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\begin{document}
\title{Extracting limma objects from limmaGUI files}
\author{James Wettenhall}
\date{April 22, 2004}
\maketitle

\noindent This vignette gives a short example showing how to extract limma data objects
from files saved by limmaGUI.  This could be used for advanced limma analysis
by an expert user after some preliminary analysis with limmaGUI by someone
unfamiliar with the command-line interface.

\noindent We will use a file \texttt{SwirlLinearModelComputed.lma} which has been saved from limmaGUI.
It is available from:

\noindent\url{http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/limmaGUI/Swirl/SwirlLinearModelComputed.lma}.

\noindent The \texttt{.lma} extension used by limmaGUI is simply a three-letter abbreviation of limma (Linear
Models for Microarrays).  This file is in fact a standard \texttt{.RData} file and can be loaded into
any R session as described below.

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> load("SwirlLinearModelComputed.lma")
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}

\noindent Firstly, let's load the limma package, so that R knows how to display objects
defined by limma classes (e.g. \texttt{RGList}).

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> library(limma)
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}

\noindent Now let's have a look at the R objects available to us:
\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> ls()
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}


\noindent Now let's look at the RNA targets for this dataset:

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> Targets
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}

\noindent Now let's look at the first 30 lines of the genelist (Genepix Array List)
for this dataset:

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> gal[1:30,]
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}

\noindent The raw red and green foreground and background intensities are stored the
object \texttt{RG}.  They can be viewed as follows:

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> RG
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}

\noindent Now if this \texttt{.lma} was saved by a recent version of limmaGUI (>=0.7.6), there
should be an object available called \texttt{BCMethod} which contains the current
background correction method.  In old versions of limmaGUI, the only background
correction method available was \texttt{"subtract"}, i.e. simply subtracting the background
intensities from the foreground.

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> BCMethod
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}

\noindent Now let's see what MA objects are currently available to us.  \texttt{MA.Available} is a list
object with components \texttt{"Raw"} \texttt{"WithinArrays"}, \texttt{"BetweenArrays"} and
\texttt{"Both"}, so for
example \texttt{MA\$Both} would be TRUE if there is an MA object which has been normalized
both within arrays and between arrays.  The four corresponding MA objects are
called \texttt{MAraw}, \texttt{MAwithinArrays}, \texttt{MAbetweenArrays} and \texttt{MAboth}.
Each one is initialised to an empty list, and if needed, it it overwritten with an
appropriate MAList object.

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> MA.Available
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}


\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> MAraw
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}


\noindent Now let's see how many parameterizations have been defined (i.e. how many design matrices).

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> NumParameterizations
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}

\noindent In this case, there is only one parameterization.  Now let's have a look at the objects
stored within this parameterization.  The '1' in double square-brackets represents the
first parameterization.

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> names(ParameterizationList[[1]])
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}

\noindent There is an object called designList, which is a list object containing the design matrix,
and some information about how the user created that design matrix, in this case by requesting
a comparison between \texttt{"Swirl"} and \texttt{"Wild Type"} using drop-down comboboxes, rather than manually
entering the matrix numerically.

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> ParameterizationList[[1]]$designList
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}

\noindent Now let's look at the linear model fit object.  Until version 0.7.7, limmaGUI used the old
lm.series from limma rather than lmFit, so the fit object was a standard R list object, but
from 0.7.7, lmFit is used so that the fit object is an object of class MArrayLM.  This means
that with a fit object obtained from a new limmaGUI analysis, typing
\texttt{ParameterizationList[[1]]\$fit} and pressing enter should display a summary of the data
in the fit object, rather than all the data.

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> ParameterizationList[[1]]$fit
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}

\noindent Empirical bayes statistics can be obtained from the \texttt{"eb"} component of
\texttt{ParameterizationList[[1]]}.  Note that recent versions of limma encourage users to
calculate empirical bayes statistics using \texttt{eBayes}, rather than \texttt{ebayes},
whereas at the time of writing limmaGUI still uses the old \texttt{ebayes} method, which
produces a standard list object, meaning that typing \texttt{ParameterizationList[[1]]\$eb}
and pressing enter will display all the data in the list, rather than a summary.  The
components of the empirical bayes list object can be viewed as follows:

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> names(ParameterizationList[[1]]$eb)
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}

\noindent For example, the moderated t statistics can be obtained as follows:

\begin{Schunk}
\begin{Sinput}
> ParameterizationList[[1]]$eb$t
\end{Sinput}
\end{Schunk}

\noindent Other objects of interest include:
\begin{itemize}
\item \texttt{ParameterizationList[[1]]\$WhetherToNormalizeWithinArrays},
\item \texttt{ParameterizationList[[1]]\$WhetherToNormalizeBetweenArrays},
\item \texttt{ParameterizationList[[1]]\$WithinArrayNormalizationMethod},
\item \texttt{ParameterizationList[[1]]\$SpotTypesForLinearModel}, and
\item \texttt{SpotTypes}.
\end{itemize}

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