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MASCLUSTER procedure

Clusters microarray slides (D.B. Baird).

Options

PRINT = string tokens What to print (cluster, pco, correlations, distances); default clus, pco, corr, dist
PLOT = string tokens What to plot (dendrogram, mst); default dend, mst
DMETHOD = string token What distance method to use to form the similarity matrix (correlation, euclidean, cityblock); default corr
PERCENT = scalar Percentage of the probes/genes to use to calculate correlations; default 100
DTITLE = text Title for the dendrogram
MTITLE = text Title for the minimum spanning tree
WINDOW = scalar Window number for the graphs; default 3
DEVICE = scalar Device number on which to plot the graphs
GRAPHICSFILE = text What graphics filename template to use to save the graphs; default *

Parameters

DATA = variates or pointers Data values (i.e. log-ratios)
SLIDES = factors, texts or variates Identifies the slides
PROBES = factors, texts or variates Identifies the probes or genes
CORRELATION = symmetric matrices Saves the correlation matrix
DISTANCE = symmetric matrices Saves the distance matrix

Description

MASCLUSTER clusters microarray slides (or targets) together on the similarity of their responses over a number of probes or genes. The slides are grouped together so that the pattern of responses over the probes/genes are similar, with the groups as distinct as possible.

The DMETHOD option specifies the distance method to use to form the similarity matrix: either correlation (default), euclidean, or cityblock.

With large numbers of probes or genes, many may be non-informative, only being subject to random variation. So the PERCENT option controls the percentage of the probes to use: if PERCENT is less than the default 100, MASCLUSTER uses only the top PERCENT of probes according to their mean absolut response.

The log-ratios are supplied by the DATA parameter. If these are in a single variate, the SLIDE parameter should supply a factor to index the slides, and the PROBES parameter should index the probes or genes. Alternatively you can supply a pointer containing a variate for each slide. The SLIDES factor is then not required; if it is given it should just have one entry for each slide in the order of the variates in the pointer. The PROBES factor is that for a single slide, and all slides must have a common layout.

The DTITLE and MTITLE options can supply titles for the plots of the dendrogram and minimum spanning tree, respectively, and the WINDOW option specifies the window to use (by default 3). You can use the DEVICE option to plot to a device other than the screen. The GRAPHICSFILE option specifies then supplies a template for the file names.

Options: PRINT, PLOT, DMETHOD, PERCENT, DTITLE, MTITLE, WINDOW, DEVICE, GRAPHICSFILE.

Parameters: DATA, SLIDES, PROBES, CORRELATION, DISTANCE.

Action with RESTRICT

Any restrictions on the DATA variates are removed.

See also

Procedures: DMADENSITY, FDRBONFERRONI, FDRMIXTURE, MACALCULATE, MAESTIMATE, MAHISTOGRAM, MAPCLUSTER, MAPLOT, MASHADE, MAVOLCANO, MA2CLUSTER, MNORMALIZE.

Commands for: Microarray data.

Example

CAPTION      'MASCLUSTER example'; STYLE=meta
ENQUIRE      CHANNEL=-1; EXIST=check; NAME=\
             '%GENDIR%/Data/Microarrays/ApoAIKnockOutStacked.GSH'
IF check
  SPLOAD     '%GENDIR%/Data/Microarrays/ApoAIKnockOutStacked.GSH'
  " Cluster Slides from APO Mouse Knock-out Data."
  MASCLUSTER [PRINT=correlations,cluster; PLOT=dendrogram;\
             DMETHOD=correlation; PERCENT=10] DATA=cLogRatio;\
             SLIDES=Slide; PROBES=NAME
ELSE
  CAPTION    'Microarray example datasets have not been installed.'
ENDIF
Updated on March 7, 2019

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