library(sesame)
sesameDataCache()

Calculate Quality Metrics

The main function to calculate the quality metrics is sesameQC_calcStats. This function takes a SigDF, calculates the QC statistics, and returns a single S4 sesameQC object, which can be printed directly to the console. To calculate QC metrics on a given list of samples or all IDATs in a folder, one can use sesameQC_calcStats within the standard openSesame pipeline. When used with openSesame, a list of sesameQCs will be returned. Note that one should turn off preprocessing using prep="":

## calculate metrics on all IDATs in a specific folder
sesameQCtoDF(openSesame(idat_dir, prep="", func=sesameQC_calcStats))

SeSAMe divides sample quality metrics into multiple groups. These groups are listed below and can be referred to by short keys. For example, “intensity” generates signal intensity-related quality metrics.

Short.Key Description
detection Signal Detection
numProbes Number of Probes
intensity Signal Intensity
channel Color Channel
dyeBias Dye Bias
betas Beta Value

By default, sesameQC_calcStats calculates all QC groups. To save time, one can compute a specific QC group by specifying one or multiple short keys in the funs= argument:

sdfs <- sesameDataGet("EPIC.5.SigDF.normal")[1:2] # get two examples
## only compute signal detection stats
qcs = openSesame(sdfs, prep="", func=sesameQC_calcStats, funs="detection")
qcs[[1]]
## 
## =====================
## | Detection 
## =====================
## N. Probes w/ Missing Raw Intensity   : 0 (num_dtna)
## % Probes w/ Missing Raw Intensity    : 0.0 % (frac_dtna)
## N. Probes w/ Detection Success       : 838020 (num_dt)
## % Detection Success                  : 96.7 % (frac_dt)
## N. Detection Succ. (after masking)   : 838020 (num_dt_mk)
## % Detection Succ. (after masking)    : 96.7 % (frac_dt_mk)
## N. Probes w/ Detection Success (cg)  : 835491 (num_dt_cg)
## % Detection Success (cg)             : 96.7 % (frac_dt_cg)
## N. Probes w/ Detection Success (ch)  : 2471 (num_dt_ch)
## % Detection Success (ch)             : 84.3 % (frac_dt_ch)
## N. Probes w/ Detection Success (rs)  : 58 (num_dt_rs)
## % Detection Success (rs)             : 98.3 % (frac_dt_rs)

We consider signal detection the most important QC metric.

One can retrieve the actual stat numbers from sesameQC using the sesameQC_getStats (the following generates the fraction of probes with detection success):

sesameQC_getStats(qcs[[1]], "frac_dt")
## [1] 0.9666915

After computing the QCs, one can optionally combine the sesameQC objects into a data frame for easy comparison.

## combine a list of sesameQC into a data frame
head(do.call(rbind, lapply(qcs, as.data.frame)))

Note that when the input is an SigDF object, calling sesameQC_calcStats within openSesame and as a standalone function are equivalent.

sdf <- sesameDataGet('EPIC.1.SigDF')
qc = openSesame(sdf, prep="", func=sesameQC_calcStats, funs=c("detection"))
## equivalent direct call
qc = sesameQC_calcStats(sdf, c("detection"))
qc
## 
## =====================
## | Detection 
## =====================
## N. Probes w/ Missing Raw Intensity   : 0 (num_dtna)
## % Probes w/ Missing Raw Intensity    : 0.0 % (frac_dtna)
## N. Probes w/ Detection Success       : 834922 (num_dt)
## % Detection Success                  : 96.3 % (frac_dt)
## N. Detection Succ. (after masking)   : 834922 (num_dt_mk)
## % Detection Succ. (after masking)    : 96.3 % (frac_dt_mk)
## N. Probes w/ Detection Success (cg)  : 832046 (num_dt_cg)
## % Detection Success (cg)             : 96.4 % (frac_dt_cg)
## N. Probes w/ Detection Success (ch)  : 2616 (num_dt_ch)
## % Detection Success (ch)             : 89.2 % (frac_dt_ch)
## N. Probes w/ Detection Success (rs)  : 58 (num_dt_rs)
## % Detection Success (rs)             : 98.3 % (frac_dt_rs)

Rank Quality Metrics

SeSAMe features comparison of your sample with public data sets. The sesameQC_rankStats() function ranks the input sesameQC object with sesameQC calculated from public datasets. It shows the rank percentage of the input sample as well as the number of datasets compared.

sdf <- sesameDataGet('EPIC.1.SigDF')
qc <- sesameQC_calcStats(sdf, "intensity")
qc
## 
## =====================
## | Signal Intensity 
## =====================
## Mean sig. intensity          : 3171.21 (mean_intensity)
## Mean sig. intensity (M+U)    : 6342.41 (mean_intensity_MU)
## Mean sig. intensity (Inf.II) : 2991.85 (mean_ii)
## Mean sig. intens.(I.Grn IB)  : 3004.33 (mean_inb_grn)
## Mean sig. intens.(I.Red IB)  : 4670.97 (mean_inb_red)
## Mean sig. intens.(I.Grn OOB) : 318.55 (mean_oob_grn)
## Mean sig. intens.(I.Red OOB) : 606.99 (mean_oob_red)
## N. NA in M (all probes)      : 0 (na_intensity_M)
## N. NA in U (all probes)      : 0 (na_intensity_U)
## N. NA in raw intensity (IG)  : 0 (na_intensity_ig)
## N. NA in raw intensity (IR)  : 0 (na_intensity_ir)
## N. NA in raw intensity (II)  : 0 (na_intensity_ii)
sesameQC_rankStats(qc, platform="EPIC")
## 
## =====================
## | Signal Intensity 
## =====================
## Mean sig. intensity          : 3171.21 (mean_intensity) - Rank 15.7% (N=636)
## Mean sig. intensity (M+U)    : 6342.41 (mean_intensity_MU)
## Mean sig. intensity (Inf.II) : 2991.85 (mean_ii) - Rank 15.6% (N=636)
## Mean sig. intens.(I.Grn IB)  : 3004.33 (mean_inb_grn) - Rank 7.5% (N=636)
## Mean sig. intens.(I.Red IB)  : 4670.97 (mean_inb_red) - Rank 21.2% (N=636)
## Mean sig. intens.(I.Grn OOB) : 318.55 (mean_oob_grn) - Rank 4.2% (N=636)
## Mean sig. intens.(I.Red OOB) : 606.99 (mean_oob_red) - Rank 3.6% (N=636)
## N. NA in M (all probes)      : 0 (na_intensity_M)
## N. NA in U (all probes)      : 0 (na_intensity_U)
## N. NA in raw intensity (IG)  : 0 (na_intensity_ig)
## N. NA in raw intensity (IR)  : 0 (na_intensity_ir)
## N. NA in raw intensity (II)  : 0 (na_intensity_ii)

Quality Control Plots

SeSAMe provides functions to create QC plots. Some functions takes sesameQC as input while others directly plot the SigDF objects. Here are some examples:

  • sesameQC_plotBar() takes a list of sesameQC objects and creates bar plot for each metric calculated.

  • sesameQC_plotRedGrnQQ() graphs the dye bias between the two color channels.

  • sesameQC_plotIntensVsBetas() plots the relationship between β values and signal intensity and can be used to diagnose artificial readout and influence of signal background.

  • sesameQC_plotHeatSNPs() plots SNP probes and can be used to detect sample swaps.

More about quality control plots can be found in Supplemental Vignette.

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