Repertoire overlap

Repertoire overlap is the most common approach to measure repertoire similarity. It is achieved by computation of specific statistics on clonotypes shared between given repertoires, also called “public” clonotypes. immunarch provides several indices: - number of public clonotypes (.method = "public") - a classic measure of overlap similarity.

  • overlap coefficient (.method = "overlap") - a normalised measure of overlap similarity. It is defined as the size of the intersection divided by the smaller of the size of the two sets.

  • Jaccard index (.method = "jaccard") - it measures similarity between finite sample sets, and is defined as the size of the intersection divided by the size of the union of the sample sets.

  • Tversky index (.method = "tversky") - an asymmetric similarity measure on sets that compares a variant to a prototype. If using default arguments, it’s similar to Dice’s coefficient.

  • cosine similarity (.method = "cosine") - a measure of similarity between two non-zero vectors

  • Morisita’s overlap index (.method = "morisita") - a statistical measure of dispersion of individuals in a population. It is used to compare overlap among samples.

  • incremental overlap - overlaps of the N most abundant clonotypes with incrementally growing N (.method = "inc+METHOD", e.g., "inc+public" or "inc+morisita").

The function that includes described methods is repOverlap. Again the output is easily visualised when passed to vis() function that does all the work:

imm_ov1 <- repOverlap(immdata$data, .method = "public", .verbose = F)
imm_ov2 <- repOverlap(immdata$data, .method = "morisita", .verbose = F)

p1 <- vis(imm_ov1)
p2 <- vis(imm_ov2, .text.size = 2)

p1 + p2

vis(imm_ov1, "heatmap2")

You can easily change the number of significant digits:

p1 <- vis(imm_ov2, .text.size = 2.5, .signif.digits = 1)
p2 <- vis(imm_ov2, .text.size = 2, .signif.digits = 2)

p1 + p2

To analyse the computed overlap measures function apply repOverlapAnalysis.

# Apply different analysis algorithms to the matrix of public clonotypes:
# "mds" - Multi-dimensional Scaling
repOverlapAnalysis(imm_ov1, "mds")
## Standard deviations (1, .., p=4):
## [1] 0 0 0 0
## 
## Rotation (n x k) = (12 x 2):
##                [,1]       [,2]
## A2-i129 -18.7767715 -18.360817
## A2-i131  29.9586985  -7.870441
## A2-i133  28.1148594  22.629093
## A2-i132 -44.3435640   6.221812
## A4-i191  13.8586515   7.452149
## A4-i192 -14.0065477  27.068830
## MS1      -8.8469009  -8.151574
## MS2      -0.9712073  -1.297017
## MS3     -10.4398629   4.894354
## MS4       0.5131505  10.471309
## MS5      18.5153823 -12.628029
## MS6       6.4241122 -30.429669
# "tsne" - t-Stochastic Neighbor Embedding
repOverlapAnalysis(imm_ov1, "tsne")
##                DimI       DimII
## A2-i129  141.757274   -1.875981
## A2-i131 -336.372028  177.099380
## A2-i133   82.395447  -42.878936
## A2-i132  -11.731661  -41.878646
## A4-i191   38.681498 -109.060994
## A4-i192  169.797839   36.512757
## MS1      116.225222   42.689482
## MS2        3.659358  -70.354712
## MS3      139.036548   18.337403
## MS4       21.703642  -81.842537
## MS5     -320.584081  165.745570
## MS6      -44.569057  -92.492786
## attr(,"class")
## [1] "immunr_tsne" "matrix"
# Visualise the results
repOverlapAnalysis(imm_ov1, "mds") %>% vis()

# Apply different analysis algorithms to the matrix of public clonotypes:
# "mds" - Multi-dimensional Scaling
repOverlapAnalysis(imm_ov1, "mds")
## Standard deviations (1, .., p=4):
## [1] 0 0 0 0
## 
## Rotation (n x k) = (12 x 2):
##                [,1]       [,2]
## A2-i129 -18.7767715 -18.360817
## A2-i131  29.9586985  -7.870441
## A2-i133  28.1148594  22.629093
## A2-i132 -44.3435640   6.221812
## A4-i191  13.8586515   7.452149
## A4-i192 -14.0065477  27.068830
## MS1      -8.8469009  -8.151574
## MS2      -0.9712073  -1.297017
## MS3     -10.4398629   4.894354
## MS4       0.5131505  10.471309
## MS5      18.5153823 -12.628029
## MS6       6.4241122 -30.429669
# "tsne" - t-Stochastic Neighbor Embedding
repOverlapAnalysis(imm_ov1, "tsne")
##               DimI      DimII
## A2-i129   71.37032  -86.66489
## A2-i131 -301.91079  188.45123
## A2-i133   94.66994  -28.19314
## A2-i132   29.99039   33.63915
## A4-i191   93.20496   36.21703
## A4-i192   32.10793 -102.65842
## MS1       69.17815 -125.59016
## MS2       53.41223   21.70130
## MS3       59.20680  -97.89366
## MS4       70.78170   22.25810
## MS5     -302.10601  172.56968
## MS6       30.09437  -33.83622
## attr(,"class")
## [1] "immunr_tsne" "matrix"
# Visualise the results
repOverlapAnalysis(imm_ov1, "mds") %>% vis()

# Clusterise the MDS resulting components using K-means
repOverlapAnalysis(imm_ov1, "mds+kmeans") %>% vis()

Public repertoire

In order to build a massive table with all clonotypes from the list of repertoires use the pubRep function.

# Pass "nt" as the second parameter to build the public repertoire table using CDR3 nucleotide sequences
pr.nt <- pubRep(immdata$data, "nt", .verbose = F)
pr.nt
##                                                    CDR3.nt Samples A2-i129
##     1:                   TGCGCCAGCAGCTTGGAAGAGACCCAGTACTTC       8       1
##     2:                   TGTGCCAGCAGCTTCCAAGAGACCCAGTACTTC       7      NA
##     3:                   TGTGCCAGCAGTTACCAAGAGACCCAGTACTTC       7       1
##     4:                   TGCGCCAGCAGCTTCCAAGAGACCCAGTACTTC       6       2
##     5:                      TGTGCCAGCAGCCAAGAGACCCAGTACTTC       6       4
##    ---                                                                    
## 75101:             TGTGCTTCACAACTCTTATTGGACGAGACCCAGTACTTC       1      NA
## 75102: TGTGCTTCACAAGCCCTACAGGGCACTTTCCATAATTCACCCCTCCACTTT       1      NA
## 75103:                   TGTGCTTCAGGGCGGGCCTACGAGCAGTACTTC       1      NA
## 75104:             TGTGCTTCCGCCGGACCGGACCGGGAGACCCAGTACTTC       1      NA
## 75105:                TGTGCTTGCGGGACAGATAACTATGGCTACACCTTC       1      NA
##        A2-i131 A2-i133 A2-i132 A4-i191 A4-i192 MS1 MS2 MS3 MS4 MS5 MS6
##     1:      NA       1       1      NA       1  NA  NA   1   1   1   1
##     2:       1       1       2       1      NA   1  NA  NA   2  NA   1
##     3:       1       1      NA       1       1   1  NA   2  NA  NA  NA
##     4:      NA       1       1      NA      NA  NA   1  NA   1  NA   1
##     5:       2      NA       2       3       1  NA  NA  NA  NA   4  NA
##    ---                                                                
## 75101:       1      NA      NA      NA      NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
## 75102:      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA  NA  NA  NA  NA   1  NA
## 75103:      NA      NA      NA      NA      NA   1  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
## 75104:      NA       1      NA      NA      NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
## 75105:      NA      NA      NA      NA       1  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
# Pass "aa+v" as the second parameter to build the public repertoire table using CDR3 aminoacid sequences and V alleles
# In order to use only CDR3 aminoacid sequences, just pass "aa"
pr.aav <- pubRep(immdata$data, "aa+v", .verbose = F)
pr.aav
##                    CDR3.aa   V.name Samples A2-i129 A2-i131 A2-i133 A2-i132
##     1:         CASSLEETQYF  TRBV5-1       8       1      NA       2       1
##     2:     CASSDSSGGANEQFF  TRBV6-4       6       1       1       2      NA
##     3:         CASSFQETQYF  TRBV5-1       6       3      NA       1       1
##     4:         CASSLGETQYF TRBV12-4       6       2      NA      NA       4
##     5:     CASSDSGGSYNEQFF  TRBV6-4       5      NA      NA      NA       3
##    ---                                                                     
## 74440:     CTSSRPTQGAYEQYF  TRBV7-2       1      NA      NA      NA      NA
## 74441:    CTSSSRAGAGTDTQYF  TRBV7-2       1      NA      NA      NA      NA
## 74442: CTSSYPGLAGLKRKETQYF  TRBV7-2       1      NA      NA      NA       1
## 74443:    CTSSYRQRPYQETQYF  TRBV7-2       1      NA      NA      NA      NA
## 74444:      CTSSYSTSGVGQFF  TRBV7-2       1      NA      NA      NA      NA
##        A4-i191 A4-i192 MS1 MS2 MS3 MS4 MS5 MS6
##     1:      NA       2  NA  NA   1   1   1   1
##     2:       3      NA  NA  NA   2  NA  NA  12
##     3:      NA      NA  NA   1  NA   1  NA   1
##     4:       3      NA   1  NA  NA  NA   2   1
##     5:      NA       1   1  NA   1  NA  NA   1
##    ---                                        
## 74440:      NA      NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA   1
## 74441:      NA      NA  NA  NA   1  NA  NA  NA
## 74442:      NA      NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA  NA
## 74443:      NA      NA  NA  NA   1  NA  NA  NA
## 74444:      NA      NA  NA  NA  NA   1  NA  NA
# You can also pass the ".coding" parameter to filter out all noncoding sequences first:
pr.aav.cod <- pubRep(immdata$data, "aa+v", .coding = T)
# Create a public repertoire with coding-only sequences using both CDR3 amino acid sequences and V genes
pr <- pubRep(immdata$data, "aa+v", .coding = T, .verbose = F)

# Apply the filter subroutine to leave clonotypes presented only in healthy individuals
pr1 <- pubRepFilter(pr, immdata$meta, c(Status = "C"))

# Apply the filter subroutine to leave clonotypes presented only in diseased individuals
pr2 <- pubRepFilter(pr, immdata$meta, c(Status = "MS"))

# Divide one by another
pr3 <- pubRepApply(pr1, pr2)

# Plot it
p <- ggplot() +
  geom_jitter(aes(x = "Treatment", y = Result), data = pr3)
p