Vignette of the a4Classif package
2026-04-28
1 Introduction
This document explains the functionalities available in the a4Classif package.
This package contains for classification of Affymetrix microarray data, stored in an ExpressionSet. This package integrates within the Automated Affymetrix Array Analysis suite of packages.
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## 'citation("Biobase")', and for packages 'citation("pkgname")'.To demonstrate the functionalities of the package, the ALL dataset is used. The genes are annotated thanks to the addGeneInfo utility function of the a4Preproc package.
data(ALL, package = "ALL")
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## I, expand.grid, unname## Loading required package: org.Hs.eg.db## ## ALL$BTtype <- as.factor(substr(ALL$BT,0,1))2 Classify microarray data
2.1 Lasso regression
resultLasso <- lassoClass(object = ALL, groups = "BTtype")
plot(resultLasso,
label = TRUE,
main = "Lasso coefficients in relation to degree of penalization."
)
topTable(resultLasso, n = 15)## The lasso selected 16 genes. The top 15 genes are:
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## Gene Coefficient
## 38319_at CD3D 0.95966733
## 35016_at CD74 -0.60928095
## 38147_at SH2D1A 0.49240967
## 35792_at MGLL 0.46856925
## 37563_at SRGAP3 0.26648240
## 38917_at YME1L1 0.25100075
## 40278_at GGA2 -0.25017550
## 41164_at IGHM -0.12387272
## 41409_at THEMIS2 -0.10581122
## 38242_at BLNK -0.10309606
## 35523_at HPGDS 0.10169706
## 38949_at PRKCQ 0.07832802
## 33316_at TOX 0.06963509
## 33839_at ITPR2 0.05801832
## 40570_at FOXO1 -0.048588632.2 PAM regression
resultPam <- pamClass(object = ALL, groups = "BTtype")
plot(resultPam,
main = "Pam misclassification error versus number of genes."
)
topTable(resultPam, n = 15)## Pam selected 67 genes. The top 15 genes are:
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## GeneSymbol B.score T.score av.rank.in.CV prop.selected.in.CV
## 38319_at CD3D -0.8467 2.4375 1 1
## 38147_at SH2D1A -0.5068 1.4589 2 1
## 33238_at LCK -0.4178 1.2027 4.2 1
## 35016_at CD74 0.4176 -1.2023 4.1 1
## 38095_i_at HLA-DPB1 0.4012 -1.155 4.8 1
## 37039_at HLA-DRA 0.396 -1.1399 5.8 1
## 38096_f_at HLA-DPB1 0.3826 -1.1015 7.1 1
## 2059_s_at LCK -0.3666 1.0555 7.7 1
## 38833_at HLA-DPA1 0.3344 -0.9628 9.2 1
## 41723_s_at <NA> 0.3076 -0.8855 10.9 1
## 1110_at TRDC -0.3022 0.8701 11.2 1
## 38242_at BLNK 0.281 -0.809 13.2 1
## 1096_g_at CD19 0.28 -0.8061 12.9 1
## 37344_at HLA-DMA 0.2727 -0.785 12.9 1
## 39389_at CD9 0.2635 -0.7585 14.8 1confusionMatrix(resultPam)## predicted
## true B T
## B 95 0
## T 0 332.3 Random forest
# select only a subset of the data for computation time reason
ALLSubset <- ALL[sample.int(n = nrow(ALL), size = 100, replace = FALSE), ]
resultRf <- rfClass(object = ALLSubset, groups = "BTtype")
plot(resultRf)
topTable(resultRf, n = 15)## Random forest selected 21 genes. The top 15 genes are:
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## GeneSymbol
## 1350_at CYP4F2
## 160041_at PTPN18
## 31590_g_at <NA>
## 32633_at ICA1
## 33752_at IVNS1ABP
## 34788_at EEIG1
## 34812_at GORASP1
## 35350_at CHST15
## 35792_at MGLL
## 36852_at TUSC3
## 37589_at ZNF710-AS1
## 38429_at FASN
## 38865_at GRAP2
## 39382_at TRIM2
## 39421_at <NA>2.4 ROC curve
ROCcurve(gene = "ABL1", object = ALL, groups = "BTtype")## Warning in ROCcurve(gene = "ABL1", object = ALL, groups = "BTtype"): Gene ABL1 corresponds to 6 probesets; only the first probeset ( 1635_at ) has been displayed on the plot.
3 Appendix
3.1 Session information
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