrame with 6 rows and 11 columns
## Sample Barcode Sequence Library Cell_ranger_version Tissue_status Barcode_type
## <character> <character> <character> <integer> <character> <character> <character>
## 1 pbmc5k-CITEseq AAACCCAAGAGACAAG-1 AAACCCAAGAGACAAG 1 v3.0.2 NA Chromium
## 2 pbmc5k-CITEseq AAACCCAAGGCCTAGA-1 AAACCCAAGGCCTAGA 1 v3.0.2 NA Chromium
## 3 pbmc5k-CITEseq AAACCCAGTCGTGCCA-1 AAACCCAGTCGTGCCA 1 v3.0.2 NA Chromium
## Chemistry Sequence_platform Individual Date_published
## <character> <character> <character> <character>
## 1 Chromium_v3 NovaSeq HealthyDonor 2019-05-29
## 2 Chromium_v3 NovaSeq HealthyDonor 2019-05-29
## 3 Chromium_v3 NovaSeq HealthyDonor 2019-05-29
head(rowData(tenx_pbmc5k), n = 3)
## DataFrame with 6 rows and 4 columns
## ENSEMBL_ID Symbol_TENx Type Symbol
## <character> <character> <character> <character>
## ENSG00000243485 ENSG00000243485 MIR1302-2HG Gene Expression NA
## ENSG00000237613 ENSG00000237613 FAM138A Gene Expression FAM138A
## ENSG00000186092 ENSG00000186092 OR4F5 Gene Expression OR4F5
metadata(tenx_pbmc5k)
## list()
# change the gene names from Ensembl IDs to the 10x genes
rownames(tenx_pbmc5k) <- rowData(tenx_pbmc5k)$Symbol_TENxIn order to run MCIA, the format of this data must be slightly modified:
# set up the list
data_blocks_sc_sce <- list()
data_blocks_sc_sce$mrna <- data.frame(as.matrix(counts(tenx_pbmc5k)))
data_blocks_sc_sce$adt <- data.frame(as.matrix(counts(altExp(tenx_pbmc5k))))
summary(data_blocks_sc_sce)
## Length Class Mode
## mrna 5247 data.frame list
## adt 5247 data.frame list
# convert to a Seurat object (using `as.Seurat` won't work here)
obj_sce <- CreateSeuratObject(counts = data_blocks_sc_sce$mrna, # assay = "RNA"
project = "pbmc5k_CITEseq")
obj_sce[["ADT"]] <- CreateAssayObject(counts = data_blocks_sc_sce$adt)
# name the cells with their barcodes
obj_sce <- RenameCells(object = obj_sce,
new.names = colData(tenx_pbmc5k)$Sequence)
# add metadata from the SingleCellExperiment object
obj_sce <- AddMetaData(object = obj_sce,
metadata = as.data.frame(colData(tenx_pbmc5k),
row.names = Cells(obj_sce)))
# this object will be slightly different than from the Seurat one down below
# e.g. 5297 rows vs. 4193 rows (since QC wasn't done) and different metadata
head(obj_sce[[]], n = 3)
## orig.ident nCount_RNA nFeature_RNA nCount_ADT nFeature_ADT Sample Barcode
## AAACCCAAGAGACAAG SeuratProject 7375 2363 5178 31 pbmc5k-CITEseq AAACCCAAGAGACAAG-1
## AAACCCAAGGCCTAGA SeuratProject 3772 1259 2893 29 pbmc5k-CITEseq AAACCCAAGGCCTAGA-1
## AAACCCAGTCGTGCCA SeuratProject 4902 1578 3635 29 pbmc5k-CITEseq AAACCCAGTCGTGCCA-1
## Sequence Library Cell_ranger_version Tissue_status Barcode_type Chemistry Sequence_platform
## AAACCCAAGAGACAAG AAACCCAAGAGACAAG 1 v3.0.2 <NA> Chromium Chromium_v3 NovaSeq
## AAACCCAAGGCCTAGA AAACCCAAGGCCTAGA 1 v3.0.2 <NA> Chromium Chromium_v3 NovaSeq
## AAACCCAGTCGTGCCA AAACCCAGTCGTGCCA 1 v3.0.2 <NA> Chromium Chromium_v3 NovaSeq
## Individual Date_published
## AAACCCAAGAGACAAG HealthyDonor 2019-05-29
## AAACCCAAGGCCTAGA HealthyDonor 2019-05-29
## AAACCCAGTCGTGCCA HealthyDonor 2019-05-29
# save the data locally if desired
save(data_blocks_sc_sce, obj_sce,
file = file.path(path_data, "data_sc_sce.Rda"))10x Genomics and Seurat
The original dataset can be found on the 10x Genomics Datasets website and an explanation of the file types for this version can be found here. You can download them all to a directory of your choosing with their suggested terminal commands:
# Input Files
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_fastqs.tar
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_feature_ref.csv
# Output Files
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_possorted_genome_bam.bam
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_possorted_genome_bam.bam.bai
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_molecule_info.h5
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_filtered_feature_bc_matrix.h5
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_filtered_feature_bc_matrix.tar.gz
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_raw_feature_bc_matrix.h5
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_raw_feature_bc_matrix.tar.gz
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_analysis.tar.gz
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_metrics_summary.csv
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_web_summary.html
curl -O https://cf.10xgenomics.com/samples/cell-exp/3.0.2/5k_pbmc_protein_v3/5k_pbmc_protein_v3_cloupe.cloupeIf you would like to view some basic information about the data, you can open the web_summary.html in your favorite web browser. It will show the estimated number of cells, mean reads per cell, median genes per cell and a variety of other sample metrics. These metrics are also available in the metrics_summary.csv file.
You will need the filtered_feature_bc_matrix directory for the following analysis; it can be extracted with tar -xvzf 5k_pbmc_protein_v3_filtered_feature_bc_matrix.tar.gz from within the relevant data directory.
# load the data (change the file path as needed)
data <- Seurat::Read10X(data.dir = file.path(path_data, "tenx_pbmc5k_CITEseq",
"filtered_feature_bc_matrix"),
strip.suffix = TRUE) # remove the "-1"s from barcodes
## 10X data contains more than one type and is being returned as a list
## containing matrices of each type.
# set minimum cells and/or features here if you'd like
obj <- Seurat::CreateSeuratObject(counts = data$`Gene Expression`,
project = "pbmc5k_CITEseq")
obj[["ADT"]] <- Seurat::CreateAssayObject(counts = data$`Antibody Capture`)
## Warning: Feature names cannot have underscores ('_'), replacing with dashes ('-')
# check the assays
Seurat::Assays(object = obj)
## "RNA" "ADT"
# list out the CITE-Seq surface protein markers
rownames(obj[["ADT"]])
## [1] "CD3-TotalSeqB" "CD4-TotalSeqB" "CD8a-TotalSeqB"
## [4] "CD11b-TotalSeqB" "CD14-TotalSeqB" "CD15-TotalSeqB"
## [7] "CD16-TotalSeqB" "CD19-TotalSeqB" "CD20-TotalSeqB"
## [10] "CD25-TotalSeqB" "CD27-TotalSeqB" "CD28-TotalSeqB"
## [13] "CD34-TotalSeqB" "CD45RA-TotalSeqB" "CD45RO-TotalSeqB"
## [16] "CD56-TotalSeqB" "CD62L-TotalSeqB" "CD69-TotalSeqB"
## [19] "CD80-TotalSeqB" "CD86-TotalSeqB" "CD127-TotalSeqB"
## [22] "CD137-TotalSeqB" "CD197-TotalSeqB" "CD274-TotalSeqB"
## [25] "CD278-TotalSeqB" "CD335-TotalSeqB" "PD-1-TotalSeqB"
## [28] "HLA-DR-TotalSeqB" "TIGIT-TotalSeqB" "IgG1-control-TotalSeqB"
## [31] "IgG2a-control-TotalSeqB" "IgG2b-control-TotalSeqB"
# save the data locally if desired
saveRDS(obj, file.path(path_data, "tenx_pbmc5k_CITEseq_raw.rds"))You can also load the Seurat object directly, such as in the Read in and process the data subsection in the Deep dive: Seurat analysis section later in the vignette.
MCIA
Metadata
Note that the “-1”s have been removed from the cell barcodes.
# read in the annotated cells
metadata_sc <- read.csv(file = path_metadata_sc[1], header = TRUE, row.names = 1)
# examples
metadata_sc %>% slice_sample(n = 5)Running the decomposition
This will run on cells with the top 2000 variable features (as defined in the later analysis).
# load the object set up for running MCIA [10x Genomics & Seurat]
# (if you save it in the following code block or download it from a release)
load(file = path_data_blocks)# "largest_sv" results in a more balanced contribution
# from the blocks than the default "unit_var"
set.seed(42)
# convert data_blocks_sc to an MAE object using the SingleCellExperiment class
data_blocks_sc_mae <-
MultiAssayExperiment::MultiAssayExperiment(lapply(data_blocks_sc, function(x)
SingleCellExperiment::SingleCellExperiment(t(as.matrix(x)))),
colData = metadata_sc)
mcia_results_sc <- nipals_multiblock(data_blocks = data_blocks_sc_mae,
col_preproc_method = "colprofile",
block_preproc_method = "largest_sv",
num_PCs = 10, tol = 1e-9,
deflationMethod = "global",
plots = "none")
## Performing column-level pre-processing...
## Column pre-processing completed.
## Performing block-level preprocessing...
## Block pre-processing completed.
## Computing order 1 scores
## Computing order 2 scores
## Computing order 3 scores
## Computing order 4 scores
## Computing order 5 scores
## Computing order 6 scores
## Computing order 7 scores
## Computing order 8 scores
## Computing order 9 scores
## Computing order 10 scores
# saveRDS(mcia_results_sc, file = file.path(path_data, "mcia_results_sc.Rds"))# load the results of the previous block (if already run and saved)
mcia_results_sc <- readRDS(file = path_mcia_results[1])
mcia_results_sc## NipalsResult Object with properties:
## > Dataset dimensions: 4193 x 2032
## > Number of blocks: 2
## > Order of scores: 10
## > Column preprocessing: colprofile
## > Block preprocessing: largest_sv
## > Block names and sizes:
## mrna adt
## 2000 32Visualization
This data comes from only one subject, so we will use the annotated cell types for the metadata (see the Deep dive: Seurat analysis section for details on their origin).
Define colors
# for the projection plot
# technically you could just do color_pal_params = list(option = "D"), but saving
# the colors is useful for other plots like in the Seurat section
meta_colors_sc <- get_metadata_colors(mcia_results = mcia_results_sc,
color_col = "CellType",
color_pal = scales::viridis_pal,
color_pal_params = list(option = "D"))
# for other plots
colors_omics_sc <- get_colors(mcia_results = mcia_results_sc)Eigenvalue scree plot
global_scores_eigenvalues_plot(mcia_results = mcia_results_sc)
Projection plot
projection_plot(mcia_results = mcia_results_sc,
projection = "global", orders = c(1, 2),
color_col = "CellType", color_pal = meta_colors_sc,
legend_loc = "bottomright")
Global scores heatmap
suppressMessages(global_scores_heatmap(mcia_results = mcia_results_sc,
color_col = "CellType",
color_pal = meta_colors_sc))
Block weights heatmap
The block weights heatmap shows the distribution of the different block score weights among the factors.
block_weights_heatmap(mcia_results = mcia_results_sc)
Loadings
vis_load_plot(mcia_results = mcia_results_sc,
axes = c(1, 4), color_pal = colors_omics_sc)## Warning: Use of `gl_f[[colnames(gl_f)[1]]]` is discouraged.
## ℹ Use `.data[[colnames(gl_f)[1]]]` instead.## Warning: Use of `gl_f[[colnames(gl_f)[2]]]` is discouraged.
## ℹ Use `.data[[colnames(gl_f)[2]]]` instead.
Top features
In a few factors of interest:
Factor 1
all_pos_1_vis <- vis_load_ord(mcia_results_sc, omic = "all", factor = 1,
absolute = FALSE, descending = TRUE)
mrna_pos_1_vis <- vis_load_ord(mcia_results_sc, omic = "mrna", factor = 1,
absolute = FALSE, descending = TRUE)
ggpubr::ggarrange(all_pos_1_vis, mrna_pos_1_vis, widths = c(1, 1))
The ord_loadings(...) function can be used to extract the ordered values from
the plot above.
all_pos_1 <- ord_loadings(mcia_results_sc, omic = "all", factor = 1,
absolute = FALSE, descending = TRUE)
mrna_pos_1 <- ord_loadings(mcia_results_sc, omic = "mrna", factor = 1,
absolute = FALSE, descending = TRUE)# visualize the tabular data
all_pos_1[1:3, ]mrna_pos_1[1:3, ]Factor 4
If you don’t want to rank by the absolute value and see a large number of features:
vis_load_ord(mcia_results_sc, omic = "all", factor = 4, n_feat = 60,
absolute = FALSE, descending = TRUE)
As we saw in the Block weights heatmap, factor 4 is dominated by the mRNA data and not the ADT data.
Deep dive: Seurat analysis
This section demonstrates how to take in raw data (in this case, the output of Cell Ranger v3.0) and go through a popular analysis pipeline to ultimately cluster and annotate the data. Some people prefer to use Cell Ranger’s built-in dimension reduction and clustering analysis and to view the results with Loupe Cell Browser.
Credit to Seurat (RNA and multi-modal) for the general steps.
Read in and process the data
Note that there are other approaches to reading in single cell transcriptomics data, such as Bioconductor’s DropletUtils.
# load the data
obj <- readRDS(file = path_obj_raw[1])
# add useful metadata
obj[["percent.mt"]] <- PercentageFeatureSet(object = obj, pattern = "^MT-")Quality control
Metrics summary
# read in and display the summary table
metrics_summary <- read.csv(file = path_metrics_summary[1])
metrics_summaryGEX QC metrics
Before filtering
VlnPlot(object = obj,
features = c("nFeature_RNA", "nCount_RNA", "percent.mt"),
pt.size = 0.01, ncol = 3) &
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 0, hjust = 0.5),
axis.title.x = element_blank())
After filtering
Based on the previous plots, a minimum of 200 features and a maximum of 20% mitochondrial seemed like good cutoffs.
# adjust cutoffs as desired
obj <- subset(x = obj, subset = nFeature_RNA > 200 & percent.mt < 20)
VlnPlot(object = obj,
features = c("nFeature_RNA", "nCount_RNA", "percent.mt"),
pt.size = 0.01, ncol = 3) &
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 0, hjust = 0.5),
axis.title.x = element_blank())
Standard Seurat pipeline
You can set verbose = FALSE for many of these commands if you don’t want to
see outputs.
Most of these are run on the RNA.
# standard log normalization for RNA and centered log for ADT
obj <- NormalizeData(object = obj, normalization.method = "LogNormalize",
scale.factor = 10000, assay = "RNA")
## Performing log-normalization
## 0% 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100%
## [----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
## **************************************************|
obj <- NormalizeData(object = obj, normalization.method = "CLR",
margin = 2, assay = "ADT") # go across cells, not features
## Normalizing across cells
## |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++| 100% elapsed=00s
# highly variable features
obj <- FindVariableFeatures(object = obj, selection.method = "vst",
nfeatures = 2000)
## Calculating gene variances
## 0% 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100%
## [----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
## **************************************************|
## Calculating feature variances of standardized and clipped values
## 0% 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100%
## [----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
## **************************************************|
# scaling so the average expression is 0 and the variance is 1
obj <- ScaleData(object = obj, features = rownames(obj))
## Centering and scaling data matrix
## |===============================================================================================| 100%
# dimensionality reduction
obj <- RunPCA(object = obj)
## PC_ 1
## Positive: LYZ, FCN1, CST3, MNDA, CTSS, PSAP, S100A9, FGL2, AIF1, GRN
## NCF2, LST1, CD68, TYMP, SERPINA1, CYBB, CLEC12A, CSTA, SPI1, TNFAIP2
## CPVL, VCAN, MPEG1, TYROBP, KLF4, FTL, S100A8, IGSF6, CD14, MS4A6A
## Negative: CD3D, TRAC, LTB, TRBC2, IL32, CD3G, IL7R, CD69, CD247, TRBC1
## CD2, CD7, CD27, ARL4C, ISG20, HIST1H4C, SYNE2, GZMM, ITM2A, CCR7
## RORA, MAL, CXCR4, LEF1, TRAT1, CTSW, GZMA, KLRB1, TRABD2A, CCL5
## PC_ 2
## Positive: CD79A, MS4A1, IGHM, BANK1, HLA-DQA1, CD79B, IGKC, LINC00926, RALGPS2, TNFRSF13C
## VPREB3, IGHD, SPIB, CD22, FCRL1, HLA-DQB1, BLK, FAM129C, FCRLA, TCL1A
## GNG7, TCF4, COBLL1, PAX5, SWAP70, CD40, BCL11A, P2RX5, TSPAN13, ADAM28
## Negative: NKG7, CST7, GZMA, PRF1, KLRD1, CTSW, FGFBP2, GNLY, GZMH, CCL5
## GZMM, CD247, KLRF1, HOPX, SPON2, ADGRG1, TRDC, MATK, GZMB, FCGR3A
## S100A4, CCL4, CLIC3, KLRB1, IL2RB, TBX21, TTC38, ANXA1, PTGDR, PLEKHF1
## PC_ 3
## Positive: GZMB, NKG7, GNLY, CLIC3, PRF1, KLRD1, FGFBP2, KLRF1, SPON2, CST7
## GZMH, FCGR3A, ADGRG1, GZMA, HOPX, CTSW, TRDC, CCL4, HLA-DPB1, C12orf75
## PLAC8, TTC38, PLEK, APOBEC3G, TBX21, PRSS23, CYBA, MATK, SYNGR1, CXXC5
## Negative: IL7R, MAL, LEF1, TRABD2A, TRAC, CCR7, LTB, CD27, FOS, LRRN3
## FHIT, TRAT1, RGCC, CAMK4, CD3D, RGS10, CD40LG, FOSB, AQP3, SOCS3
## FLT3LG, CD3G, SLC2A3, TSHZ2, VIM, S100A12, S100A8, CD28, PLK3, VCAN
## PC_ 4
## Positive: FCER1A, PLD4, SERPINF1, IL3RA, CLEC10A, GAS6, LILRA4, TPM2, CLEC4C, ENHO
## FLT3, SMPD3, ITM2C, LGMN, CD1C, P2RY14, PPP1R14B, SCT, PROC, LAMP5
## RUNX2, AC119428.2, PACSIN1, DNASE1L3, PTCRA, RGS10, UGCG, CLIC2, PPM1J, P2RY6
## Negative: MS4A1, CD79A, LINC00926, BANK1, TNFRSF13C, VPREB3, CD79B, RALGPS2, IGHD, FCRL1
## BLK, IGHM, CD22, PAX5, ARHGAP24, CD24, P2RX5, NCF1, S100A12, CD19
## SWAP70, FCRLA, VNN2, TNFRSF13B, FCER2, IGKC, FCRL2, RBP7, CD40, S100A8
## PC_ 5
## Positive: BATF3, C1QA, TCF7L2, CTSL, CDKN1C, HLA-DQB1, HES4, SIGLEC10, CLEC10A, ABI3
## HLA-DQA1, RHOC, CSF1R, ENHO, CAMK1, MTSS1, IFITM3, CD1C, LY6E, FCGR3A
## HLA-DPA1, CLIC2, HLA-DPB1, YBX1, RRAS, AC064805.1, NR4A1, GBP1, ZNF703, CXCL16
## Negative: LILRA4, TPM2, CLEC4C, SMPD3, IL3RA, SERPINF1, DERL3, MZB1, SCT, JCHAIN
## PACSIN1, PROC, S100A12, PTCRA, LINC00996, PADI4, ASIP, KCNK17, ITM2C, EPHB1
## ALOX5AP, LAMP5, DNASE1L3, MAP1A, S100A8, APP, CYP1B1, VNN2, UGCG, ZFAT
# clustering (adjust dimensions and resolutions as desired)
obj <- FindNeighbors(object = obj, reduction = "pca", dims = 1:20)
## Computing nearest neighbor graph
## Computing SNN
obj <- FindClusters(object = obj, resolution = 0.4)
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## Number of edges: 154360
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## Number of communities: 10
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obj <- RunUMAP(object = obj, reduction = "pca", dims = 1:20)
## 14:44:35 UMAP embedding parameters a = 0.9922 b = 1.112
## 14:44:35 Read 4193 rows and found 20 numeric columns
## 14:44:35 Using Annoy for neighbor search, n_neighbors = 30
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## 14:44:36 Searching Annoy index using 1 thread, search_k = 3000
## 14:44:37 Annoy recall = 100%
## 14:44:38 Commencing smooth kNN distance calibration using 1 thread with target n_neighbors = 30
## 14:44:39 Initializing from normalized Laplacian + noise (using RSpectra)
## 14:44:39 Commencing optimization for 500 epochs, with 174318 positive edges
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## 14:44:44 Optimization finishedDimensionality reduction
Load in the processed object
To avoid having to save multiple large objects, this file already includes the annotations defined in a later section, so we will clear them out here to proceed as normal.
obj <- readRDS(file = path_obj_annotated[1])
# reset to baseline
Idents(object = obj) <- "seurat_clusters"
obj$annotated_clusters <- c()PCA
Typically this section would go in between the RunPCA() and FindNeighbors() steps above.
It has been included here because of how we save and load the objects separately
for processing speed.
Now that we’ve run PCA, we can examine an elbow plot as a simple method for selecting how many PCs to choose when identifying neighbors/clusters.
ElbowPlot(object = obj, ndims = 30)
From the plot, it looked like 20 works as a cut-off for the number of PCs to include. We could have also chosen to use 10, but decided to go a little higher.
You can also examine other information which was used for the PCA, such as the top twenty most variable features:
head(VariableFeatures(object = obj), 20)## [1] "IGLC2" "IGLC3" "HLA-DQA1" "FCER1A" "C1QA" "PTGDS"
## [7] "GNLY" "CLEC10A" "IGHM" "IGKC" "CCL4L2" "JCHAIN"
## [13] "LYPD2" "CD1C" "CCL4" "C1QB" "HLA-DPA1" "HLA-DPB1"
## [19] "EREG" "HLA-DRB1"# these can be plotted if desired
LabelPoints(plot = VariableFeaturePlot(object = obj),
points = head(VariableFeatures(object = obj), 20),
repel = TRUE, xnudge = 0, ynudge = 0) +
labs(title = "Top Twenty Variable Features") +
theme(legend.position = "bottom")UMAP
# you can also use the LabelClusters function to help label individual clusters
plot_seurat_clusters <- UMAPPlot(object = obj, label = TRUE, label.size = 4,
label.box = TRUE) +
labs(title = "Initial Clusters") +
scale_fill_manual(
values = rep("white",
n_distinct(obj$seurat_clusters))) +
theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5),
axis.text = element_blank(),
axis.ticks = element_blank())
plot_seurat_clusters
Marker overlays
Note that the following marker genes are not meant to be an exhaustive list. They are included as examples of some of the cell types you could look for.
Load marker genes
# sort by Cell_Type and Marker if not already sorted
markers_all <- read.csv(file = path_marker_genes[1])
markers_all %>% slice_sample(n = 10) # example markersDot plots
GEX
Here we only demonstrate a few of the cell types included within the provided markers database. We plot those cell types on top of the dot plot to make it easier to see which markers they correspond with, but you can comment that code out if you would rather have a simple dot plot.
select_cell_types <- c("B", "Macrophages", "mDC", "NK", "T")
# do features = unique(markers_all$Marker) to use all possible features
p <- DotPlot(object = obj,
features = markers_all %>%
dplyr::filter(Cell_Type %in% select_cell_types) %>%
distinct(Marker) %>% pull(),
cols = "RdBu", col.min = -1, dot.scale = 3, cluster.idents = TRUE)
# add in the cell type information
# if desired, you could rename the "Cell_Type"s in the original database to be
# more informative e.g. Natural_Killers instead of NK
p$data <- left_join(p$data,
markers_all %>%
dplyr::filter(Cell_Type %in% select_cell_types) %>%
dplyr::rename(features.plot = "Marker"),
by = "features.plot", multiple = "all")
# depending on your version of dplyr, you can set `relationship = "many-to-many"`
# to surpress the warning
# plot
p +
facet_grid(cols = vars(Cell_Type), scales = "free_x", space = "free") +
theme(strip.text.x = element_text(size = 10)) + RotatedAxis()
ADT
The average expression was set to a minimum of zero to better see the up-regulated features.
# you have to change the default assay for the dot plot
DefaultAssay(object = obj) <- "ADT"
DotPlot(object = obj,
features = rownames(GetAssayData(object = obj, assay = "ADT",
slot = "counts")),
cols = "RdBu", col.min = -1, dot.scale = 3, cluster.idents = TRUE) +
RotatedAxis()## Warning: The `slot` argument of `GetAssayData()` is deprecated as of SeuratObject 5.0.0.
## ℹ Please use the `layer` argument instead.
## This warning is displayed once every 8 hours.
## Call `lifecycle::last_lifecycle_warnings()` to see where this warning was
## generated.
# reset the default
DefaultAssay(object = obj) <- "RNA"Feature plots
If you would like to generate feature plots for a cell type within your markers
database (if you are using one) e.g. for B cells, you could do features = (dplyr::filter(markers_all, Cell_Type == "B"))$Marker in the following command.
Here we just show a few characteristic markers for different cell types for
simplicity.
FeaturePlot(object = obj,
features = c("MS4A1", "CD14", # MS4A1 is another name for CD20
"NKG7", "IL3RA", "CD3D", "IL7R"),
min.cutoff = 0, label = TRUE, label.size = 4,
ncol = 3, raster = FALSE)
Violin plots
Here the point size is set to zero so that you can just see the violins. We only
show a few of the cell surface markers here, but you could plot them all with
features = rownames(obj[["ADT"]]). You can also plot the standard GEX markers
just like for the feature plots (just make sure to remove assay = "ADT").
VlnPlot(object = obj,
features = c("CD3-TotalSeqB", "CD14-TotalSeqB",
"CD20-TotalSeqB", "CD335-TotalSeqB"),
pt.size = 0, assay = "ADT", ncol = 2) &
theme(plot.title = element_text(size = 10),
axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 0, hjust = 0.5),
axis.title.x = element_blank())
Annotate cell clusters
These annotations are chosen here more as a proof of general concept instead of a more highly refined and verified approach that you would typically see within a single-cell publication. There are also automated methods for annotation.
Annotations
If you would like to further break down these clusters, you can increase the clustering resolution in the standard pipeline in order to increase the number of clusters.
# mDC = myeloid dendritic cells
# pDC = plasmacytoid dendritic cells
obj_annotations <- rbind(c("0", "Macrophages/mDCs"), # difficult to separate
c("1", "T Cells"),
c("2", "T Cells"),
c("3", "T Cells"),
c("4", "Natural Killers"),
c("5", "B Cells"),
c("6", "Macrophages/mDCs"), # difficult to separate
c("7", "Macrophages/mDCs"), # difficult to separate
c("8", "T Cells"), # faint signal
c("9", "pDCs"))
colnames(obj_annotations) <- c("Cluster", "CellType")
obj_annotations <- data.frame(obj_annotations)
# save the annotations as a csv if you'd like
# write.csv(obj_annotations, file = file.path(path_data, "obj_annotations.csv"))
# prepare the annotation information
annotations <- setNames(obj_annotations$CellType, obj_annotations$Cluster)
# relabel the Seurat clusters
# Idents(obj) <- "seurat_clusters"
obj <- RenameIdents(object = obj, annotations)
# alphabetize the cell types
Idents(obj) <- factor(Idents(object = obj), levels = sort(levels(obj)))
# useful metadata (e.g. if you want to have multiple annotation sets)
obj[["annotated_clusters"]] <- Idents(object = obj)
# save the processed and annotated Seurat object
# saveRDS(obj, file = file.path(path_data, "tenx_pbmc5k_CITEseq_annotated.rds"))
# info about the clusters
obj_annotations %>%
group_by(CellType) %>%
transmute(Clusters = paste0(Cluster, collapse = ", ")) %>%
distinct() %>%
arrange(CellType)# metadata file for MCIA
meta <- data.frame("CellType" = Idents(object = obj))
# save the metadata file for MCIA
# write.csv(meta, file = file.path(path_data, "metadata_sc.csv"))UMAPs
Here we use the selected metadata colors from the MCIA section, so be sure to
change that (or just remove the cols = ... to use the default) if you are running
this section first. If you don’t want the cluster labels to have the white backgrounds,
remove label.box and scale_fill_manual().
# change colors and themes as desired
plot_annotated_clusters <- UMAPPlot(object = obj,
label = TRUE, label.size = 4,
label.box = TRUE,
cols = meta_colors_sc) +
labs(title = "Annotated Clusters") +
scale_fill_manual(
values = rep("white", length(meta_colors_sc))) +
theme(plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5),
axis.text = element_blank(),
axis.ticks = element_blank()) +
NoLegend() # a legend is not needed here
ggpubr::ggarrange(plot_seurat_clusters + NoLegend(), plot_annotated_clusters,
heights = c(1, 1), widths = c(1, 1))
You should change the DefaultAssay to/from ADT like in ADT if you don’t
want to specify “adt_” before the feature name.
# plot ADT information on top as an example
FeaturePlot(object = obj, features = "adt_CD19-TotalSeqB",
label = TRUE, label.size = 4, ncol = 1, raster = FALSE)
Check the annotations
For example, if you want to visually check your T cell cluster annotations (just
like before, you can also do features = (dplyr::filter(markers_all, Cell_Type == "T"))$Marker
to use all of the T cell markers in the markers database):
VlnPlot(object = obj,
features = c("CD3D", "CD4", "IL7R", "TRAC"),
cols = meta_colors_sc, pt.size = 0.01, ncol = 2) &
theme(plot.title = element_text(size = 10),
axis.title.x = element_blank())
You can also obtain the following bar plot using the output of nipals_multiblock e.g. with ggplot(data.frame(table(nmb_get_metadata(mcia_results_sc))), aes(x = CellType, y = Freq, fill = CellType)) + geom_bar(stat = "identity") (for the base plot).
# examine the total counts
ggplot(obj[[]], aes(x = annotated_clusters, fill = annotated_clusters)) +
geom_bar(color = "black", linewidth = 0.2) +
labs(title = "pbmc5k-CITEseq Cell Type Counts",
x = "Cell Type", y = "Count") +
scale_fill_manual(values = meta_colors_sc) +
theme_bw() +
theme(plot.title = element_text(size = 14, hjust = 0.5),
axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, hjust = 1),
panel.grid.major.x = element_blank(),
legend.position = "none")
Save for MCIA
The file has to be structured in the form of a (large) list, with each omic saved as an element within it. If you would like to append the type of omic to the end of your features, uncomment the commented lines.
# mrna
data_rna <- GetAssayData(object = obj, slot = "data",
assay = "RNA")[VariableFeatures(object = obj), ]
data_rna <- as.matrix(data_rna)
data_rna <- t(data_rna) # switch the rows
# colnames(data_rna) <- paste(colnames(data_rna), "mrna", sep = "_")
# adt
data_adt <- GetAssayData(object = obj, slot = "data", assay = "ADT")
data_adt <- as.matrix(data_adt)
data_adt <- t(data_adt) # switch the rows
# colnames(data_adt) <- paste(colnames(data_adt), "adt", sep = "_")
# combined
data_blocks_sc <- list(mrna = data_rna, adt = data_adt)
# examine the contents
data.frame(data_blocks_sc$mrna[1:5, 1:5])
data.frame(data_blocks_sc$adt[1:5, 1:5])
# save(data_blocks_sc, file = file.path(path_data, "data_blocks_sc.Rda"))Session Info
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