Warpgroup is an R package for processing chromatography-mass spectrometry data. Warpgroup implements:

• Chromatogram subregion detection
• Consensus integration bound determination
• Accurate missing value integration

For more detailed information please see the publication in Bioinformatics

Warpgroup is available as an R package on GitHub: nathaniel-mahieu/warpgroup

#install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("nathaniel-mahieu/warpgroup")

library(warpgroup)
warpgroup.bounds = warpgroup(peak.bounds, eic.matrix, sc.aligned.lim = 8)

The xcmsSet must include rough grouping information. The quality of resulting warpgroups depends on proper grouping and peak detection.

• xr.l: a list() containing an xcmsRaw object for each sample in the order of @filepaths
• rt.max.drift: The maximum retention time drift in seconds expected for a peak in the data set in scans. Used when setting the boundaries for looking for missing peaks.
• ppm.max.drift: The maximum mass drift expected for a peak in the data set in ppm. Used when setting the boundaries for looking for missing peaks. Determines how large a region surrounding the group is extracted in order to include any features which were not detected.
• rt.aligned.lim: Peak bounds after alignment are considered to describe the same region if they are within this limit.

# Parallel Backend Setup
library(doParallel)
cl = makeCluster(detectCores() - 1)
registerDoParallel(cl)

#Preprocessing (peak detection, grouping)
xs = xcmsSet(files, ...)
xs.r = retcor(xs, ...)
xs.rg = group(xs.r, ...)

#Warpgrouping
xr.l = llply(xs.rg@filepaths, xcmsRaw, profstep=0)
xs.warpgroup = group.warpgroup(xs.rg, xr.l = xr.l, rt.max.drift = 20, ppm.max.drift = 3, rt.aligned.lim = 5)

Toy data and more examples can be found in the /inst directory.

This is an extreme example, data this unreliable probably shouldn't be trusted, but it provides a nice challenge and conceptual overview of the algorithm.

data(example_5)

plot_peaks_bounds(eic.mat, peak.bounds)

We can clearly see two peaks in most samples. There is a large retention time drift. There is also a varying degree of merging between the two peaks. In some samples two distinct peaks were detected, in others a single peak was detected.

wg.bounds = warpgroup(peak.bounds, eic.mat, sc.max.drift = 0, sc.aligned.lim = 8)

for (g in wg.bounds) print(plot_peaks_bounds(eic.mat, g))

Warpgroup generated three peak groups, each group describing a distinct chromatographic region and the same region in each sample.

• Examples
• Troubleshooting and Tips

This project is licensed under the terms of the GPL-3 license.