understanding the volcano plot with multiple `rho` comparisons

[yeroslaviz]

in my data set we are doing some comparisons of multiple time points. When writing the needed comparisons in the config file we have multiple rho comparisons we need to do.

After the run is done we get one volcano plot.

How do we need to understand the results of this plot? Does it belong to only one of the rho comparisons or it is somehow a combination of all of them?

I know it is possible to run multiple rho comparisons within one screenProcessing run. But does it make sense in term of the results I get?

The two parts of the config file are attached below.

I would appreciate it, if you let me know.

counts_file_string =
        Trimmed.fa.counts:t0|Rep1
                Trimmed.fa.counts:t0|Rep2
            Trimmed.fa.counts:t0|Rep3
            Trimmed.fa.counts:t1|Rep1
            Trimmed.fa.counts:t1|Rep2
            ...
            Trimmed.fa.counts:t7|Rep2
            Trimmed.fa.counts:t7|Rep3
...

condition_string =
            rho:t1:t0
            rho:t2:t0
            rho:t3:t0
            rho:t4:t0
            rho:t5:t0
            rho:t6:t0
            rho:t7:t0

thanks

Assa

[abearab]

Hi @yeroslaviz

I can help you load your results in a python notebook using ScreenPro2 and then visualize volcano plots for each comparisons (i.e., rho scores). ScreenProcessing can be limited for exploratory data analysis. But you can still rely on the result tables for down stream analysis.

Best, Abe

[yeroslaviz]

This would be great,

I have installed screenPro2 on my server in a conda environment (python 3.12).

What do you need to know?

thanks

[abearab]

you have these three files, right?

{experimentName}_librarytable.txt => library table {experimentName}_mergedcountstable.txt => merged counts table {experimentName}_phenotypetable.txt => phenotype table

Also, can you tell which version of ScreenPro2 you have installed? I would recommend newer versions. You can update it in your conda env

pip install --upgrade ScreenPro2

[abearab]

This should be a good place to start:

You can use loadScreenProcessingData function to load the result tables from your ScreenProcessing run. Then, you need some custom code to make relevant object. Here is an example code (you probably need to play around with codes):

import pandas as pd
import anndata as ad

from screenpro.load import loadScreenProcessingData
from screenpro.assays import PooledScreens

def mergeColumnIndex(df_in):
    df = df_in.copy()
    df.columns = df.columns.map(' '.join)
    return df

def convertScreenProcessing_to_ScreenPro(data_in):
    if type(data_in) is str:
        data = loadScreenProcessingData(data_in)
    else:
        data = data_in.copy()

    adata = ad.AnnData(
        var = data['counts'].columns.to_frame().rename(columns={0:'treatment',1:'replicate'}).reset_index(drop=True).rename(index=lambda s: f'sample_{str(s)}'),
        obs=data['library']
    )

    adata.X = data['counts'].loc[adata.obs.index,:].to_numpy()

    screen = PooledScreens(adata)
    screen.phenotypes.update({
        'phenotypes': mergeColumnIndex(data['phenotypes']),
        "transcript_scores": data['transcript scores'],
        "gene_scores": data['gene scores']
    })

    # adata.uns['transcript scores'] = mergeColumnIndex(data['transcript scores']).reset_index().set_index('gene')
    # adata.uns['gene scores'] = mergeColumnIndex(data['gene scores'])
    # adata.transcript_scores = data['transcript scores']
    # adata.gene_scores = data['gene scores']

    return screen

Once you make this work, you can use plotting module.

[yeroslaviz]

you have these three files, right?

{experimentName}_librarytable.txt => library table {experimentName}_mergedcountstable.txt => merged counts table {experimentName}_phenotypetable.txt => phenotype table

Also, can you tell which version of ScreenPro2 you have installed? I would recommend newer versions. You can update it in your conda env

pip install --upgrade ScreenPro2

I'm using the version 0.3.1

[abearab]

Great, could you load ScreenProcessing result tables similar to https://github.com/mhorlbeck/ScreenProcessing/issues/34#issuecomment-2101413920?

[abearab]

You can also directly use ScreenPro2, that might be even simpler TBH!

[yeroslaviz]

Not sure I understand how to load the tables.

[abearab]

Not sure I understand how to load the tables.

Sorry about the confusion. The code I shared is an example that I used personally to load ScreenProcessing results for a project and then I could use ScreenPro2 to draw volcano plots.

Here is the source code for loadScreenProcessingData. It's simply loading tables into python as dataframes. Let me know if it makes more sense now.

Once you load the tables and annotate columns accordingly, you can use plot_volcano function. e.g.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import screenpro as scp

# Create subplots and specify the size
fig, (ax1,ax2,ax3) = plt.subplots(1,3,figsize=(4, 1.8))

scp.pl.plot_volcano(ax1, gamma,threshold=5,xlim_l=-2, xlim_r=1,ctrl_label='negative_control')
ax1.grid(False)
ax1.get_legend().remove()
ax1.set_title('gamma')

scp.pl.plot_volcano(ax2, tau,threshold=5,xlim_l=-2, xlim_r=2,ctrl_label='negative_control')
scp.pl.label_sensitivity_hit(ax2,tau,'GENENAME',threshold=5,size=5,size_txt=6,t_x=-.6,t_y=.2,ctrl_label='negative_control')

ax2.grid(False)
ax2.get_legend().remove()
ax2.set_title('tau')

scp.pl.plot_volcano(ax3, rho,threshold=5,xlim_l=-20, xlim_r=20,ctrl_label='negative_control')
# label_resistance_hit(ax2,rho,'TTC1',size=5,size_txt=6,t_x=.1)
# label_sensitivity_hit(ax2,rho,'CLHC1',size=5,size_txt=6,t_y=.1)

ax3.grid(False)
ax3.get_legend().remove()
ax3.set_title('rho')

for ax in [ax1,ax2,ax3]:
    for item in ([ax.title, ax.xaxis.label, ax.yaxis.label] + ax.get_xticklabels() + ax.get_yticklabels()):
        item.set_fontsize(6)

plt.tight_layout()
# Show the plot
plt.show()

[abearab]

@yeroslaviz if run into any issues or you need more help, feel free to email me at abeaATarcinstituteDOTorg