Link to complete workflow http://bioinformaticsfmrp.github.io/TCGAWorkflow/
Biotechnological advances in sequencing have led to an explosion of publicly available data via large international consortia such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), and The NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Mapping Consortium (Roadmap). These projects have provided unprecedented opportunities to interrogate the epigenome of cultured cancer cell lines as well as normal and tumor tissues with high genomic resolution. The Bioconductor project offers more than 1,000 open-source software and statistical packages to analyze high-throughput genomic data. However, most packages are designed for specific data types (e.g. expression, epigenetics, genomics) and there is no one comprehensive tool that provides a complete integrative analysis of the resources and data provided by all three public projects. A need to create an integration of these different analyses was recently proposed. In this workflow, we provide a series of biologically focused integrative analyses of different molecular data. We describe how to download, process and prepare TCGA data and by harnessing several key Bioconductor packages, we describe how to extract biologically meaningful genomic and epigenomic data. Using Roadmap and ENCODE data, we provide a work plan to identify biologically relevant functional epigenomic elements associated with cancer.
To illustrate our workflow, we analyzed two types of brain tumors: low-grade glioma (LGG) versus high-grade glioma (glioblastoma multiform or GBM).
All the package landing pages used in this workflow can be found through the biocViews interface.
Keywords: Epigenomics, Genomics, Cancer, non-coding, TCGA, ENCODE, Roadmap, Bioinformatics.
To be able to execute all the steps of this workflow please install it with the following code:
library(BiocManager)
deps <- c("pathview","clusterProfiler","ELMER", "DO.db","GO.db",
"ComplexHeatmap","EDASeq", "TCGAbiolinks","AnnotationHub",
"gaia","ChIPseeker","minet","BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19",
"MotifDb","MotIV", "rGADEM", "motifStack","RTCGAToolbox")
for(pkg in deps) if (!pkg %in% installed.packages()) install(pkg, dependencies = TRUE)
deps <- c("devtools","DT","pbapply","readr","circlize")
for(pkg in deps) if (!pkg %in% installed.packages()) install.packages(pkg,dependencies = TRUE)
devtools::install_github("BioinformaticsFMRP/TCGAWorkflowData")
devtools::install_github("BioinformaticsFMRP/TCGAWorkflow", dependencies = TRUE)A complete enviroment with all packages installed is available as Docker image, which can be easily run on Mac OS, Windows and Linux systems. The image can be obtained from Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/tiagochst/tcgabiolinksgui/
Download image:
docker pull tiagochst/tcgabiolinksgui
To run R from the command line:
docker run -ti tiagochst/tcgabiolinksgui R
To run RStudio Server (user: rstudio, password: rstudio):
docker run -p 8787:8787 tiagochst/tcgabiolinksgui
For more information please check: https://docs.docker.com/
At the beginning of each section, the packages required to execute the code will be loaded. However the following packages are required for all sections.
- TCGAWorkflowData: this package contains the data necessary to execute each of the analysis steps. This is a subset of the downloaded to make the example faster. For a real analysis, please use all the data available.
- DT: we will use it to visualize the results
library(TCGAWorkflowData)
library(DT)devtools::build_vignettes()