MSIsensor-RNA

MSIsensor-RNA is a member of MSIsensor family for microsatellite instability (MSI) detection using RNA expression data including Microarray, RNA-seq, and single RNA-seq (scRNA-seq). MSIsensor-RNA compute MSI by the expression of MSI associated genes. MSIsensor-RNA shows efficient performance in AUC, sensitivity, specificity and robustness.

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Citation

Peng Jia, Xuanhao Yang, Xiaofei Yang, Tingjie Wang, Yu Xu, Kai Ye, MSIsensor-RNA: Microsatellite Instability Detection for Bulk and Single-cell Gene Expression Data, Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, 2024;, qzae004, https://doi.org/10.1093/gpbjnl/qzae004

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Authors

• Pengjia (pengjia@xjtu.edu.cn, pengjia1110@163.com)
• Xuanhao Yang
• Xiaofei Yang
• Kai Ye (kaiye@xjtu.edu.cn)

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License

MSIsensor-RNA is free for non-commercial use by academic, government, and non-profit/not-for-profit institutions. A commercial version of the software is available and licensed through Xi’an Jiaotong University. For more information, please contact with Peng Jia (pengjia@stu.xjtu.edu.cn) or Kai Ye (kaiye@xjtu.edu.cn).

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Scopes of MSIsensor-RNA

Microsatellite Instability is an indispensable biomarker in cancer therapies and prognosis, particularly in immunotherapy. Our previous work for MSI detection based on next-generation-sequencing data, MSIsensor and MSIsensor-pro, are widely used in clinical research projects. In particular, MSIsensor is the chosen MSI scoring method in the first FDA-approved pan cancer panel, MSK-IMPACT. However, most of those DNA-based methods, including MSIsensor and MSIsensor-pro, quantify MSI evaluation of genome mutations as consequence of MSI status rather than the direct cause of MSI, the deficiency of mismatch repair (MMR) system. In addition, selection of detected microsatellite sites and thresholds for different populations, sequencing panels and cancer types impedes the standardized detection of MSI in clinical. To solve these problems, we launched a new member for MSIsensor family, MSIsensor-RNA, a standalone software for MSI detection with MMR associated genes from tumor RNA sequencing data. MSIsensor-RNA shows efficient performance in AUC, sensitivity, specificity and robustness. MSIsensor-RNA also costs less in aspect of sequencing and computation, and does not need selection of microsatellite sites and threshold for different populations compared to the NGS-based methods, including MSIsensor and MSIsensor-pro.

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How to install MSIsensor-RNA?

Install with pip3

  conda create -n myenv python>=3.6
  conda activate myenv
  git clone https://github.com/xjtu-omics/msisensor-rna.git
  pip3 install .

Install with docker

    docker pull pengjia1110/msisensor-rna:latest
    docker run -v /local/path:/docker/path pengjia1110/msisensor-rna:latest msisensor-rna

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How to use MSI ?

Usage:

 msisensor-rna <command> [options]

Key Commands:

genes

• Function. Select informative genes for microsatellite instability detection.

• Parameters

    -h, --help            show this help message and exit
   -i INPUT, --input INPUT
                      The path of input file. e.g. xxx.csv [required]
   -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                      The output file of gene information. e.g. xxx.csv [required]
   -thresh_t THREADS, --threads THREADS
                      The threads used to run this program. [default=4]
   -thresh_cov THRESH_COV, --thresh_cov THRESH_COV
                      Threshold for coefficient of variation of gene expression value of all samples (Mean/Std). [default=0.5]
   -thresh_p THRESH_P_RANKSUM, --thresh_p_ranksum THRESH_P_RANKSUM
                      Threshold for Pvalue of rank sum test between MSI-H and MSS samples. [default=0.01]
   -thresh_auc THRESH_AUCSCORE, --thresh_AUCscore THRESH_AUCSCORE
                      Threshold for AUC score: AUC score was calculating by the sklearn package. [default=0.65]
   -p POSITIVE_NUM, --positive_num POSITIVE_NUM
                      The minimum positive sample of MSI for training. [default = 10]
  

train

• Function. Train custom model for microsatellite instability detection.

• Parameters

   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
   -i INPUT, --input INPUT
                      The path of input file. [required]
   -m MODEL, --model MODEL
                      The trained model of the input file. [required]
   -t CANCER_TYPE, --cancer_type CANCER_TYPE
                      The cancer type for this training. e.g. CRC, STAD,
                      PanCancer etc.
   -c {SVM,RandomForest,LogisticRegression,MLPClassifier,GaussianNB,AdaBoostClassifier}, --classifier {SVM,RandomForest,LogisticRegression,MLPClassifier,GaussianNB,AdaBoostClassifier}
                      The machine learning classifier for MSI detection.
                      [default = RandomForest]
   -di INPUT_DESCRIPTION, --input_description INPUT_DESCRIPTION
                      The description of the input file. [default = None]
   -dm MODEL_DESCRIPTION, --model_description MODEL_DESCRIPTION
                      Description for this trained model.
   -p POSITIVE_NUM, --positive_num POSITIVE_NUM
                      The minimum positive sample of MSI for training.
                      [default = 10]
   -a AUTHOR, --author AUTHOR
                      The author who trained the model. [default = None]
   -e EMAIL, --email EMAIL
                      The email of the author. [default = None]
  

show

• Function. Show the information of the model and add more details.

• Parameters

   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
   -m MODEL, --model MODEL
                         The trained model path. [required]
   -t CANCER_TYPE, --cancer_type CANCER_TYPE
                         Rename the cancer type. e.g. CRC, STAD, PanCancer etc.
                         [default = None]
   -di INPUT_DESCRIPTION, --input_description INPUT_DESCRIPTION
                         Add description for the input file. [default = None]
   -dm MODEL_DESCRIPTION, --model_description MODEL_DESCRIPTION
                         Add description for this trained model. [default = None]
   -g GENE_LIST, --gene_list GENE_LIST
                         The path for the genes must be included for this
                         model. [default = None]
  

detection

• Function. Microsatellite instability detection.

• Parameters

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i INPUT, --input INPUT
                        The path of input file. [required]
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        The path of output file prefix. [required]
  -m MODEL, --model MODEL
                        The path of the microsatellite regions. [required]
  -d RUN_DIRECTLY, --run_directly RUN_DIRECTLY
                        Run the program directly without any Confirm. [default = False]

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Input and output

• The input file for informative genes selection and model training. (-i option in train command) You need to prepare your training file with a comma separated format (csv). The first columns should be sample id, the second columns should be msi status, and the third and other columns should be gene expression values. We recommend you provide a normalized expression values. (like z-score normalization with log2(FPKM+1) ) The following is an example:

  SampleID	msi	MLH1	LINC01006	…	NHLRC1
  NA0001	MSI-H	0.209	1.209	…	0.393
  CA0002	MSS	5.690	0.620	…	4.902
  …	…	…	…	…	…
  CA10 0	MSS	9.960	0.920	…	5.002

• The trained model (-m option in train, show and detection command)The trained model is saved as pickle file. In train command, we recommend you add more description by -di,-dm,-a,-e, so that others who used this model are able to get more information. In show command, you can get the information of your model , and changed some descriptions by -di and -dm. you can also use -g option to output the genes list this model needed to a file. In detection command, you must check the model and input Yes or No to continue the predict step use -d True to ignore this reminder.
• The input file for the detection command (-i option in detection command) You need to prepare your input file for MSI prediction with a comma separated format (csv). The first columns should be sample id, the second and other columns should be gene expression values. The genes name must contain the genes in the model (use -g option of show command to see the genes list of the model).
  The following is an example:

  SampleID	MLH1	LINC01006	…	NHLRC1
  NA0001	0.209	1.209	…	0.393
  CA0002	5.690	0.620	…	4.902
  …	…	…	…	…
  CA100	9.960	0.920	…	5.002

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Attention

• If you train your own model, the number of MSI-H samples must be greater than 6.

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact with Peng Jia (pengjia@stu.xjtu.edu.cn) or Kai Ye (kaiye@xjtu.edu.cn).