easierDataThe easierData package includes an exemplary cancer dataset from Mariathasan et al. (2018) to showcase the easier package:
Mariathasan2018_PDL1_treatment: exemplary bladder cancer dataset with samples from 192 patients. This is provided as a SummarizedExperiment object containing:
counts and tpm expression values.colData slot, including pat_id (the id of the patient in the original study), BOR, and TMB (Tumor Mutational Burden).The processed data is publicly available from Mariathasan et al. “TGF-B attenuates tumour response to PD-L1 blockade by contributing to exclusion of T cells”, published in Nature, 2018 doi:10.1038/nature25501 via IMvigor210CoreBiologies package under the CC-BY license.
The easierData data package also includes multiple data objects so-called internal data of easier package since they are indispensable for the functional performance of the package. This includes:
opt_models: the cancer-specific model feature parameters learned in Lapuente-Santana et al. (2021). For each quantitative descriptor (e.g. pathway activity), models were trained using multi-task learning with randomized cross-validation repeated 100 times. For each quantitative descriptor, 1000 models are available (100 per task). This is provided as a list containing, for each cancer type and quantitative descriptor, a matrix of feature coefficient values across different tasks.
opt_xtrain_stats: the cancer-specific features mean and standard deviation of each quantitative descriptor (e.g. pathway activity) training set used in Lapuente-Santana et al. (2021) during randomized cross-validation repeated 100 times, required for normalization of the test set. This is provided as a list containing, for each cancer type and quantitative descriptor, a matrix with feature mean and sd values across the 100 cross-validation runs.
TCGA_mean_pancancer: a numeric vector with the mean of the TPM expression of each gene across all TCGA cancer types, required for normalization of input TPM gene expression data.
TCGA_sd_pancancer: a numeric vector with the standard deviation (sd) of the TPM expression of each gene across all TCGA cancer types, required for normalization of input TPM gene expression data.
cor_scores_genes: a character vector with the list of genes used to define correlated scores of immune response. These scores were found to be highly correlated across all 18 cancer types (Lapuente-Santana et al. 2021).
intercell_networks: a list with the cancer-specific intercellular networks, including a pan-cancer network.
lr_frequency_TCGA: a numeric vector containing the frequency of each ligand-receptor pair feature across the whole TCGA database.
group_lrpairs: a list with the information on how to group ligand-receptor pairs because of sharing the same gene, either as ligand or receptor.
HGNC_annotation: a data.frame with the gene symbols approved annotations obtained from https://www.genenames.org/tools/multi-symbol-checker/ (Tweedie et al. 2020).
scores_signature_genes: a list with the gene signatures for each score of immune response: CYT (Rooney et al. 2015), TLS (Cabrita et al. 2020), IFNy (McClanahan 2017), Ayers_expIS (McClanahan 2017), Tcell_inflamed (McClanahan 2017), Roh_IS (Roh et al. 2017), Davoli_IS (Davoli et al. 2017), chemokines (Messina et al. 2012), IMPRES (Auslander et al. 2018), MSI (Fu et al. 2019) and RIR (Jerby-Arnon et al. 2018).
Starting R, this package can be installed as follows:
BiocManager::install("easierData")The contents of the package can be seen by querying ExperimentHub for the package name:
suppressPackageStartupMessages({
library("ExperimentHub")
library("easierData")
})
eh <- ExperimentHub()
query(eh, "easierData")
#> ExperimentHub with 11 records
#> # snapshotDate(): 2025-04-11
#> # $dataprovider: NA, IMvigor210CoreBiologies package; Mariathasan S, Turley...
#> # $species: Homo sapiens
#> # $rdataclass: list, numeric, data.frame, character, SummarizedExperiment
#> # additional mcols(): taxonomyid, genome, description,
#> # coordinate_1_based, maintainer, rdatadateadded, preparerclass, tags,
#> # rdatapath, sourceurl, sourcetype
#> # retrieve records with, e.g., 'object[["EH6677"]]'
#>
#> title
#> EH6677 | Mariathasan2018_PDL1_treatment
#> EH6678 | opt_models
#> EH6679 | opt_xtrain_stats
#> EH6680 | TCGA_mean_pancancer
#> EH6681 | TCGA_sd_pancancer
#> ... ...
#> EH6683 | intercell_networks
#> EH6684 | lr_frequency_TCGA
#> EH6685 | group_lrpairs
#> EH6686 | HGNC_annotation
#> EH6687 | scores_signature_genesAn overview is provided also in tabular form:
list_easierData()
#> eh_id title
#> 1 EH6677 Mariathasan2018_PDL1_treatment
#> 2 EH6678 opt_models
#> 3 EH6679 opt_xtrain_stats
#> 4 EH6680 TCGA_mean_pancancer
#> 5 EH6681 TCGA_sd_pancancer
#> 6 EH6682 cor_scores_genes
#> 7 EH6683 intercell_networks
#> 8 EH6684 lr_frequency_TCGA
#> 9 EH6685 group_lrpairs
#> 10 EH6686 HGNC_annotation
#> 11 EH6687 scores_signature_genesThe individual data objects can be accessed using either their ExperimentHub accession number, or the convenience functions provided in this package - both calls are equivalent. For instance to access the Mariathasan2018_PDL1_treatment example dataset:
mariathasan_dataset <- eh[["EH6677"]]
mariathasan_dataset
#> class: SummarizedExperiment
#> dim: 31087 192
#> metadata(1): cancertype
#> assays(2): counts tpm
#> rownames(31087): A1BG NAT2 ... CASP8AP2 SCO2
#> rowData names(0):
#> colnames(192): SAM7f0d9cc7f001 SAM4305ab968b90 ... SAMda4d892fddc8
#> SAMe3d4266775a9
#> colData names(3): pat_id BOR TMB
mariathasan_dataset <- get_Mariathasan2018_PDL1_treatment()
mariathasan_dataset
#> class: SummarizedExperiment
#> dim: 31087 192
#> metadata(1): cancertype
#> assays(2): counts tpm
#> rownames(31087): A1BG NAT2 ... CASP8AP2 SCO2
#> rowData names(0):
#> colnames(192): SAM7f0d9cc7f001 SAM4305ab968b90 ... SAMda4d892fddc8
#> SAMe3d4266775a9
#> colData names(3): pat_id BOR TMBsessionInfo()
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