[BioC] AgiMicroRna and readMicroRnaFE

Richard Friedman friedman at cancercenter.columbia.edu
Mon Aug 30 16:19:22 CEST 2010


On Aug 28, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Paulo Nuin wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> I'm trying to read Agilent miRNA data with AgiMicroRna and  
> readMicroRnaFE, but I'm finding an error due to some different  
> column names. My data has this info
>
> miRNA_105_Dec08 (Read Only)	21-Nov-2008 12:14	Agilent Technologies  
> Scanner G2505C US45102857
>
> and the error on the command
>
> dd.micro <- readMicroRnaAFE(targets.micro, verbose = T)
>
> is
>
> Error in readGenericHeader(fullname, columns = columns, sep = sep) :
>  Specified column headings not found in file
>
> I dug a bit and found that 3 columns are missing on the input files:
>
> chr_coord
> gBGUsed
> gMeanSignal
>
> My question: is there a workaround this? I don't see column headers  
> that would be similar to the three missing. Can I just change some  
> column names to the ones the function is expecting?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Paulo Nuin
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Paulo,

	I  am not sure  if this is exactly the same problem I had 2 months  
ago, but in case it is I reproduce Pedro
Lopez Romero's reply ro my problem at that time.

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from: 	plopez at cnic.es
	Subject: 	Re: [BioC] AgiMicroRNA and Extra columns in Agilent Mouse  
miRNA Microarray Release 12.0 G4471A-021828.

	Date: 	June 21, 2010 5:04:25 AM EDT

	To: 	naluru at whoi.edu, bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch


Hi Neel and Richard,

Thanks for your patience.



I have slitghtly modified some code in the package, basically related  
to the way read.maimages is used. I have eliminated the use of the  
"chr_coord" column in some of the output files which it was what it  
was causing problems. Before these changes are made effective in the  
library, please, try this temporal solution:



dd=read.maimages(files=targets$FileName,source="agilent",

             columns=list(Rf="gTotalGeneSignal",

                                                         
Gf="gTotalProbeSignal",

                                                         
Rb="gMeanSignal",

                                                         
Gb="gProcessedSignal"),

                            
other.columns=list(IsGeneDetected="gIsGeneDetected",

                                                                        
IsSaturated="gIsSaturated",

                                                                        
IsFeatNonUnifOF="gIsFeatNonUnifOL",

                                                                        
IsFeatPopnOL="gIsFeatPopnOL",

                                                                      
probe_mappings="probe_mappings",

                                                                        
BGKmd="gBGMedianSignal",

                                                                        
BGKus="gBGUsed"),

                             annotation = c( "ControlType",  
"ProbeName","GeneName"),

                             verbose=TRUE,sep="\t",quote="")





before doing anything else, please check first  that you have  
"probe_mappings" in the fifth position of "dd$other"

> names(dd$other)[5]

[1] "probe_mappings"



Then, change the name of "probe_mappings" to the name that AgiMicroRna  
uses for this variable:

> names(dd$other)[5] = "chr_coord"



Then, use the rest of the functions as usual:



ddTGS.rma = rmaMicroRna(dd, normalize = TRUE, background = FALSE)

ddPROC = filterMicroRna(ddTGS.rma,

            dd,

            control = TRUE,

            IsGeneDetected = TRUE,

            wellaboveNEG = FALSE,

            limIsGeneDetected = 50,

            limNEG = 25,

            makePLOT = FALSE,

            targets,

            verbose = TRUE)





Please, let me know if you still have any problem. Thanks



p.-
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I hope this help,
Rich
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