New features

  • Remove the soon-to-be-deprecated BRGenomics dependency.
    • Port tidyChromosomes function to EpiCompare.

Miscellaneous

  • Update maintainer details.

New features

  • Example report:
  • EpiCompare
    • New arg add_download_button.
    • Always keep download button for post-processed peak files.
  • `save_output``
    • Change .txt suffixes to more informative .csv suffixes for saved files.
  • Create EpiArchives and offload report to there:
    • Updated vignettes/example_report.Rmd so that it just renders the markdown landing page for EpiArchives.

Bug fixes

  • README.Rmd:
    • Fix broken link to example report.
  • test-EpiCompare.R:
    • Fix issue with PNG save path.
    • Make separate subfolders for each set of tests.
  • test-output_files.R
    • Make separate subfolders for each set of tests.
  • plot_enrichment
    • Conditionally generate plots only when enrichment results aren’t NULL.
    • Return KEGG/GO enrichment results as well as the plots.
  • Add workers <- check_workers(workers = workers) to all functions that take workers to handle workers=NULL properly.

New features

  • download_button:
    • Saves and downloads files.
  • prepare_blacklist:
    • Auto-selects appropriate blacklist, or returns user-specified option.
    • EpiCompare(blacklist=NULL) is now the default.
  • prepare_genome_builds:
    • Update to handle supplying builds for “peakfiles” and “reference” but not “blacklist” (so long as the blacklist arg is not a user-supplied GRanges object)
  • Added mm9_blacklist
  • Made more plots interactive:
    • width_boxplot
    • plot_enrichment
    • plot_ChIPseeker_annotation
  • overlap_stat_plot
    • Name elements in output list.
  • Change annotation arg to more informative txdb arg, and set default to NULL, which ChIPseeker functions will automatically handle.
  • New function as_interactive:
    • Help standardise this.
  • New EpiCompare::EpiCompare arguments:
    • error: keep knitting even on errors.
    • tss_distance: upstream/downstream of TSS.
    • quiet: knit quietly
  • Rename ‘test-EpiCompare_combinations.R’ –> ‘test-EpiCompare.R’
  • Separate test-generalMetrics_functions.R into function-specific test files.
  • Separate test-peakOverlap_functions.R into function-specific test files.
  • Make fancy header with new func:
  • Create EpiCompare command code as text:
  • width_boxplot:
    • Make more efficient with data.table and lapply
  • Update hex sticker to match custom.css palette.
  • README.Rmd
    • Collapse more detailed sections.

Bug fixes

  • tss_plot:
    • Fix examples/tests after Sera updated the arguments.
    • Pass upstream/downstream to ChIPseeker::getTagMatrix
    • Make interactive
    • Name plots in list
    • Remove unnecessary extra level of list nesting.
  • Make documentation width <80 lines where possible.
  • EpiCompare.Rmd
    • Remove methods::show from all parts
    • Name all chunks
    • Make explanations more clear
    • Add table of contents for main 3 sections.
    • Fix header levels
    • Set results='asis' globally instead of in each chunk header.
    • Automatically number sections with yaml arg: number_sections: true
    • Omit specific headers from numbering system with {-} tags.
    • Add custom.css
  • plot_chromHMM:
    • Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable) unable to find an inherited method for function ‘annotateWithFeatures’ for signature ‘"SimpleGRangesList", "list"’
    • Misleading error message; was actually due to chromHMM_annotation not being converted from a list to a GRangesList.
    • Change yaml arg peakfile –> peakfiles to be consistent with other variables.

New features

  • Replace badger with rworkfows:
  • New helper functions:
    • precision_recall_matrix
    • report_time
  • overlap_upset_plot:
    • Switched out UpSetR for ComplexUpsetto show percentages.
    • Moved up dep checks to beginning of function.
  • Handle bug with heatmaply by checking args where it might be used:
    • check_heatmap_args
  • tss_plot:
    • Add unit tests
    • Drastically reduce example/test runtime by setting upstream=50
  • compute_corr:
    • Reduce example runtime by setting bin_size = 200000 (takes <2s).

Bug fixes

  • Fix typo in EpiCompare docs: “hg38 blacklist dataset”
  • Avoid explicitly specifying “/” in paths to help cross-platform testing.
  • tss_plot:
    • Use parallel::detectCores-1 by default to set workers, but set to 1 in examples/tests to meet CRAN/Bioc standards.

New features

  • Add back example report html:
    • Put it in the main dir
    • Add it to the .Rbuildignore: report/EpiCompare_example.html
    • Add a new vignette that renders the HTML from the pre-saved file.
  • Remove Dockerfile, as it’s no longer necessary with the updated version of rworkflows

Bug fixes

  • Add @returns to group_files function.
  • Add all authors to vignettes.

New features

  • New function: predict_precision_recall
    • Added unit tests.
  • compute_corr and precision_recall now save outputs, including when run via EpiCompare Rmarkdown script.
  • Make subfunctions for plot_precision_recall:
    • plot_precision_recall_prcurve
    • plot_precision_recall_f1
  • rebin_peaks:
    • Allow users to specify sep between genomic coordinates in rownames.

Bug fixes

  • Update gather_files to match new Picard file scheme in nf-core/cutandrun 3.0.

New features

  • rebin_peaks:
    • Added arg drop_empty_chr to automatically drop chroms that aren’t in any of the peakfiles.
    • Added “score” as one of the default intensity_cols in all relevant functions.
    • Make examples use 5000bp bins to speed up.
  • translate_genome:
    • Add default_genome arg to handle genome=NULL.
  • bpplapply:
    • New exported function to automate handling of known issues with BiocParallel across OS platforms.
    • Enable users to specify their own apply function.
  • get_bpparam: Add args to allow users to choose which BiocParallel func to use.
  • checkCache: Make default arg cache=BiocFileCache::BiocFileCache(ask = FALSE) to skip user input during runtime.
  • precision_recall:
    • Change increment_threshold arg to n_threshold arg, using the seq(length.out=) feature to avoid accidentally choosing an inappropriately large increment_threshold.
  • gather_files:
    • Replace iterator with bpplapply.
    • Pass up args from bpplapply.
    • Provide warning message, not error, when 0 files found. Returns NULL.
    • Add “multiqc” as a search option.
    • Add dedicated subfunctions for reading in a variety of nf-core/cutandrun outputs files: read_picard,read_multiqc,read_bowtie, read_trimgalore,read_bam,read_peaks
    • Add file paths to each object.
    • Add new arg rbind_list.
  • rebin_peaks/compute_corr: -Change defaultbin_size from 100 –> 5kb to improve efficiency and align with other defaults of other packages (e.g Signac).
  • tss_plot:
    • Pass up more arg for specifying upstream/downstream.
  • EpiCompare: Pass up new args:
    • bin_size
    • n_threshold
    • workers

Bug fixes

  • Fix rebin_peaks unit tests.
  • Fix pkg size issue by adding inst/report to .Rbuildignore.
  • EpiCompare wasn’t being run when reference was a single unlisted GRanges object because it was indeed length>1, but the names were all NULL. Now fixed.
  • plot_precision_recall: Set default initial_threshold= to 0.
  • Switch from BiocParallel to parallel, as the former is extremely buggy and inconsistent.

New features

  • check_genome_build: Add translate_genome as prestep.
  • rebin_peaks:
    1. Move all steps that could be done just once (e.g. creating the genome-wide tiles object) outside of the BiocParallel::bpmapply iterator.
    2. Ensure all outputs of BiocParallel::bpmapply are of the same length, within the exact same bins, so that we can return just the bare minimum data needed to create the matrix (1 numeric vector/sample).
    3. Instead of rbinding the results and then casting them back into a matrix (which is safer bc it can handle vectors of different lengths), simply cbind all vectors into one matrix directly and name the rows using the predefined genome-wide tiles.
    4. Because we are no longer rbinding a series of very long tables, this avoids the issue encountered here #103. This means this function is now much more scalable to many hundreds/thousands of samples (cells) even at very small bin sizes (e.g. 100bp).
    5. A new argument keep_chr allows users to specify whether they want to restrict which chromosomes are used during binning. By default, all chromosomes in the reference genome are used (keep_chr=NULL), but specifying a subset of chromosomes (e.g. paste0("chr",seq_len(12))) can drastically speed up compute time and reduce memory usage. It can also be useful for removing non-standard chromosomes (e.g. “chr21_gl383579_alt”, “chrUns…”, “chrRand…”).
    6. As a bonus, rebin_peaks now reports the final binned matrix dimensions and a sparsity metric.
  • compute_corr:
    • Added unit tests at different bin sizes.
    • Allow reference to be NULL.
  • Updated README to reflect latest vesion of EpiCompare with gather_files.

Bug fixes

  • Bumped version to align with Bioc devel (currently 1.1.0).
  • compute_percentiles:
    • Making default initial_threshold=0, so as not to assume any particular threshold.
  • rebin_peaks:
    • Addressed error that occurs when there’s many samples/cells with small bins.
  • plot_precision_recall: Don’t plot the reference as part of the PR curve.

Bug fixes

  • Changed terminology from “epigenetic” to “epigenomic”
  • Updated README to include precision_recall_plot and corr_plot
  • Removed bugs in html report
  • Added example EpiCompare report in inst/report/EpiCompare_example.html

New features

  • Upgraded liftover_grl and added genome standardization.
    • Enable cross-species liftover from/to mm10 and mm9 –> hg19 and hg38.
    • Subfunctionalize get_chain_file.
    • Add merge_all option.
  • Support mm10/mm9 as output_build options.
  • Removed dplyr.
  • Moved plyranges to Suggests.
  • plot_precision_recall:
    • New exported function to create precision-recall plots from MACS2, MACS3, HOMER, or SEACR peak files.
    • Added unit tests.
    • Added to EpiCompare html report.
    • Added EpiCompare(precision_recall_plot=) param and documented.
  • Add ISSUE templates.
  • Include code in html report (collapsed by default).
  • Add correlation matrix/plot functionality.
  • Add compute_consensus_peaks() as function for preprocessing peak files.
    • Add group_files() function to help assign each peakfile to a group based on substring searches.
  • EpiCompare:
    • Return paths to HTML reports.
    • Automatically open report in browser or rstudio.
  • Add Docker vignette and advertise in README.

Bug fixes

  • Made BiocParallel functions compatible with Windows.
  • Organize author fields in DESCRIPTION.
  • Fix typos in README.
  • Remove threshold=1 from list of thresholds to test in precision-recall curves.
  • Set first chunk in EpiCompare.Rmd as echo=FALSE instead of include=FALSE so the output messages will still be printed (without showing the code).
  • Remove here from Suggests.
  • Fix directory creation in EpiCompare::EpiCompare.

Bug fixes

  • Simplified loops with mapply/lapply.

New features

  • EpiCompare: accepts multiple reference files - creates individual reports for each reference. Added timing feature.
  • save_output(): this function saves all plots and tables generated by EpiCompare. Also saves interactive heatmaps. Used in EpiCompare.Rmd.
  • fig_length(): This function outputs dynamic figure height/width depending on the number of items. Used in EpiCompare.Rmd.

Bug fixes

  • prepare_reference: Validate reference input before passing to next step.
  • Pass named list to genome_build to allow for different builds between reference and peaklist.
  • Liftover blacklist to match GRanges list it’s being used to filter in tidy_peakfile.
  • Ensure all names are unique in peaklist and reference.
  • gather_files:
    • Avoid gathering duplicates peak files from nf-core/cutandrun.
    • Add progress bar.
    • Add report at the end.
    • Add extra arg return_paths to return only the paths without actually reading in the files.

New features

  • Overhaul how EpiCompare handles genome builds:
    • New argument genome_build_output allows users to specify which genome build to standardise all inputs to.
    • genome_build can now take a named list to specify different genome builds for peakfiles, reference, and blacklist.
    • Added functions to parse and validate all genome build-related arguments.
  • Remove unnecessary deps.
  • Use data.table to read/write tables.
  • prepare_peaklist:
    • Simplified code.
    • Added arg remove_empty to automatically drop any empty elements.
    • Embed check_list_names within.
  • plot_chromHMM:
    • Can return data as well with return_data.
    • Performs liftover on chromHMM data instead of the peaklist.

Bug fixes

  • Make output_dir creation recursive and without warnings.
  • Add new params to Code section of rmarkdown output.

New features

  • Add new peaklist length check to prepare_peaklist.
  • New check functions:
    • check_genomebuild: ensure necessary packages installed and that “genomebuild” is valid.
    • check_cell_lines
  • liftover_grlist: Dedicated liftover function, exported.
  • Document checkCache.
  • get_chromHMM_annotation can now take a list of cell lines as an argument.

Bug fixes

New Features

  • New functions with examples/unit tests:
    • import_narrowPeak: Import narrowPeak files, with automated header annotation using metadata from ENCODE.
    • gather_files: Automatically peak/picard/bed files and read them in as a list of GRanges objects.
    • write_example_peaks: Write example peak data to disk.
  • Update .gitignore
  • Update .Rbuildignore

New features

  • New parameter in EpiCompare:
    • genome_build: Specify the genome build, either “hg19” or “hg38”. This parameter is also included in plot_chromHMM, plot_ChIPseeker_annotation, tss_plot and plot_enrichment.

New Features

  • EpiCompare submitted to Bioconductor.