# Beautiful plots made via myTAI

## Gallery of different plots available with myTAI

Here are example outputs of plotting functions from `myTAIv2`.

We hope these plots can inspire your analysis!

### Bulk RNA-seq data

`example_phyex_set` is an example `BulkPhyloExpressionSet` object.

To learn more about bringing your dataset into myTAI, follow this vignette here:
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    library(myTAI); library(S7); library(ggplot2); library(patchwork)
    data("example_phyex_set")

#### myTAI plots can be modified as a ggplot2 object.

    myTAI::plot_signature(example_phyex_set,
                          show_p_val = TRUE,
                          conservation_test = stat_flatline_test,
                          colour = "lavender") +
      # as the plots are ggplot2 objects, we can simply modify them using ggplot2
      ggplot2::labs(title = "Developmental stages of A. thaliana")

    module_info <- list(early = 1:3, mid = 4:6, late = 7:8)
    myTAI::plot_signature(example_phyex_set,
                          show_p_val = TRUE,
                          conservation_test = stat_reductive_hourglass_test,
                          modules = module_info,
                          colour = "lavender")

#### Transformation and robustness checks

See more here:
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    myTAI::plot_signature_transformed(
      example_phyex_set)

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    myTAI::plot_signature_gene_quantiles(
      example_phyex_set)

#### Statistical tests and plotting results

See more here:
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    myTAI::stat_flatline_test(
      example_phyex_set, plot_result = TRUE)

    ##
    ## Statistical Test Result
    ## =======================
    ## Method: Flat Line Test
    ## Test statistic: 0.0446168
    ## P-value: 0.4804863
    ## Alternative hypothesis: greater
    ## Data: Embryogenesis 2019

    res_flt <- myTAI::stat_flatline_test(example_phyex_set, plot_result = FALSE)

    myTAI::plot_cullen_frey(res_flt)

    ## summary statistics
    ## ------
    ## min:  0.002814937   max:  1.767492
    ## median:  0.05140059
    ## mean:  0.1183325
    ## estimated sd:  0.2613508
    ## estimated skewness:  5.441395
    ## estimated kurtosis:  36.55592

    myTAI::plot_null_txi_sample(res_flt) +
      ggplot2::guides(x =  guide_axis(angle = 90))

    module_info <- list(early = 1:3, mid = 4:6, late = 7:8)
    myTAI::stat_reductive_hourglass_test(
      example_phyex_set, plot_result = TRUE,
      modules = module_info)

    ##
    ## Statistical Test Result
    ## =======================
    ## Method: Reductive Hourglass Test
    ## Test statistic: -0.03191036
    ## P-value: 0.1790601
    ## Alternative hypothesis: greater
    ## Data: Embryogenesis 2019

#### Average gene expression level by phylostratum

    myTAI::plot_strata_expression(example_phyex_set)

`plot_strata_expression` with scaled y axis

    myTAI::plot_strata_expression(example_phyex_set) +
      ggplot2::scale_y_log10() +
      ggplot2::labs(x = "Expression aggregated by mean (log-scaled)")

`plot_strata_expression` with explicit transformation

    library(patchwork)
    p1 <- myTAI::plot_strata_expression(example_phyex_set |> myTAI::tf(log1p))

    # equivalent to
    p2 <- example_phyex_set |> myTAI::tf(log1p) |> myTAI::plot_strata_expression()

    p1+p2

As you can see, both plots are identical. This example demonstrates that there are multiple ways to achieve the same result through piping (`|>`) operator in R. `|>` is basically the same as `%>%`.

#### Contribution to the overall TAI by phylostratum

    myTAI::plot_contribution(example_phyex_set)

Curious about methods to obtain gene age information? See more here:
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For other analogous methods to assign evolutionary or expression information to each gene for TDI, TSI etc., see here:
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    myTAI::plot_distribution_expression(example_phyex_set)

#### Contribution to the overall TAI by partial TAI (pTAI)

`pTAI`, or

\[ \mathrm{pTAI}_i = \frac{\mathrm{ps}_i \cdot e_{is}}{\sum_{i=1}^{n} e_{is}} \]

where \(e_{is}\) denotes the expression level of a given gene \() i\) in sample \(s\), \({ps}_i\) is its gene age assignment, and \(n\) is the total number of genes, is the per-gene contribution to the overall `TAI`. (Summing `pTAI` across all genes gives in a given sample \(s\) gives the overall \({TAI}_s\) )

`pTAI` QQ plot compares the partial TAI distributions of various developmental stages against a reference stage (default is stage 1).

    myTAI::plot_distribution_pTAI_qqplot(example_phyex_set)

#### Phylostratum distribution

    myTAI::plot_distribution_strata(example_phyex_set@strata) /
    myTAI::plot_distribution_strata(
      example_phyex_set@strata,
      selected_gene_ids = myTAI::genes_top_variance(example_phyex_set, top_p = 0.95),
      as_log_obs_exp = TRUE
    ) + plot_annotation(title = "Distribution of gene ages (top), Observed vs Expected plot of top 5% variance genes (bottom)")

#### Expression heatmap

    myTAI::plot_gene_heatmap(example_phyex_set)

    myTAI::plot_gene_heatmap(example_phyex_set, cluster_rows = TRUE, show_reps=TRUE, show_gene_ids=TRUE, top_p=0.005)

    myTAI::plot_gene_heatmap(example_phyex_set, cluster_rows = TRUE, show_reps=TRUE, top_p=0.005, std=FALSE, show_gene_ids=TRUE)

#### Dimension reduction

##### At the gene level

    myTAI::plot_gene_space(example_phyex_set)

    myTAI::plot_gene_space(example_phyex_set,colour_by = "strata")

##### At the sample level

    myTAI::plot_sample_space(example_phyex_set) | myTAI::plot_sample_space(example_phyex_set, colour_by = "TXI")

    # we can even do a UMAP
    myTAI::plot_sample_space(example_phyex_set, method = "UMAP")

#### Inspecting mean-variance relationship

    # highlighting top variance genes
    top_var_genes <- myTAI::genes_top_variance(example_phyex_set, top_p = 0.9995)
    p1 <- myTAI::plot_mean_var(example_phyex_set)
    p2 <- myTAI::plot_mean_var(example_phyex_set,
                         highlight_genes = top_var_genes)

    p1 + p2 + plot_annotation(title = "Mean-variance: simple vs. highlighted top variance genes")

    # with log transform and colouring by phylostratum
    myTAI::plot_mean_var(example_phyex_set |> myTAI::tf(log1p),
                         colour_by = "strata") +
      ggplot2::guides(colour = guide_legend(ncol=2))

#### Individual gene expression profiles

    # side by side: manual coloring vs strata coloring
    p1 <- myTAI::plot_gene_profiles(example_phyex_set, max_genes = 10, colour_by = "manual")
    p2 <- myTAI::plot_gene_profiles(example_phyex_set, max_genes = 10, colour_by = "strata")

    p1 + p2 + plot_annotation(title = "Gene profiles: manual vs. strata coloring")

    # stage colouring with standardized log transformation
    myTAI::plot_gene_profiles(example_phyex_set, max_genes = 10,
                              transformation = "std_log", colour_by = "stage")

    # faceted by phylostratum
    myTAI::plot_gene_profiles(example_phyex_set, max_genes = 1000,
                              colour_by = "strata", facet_by_strata = TRUE, show_set_mean = TRUE,
                              show_labels = FALSE)

These plots are examples of plots that `myTAIv2` can generate. To check out the functions, use `?` before the function (i.e. `?myTAI::plot_mean_var()`.

You can also find a list of plotting functions in `Reference`.

### Single cell RNA-seq data

Most of the plotting functions shown above also apply for single cell RNA-seq data, as long as it is a `ScPhyloExpressionSet` object.

Let’s create an example single-cell dataset and explore the plotting capabilities:

    # Load example single-cell data
    data(example_phyex_set_sc)

    example_phyex_set_sc

    ## PhyloExpressionSet object
    ## Class: myTAI::ScPhyloExpressionSet
    ## Name: Single Cell Example
    ## Species: Example Species
    ## Index type: TXI
    ## Cell Type : TypeA, TypeB, TypeC
    ## Number of genes: 99
    ## Number of cell type : 3
    ## Number of phylostrata: 10
    ## Total cells: 200
    ## Cells per type:
    ##
    ## TypeA TypeB TypeC
    ##    70    66    64
    ## Available metadata:
    ##   groups: TypeA, TypeB, TypeC
    ##   day: Day1, Day3, Day5, Day7
    ##   condition: Control, Treatment
    ##   batch: Batch1, Batch2, Batch3

    # Check available identities
    cat("Available identities for plotting:\n")

    ## Available identities for plotting:

    print(example_phyex_set_sc@available_idents)

    ## [1] "groups"    "day"       "condition" "batch"

    # Set up custom color schemes for better visualization
    day_colors <- c("Day1" = "#3498db", "Day3" = "#2980b9", "Day5" = "#1f4e79", "Day7" = "#0d2a42")
    condition_colors <- c("Control" = "#27ae60", "Treatment" = "#e74c3c")
    group_colors <- c("TypeA" = "#e74c3c", "TypeB" = "#f39c12", "TypeC" = "#9b59b6")

    example_phyex_set_sc@idents_colours[["day"]] <- day_colors
    example_phyex_set_sc@idents_colours[["condition"]] <- condition_colors
    example_phyex_set_sc@idents_colours[["groups"]] <- group_colors

#### Single-cell signature plots

    # Basic signature plot showing TXI distribution across cell types
    myTAI::plot_signature(example_phyex_set_sc)

    # Plot without showing individual cells (just means)
    myTAI::plot_signature(example_phyex_set_sc, show_reps = FALSE)

    # Plot TXI distribution by developmental day instead of cell type
    myTAI::plot_signature(example_phyex_set_sc, primary_identity = "day", show_p_val = FALSE)

    # Plot TXI distribution by experimental condition
    myTAI::plot_signature(example_phyex_set_sc, primary_identity = "condition", show_p_val=FALSE)

You can use a secondary identity for either coloring or faceting to create more informative plots:

    # Plot by day, colored by condition
    myTAI::plot_signature(example_phyex_set_sc,
                         primary_identity = "day",
                         secondary_identity = "condition",
                         show_p_val=FALSE)

    # Plot by day, faceted by condition
    myTAI::plot_signature(example_phyex_set_sc,
                         primary_identity = "day",
                         secondary_identity = "batch",
                         facet_by_secondary = TRUE,
                         show_p_val = FALSE)

#### Other single-cell visualizations

The gene heatmap function also works with single-cell data and can show individual cells or be aggregated:

    # Gene heatmap for single-cell data (aggregated by cell type)
    myTAI::plot_gene_heatmap(example_phyex_set_sc, top_p = 0.1, cluster_rows=TRUE)

    # Gene heatmap showing individual cells (subsampled)
    myTAI::plot_gene_heatmap(example_phyex_set_sc, show_reps = TRUE, max_cells_per_type = 10, top_p = 0.05, cluster_rows=TRUE)

    # Change identity to "day" and plot heatmap grouped by developmental time
    example_sc_by_day <- example_phyex_set_sc
    example_sc_by_day@selected_idents <- "day"
    myTAI::plot_gene_heatmap(example_sc_by_day, show_reps = TRUE, max_cells_per_type = 8, top_p = 0.05, cluster_rows=TRUE, show_gene_ids=TRUE, std=FALSE)

Single-cell plotting tips:

- Use `primary_identity` to specify which metadata column to plot on the x-axis
- Use `secondary_identity` with `facet_by_secondary = TRUE` for faceted plots
- Use `secondary_identity` without faceting for colour-coded plots
- Set custom colors with `set_identity_colours()`
- Check available metadata columns with `available_identities()`

Plot away!