Dramir36 Week 9
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Contents
- 1 Purpose
- 2 Notes/Methods/Results
- 2.1 Experimental Design and Getting Ready
- 2.2 Statistical Analysis Part 1: ANOVA
- 2.3 Calculate the Bonferroni and p value Correction
- 2.4 Calculate the Benjamini & Hochberg p value Correction
- 2.5 Sanity Check: Number of genes significantly changed
- 2.6 Clustering and GO Term Enrichment with stem (part 2)
- 2.7 Using YEASTRACT to Infer which Transcription Factors Regulate a Cluster of Genes (Tuesday, October 29)
- 2.8 Visualizing Your Gene Regulatory Networks with GRNsight
- 3 Data/Files
- 4 Conclusion
- 5 Acknowledgments
- 6 References
Purpose
- to conduct the "analyze" step of the data life cycle for a DNA microarray dataset.
- to develop an intuition about what different p-value cut-offs mean.
- to keep a detailed electronic laboratory notebook to facilitate reproducible research.
- to revisit the "Deception at Duke" case with new insights because you have analyzed your own dataset.
Background
This is a list of steps required to analyze DNA microarray data.
- Quantitate the fluorescence signal in each spot
- Calculate the ratio of red/green fluorescence
- Log2 transform the ratios
- Steps 1-3 have been performed for you by the GenePix Pro software (which runs the microarray scanner).
- Normalize the ratios on each microarray slide
- Normalize the ratios for a set of slides in an experiment
- Steps 4-5 was performed for you using a script in R, a statistics package (see: Microarray Data Analysis Workflow)
- You will perform the following steps:
- Perform statistical analysis on the ratios
- Compare individual genes with known data
- Steps 6-7 are performed in Microsoft Excel
- Pattern finding algorithms (clustering)
- Map onto biological pathways
- We will use software called STEM for the clustering and mapping
- Identifying regulatory transcription factors responsible for observed changes in gene expression
- Dynamical systems modeling of the gene regulatory network (GRNmap)
- Viewing modeling results in GRNsight
Notes/Methods/Results
The strain that will be analyzed is dHAP4. There are four replicates for the 15,30, and 60 minute time points, but only three replicates for the 90 and 120 minute time points.
- T test: is this gene expression change significantly different than zero at a time point?
- p>0.05 5%
- probability that you would have seen at least this big of a change by chance.
- ANOVA: is the gene expression significantly different than zero at any time point?
- Values below 0.25 should be considered to be a gene with no change in expression
Experimental Design and Getting Ready
The data used in this exercise is publicly available at the NCBI GEO database in record GSE83656.
- Begin by downloading the Excel file for dHAP4, found in the "Data/Files" section of this page
- In the Excel spreadsheet, there is a worksheet labeled "Master_Sheet_dHAP4"
- In this worksheet, each row contains the data for one gene (one spot on the microarray).
- The first column contains the "MasterIndex", which numbers all of the rows sequentially in the worksheet so that we can always use it to sort the genes into the order they were in when we started.
- The second column (labeled "ID") contains the Systematic Name (gene identifier) from the Saccharomyces Genome Database.
- The third column contains the Standard Name for each of the genes.
- Each subsequent column contains the log2 ratio of the red/green fluorescence from each microarray hybridized in the experiment (steps 1-5 above having been performed for you already), for each strain starting with wild type and proceeding in alphabetical order by strain deletion.
- Each of the column headings from the data begin with the experiment name, dHAP4. "LogFC" stands for "Log2 Fold Change" which is the Log2 red/green ratio. The timepoints are designated as "t" followed by a number in minutes. Replicates are numbered as "-0", "-1", "-2", etc. after the timepoint.
- The timepoints are t15, t30, t60 (cold shock at 13°C) and t90 and t120 (cold shock at 13°C followed by 30 or 60 minutes of recovery at 30°C).
Statistical Analysis Part 1: ANOVA
The purpose of the within-stain ANOVA test is to determine if any genes had a gene expression change that was significantly different than zero at any timepoint.
- Create a new worksheet, naming it "dHAP4_ANOVA".
- Copy the first three columns containing the "MasterIndex", "ID", and "Standard Name" from the "Master_Sheet" worksheet for dHAP4 and paste it into your new worksheet. Copy the columns containing the data for dHAP4 and paste it into your new worksheet.
- At the top of the first column to the right of your data, create five column headers of the form dHAP4_AvgLogFC_(TIME) where (TIME) is 15, 30, etc.
- In the cell below the dHAP4_AvgLogFC_t15 header, type
=AVERAGE(
- Then highlight all the data in row 2 associated with t15, press the closing paren key (shift 0),and press the "enter" key.
- This cell now contains the average of the log fold change data from the first gene at t=15 minutes.
- Click on this cell and position your cursor at the bottom right corner. You should see your cursor change to a thin black plus sign (not a chubby white one). When it does, double click, and the formula will magically be copied to the entire column of 6188 other genes.
- Repeat steps (4) through (8) with the t30, t60, t90, and the t120 data.
- Now in the first empty column to the right of the dHAP4_AvgLogFC_t120 calculation, create the column header dHAP4_ss_HO.
- In the first cell below this header, type
=SUMSQ(
- Highlight all the LogFC data in row 2 (but not the AvgLogFC), press the closing paren key (shift 0),and press the "enter" key.
- In the next empty column to the right of dHAP4_ss_HO, create the column headers dHAP4_ss_(TIME) as in (3).
- Make a note of how many data points you have at each time point for dHAP4. For dHAP4 t90 or t120, it will be "3", and for the wild type it will be "4" or "5". Count carefully. Also, make a note of the total number of data points. dHAP4 will be 18 (double-check).
- In the first cell below the header dHAP4_ss_t15, type
=SUMSQ(<range of cells for logFC_t15>)-COUNTA(<range of cells for logFC_t15>)*<AvgLogFC_t15>^2
and hit enter.- The
COUNTA
function counts the number of cells in the specified range that have data in them (i.e., does not count cells with missing values). - The phrase <range of cells for logFC_t15> should be replaced by the data range associated with t15.
- The phrase <AvgLogFC_t15> should be replaced by the cell number in which you computed the AvgLogFC for t15, and the "^2" squares that value.
- Upon completion of this single computation, use the Step (7) trick to copy the formula throughout the column.
- The
- Repeat this computation for the t30 through t120 data points. Again, be sure to get the data for each time point, type the right number of data points, and get the average from the appropriate cell for each time point, and copy the formula to the whole column for each computation.
- In the first column to the right of dHAP4_ss_t120, create the column header dHAP4_SS_full.
- In the first row below this header, type
=sum(<range of cells containing "ss" for each timepoint>)
and hit enter. - In the next two columns to the right, create the headers dHAP4_Fstat and dHAP4_p-value.
- Recall the number of data points from (13): call that total n.
- In the first cell of the dHAP4_Fstat column, type
=((n-5)/5)*(<dHAP4_ss_HO>-<dHAP4_SS_full>)/<dHAP4_SS_full>
and hit enter.- Don't actually type the n but instead use the number from (13). Also note that "5" is the number of timepoints.
- Replace the phrase dHAP4_ss_HO with the cell designation.
- Replace the phrase <dHAP4_SS_full> with the cell designation.
- Copy to the whole column.
- In the first cell below the dHAP4_p-value header, type
=FDIST(<dHAP4_Fstat>,5,n-5)
replacing the phrase <dHAP4_Fstat> with the cell designation and the "n" as in (13) with the number of data points total. Copy to the whole column. - Before we move on to the next step, we will perform a quick sanity check to see if we did all of these computations correctly.
- Click on cell A1 and click on the Data tab. Select the Filter icon (looks like a funnel). Little drop-down arrows should appear at the top of each column. This will enable us to filter the data according to criteria we set.
- Click on the drop-down arrow on your dHAP4_p-value column. Select "Number Filters". In the window that appears, set a criterion that will filter your data so that the p value has to be less than 0.05.
- Excel will now only display the rows that correspond to data meeting that filtering criterion. A number will appear in the lower left hand corner of the window giving you the number of rows that meet that criterion. We will check our results with each other to make sure that the computations were performed correctly.
Calculate the Bonferroni and p value Correction
- Now we will perform adjustments to the p value to correct for the multiple testing problem. Label the next two columns to the right with the same label, dHAP4_Bonferroni_p-value.
- Type the equation
=<dHAP4_p-value>*6189
, Upon completion of this single computation, use the Step (10) trick to copy the formula throughout the column. - Replace any corrected p value that is greater than 1 by the number 1 by typing the following formula into the first cell below the second dHAP4_Bonferroni_p-value header:
=IF(dHAP4_Bonferroni_p-value>1,1,dHAP4_Bonferroni_p-value)
, where "dHAP4_Bonferroni_p-value" refers to the cell in which the first Bonferroni p value computation was made. Use the Step (10) trick to copy the formula throughout the column.
Calculate the Benjamini & Hochberg p value Correction
- Insert a new worksheet named "dHAP4_ANOVA_B-H".
- Copy and paste the "MasterIndex", "ID", and "Standard Name" columns from your previous worksheet into the first two columns of the new worksheet.
- For the following, use Paste special > Paste values. Copy your unadjusted p values from your ANOVA worksheet and paste it into Column D.
- Select all of columns A, B, C, and D. Sort by ascending values on Column D. Click the sort button from A to Z on the toolbar, in the window that appears, sort by column D, smallest to largest.
- Type the header "Rank" in cell E1. We will create a series of numbers in ascending order from 1 to 6189 in this column. This is the p value rank, smallest to largest. Type "1" into cell E2 and "2" into cell E3. Select both cells E2 and E3. Double-click on the plus sign on the lower right-hand corner of your selection to fill the column with a series of numbers from 1 to 6189.
- Now you can calculate the Benjamini and Hochberg p value correction. Type dHAP4_B-H_p-value in cell F1. Type the following formula in cell F2:
=(D2*6189)/E2
and press enter. Copy that equation to the entire column. - Type "dHAP4_B-H_p-value" into cell G1.
- Type the following formula into cell G2:
=IF(F2>1,1,F2)
and press enter. Copy that equation to the entire column. - Select columns A through G. Now sort them by your MasterIndex in Column A in ascending order.
- Copy column G and use Paste special > Paste values to paste it into the next column on the right of your ANOVA sheet.
Sanity Check: Number of genes significantly changed
Before we move on to further analysis of the data, we want to perform a more extensive sanity check to make sure that we performed our data analysis correctly. We are going to find out the number of genes that are significantly changed at various p value cut-offs.
- Go to your dHAP4_ANOVA worksheet.
- Select row 1 (the row with your column headers) and select the menu item Data > Filter > Autofilter (The funnel icon on the Data tab). Little drop-down arrows should appear at the top of each column. This will enable us to filter the data according to criteria we set.
- Click on the drop-down arrow for the unadjusted p value. Set a criterion that will filter your data so that the p value has to be less than 0.05.
- How many genes have p < 0.05? and what is the percentage (out of 6189)?
- There are 2,479 genes that have p < 0.05, which is 40% of the total gene data set.
- How many genes have p < 0.01? and what is the percentage (out of 6189)?
- There are 1,583 genes that have p < 0.01, which is 25.57% of the total gene data set.
- How many genes have p < 0.001? and what is the percentage (out of 6189)?
- There are 739 genes that have p < 0.001, which is 11.94% of the total gene data set.
- How many genes have p < 0.0001? and what is the percentage (out of 6189)?
- There are 280 genes that have p < 0.0001, which is 4.5% of the total gene data set.
- Note that it is a good idea to create a new worksheet in your workbook to record the answers to these questions. Then you can write a formula in Excel to automatically calculate the percentage for you.
- When we use a p value cut-off of p < 0.05, what we are saying is that you would have seen a gene expression change that deviates this far from zero by chance less than 5% of the time.
- We have just performed 6189 hypothesis tests. Another way to state what we are seeing with p < 0.05 is that we would expect to see this a gene expression change for at least one of the timepoints by chance in about 5% of our tests, or 309 times. Since we have more than 309 genes that pass this cut off, we know that some genes are significantly changed. However, we don't know which ones. To apply a more stringent criterion to our p values, we performed the Bonferroni and Benjamini and Hochberg corrections to these unadjusted p values. The Bonferroni correction is very stringent. The Benjamini-Hochberg correction is less stringent. To see this relationship, filter your data to determine the following:
- How many genes are p < 0.05 for the Bonferroni-corrected p value? and what is the percentage (out of 6189)?
- There are 75 genes that have p < 0.05, which is 1.21% of the total gene data set.
- How many genes are p < 0.05 for the Benjamini and Hochberg-corrected p value? and what is the percentage (out of 6189)?
- There are 1735 genes that have p < 0.05, which is 28% of the total gene data set.
- In summary, the p value cut-off should not be thought of as some magical number at which data becomes "significant". Instead, it is a moveable confidence level. If we want to be very confident of our data, use a small p value cut-off. If we are OK with being less confident about a gene expression change and want to include more genes in our analysis, we can use a larger p value cut-off.
- We will compare the numbers we get between the wild type strain and the other strains studied, organized as a table. Use this sample PowerPoint slide to see how your table should be formatted. Upload your slide to the wiki.
- Note that since the wild type data is being analyzed by one of the groups in the class, it will be sufficient for this week to supply just the data for your strain. We will do the comparison with wild type at a later date.
- Comparing results with known data: the expression of the gene NSR1 (ID: YGR159C)is known to be induced by cold shock. Find NSR1 in your dataset. What is its unadjusted, Bonferroni-corrected, and B-H-corrected p values?
- The unadjusted p-value is 0.016364209, the Bonferroni-corrected p-value is 101.2780918, and the B-H-corrected p-value is 0.05552527.
What is its average Log fold change at each of the timepoints in the experiment?
- The average Log fold change at 15 min is 2.69945, 3.2508 at 30 min, 3.519975 at 60 min, -1.100566667 at 90 min, and -1.797666667 at 120 min.
Note that the average Log fold change is what we called "STRAIN)_AvgLogFC_(TIME)" in step 3 of the ANOVA analysis. Does NSR1 change expression due to cold shock in this experiment?
- NSR1 changes expression after the 90 min time interval.
- For fun, find "your favorite gene" (from your Week 3 assignment) in the dataset. What is its unadjusted, Bonferroni-corrected, and B-H-corrected p values? What is its average Log fold change at each of the timepoints in the experiment?
- The CDC28 gene has an unadjusted p-value of 0.07016077, a Bonferroni-corrected p-value of 434.2250052, and a B-H-corrected p-value of 0.157842605.
Does your favorite gene change expression due to cold shock in this experiment?
- CDC28 did not change expression because the p-value was not less than 0.05.
Clustering and GO Term Enrichment with stem (part 2)
- Prepare your microarray data file for loading into STEM.
- Insert a new worksheet into your Excel workbook, and name it "dHAP4_stem".
- Select all of the data from your "dHAP4_ANOVA" worksheet and Paste special > paste values into your "dHAP4_stem" worksheet.
- Your leftmost column should have the column header "Master_Index". Rename this column to "SPOT". Column B should be named "ID". Rename this column to "Gene Symbol". Delete the column named "Standard_Name".
- Filter the data on the B-H corrected p value to be > 0.05 (that's greater than in this case).
- Once the data has been filtered, select all of the rows (except for your header row) and delete the rows by right-clicking and choosing "Delete Row" from the context menu. Undo the filter. This ensures that we will cluster only the genes with a "significant" change in expression and not the noise.
- Delete all of the data columns EXCEPT for the Average Log Fold change columns for each timepoint (for example, wt_AvgLogFC_t15, etc.).
- Rename the data columns with just the time and units (for example, 15m, 30m, etc.).
- Save your work. Then use Save As to save this spreadsheet as Text (Tab-delimited) (*.txt). Click OK to the warnings and close your file.
- Note that you should turn on the file extensions if you have not already done so.
- Now download and extract the STEM software. Click here to go to the STEM web site.
- Click on the download link and download the
stem.zip
file to your Desktop. - Unzip the file. In Seaver 120, you can right click on the file icon and select the menu item 7-zip > Extract Here.
- This will create a folder called
stem
.- You now need to download the Gene Ontology and yeast GO annotations and place them in this folder.
- Click here to download the file "gene_ontology.obo".
- Click here to download the file "gene_association.sgd.gz".
- Inside the folder, double-click on the
stem.jar
to launch the STEM program.
- Click on the download link and download the
- Running STEM
- In section 1 (Expression Data Info) of the the main STEM interface window, click on the Browse... button to navigate to and select your file.
- Click on the radio button No normalization/add 0.
- Check the box next to Spot IDs included in the data file.
- In section 2 (Gene Info) of the main STEM interface window, leave the default selection for the three drop-down menu selections for Gene Annotation Source, Cross Reference Source, and Gene Location Source as "User provided".
- Click the "Browse..." button to the right of the "Gene Annotation File" item. Browse to your "stem" folder and select the file "gene_association.sgd.gz" and click Open.
- In section 3 (Options) of the main STEM interface window, make sure that the Clustering Method says "STEM Clustering Method" and do not change the defaults for Maximum Number of Model Profiles or Maximum Unit Change in Model Profiles between Time Points.
- In section 4 (Execute) click on the yellow Execute button to run STEM.
- In section 1 (Expression Data Info) of the the main STEM interface window, click on the Browse... button to navigate to and select your file.
- Viewing and Saving STEM Results
- A new window will open called "All STEM Profiles (1)". Each box corresponds to a model expression profile. Colored profiles have a statistically significant number of genes assigned; they are arranged in order from most to least significant p value. Profiles with the same color belong to the same cluster of profiles. The number in each box is simply an ID number for the profile.
- Click on the button that says "Interface Options...". At the bottom of the Interface Options window that appears below where it says "X-axis scale should be:", click on the radio button that says "Based on real time". Then close the Interface Options window.
- Take a screenshot of this window (on a PC, simultaneously press the
Alt
andPrintScreen
buttons to save the view in the active window to the clipboard) and paste it into a PowerPoint presentation to save your figures.
- Click on each of the SIGNIFICANT profiles (the colored ones) to open a window showing a more detailed plot containing all of the genes in that profile.
- Take a screenshot of each of the individual profile windows and save the images in your PowerPoint presentation.
- At the bottom of each profile window, there are two yellow buttons "Profile Gene Table" and "Profile GO Table". For each of the profiles, click on the "Profile Gene Table" button to see the list of genes belonging to the profile. In the window that appears, click on the "Save Table" button and save the file to your desktop. Make your filename descriptive of the contents, e.g. "wt_profile#_genelist.txt", where you replace the number symbol with the actual profile number.
- Upload these files to the wiki and link to them on your individual journal page. (Note that it will be easier to zip all the files together and upload them as one file).
- For each of the significant profiles, click on the "Profile GO Table" to see the list of Gene Ontology terms belonging to the profile. In the window that appears, click on the "Save Table" button and save the file to your desktop. Make your filename descriptive of the contents, e.g. "dHAP4_profile#_GOlist.txt", where you use "dHAP4" to indicate the dataset and where you replace the number symbol with the actual profile number. At this point you have saved all of the primary data from the STEM software and it's time to interpret the results!
- Upload these files to the wiki and link to them on your individual journal page. (Note that it will be easier to zip all the files together and upload them as one file).
- A new window will open called "All STEM Profiles (1)". Each box corresponds to a model expression profile. Colored profiles have a statistically significant number of genes assigned; they are arranged in order from most to least significant p value. Profiles with the same color belong to the same cluster of profiles. The number in each box is simply an ID number for the profile.
- Analyzing and Interpreting STEM Results
- Select one of the profiles you saved in the previous step for further intepretation of the data. I suggest that you choose one that has a pattern of up- or down-regulated genes at the cold shock timepoints. Each member of your group should choose a different profile. Answer the following:
- Why did you select this profile? In other words, why was it interesting to you?
- I chose Profile 9 because it was the second most significant p value profile. The mots significant profile was already chosen by another partner.
- How many genes belong to this profile?
- There are 289 genes assigned to this profile.
- How many genes were expected to belong to this profile?
- There were 56.1 genes expected to belong to this profile.
- What is the p value for the enrichment of genes in this profile?
- The p value is equal to 1.3E-114, which is significant.
- Bear in mind that we just finished computing p values to determine whether each individual gene had a significant change in gene expression at each time point. This p value determines whether the number of genes that show this particular expression profile across the time points is significantly more than expected.
- Open the GO list file you saved for this profile in Excel. This list shows all of the Gene Ontology terms that are associated with genes that fit this profile. Select the third row and then choose from the menu Data > Filter > Autofilter. Filter on the "p-value" column to show only GO terms that have a p value of < 0.05.
- How many GO terms are associated with this profile at p < 0.05?
- There are 25 GO terms at p < 0.05.
- The GO list also has a column called "Corrected p-value". This correction is needed because the software has performed thousands of significance tests. Filter on the "Corrected p-value" column to show only GO terms that have a corrected p value of < 0.05.
- How many GO terms are associated with this profile with a corrected p value < 0.05?
- There are no GO terms with a corrected p value < 0.05.
- Select 6 Gene Ontology terms from your filtered list (either p < 0.05 or corrected p < 0.05).
- Each member of the group will be reporting on his or her own cluster in your research presentation. You should take care to choose terms that are the most significant, but that are also not too redundant. For example, "RNA metabolism" and "RNA biosynthesis" are redundant with each other because they mean almost the same thing.
- Note whether the same GO terms are showing up in multiple clusters.
- Look up the definitions for each of the terms at http://geneontology.org. In your research presentation, you will discuss the biological interpretation of these GO terms. In other words, why does the cell react to cold shock by changing the expression of genes associated with these GO terms? Also, what does this have to do with the transcription factor being deleted (for the groups working with deletion strain data)?
- To easily look up the definitions, go to http://geneontology.org.
- Copy and paste the GO ID (e.g. GO:0044848) into the search field on the left of the page.
- In the results page, click on the button that says "Link to detailed information about <term>, in this case "biological phase"".
- The definition will be on the next results page, e.g. here.
- Each member of the group will be reporting on his or her own cluster in your research presentation. You should take care to choose terms that are the most significant, but that are also not too redundant. For example, "RNA metabolism" and "RNA biosynthesis" are redundant with each other because they mean almost the same thing.
- Why did you select this profile? In other words, why was it interesting to you?
- Select one of the profiles you saved in the previous step for further intepretation of the data. I suggest that you choose one that has a pattern of up- or down-regulated genes at the cold shock timepoints. Each member of your group should choose a different profile. Answer the following:
Using YEASTRACT to Infer which Transcription Factors Regulate a Cluster of Genes (Tuesday, October 29)
In the previous analysis using STEM, we found a number of gene expression profiles (aka clusters) which grouped genes based on similarity of gene expression changes over time. The implication is that these genes share the same expression pattern because they are regulated by the same (or the same set) of transcription factors. We will explore this using the YEASTRACT database.
- Open the gene list in Excel for the one of the significant profiles from your stem analysis. Choose a cluster with a clear cold shock/recovery up/down or down/up pattern. You should also choose one of the largest clusters.
- Copy the list of gene IDs onto your clipboard.
- Launch a web browser and go to the YEASTRACT database.
- On the left panel of the window, click on the link to Rank by TF.
- Paste your list of genes from your cluster into the box labeled ORFs/Genes.
- Check the box for Check for all TFs.
- Accept the defaults for the Regulations Filter (Documented, DNA binding plus expression evidence)
- Do not apply a filter for "Filter Documented Regulations by environmental condition".
- Rank genes by TF using: The % of genes in the list and in YEASTRACT regulated by each TF.
- Click the Search button.
- Answer the following questions:
- In the results window that appears, the p values colored green are considered "significant", the ones colored yellow are considered "borderline significant" and the ones colored pink are considered "not significant".
- How many transcription factors are green or "significant"?
- There are 16 transcription factors that are green.
- Copy the table of results from the web page and paste it into a new Excel workbook to preserve the results.
- Upload the Excel file to the wiki and link to it in your electronic lab notebook.
- Are CIN5, GLN3, and/or HAP4 on the list? If so, what is their "% in user set", "% in YEASTRACT", and "p value".
- CIN5 has a 0.2125% in user set, 0.028% in YEASTRACT, and a 0.999790859 p value. GLN3 has a 0.3624%in user set, 0.0432% in YEASTRACT, and a 0.167633128 p value. HAP4 has a 0.1986% in user set, 0.0522% in YEASTRACT, and a 0.013392287 p value.
- For the mathematical model that we will build, we need to define a gene regulatory network of transcription factors that regulate other transcription factors. We can use YEASTRACT to assist us with creating the network. We want to generate a network with approximately 15-20 transcription factors in it.
- You need to select from this list of "significant" transcription factors, which ones you will use to run the model. You will use these transcription factors and add GLN3, HAP4, and CIN5 if they are not in your list. Explain in your electronic notebook how you decided on which transcription factors to include. Record the list and your justification in your electronic lab notebook. Each group member will select a different network (they can have some overlapping transcription factors, but some should also be different).
- Go back to the YEASTRACT database and follow the link to Generate Regulation Matrix.
- Copy and paste the list of transcription factors you identified (plus HAP4, GLN3, and CIN5) into both the "Transcription factors" field and the "Target ORF/Genes" field.
- We are going to use the "Regulations Filter" options of "Documented", "Only DNA binding evidence"
- Click the "Generate" button.
- In the results window that appears, click on the link to the "Regulation matrix (Semicolon Separated Values (CSV) file)" that appears and save it to your Desktop. Rename this file with a meaningful name so that you can distinguish it from the other files you will generate.
Visualizing Your Gene Regulatory Networks with GRNsight
We will analyze the regulatory matrix files you generated above in Microsoft Excel and visualize them using GRNsight to determine which one will be appropriate to pursue further in the modeling.
- First we need to properly format the output files from YEASTRACT.
- Open the file in Excel. It will not open properly in Excel because a semicolon was used as the column delimiter instead of a comma. To fix this, Select the entire Column A. Then go to the "Data" tab and select "Text to columns". In the Wizard that appears, select "Delimited" and click "Next". In the next window, select "Semicolon", and click "Next". In the next window, leave the data format at "General", and click "Finish". This should now look like a table with the names of the transcription factors across the top and down the first column and all of the zeros and ones distributed throughout the rows and columns. This is called an "adjacency matrix." If there is a "1" in the cell, that means there is a connection between the trancription factor in that row with that column.
- Save this file in Microsoft Excel workbook format (.xlsx).
- For this adjacency matrix to be usable in GRNmap (the modeling software) and GRNsight (the visualization software), we need to transpose the matrix. Insert a new worksheet into your Excel file and name it "network". Go back to the previous sheet and select the entire matrix and copy it. Go to you new worksheet and click on the A1 cell in the upper left. Select "Paste special" from the "Home" tab. In the window that appears, check the box for "Transpose". This will paste your data with the columns transposed to rows and vice versa. This is necessary because we want the transcription factors that are the "regulatORS" across the top and the "regulatEES" along the side.
- The labels for the genes in the columns and rows need to match. Thus, delete the "p" from each of the gene names in the columns. Adjust the case of the labels to make them all upper case.
- In cell A1, copy and paste the text "rows genes affected/cols genes controlling".
- Finally, for ease of working with the adjacency matrix in Excel, we want to alphabatize the gene labels both across the top and side.
- Select the area of the entire adjacency matrix.
- Click the Data tab and click the custom sort button.
- Sort Column A alphabetically, being sure to exclude the header row.
- Now sort row 1 from left to right, excluding cell A1. In the Custom Sort window, click on the options button and select sort left to right, excluding column 1.
- Name the worksheet containing your organized adjacency matrix "network" and Save.
- Now we will visualize what these gene regulatory networks look like with the GRNsight software.
- Go to the GRNsight home page.
- Select the menu item File > Open and select the regulation matrix .xlsx file that has the "network" worksheet in it that you formatted above. If the file has been formatted properly, GRNsight should automatically create a graph of your network. You can click the "Grid Layout" button to arrange the nodes in a grid, or you can click and drag the nodes (genes) around until you get a layout that you like and take a screenshot of the results. Paste it into your PowerPoint presentation.
- If you have nodes (genes) floating around in the display that are not connected to any other nodes, we need to delete them from the network for the modeling to work properly. Go back to the Excel workbook and network sheet and delete both the row and column with the floating gene's name. Then re-upload the edited file to GRNsight to visualize it. Use this final version in your PowerPoint and subsequent modeling.
Data/Files
- Dramir36 dHAP4 Master Excel Data File
- Dramir36 dHAP4 data slides
- Profile dHAP4 Gene Tables Dramir36
- Profile dHAP4 GO Table Dramir36
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
- Copied purpose and methods/procedure from Week 7 and Week 8 assignment page to individual journal and modified steps to relate to the dHAP4 data
References
- LMU BioDB 2019. (2019). Week 9. Retrieved October 28, 2019, from https://xmlpipedb.cs.lmu.edu/biodb/fall2019/index.php/Week_9
- Gene Ontology Consortium. (2019) Gene Ontology. Retrieved October 28, 2019, from http://geneontology.org/