Question: getting a directed and unweighted adjacency matrix with igraph package
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3.7 years ago by
Angel40
Berlin
Angel40 wrote:

hi,

i have a gold standard in Arabidopsis thaliana( genes and transcription factors and their interaction) like below

TFLocus    TargetLocus    InteractionType
AT5G10140    AT1G65480    -1
AT5G11260    AT1G27480    -1
AT5G11260    AT5G53370    -1
AT5G11260    AT1G03630    -1
AT5G11260    AT1G13600    -1
AT5G11260    AT2G41670    -1
AT5G11260    AT2G05160    -1
AT5G11260    AT2G40170    -1
AT5G11260    AT1G62780    -1

using this code i have an adjacency matrix

library(igraph)

## Read edge list with weights
## Form undirected graph from edge list
G <- graph.data.frame(edge_list,directed=TRUE)
## Set edge weights to values in the InteractionType column by setting
A<-as_adjacency_matrix(G,type="both",names=TRUE,sparse=FALSE)

but max(A) is 5 while I need a directed  adjacency only contains 0 and 1. how I can get that please?

even i tried

as.directed(G, "mutual")  to make my graph directed but my adjacency matrix is undirected and contains 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 while i only need 0 and 1

thank you for any suggestion

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modified 3.7 years ago by Hervé Pagès ♦♦ 14k • written 3.7 years ago by Angel40
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3.7 years ago by
Hervé Pagès ♦♦ 14k
United States
Hervé Pagès ♦♦ 14k wrote:

Hi,

Note that igraph is a CRAN package, not a Bioconductor package. Your graph probably has more than 1 edge between the 2 same nodes. That happens when you have more than 1 interaction type between a given TFLocus and a given TargetLocus. It has nothing to do with the fact that the graph is directed or not. In that case, it seems that as_adjacency_matrix() returns a matrix with not just 0's and 1's but where each cell A[i, j] is the number of edges between nodes i and j. Strictly speaking maybe that doesn't qualify as an "adjacency matrix" . However it's easy enough to turn it into a strict adjacency matrix by replacing values that are > 1 with 1's:

A[A > 1] <- 1

Doing this means that you're not discriminating between different possible types of interaction.

Finally note that it's also easy to compute the adjacency matrix yourself directly from edge_list. You don't really need the igraph package for that:

TFLocus <- as.character(edge_list$TFLocus) TargetLocus <- as.character(edge_list$TargetLocus)
all_nodes <- unique(c(TFLocus, TargetLocus))
A <- matrix(0L, nrow=length(all_nodes), ncol=length(all_nodes), dimnames=list(all_nodes, all_nodes))
A[cbind(TFLocus, TargetLocus)] <- 1L


Hope this helps,

H.

thanks a lot for your help

I did as you mentioned

I used the derived adjacency matrix A as a true net in validate function in minet package to compute confusion matrix with my inferred network (for example derived by aracne),

here is my result

> table <-  validate(inf.net,A)
Warning messages:
1: In validateinf.net,A) :
networks have not the same node names
2: In validateinf.net, A) :
true network arcs will be considerd as undirected edges


 >

Hi,

So you managed to turn the pseudo adjacency matrix returned by as_adjacency_matrix() into a strict adjacency matrix but now you have a problem when trying to use this matrix with the minet package. So we are done with this thread and you should start a new thread by asking a new question that you need to tag with minet. Otherwise the minet maintainers won't get notified and won't help (what are the chances that they are watching this particular thread which is tagged with igraph?).

Thanks,

H.