A common application of single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data is
to identify discrete cell types. To take advantage of the large collection
of well-annotated scRNA-seq datasets, scClassify
package implements
a set of methods to perform accurate cell type classification based on
ensemble learning and sample size calculation.
This vignette will provide an example showing how users can use a pretrained
model of scClassify to predict cell types. A pretrained model is a
scClassifyTrainModel
object returned by train_scClassify()
.
A list of pretrained model can be found in
https://sydneybiox.github.io/scClassify/index.html.
First, install scClassify
, install BiocManager
and use
BiocManager::install
to install scClassify
package.
# installation of scClassify
if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE)) {
install.packages("BiocManager")
}
BiocManager::install("scClassify")
We assume that you have log-transformed (size-factor normalized) matrices as query datasets, where each row refers to a gene and each column a cell. For demonstration purposes, we will take a subset of single-cell pancreas datasets from one independent study (Wang et al.).
library(scClassify)
data("scClassify_example")
wang_cellTypes <- scClassify_example$wang_cellTypes
exprsMat_wang_subset <- scClassify_example$exprsMat_wang_subset
exprsMat_wang_subset <- as(exprsMat_wang_subset, "dgCMatrix")
Here, we load our pretrained model using a subset of the Xin et al. human pancreas dataset as our reference data.
First, let us check basic information relating to our pretrained model.
data("trainClassExample_xin")
trainClassExample_xin
#> Class: scClassifyTrainModel
#> Model name: training
#> Feature selection methods: limma
#> Number of cells in the training data: 674
#> Number of cell types in the training data: 4
In this pretrained model, we have selected the genes based on Differential Expression using limma. To check the genes that are available in the pretrained model:
features(trainClassExample_xin)
#> [1] "limma"
We can also visualise the cell type tree of the reference data.
plotCellTypeTree(cellTypeTree(trainClassExample_xin))
Next, we perform predict_scClassify
with our pretrained model
trainRes = trainClassExample
to predict the cell types of our
query data matrix exprsMat_wang_subset_sparse
. Here,
we used pearson
and spearman
as similarity metrics.
pred_res <- predict_scClassify(exprsMat_test = exprsMat_wang_subset,
trainRes = trainClassExample_xin,
cellTypes_test = wang_cellTypes,
algorithm = "WKNN",
features = c("limma"),
similarity = c("pearson", "spearman"),
prob_threshold = 0.7,
verbose = TRUE)
#> Performing unweighted ensemble learning...
#> Using parameters:
#> similarity algorithm features
#> "pearson" "WKNN" "limma"
#> [1] "Using dynamic correlation cutoff..."
#> [1] "Using dynamic correlation cutoff..."
#> classify_res
#> correct correctly unassigned intermediate
#> 0.704590818 0.239520958 0.000000000
#> incorrectly unassigned error assigned misclassified
#> 0.000000000 0.051896208 0.003992016
#> Using parameters:
#> similarity algorithm features
#> "spearman" "WKNN" "limma"
#> [1] "Using dynamic correlation cutoff..."
#> [1] "Using dynamic correlation cutoff..."
#> classify_res
#> correct correctly unassigned intermediate
#> 0.702594810 0.013972056 0.000000000
#> incorrectly unassigned error assigned misclassified
#> 0.001996008 0.277445110 0.003992016
#> weights for each base method:
#> numeric(0)
Noted that the cellType_test
is not a required input.
For datasets with unknown labels, users can simply leave it
as cellType_test = NULL
.
Prediction results for pearson as the similarity metric:
table(pred_res$pearson_WKNN_limma$predRes, wang_cellTypes)
#> wang_cellTypes
#> acinar alpha beta delta ductal gamma stellate
#> alpha 0 206 0 0 0 2 0
#> beta 0 0 118 0 1 0 0
#> beta_delta_gamma 0 0 0 0 25 0 0
#> delta 0 0 0 10 0 0 0
#> gamma 0 0 0 0 0 19 0
#> unassigned 5 0 0 0 70 0 45
Prediction results for spearman as the similarity metric:
table(pred_res$spearman_WKNN_limma$predRes, wang_cellTypes)
#> wang_cellTypes
#> acinar alpha beta delta ductal gamma stellate
#> alpha 0 206 0 0 0 2 2
#> beta 2 0 118 0 29 0 6
#> beta_delta_gamma 1 0 0 0 66 0 31
#> delta 0 0 0 10 0 0 2
#> gamma 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
#> unassigned 2 0 0 0 1 1 4
sessionInfo()
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