Plot aberrantly methylated regions

`plotAMR` uses `ggplot2` to visualize aberrantly methylated regions (AMRs) at particular genomic locations.

plotAMR(
  data.ranges,
  data.samples = NULL,
  amr.ranges,
  highlight = NULL,
  title = NULL,
  window = 300
)

Arguments

data.ranges

A `GRanges` object with genomic locations and corresponding beta values included as metadata.

data.samples

A character vector with sample names (a subset of metadata column names) to be included in the plot. If `NULL` (the default), then all samples (metadata columns) are included.

amr.ranges

An output of `getAMR` - a `GRanges` object that contain aberrantly methylated regions (AMRs).

highlight

An optional list of samples to highlight. If NULL (the default), will contain sample IDs from the `sample` metadata column of `amr.ranges` object.

title

An optional title for the plot. If NULL (the default), plot title is set to a genomic location of particular AMR.

window

An optional integer constant to expand genomic ranges of the `amr.ranges` object (the default: 300).

Value

The output is a list of `ggplot` objects.

Details

For every non-overlapping genomic location from `amr.ranges` object, `plotAMR` plots and outputs a line graph of methylation beta values taken from `data.ranges` for all samples from `data.samples`. Samples bearing significantly different methylation profiles ('sample' column of `amr.ranges` object) are highlighted.

See also

getAMR for identification of AMRs, getUniverse for info on enrichment analysis, simulateAMR and simulateData for the generation of simulated test data sets, and `ramr` vignettes for the description of usage and sample data.

Examples

  data(ramr)
  plotAMR(ramr.data, ramr.samples, ramr.tp.unique[1])
#> [[1]]

#> 
  library(gridExtra)
#> 
#> Attaching package: ‘gridExtra’
#> The following object is masked from ‘package:BiocGenerics’:
#> 
#>     combine
  do.call("grid.arrange",
          c(plotAMR(ramr.data, ramr.samples, ramr.tp.nonunique), ncol=2))