[BioC] Extracting genes within venn diagram

[Jenny Drnevich]

Hi Celine,

There's also the old-fashion way of subsetting by hand. The object of 
class "TestResults" created by decideTests() is simply a matrix of 
-1, 0, and 1, so you can use == to find the genes you are interested in:

results <- decideTests(fit2)

fit2$genes[results[,2] != 0 & results[,3] == 0 , ]
# This should give you the 43 genes

fit2$genes[results[,2] == 0 & results[,3] != 0 ,]
# This should give you the 58 genes

Subsetting this way will give you exactly what you want, although it 
can get a bit complicated once you start getting into 3 contrasts or 
more. I'll remember to use the affycoretools:::makeIndices in the future!

>Most likely what you want here is
>
>alls <- affycoretools:::makeIndices(results[,2:3], "both")
>
>as the default for vennCounts() is "both" (and you have implicitly 
>called vennCounts() in your call to vennDiagram()).

What Jim is referring to here is that the default of "both" counts a 
gene in both lists even if it is significantly up in one list but 
significantly down in the other list. Jim thought it makes more sense 
to only count a gene in both lists if it is changing in the same 
direction, and so wrote functions in affycoretools that have "same" 
as the default rather than "both". This explains the difference in 
the numbers. Personally, the genes that change in opposite directions 
might even be more interesting, and so I use a combination of "both" 
and "same" to see if there are any.

Cheers,
Jenny


>Best,
>
>Jim
>
>
>>>alls.genes <- lapply(alls, function(x) row.names(results[,2:3])[x])
>>>alls.genes
>>[[1]] gives 56 genes
>>[[2]] gives 71 genes
>>[[3]] gives 669 genes
>>Shouldn't I get [[1]] 43; [[2]] 58 and [[3]] 682?
>>I will be grateful for any help or advice on this matter.
>>Best wishes
>>Celine
>>Here is my R session info
>>>sessionInfo()
>>R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) i386-pc-mingw32
>>locale:
>>LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United
>>Kingdom.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United
>>Kingdom.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252
>>attached base packages:
>>[1] splines   tools     stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets
>>methods   base
>>other attached packages:
>>  [1] affycoretools_1.14.0 annaffy_1.14.0       KEGG.db_2.2.5
>>gcrma_2.14.1         matchprobes_1.14.0
>>  [6] biomaRt_1.16.0       GOstats_2.8.0        Category_2.8.0
>>genefilter_1.22.0    survival_2.34-1
>>[11] RBGL_1.18.0          annotate_1.20.0      xtable_1.5-4
>>GO.db_2.2.5          RSQLite_0.7-1
>>[16] DBI_0.2-4            AnnotationDbi_1.4.0  graph_1.20.0
>>affy_1.20.0          limma_2.16.2
>>[21] Biobase_2.2.0
>>loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>[1] affyio_1.10.1        cluster_1.11.11      GSEABase_1.4.0
>>preprocessCore_1.4.0 RCurl_0.91-0
>>[6] XML_1.94-0.1
>
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Jenny Drnevich, Ph.D.

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