Predicting New MCIA scores
Compiled: October 07, 2025
Predicting MCIA global (factor) scores for new test samples
It may be of interest to use the embedding that is calculated on a training sample set to predict scores on a test set (or, equivalently, on new data).
After loading the nipalsMCIA library, we randomly split the NCI60 cancer cell
line data into training and test sets.
Installation
# devel version
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("Muunraker/nipalsMCIA", ref = "devel",
force = TRUE, build_vignettes = TRUE) # devel version# release version
if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("nipalsMCIA")library(ggplot2)
library(MultiAssayExperiment)
library(nipalsMCIA)Split the data
data(NCI60)
set.seed(8)
num_samples <- dim(data_blocks[[1]])[1]
num_train <- round(num_samples * 0.7, 0)
train_samples <- sample.int(num_samples, num_train)
data_blocks_train <- data_blocks
data_blocks_test <- data_blocks
for (i in seq_along(data_blocks)) {
data_blocks_train[[i]] <- data_blocks_train[[i]][train_samples, ]
data_blocks_test[[i]] <- data_blocks_test[[i]][-train_samples, ]
}
# Split corresponding metadata
metadata_train <- data.frame(metadata_NCI60[train_samples, ],
row.names = rownames(data_blocks_train$mrna))
colnames(metadata_train) <- c("cancerType")
metadata_test <- data.frame(metadata_NCI60[-train_samples, ],
row.names = rownames(data_blocks_test$mrna))
colnames(metadata_test) <- c("cancerType")
# Create train and test mae objects
data_blocks_train_mae <- simple_mae(data_blocks_train, row_format = "sample",
colData = metadata_train)
data_blocks_test_mae <- simple_mae(data_blocks_test, row_format = "sample",
colData = metadata_test)Run nipalsMCIA on training data
MCIA_train <- nipals_multiblock(data_blocks = data_blocks_train_mae,
col_preproc_method = "colprofile", num_PCs = 10,
plots = "none", tol = 1e-9)Visualize model on training data using metadata on cancer type
The get_metadata_colors() function returns an assignment of a color for the
metadata columns. The nmb_get_gs() function returns the global scores from the
input NipalsResult object.
meta_colors <- get_metadata_colors(mcia_results = MCIA_train, color_col = 1,
color_pal_params = list(option = "E"))
global_scores <- nmb_get_gs(MCIA_train)
MCIA_out <- data.frame(global_scores[, 1:2])
MCIA_out$cancerType <- nmb_get_metadata(MCIA_train)$cancerType
colnames(MCIA_out) <- c("Factor.1", "Factor.2", "cancerType")
# plot the results
ggplot(data = MCIA_out, aes(x = Factor.1, y = Factor.2, color = cancerType)) +
geom_point(size = 3) +
labs(title = "MCIA for NCI60 training data") +
scale_color_manual(values = meta_colors) +
theme_bw()
Generate factor scores for test data using the MCIA_train model
We use the function to generate new factor scores on the test
data set using the MCIA_train model. The new dataset in the form of an MAE object
is input using the parameter test_data.
MCIA_test_scores <- predict_gs(mcia_results = MCIA_train,
test_data = data_blocks_test_mae)Visualize new scores with old
We once again plot the top two factor scores for both the training and test datasets
MCIA_out_test <- data.frame(MCIA_test_scores[, 1:2])
MCIA_out_test$cancerType <-
MultiAssayExperiment::colData(data_blocks_test_mae)$cancerType
colnames(MCIA_out_test) <- c("Factor.1", "Factor.2", "cancerType")
MCIA_out_test$set <- "test"
MCIA_out$set <- "train"
MCIA_out_full <- rbind(MCIA_out, MCIA_out_test)
rownames(MCIA_out_full) <- NULL
# plot the results
ggplot(data = MCIA_out_full,
aes(x = Factor.1, y = Factor.2, color = cancerType, shape = set)) +
geom_point(size = 3) +
labs(title = "MCIA for NCI60 training and test data") +
scale_color_manual(values = meta_colors) +
theme_bw()
Session Info
Session Info
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