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title: "Prostar user manual"
author: 
- name: Samuel Wieczorek
- name: Thomas Burger
package: DAPAR
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    The package Prostar (Proteomics statistical analysis with R)
    is a Bioconductor distributed R package which provides all the  necessary 
    functions to analyze quantitative data from label-free proteomics 
    experiments. Contrarily to most other similar R packages, it is endowed 
    with rich and user-friendly graphical interfaces, so that no programming 
    skill is required. This document covers the functionalities available in 
    `r BiocStyle::pkg_ver('Prostar')`, `r BiocStyle::pkg_ver('DAPAR')`, 
    `r BiocStyle::pkg_ver('DAPARdata')`.
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# Introduction

The `DAPAR` and `Prostar` packages are a series of software dedicated to 
the processing of proteomics data. More precisely, they are devoted to the 
analysis of quantitative datasets produced by bottom-up discovery proteomics 
experiments with a LC-MS/MS pipeline (Liquid Chromatography and Tandem Mass 
spectrometry).
`DAPAR` (Differential Analysis of Protein Abundance with R) is an R 
package that contains all the necessary functions to process the data in 
command lines. It can be used on its own; or as a complement to the numerous 
Bioconductor packages (\url{https://www.bioconductor.org/}) it is compliant 
with; or through the `Prostar` interface.
`Prostar` (Proteomics statistical analysis with R) is a 
web interface based on Shiny technology (\url{http://shiny.rstudio.com/}) that 
provides GUI (Graphical User Interfaces) to all the `DAPAR` functionalities, 
so as to guide any practitioner that is not comfortable with R programming 
through the complete quantitative analysis process.
The experiment package `DAPARdata` contains many datasets that can be used as 
 examples.
`Prostar` functionalities make it possible to easily:

* **Manage quantitative datasets**\footnote{Here, a quantitative 
dataset denotes a table where each analyte (either a peptide or a protein) is 
represented by a line and each replicate (or sample) is represented by a 
column; each cell of the table contains the abundance of a given analyte in a 
given replicate; the replicates are clustered into different conditions 
(or groups).}: This includes import/export, conversion and report generation 
functionalities. 
* **Perform a complete data processing chain**: (*i*) filtering 
and data cleaning; (*ii*) cross-replicate normalization; (*iii*) 
missing value imputation; (*iv*) aggregation of peptide intensities into 
protein intensities (optional); (*v*) null hypothesis significance testing.
* **Mine the dataset** at any step of the processing chain with 
various tools such as: (*i*) descriptive statistics; (*ii*) 
differential analysis; (*iii*) Gene Ontology (GO) analysis.


\section{Installation}\label{sec:install}

There are many ways to install \Biocpkg{Prostar}, as well as its dependencies
\footnote{i.e. Packages that are necessary for \Biocpkg{Prostar} to correctly 
run.}:
\begin{enumerate}
    \item \textbf{Zero-install}: The easiest way, so far only available on 
    Microsoft Windows desktop machines.
    \item \textbf{Stand-alone Bioconductor install}: The standard method to 
    install Bioconductor distributed software. 
    This method works for any operating systems (Unix/Linux, Mac OS X and 
    Windows) as long as R is installed.
    \item \textbf{Server install}: When one wants \Biocpkg{Prostar} to run on 
    a Unix server, on which remote users connect.
\end{enumerate}
In addition, it is also possible to only install \Biocpkg{DAPAR} or 
\Biocpkg{DAPARdata}, so as to work in command lines (for expert users only).

For all the desktop installs, we advise to use a machine with a minimum of 8GB 
of RAM (although there are no strict constraints).


\subsection{Zero-install}
This method works for any desktop machine with Microsoft Windows. It is not 
necessary to have R already installed.
Go to \url{http://www.prostar-proteomics.org} and click on Zero-install 
download (Prostar menu). Download the zip file and unzip it.
The unzipped folder contains an executable file which directly launches 
\Biocpkg{Prostar}. Notice that at the first launch, an internet connection is 
necessary, so as to finish the install.

\subsection{Stand-alone Bioconductor install}\label{sec:daparProstarstandalone}

For this type of install, the operating system of the desktop machine can be of 
any type (Unix/Linux, Mac OS X or Windows).
However, it is necessary to have the latest version of R 
(see Section~\ref{sec:sessionInfo}) installed in a directory where the user 
has read/write permissions. 
Optionally, an IDE (integrated development environment) such as R Studio 
(\url{https://www.rstudio.com/}) may be useful to conveniently deal with 
the various R package installs.

To install \Biocpkg{Prostar}, enter in the R console the following instructions:
\shellcmd{install.packages("BiocManager")}
\shellcmd{BiocManager::install("Prostar")}

For a better experience, it is advised (but not mandatory) to install the 
development version of the following packages: DT and highcharter. To do so, 
install the devtools package and execute the following commands:

Once the package is installed, to launch \Biocpkg{Prostar}, then enter:
\shellcmd{library(Prostar)}
\shellcmd{Prostar()}


A new window of the default web browser opens. 


\subsection{Server install} \label{sec:daparProstarserver}

In the case of several \Biocpkg{Prostar} users that are not 
confortable with R (programming or installing), it is best to have a single 
version of \Biocpkg{Prostar} running on a Shiny server 
installed on a Unix/Linux server. The users will use \Biocpkg{Prostar} through 
a web browser, exactly if it were locally installed, yet, a single install has 
to be administrated. In that case, \Biocpkg{DAPAR} has to be classically 
installed (see Section~\ref{sec:daparalone}), while on the other hand, the 
installation of \Biocpkg{Prostar} is slightly different.

Shiny Server (\url{https://github.com/rstudio/shiny-server}) is a server 
program that makes Shiny applications available over the web. If Shiny Server 
is not installed yet, follow Shiny installation instructions.

Once a Shiny server is available, first install \Biocpkg{Prostar} as described 
in Section~\ref{sec:daparProstarstandalone}, so as to have the dependencies 
installed.

Then, execute the following line to get the install directory of Prostar:
\shellcmd{installed.packages()["Prostar","LibPath"]}
\shellcmd{Prostar()}

The result of this command is now referred as \emph{/path\_to\_Prostar}.

Change the owner of the Shiny Server directory and log as shiny
\shellcmd{sudo chown shiny /srv/shiny-server}
\shellcmd{sudo su shiny}


Create a directory named \Biocpkg{Prostar} in the Shiny Server directory with 
the user shiny as owner and then copy the Prostar files.

Create the directory for the shiny application 
\shellcmd{mkdir /srv/shiny-server/Prostar}

Copy the ProstarApp directory within the shiny-server directory
\shellcmd{sudo cp -r /path\_to\_Prostar/ProstarApp/ /srv/shiny-server/Prostar}

Change the owner of the Shiny Server directory
\shellcmd{sudo chown -R shiny /srv/shiny-server}

Give the following permissions to the www directory
\shellcmd{chmod 755 /srv/shiny-server/Prostar/www}

Check if the configuration file of Shiny Server is correct.
For more details, please visit 
\url{http://rstudio.github.io/shiny-server/latest/}.

Now, the application should be available via a web browser at 
http://*servername*:*port*/Prostar.


\subsection{\Biocpkg{DAPAR} and 
\Biocpkg{DAPARdata} (alone)}\label{sec:daparalone}

This type of install should only be performed by advanced R users/programmers, 
or by the admin of a server version of \Biocpkg{Prostar}.

To install the package \Biocpkg{DAPAR} from the source file with administrator 
rights, start R and enter:
\shellcmd{BiocManager::install("DAPAR")}

This step will automatically install the following packages:
\begin{itemize}
\item {From the CRAN}: \CRANpkg{RColorBrewer}, \CRANpkg{Cairo}, \CRANpkg{png}, 
\CRANpkg{lattice}, \CRANpkg{reshape2}, \CRANpkg{gplots}, \Biocpkg{pcaMethods}, 
\CRANpkg{ggplot2},  \CRANpkg{knitr}, \CRANpkg{tmvtnorm}, \CRANpkg{norm}, 
\CRANpkg{doParallel}, \CRANpkg{stringr}, parallel, \CRANpkg{foreach}, 
\CRANpkg{grDevices}, graphics, \CRANpkg{openxlsx}, \CRANpkg{utils}, 
\CRANpkg{cp4p}, \CRANpkg{scales}, \CRANpkg{Matrix}, \CRANpkg{vioplot}, 
\CRANpkg{imp4p}, \CRANpkg{imputeLCMD}, \CRANpkg{lme4}, \CRANpkg{readxl},  
\CRANpkg{dplyr}, \CRANpkg{tidyr}, \CRANpkg{tidyverse}, \CRANpkg{highcharter}, 
stats.
\item {From the Bioconductor}: \Biocpkg{MSnbase},  \Biocpkg{preprocessCore}, 
\Biocpkg{limma}, \Biocpkg{impute}, \Biocpkg{DAPARdata}, \Biocpkg{siggenes}, 
\Biocpkg{graph}, \Biocpkg{clusterProfiler}, \Biocpkg{AnnotationDbi},  
\Biocpkg{DAPAR}.
\end{itemize}

\Biocpkg{DAPARdata} is automatically installed with \Biocpkg{Prostar} or 
\Biocpkg{DAPAR}. However, it is possible to install it alone. Then, it  follows 
the classical way for Bioconductor packages. In a R console, enter:
\shellcmd{BiocManager::install("DAPARdata")}

\section{Navigating through \Biocpkg{Prostar} interface}

\subsection{First contact with \Biocpkg{Prostar}}\label{sec:firstcontact}
%\subsubsection{Home screen overview}
Right after \Biocpkg{Prostar} being launched, the web page depicted in 
Figure~\ref{fig:fig1} shows up in the default browser (stand-alone install) or 
in a portable one (zero install).
So far, the navbar only contains 3 menus: Prostar, Data manager and Help. 
However, as soon as data are loaded in the software, new menus contextualy 
appear (see Section~\ref{sec:synopsis}).

\begin{figure}
    \includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/home.png}
    \caption{\Biocpkg{Prostar} home screen.}
    \label{fig:fig1}
\end{figure}

The \textbf{Data manager} is detailed in a dedicated section 
(Section~\ref{sec:manager}).

In the \textbf{Prostar} menu, one has access to:
\begin{itemize}
    \item The \textbf{Home} screen\footnote{Going back to the home screen does 
    not re-initialize the session.}, as illustrated on Figure~\ref{fig:fig1}.
    \item A \textbf{Global settings} menu, where it is possible to tune few 
    parameters (such as colors, number of digits to display, etc.) that will 
    affect the entire session.
    \item A page gathering \textbf{Release notes}, i.e. some information 
    regarding the new features/changes/corrections with respect to the 
    previous version.
    \item A \textbf{Check for updates} page, where it is possible to verify 
    that the current version of \Biocpkg{Prostar} is not outdated.
\end{itemize}


In the \textbf{Help} menu, one has access to:
\begin{itemize}
    \item A list of \textbf{Useful links}: This page gather links towards 
    numerous documents, such as scientific publications related to 
    \Biocpkg{Prostar} as well as user manuals, reference manuals and tutorials.
    \item A series of frequently asked questions (\textbf{FAQ}) is also 
    available. This page should be regularly visisted! %When facing any 
    issue, any user is advised to check here first for an easy solution.
    \item A form screen to \textbf{Report a bug} (see below for details).
\end{itemize}

\Biocpkg{Prostar} is under active 
development, so that despite the developers' attention, bugs may remain. 
To signal any, as well as typos, suggestions, etc. or even to ask a question, 
please contact the developers. 

\subsection{Synoptic view of \Biocpkg{Prostar} interface}\label{sec:synopsis}

When data are loaded for analysis, mor options are available in the navbar, 
as illustrated on Figure~\ref{fig:fig2}. In addition to the navbar, the screen 
is composed of a large working panel (below the navbar) and a drop-down menu 
on the upper right corner (which purpose is detailed in 
Section~\ref{sec:availabledatasets}).

\begin{figure}
    \includegraphics[width=1.00\textwidth]{images/load-pep.png}
    \caption{Screenshot illustrating the fully displayed navbar.}
    \label{fig:fig2}
\end{figure}

Table~\ref{tab:LoMenus} summarizes the content of the navbar. Let us note that 
depending on the dataset content (either proteins or peptides), the menu can 
slightly change: Notably, if protein-level dataset is loaded, then 
\textbf{Aggregation} (which purpose is to roll up from peptides to proteins) 
is not proposed in the \textbf{Data processing} menu.

\begin{table}
{\normalsize
        \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
        \hline
        \textbf{\textcolor[rgb]{1,1,1}
        {Prostar (\ref{sec:firstcontact})}} &    
        \textbf{\textcolor[rgb]{1,1,1}{Data manager}} &    
        \textbf{\textcolor[rgb]{1,1,1}{Data processing}} \\
        \hline
        Home &	Open MSnset file (\ref{sec:load}) &	Filter data
        (\ref{sec:filtering})  \\   
        Global settings	& Convert data (\ref{sec:import}) & Normalization 
        (\ref{sec:normalization})  \\
        Release notes &	Demo data (\ref{sec:demomode}) &    Imputation 
        (\ref{sec:imputation})  \\
        Check for updates & Export (\ref{sec:export}) &	Aggregation 
        (\ref{aggregation}) \\
        & &	Hypothesis testing (\ref{sec:hp})   \\
        \hline
        \end{tabular} \newline \bigskip
        \begin{tabular}{|l|l|}
        \hline
        \textbf{\textcolor[rgb]{1,1,1}{Data mining}}   & 
        \textbf{\textcolor[rgb]{1,1,1}{Help 
        (\ref{sec:firstcontact})}} \\
        \hline
        Descriptive statistics (\ref{sec:descriptivestatistics}) &	Useful 
        links \\	
        Differential analysis (\ref{diffana}) &	FAQ \\
        GO analysis (\ref{sec:GOAnalysis}) &    Bug report\\
        \hline
        \end{tabular}
    }
    \caption{Synoptic view of the ProStaR menus with the corresponding 
    reference sections.}
    \label{tab:LoMenus}
\end{table}

%\subsubsection{The ``Data manager'' menu}
The \textbf{Data manager} menu gathers all the functionalities that relates to 
data import, export or conversion:
\begin{itemize}
    \item \textbf{Open MSnset file} (see Section~\ref{sec:load}) should be 
    used to reload a dataset that has previously been converted and saved as 
    an MSnset object.
    \item \textbf{Convert data} (see Section~\ref{sec:import}) should be used 
    to load a new dataset from a tabular file containing quantitative 
    proteomics data, such as a Maxquant or Proline output.
    \item \textbf{Demo data} (see Section~\ref{sec:demomode}) makes it 
    possible for any new user to discover \Biocpkg{Prostar} capabilities on 
    toy datasets.
    \item \textbf{Export} (see Section~\ref{sec:export}) gathers all the 
    functionalities to save a dataset in various formats, as well as to export 
    the main results in a single document.
\end{itemize}
As soon as one of the three first options of the menu has been used to load a 
dataset, the \textbf{Data processing} and \textbf{Data mining} menus appear in 
the navbar.


Conducting a rigorous differential analysis requires a well-defined pipeline 
made of several tightly connected steps. In \Biocpkg{Prostar}, this pipeline 
has been designed to be as general as possible. Thus, the 
\textbf{Data processing} menu contains numerous steps which, for a given 
dataset may not all be necessary, so that some can be occasionally skipped. 
However, the pipeline has been assembled and organized so as to propose 
coherent processing, so that the respective order of the different steps 
should be respected. These steps are the following:
\begin{enumerate}
    \item \textbf{Filtering} (see Section~\ref{sec:filtering}): to remove some 
    analytes (because of too many missing values, or because they are 
    irrelevent)
    \item \textbf{Normalization} (see Section~\ref{sec:normalization}): to 
    correct batch effect and sample/condition biases
    \item \textbf{Imputation} (see Section~\ref{sec:imputation}): to impute 
    the remaning missing values
    \item \textbf{Aggregation} (see Section~\ref{aggregation}): if the dataset 
    is a peptide-level one, it is possible to aggregate them, so as to form a 
    protein-level dataset
    \item \textbf{Hypothesis testing} (see Section~\ref{sec:hp}) of the 
    differential abundance
\end{enumerate}
It should be carefully noted that each of these steps modifies the dataset: In 
other words, the \textbf{Data processing} menu offers a succession of data 
transformations which should be performed by the user in an educated way.

As opposed to the \textbf{Data processing} menu, the \textbf{Data mining} menu 
offers a series of tools to analyze and visualize the dataset without 
transforming it. Thus, there is far less restriction on how and when applying 
them:
\begin{itemize}
    \item The \textbf{Descriptive statistics} 
    (see Section~\ref{sec:descriptivestatistics}) panel is composed of several 
    tabs which provide various ``static'' views on the dataset. It is advised 
    to look at them between each processing step, so as to check how the 
    dataset has been transformed.
    \item Once p-values have been computed (either at peptide or protein 
    level) (see \textbf{Hypothesis testing} in the \textbf{Data processing} 
    menu), it is possible to conduct a \textbf{Differential analysis} (see 
    Section~\ref{diffana}). This consists in a series of statistical 
    computations which purpose is to isolate a subset of proteins deemed 
    differentially abundant between the compared conditions, according to a 
    specific false discovery rate threshold.
    \item As long as the dataset is a protein-level one, it is possible to 
    conduct a Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment or analysis on it 
    (see Section~\ref{sec:GOAnalysis}). However, if the dataset is a 
    peptide-level one, this option does not appear.
\end{itemize}

\subsection{Successive dataset versions}\label{sec:availabledatasets}

As explained above, each functionality in the \textbf{Data processing} menu 
transforms the current dataset.
To authorize some flexibility and to avoid unwanted data corruption, it is 
possible to save in \Biocpkg{Prostar} the original dataset, as well as each 
intermediate dataset along the processing chain. Concretely, it is possible to 
store one *original dataset*, one *filtered dataset*, one ``normalized 
dataset'', one ``imputed dataset'' and so on.
Moreover, at any moment, it is possible to go back to a previous state of the 
dataset, either to restart a step that went wrong, or just to compare with the 
\textbf{Data mining} tools how the dataset was changed (rapid switching makes 
it easier to visualize it).

To create a new item in the dataset history, one simply has to click on the 
save button at the end of each processing step. Each time a new dataset is 
created, it is by default the one on which the processing goes on.

To navigate through the dataset history, one simply uses the drop-down menu of 
the upper right corner. Notice that if the user saves the current step (e.g.  
imputation), then goes back to a previous step (e.g. normalization ) and start 
working on this older dataset (to perform another imputation) and then saves 
it, the new version of the processing overwrites the previous version (the 
older imputation is lost and only the newest one is stored in memory): in 
fact, only a single version of the dataset can be saved for a given processing 
step. As a side effect, if any processing further than imputation was already 
done (e.g. aggregation), then, the aggregated dataset is not coherent anymore 
with the imputed one (as the new imputation cannot be automatically 
transmitted to update the previously tuned aggregation).

Finally, let us note that the name of each dataset version (normalized, 
imputed, etc.) also indicates if the dataset is a protein-level or a 
peptide-level one (as for instance the aggregation step transforms a 
peptide-level dataset into a protein-level one).

\section{Data type and format}\label{sec:dataformat}
The quantitative data should fit into a matrix-like representation where each 
line corresponds to an analyte\footnote{The analytes can be either proteins or 
peptides. However, in a given dataset, all the analytes should be of the same 
nature.} and each column to a sample. Within the ($i$-th, $j$-th) cell of the 
matrix, one reads the abundance of analyte $i$ in sample $j$.

Although strictly speaking, there is no lower or upper bound to the number of 
lines, it should be recalled that the statistical tools implemented in 
\Biocpkg{Prostar} have been chosen and tuned to fit a discovery experiment 
dataset with large amount of analytes, so that the result may lack of 
reliability on too small datasets. Conversely, very large datasets are not 
inherently a problem, as R algorithms are well scalable, but one should keep 
in mind the hardware limitations of the machine on which \Biocpkg{Prostar} 
runs to avoid overloading. 

As for the number of samples (the columns of the dataset), it is necessary to 
have at least 2 conditions (or groups of samples) as it is not possible to 
perform relative comparison otherwise. Moreover, it is necessary to have at 
least 2 samples per condition\footnote{With only two replicates per conditions,
the computations are tractable. It does not mean that statistical validity is 
guaranteed. 

Classically, 3 replicates per conditions are considered a minimum in case of a 
controlled experiment with a small variability, mainly issuing from technical 
or analytical repetitions. Analysis of complex proteomes between conditions 
with a large biological variability requires more replicates per conditions 
(5 to 10).}, as otherwise, it is not possible to compute an intra-condition 
variance, which is a prerequisite to numerous processing. 

The data table should be formatted in a tabulated file where the first line of 
the text file contains the column names. It is recommended to avoid special 
characters such as "]", "@", "\$", "\%", etc. that are automatically removed. 
Similarly, spaces in column names are replaced by dots ("."). Dot must be used 
as decimal separator for quantitative values. In addition to the columns 
containing quantitative values, the file may contain additional columns for 
metadata. Alternatively, if the data have already been processed by 
\Biocpkg{Prostar} and saved as an MSnset file (see \Biocpkg{MSnbase}), it is 
possible to directly reload them (see Section~\ref{sec:load}). 


\section{Data manager}\label{sec:manager}
The \textbf{Dataset manager} allows it to open, import or export quantitative 
datasets. \Biocpkg{Prostar} relies on the MSnSet format which is part of the 
package \Biocpkg{MSnbase}:

It is either possible to load existing MSnSet files (see 
Section~\ref{sec:load}), or to import text (-tabulated) and Excel files (see 
Section~\ref{sec:import}). The \textbf{Demo data} menu allows it to load 
the datasets of the package \Biocpkg{DAPARdata} as examples to discover
\Biocpkg{Prostar} functionalities (see Section~\ref{sec:demomode}).


\subsection{Open MSnSet file} \label{sec:load}
To reload a dataset that was already formated into an MSnSet file, click on 
\textbf{Open MSnset File}. This opens a pop-up window, so as to let the user 
choose the appropriate file. Once the file is uploaded, a short summary of the 
dataset is shown (see Figure~\ref{fig:fig2}): 
It includes the number of samples, the number of proteins (or peptides) in the 
dataset, the percentage of missing values and the number of lines which only 
contain missing values. Once done, the menu displaying the version of the 
dataset appears and display "Original - peptide" or "Original - protein", 
depending on whether the file contains peptide-level or protein-level 
quantitative information (see Section~\ref{sec:availabledatasets}). Similarly, 
the Data processing and Data mining menus become available.

\subsection{Convert data}\label{sec:import}
To upload data from tabular file (i.e. stored in a file with one of the 
following extensions: .txt, .csv, .tsv, .xls, or .xlsx) click on the upper 
menu \textbf{Data manager} then chose \textbf{Convert data}. 

\textbf{First},  go to the \textbf{Select File} tab (see Figure~\ref{fig:imp1}):
Click on the \textbf{Browse$\ldots$} button and select the tabular file of 
interest\footnote{The \Biocpkg{DAPARdata} package also contains tabular 
versions (in txt format) of the datasets available in the Demo data menu. 
Thus, it is also possible to test the import/export/save/load functions of 
\Biocpkg{Prostar} with these toy datasets. Concretely, one simply has to 
import them from the folder where the R packages are installed, in the 
following sub-folder: \texttt{.../R/R-3.4.0/library/DAPARdata/extdata}. Note 
that each dataset is also available in the MSnset format, but these datasets 
should not be considered to test conversion functions from/to tabular formats.} 
(If an Excel file is chosen, a drop-down menu appears to select the spreadsheet 
containing the data).
Once the upload is complete, indicate whether it is a protein level dataset 
(i.e., each line of the data table should correspond to a single protein) or a 
peptide-level one. Indicate if the data are already log-transformed or not. 
If not they will be automatically log-transformed\footnote{\Biocpkg{Prostar} 
cannot process non-log-transformed data. Thus, do not cheat the software by 
indicating data on their original scale are log-transformed.}.
If the quantification software uses *0* in places of missing values, tick 
the last option ``Replace all 0 and NaN by NA'' (as in \Biocpkg{Prostar}, 0 is 
considered a value, not a missing value).
\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/convert_selectfile.png}
\caption{File conversion, step 1.}\label{fig:imp1}
\end {figure}

\textbf{Second}, move on to the \textbf{Data Id} tab (see Figure~\ref{fig:imp2})
: If the dataset already contains an ID column (a column where each cell has a 
unique content, which can serve as an ID for the peptides/proteins), select 
its name in the drop-down menu. Otherwise, it is possible to use the first 
option of the drop-down menu, that is the \textbf{Automatic ID definition}, 
which creates an artificial index. Finally, if the dataset is a peptide-level 
one, it is in addition important to indicate the column containing the IDs of 
the parent proteins, so as to prepare for future peptide to protein aggregation.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/convert_dataID.png}
\caption{File conversion, step 2.}\label{fig:imp2}
\end {figure}

\textbf{On the third tab} (see Figure~\ref{fig:imp3}), referred to as 
\textbf{Exp. and feat. data}, select the columns which contain the protein 
abundances (one column for each sample of each condition). To select several 
column names in a row, click-on on the first one, and click-off on the last 
one. Alternatively, to select several names which are not continuously 
displayed, use the \textbf{Ctrl} key to maintain the selection.
If, for each sample, a column of the dataset provides information on the 
identification method (e.g. by direct MS/MS evidence, or by mapping) check 
the corresponding tick box. Then, for each sample, select the corresponding 
column. If none of these pieces of information is given, or, on the contrary, 
if all of them are specified with a different column name, a green logo 
appears, indicating it is possible to proceed (however, the content of the 
specified columns are not checked, so that it is the user's responsibility to 
select the correct ones). Otherwise (i.e. the identification method is given 
only for a subset of samples, or a same identification method is referenced 
for two different samples), then a red mark appears, indicating some 
corrections are mandatory.
\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/convert_exp_featdata.png}
\caption{File conversion, step 3.}\label{fig:imp3}
\end {figure}

\textbf{Move on to the fourth tab}, \textbf{Sample metadata} (see 
Figure~\ref{fig:imp4}). This tab guides the user through the definition of the 
experimental design.
Fill the empty columns with as different names as biological conditions to 
compare (minimum 2 conditions and 2 samples per condition) and click on 
\textbf{Check conditions}. If necessary, correct until the conditions are 
valid\footnote{As an help, it is possible to refer to FAQ \# 2}. When achieved,
a green logo appears and the sample are reordered according to the conditions.
Choose the number of levels in the experimental design (either 1, 2 or 3), and 
fill the additional column(s) of the table\footnote{In case of difficulty, 
either to choose the adapted design hierarchy or to fill the table design, it 
is possible to click on the interrogation mark beside the sentence ``Choose 
the type of experimental design and complete it accordingly''. Except for flat 
design, which are automatically defined, it displays an example of the 
corresponding design. It is possible to rely on this example to precisely fill 
the design table.}.
Once the design is valid (a green check logo appears), move on to the last tab.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/convert_sampledata.png}
\caption{File conversion, step 4.}\label{fig:imp4}
\end {figure}

\textbf{Finally}, move on to the \textbf{Convert} tab (see 
Figure~\ref{fig:imp5}).
Provide a name to the dataset to be created and click on the \textbf{Convert} 
button.
As a result, a new MSnset structure is created and automatically loaded. 
This can be checked with the name of the file appearing in the upper right 
hand side of the screen, as a title to a new drop-down menu. So far, it only 
contains ``Original - protein'' or ``Original - peptide'', but other versions 
of the dataset will be added along the course of the processing. Pay attention 
to any red message appears below the \textbf{Convert data} button, which 
indicates a mistake or an incomplete parameter tuning that must be sorted out 
before converting the data.
\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/convert_convert.png}
\caption{Importing a CSV file, tab 5.}\label{fig:imp5}
\end {figure}


\subsection{Demo mode} \label{sec:demomode}

\begin{figure}
\includegraphics[width=1.00\textwidth]{images/load-prot.png}
\caption{Loading a demo dataset.}
\label{fig:demomodeFig}
\end{figure}

To ease \Biocpkg{Prostar} discovery, a "demo mode" is proposed. In this mode, 
the datasets contained in the package \Biocpkg{DAPARdata} can be directly 
uploaded to test
\Biocpkg{Prostar} functionalities. To do so, 
simply click on \textbf{Demo data} in the \textbf{Data manager} 
(Figure~\ref{fig:demomodeFig}).
Note that it possible to display the PDF vignette of the dataset directly 
from \Biocpkg{Prostar} screen (``Dataset documentation (pdf)'' link).

\subsection{Export} \label{sec:export}
The \textbf{Export} menu from the \textbf{Data manager} gathers all the 
functionality to save a dataset in various formats, or to compile the results 
in a scientific report.

\subsubsection{Export a dataset} 
As importing a new dataset from a tabular file is a tedious procedure, we 
advise to save the dataset as an MSnset binary file right after the conversion 
(The, it becomes easy to reload it, as detailed in Section~\ref{sec:load}). 
This makes it possible to restart the statistical analysis from scratch if a 
problem occurs without having to convert the data another time. Moreover, it 
is also possible to export the dataset as an Excel spreadsheet (in xlsx 
format) or as a series of tabulated files grouped in a zipped folder. Any any 
case, the procedure is similar: First, choose the version of the dataset to be 
saved. Then, choose the desired file format and provide a file 
name\footnote{Optionally, it is possible to select a subset of the column 
metadata to make the file smaller.}. Then, click on \textbf{Download} 
(Figure~\ref{fig:export}). Once the downloading is over, store the file in the 
appropriate directory.


\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/export.png}
\caption{Exporting to an Excel file.}\label{fig:export}
\end {figure}


\subsubsection{Build a report (Beta)}\label{sec:Report}

The automatic reporting functionalities are under active development. However, 
they are still in Beta version and amenable to numerous modifications.
This vignette will be completed with an exhaustive description of 
\Biocpkg{Prostar} reporting functionality in a near future.

\fixme[TODO]{missing functionality}


\section{Data processing}\label{sec:processingadataset}

The \textbf{Data processing} menu contains the 5 predefined steps of a 
quantitative analysis. They are designed to be used in a specific order:
\begin{enumerate}
\item {Filtering}
\item{Normalization}
\item{Imputation}
\item{Aggregation} (only for peptide-level data)
\item{Hypothesis testing}
\end{enumerate}
For each step, several algorithms or parameters are available, all of them 
being thoroughly detailed in the sequel of this section.

During each of these steps, it is possible to test several options, and to 
observe the influence of the processing in the descriptive statistics menu 
(see Section~\ref{sec:descriptivestatistics}), which is dynamically updated. 

Finally, once the ultimate tuning is chosen for a given step, it is advised 
to save the processing. By doing so, another dataset appears in the Dataset 
versions list (see Section~\ref{sec:availabledatasets}). Thus, it is possible 
to go back to any previous step of the analysis if necessary, without starting 
back the analysis from scratch.


\subsection{Filtering}\label{sec:filtering}
In this step, the user may decide to delete several peptides or proteins 
according to two criteria: First is the amount of missing values (if it is
too important to expect confident processing, see tab 1); 
Second is string-based filtering (some analyte can be deleted after having been
tagged, such as for instance reverse sequences in target-decoy approaches, or
known contaminants, see tab 2).

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/filter1.png}
\caption{Interface of the filtering tool - 1.}\label{fig:filter1}
\end {figure}

To filter the missing values (first tab called \textbf{Missing values}), the 
choice of the lines to be deleted is made by different options (see 
Figure~\ref{fig:filter1}):
\begin {itemize}
\item\textbf{None}: No filtering, the quantitative data is left unchanged. 
This is the default option;
\item\textbf{Empty lines}: Only the lines with 100\% of missing values 
(analytes that have been identified but not quantified) are filtered out.
\item\textbf{Whole Matrix}: The lines (across all conditions) in the 
quantitative dataset which contain less non-missing value than a 
user-defined threshold are deleted;
\item\textbf{For every condition}: The lines for which each condition 
contain less non-missing value than a user-defined threshold are deleted;
\item\textbf{At least one condition}: The lines for which at least one 
condition contain less non-missing value than a user-defined threshold 
are deleted;
\end {itemize}

To visualize the effect of the filtering options (without saving the changes or
impacting the current dataset), just click on \textbf{Perform filtering}. 
If the filtering does not 
produce the expected effect, it is possible to test another one. To do so, one 
simply has to choose another method in the list and click again on 
\textbf{Perform filtering}. The plots are automatically updated. This action 
does not modify the dataset but offers a preview of the filtered data. The 
user can visualize as many times he/she wants several filtering options.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/filter2.png}
\caption{Interface of the filtering tool - 2.}\label{fig:filter2}
\end {figure}

Afterward, proceed to the \textbf{String based filtering},
where it is possible to filter out proteins according to information stored in 
the metadata.
To do so: Among the columns constituting the protein metadata listed in the 
drop-down menu, select the one containing the information\footnote{To work 
properly, the selected column must contain information encoded as a string of
characters. For each protein, the beginning of the corresponding string is 
compared to a given prefix. If the prefix matches, the protein is filtered out. 
Otherwise, it is conserved in the protein list. Note that the filter only 
operates a prefix search (at the beginning of the string), not a general tag 
match search (anywhere in the string). 
Similarly, filters based on regular expressions are not implemented.}
of interest (for instance, *Contaminant* or *Reverse*)\footnote{In datasets 
resulting from a MaxQuant, metadata indicates under a binary form which 
proteins are reversed sequences (resulting from a target-decoy approach) and 
which are potential contaminants. 
Both of them are indicated by a ``+'' in the corresponding column (the other 
proteins having an NA instead). It is thus possible to filter both reversed and 
contaminants out by indicating *+* as the prefix filter. However, if 
adequately encoded, filtering on other type of information is possible.}. 
Then, specify in each case the prefix chain of characters that identifies the 
proteins to filter\footnote{If one has no idea of the prefixes, it is possible 
to switch to the \textbf{Data Explorer} in the \textbf{Descriptive Statistics} 
menu (see Section~\ref{sec:descriptivestatistics}), so as to visualize the 
corresponding metadata.}.
Click on \textbf{Perform} to remove the corresponding proteins. 
A new line appears in the table listing all the filters that have been applied.
If other string-based filters must be applied, iterate the same process as 
many times as necessary.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/filter3.png}
\caption{Interface of the filtering tool - 3.}\label{fig:filter3}
\end {figure}

Once the filtering is appropriately tuned,go to the last tab 
(called \textbf{Visualize filtered data and validate}) (see 
Figure~\ref{fig:filter3}), to visualize the set of analytes that have been 
filtered. Finally, click on \textbf{Save filtered dataset}. 
A new dataset is created; it becomes the new current dataset and its name 
appears in the dropdown menu upper right corner of the screen. All plots and 
tables available in \Biocpkg{Prostar} are automatically updated.


\subsection{Normalization}\label{sec:normalization}

The next processing step proposed by Prostar is data normalization. 
Its objective is to reduce the biases introduced at any preliminary 
stage (such as for instance batch effects).
\Biocpkg{Prostar} offers a number of different normalization 
routines that are described below.

To visualize the influence of the normalization, three plots are displayed
(see Figure~\ref{fig:norma}):
The first two plots are those of the \textbf{Intensity distribution} tab of the 
\textbf{Descriptive statistics} (see Section~\ref{sec:densityplot}).
The last one depicts the distortion induced by the chosen normalization 
method on each sample.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/normalisation.png}
\caption{Interface of the normalization tool.}\label{fig:norma}
\end {figure}

Choose the normalization method among the following ones:
\begin{enumerate}
    \item \textbf{None}: No normalization is applied. This can be useful in 
    case of tightly calibrated proteomics experiments (such as spiked-in or 
    benchmark samples), where normalization may be more harmful than useful. 
    Moreover, when testing several normalizations, clicking on ``None'' is 
    useful to recover the original distribution, which serves as reference to 
    compare the methods.
    \item \textbf{Global quantile alignment}: The Quantile of the intensity 
    distributions of all the samples are equated, as proposed by the 
    \Rfunction{normalize.quantiles()} of \Biocpkg{preprocessCore}. This 
    method proposes a normalization of important
    magnitude that should be cautiously used. It practically amounts to replace 
    abundances by order statistics. 
    \item \textbf{Column sums}: The total intensity values of all the samples 
    are equated. The rationale behind is to normalize according to the total 
    amount of biological material within each sample. Thus, this normalization 
    is interesting to compare the proportions of a given 
    protein in different samples that do not necessarily contain the same 
    amount of biological material. Contrarily to the others, this 
    normalization is not performed on the log2 scale, for it would not have 
    any interpretation (the data are thus exponentiated and 
    re-log2-transformed as pre-and post-processing)
    \item \textbf{Quantile Centering}: A given quantile of the intensity 
    distribution is used as reference\footnote{This normalization method 
    should not be confused with Global quantile alignment.}. 
    It proposes to shift the sample distributions 
    (either all of them at once, or within each condition at a time) to align a 
    specific quantile: the median (under the assumption that up-regulations 
    and down-regulations are equally frequent), the 15\% quantile (under the 
    assumption that the signal/noise ratio is roughly the same in all the 
    samples), or any other user's choice.
    \item \textbf{Mean Centering}: sample intensity distributions are aligned 
    on their mean intensity values (and optionally, the variance distributions 
    are equated to one).
    \item \textbf{VSN}: (or Variance Stabilizing Normalization) from the 
    \Biocpkg{vsn} package. Its objective is to have the analyte variance 
    independent of the intensity. Note that this normalization is computed on 
    the original intensity values, not the log2 transformed ones. The result 
    from the normalization is not in the log2 scale, nor in the original one, 
    but in-betwee: the scale is roughly linear for low-intensity values and 
    roughly logarithmic for high-intensity values (so as to avoid the 
    logarithm singularity).
    \item \textbf{LOESS normalization}: The intensity values are normalized by 
    means of a local regression model of the difference of intensities as 
    function of the mean intensity value, as implemented in the 
    \Rfunction{normalizeCyclicLoess()} from \Biocpkg{limma} package.
\end{enumerate}

Then, for each normalization method, the interface is automatically updated to 
display the method parameters that must be tuned. Notably, for most of the 
methods, it is necessary to indicate whether the method should apply to the 
entire dataset at once (the \textbf{overall} tuning), or whether each 
condition should be normalized independently of the others (the 
\textbf{within conditions} tuning). 

Other parameters are method specific:
\begin{itemize}
    \item \textbf{Quantile centering}: It is necessary to define the quantile 
    of the intensity distribution that is used as reference. The most 
    classically used is the median (quantile 0.5), but other quantiles can aslo 
    be useful, depending on the dataset. Notably, as the lower limit of 
    quantitation is roughly constant over the samples, relying on a lower 
    quantile such as 0.15 can be efficient to alilgn the signal/noise ratios.
    \item \textbf{Mean centering}: It is necessary to indicate whether the 
    distribution variances are scaled to 1.
    \item \textbf{LOESS}: The span corresponds to the proportion of the other 
    analytes that are considered to perform the regression.
\end{itemize}

Once the method is correctly parametrized, click on 
\textbf{Perform normalization}.
Observe the influence of the normalization method on the graphs. 
%Optionally, click on "Show plot options", so as to tune the graphics for a 
%better visualization.
If the result of the normalization does not correspond to the expectations, 
change the normalization method or change its tuning.
Once the normalization is effective, click on \textbf{Save normalization}.
Check that a new version appears in the dataset version drop-down menu, 
referred to as \textbf{Normalized - Protein} or \textbf{Normalized - Peptide}.

\subsection{Imputation}\label{sec:imputation}
\subsubsection{Focus on: Missing value nomenclature}\label{sec:vmnomenclature}
Classically, missing values are categorized according to their underlying 
missingness mechanism:
\begin{itemize}
    \item \textbf{Missing Completely At Random (MCAR)}: This category of 
    missing values gather
    all those which result from the combination and propagation of multiple 
    minor errors or 
    stochastic fluctuations. As a result, each missing value cannot be 
    directly explained 
    by the nature of the analyte, nor by its measured intensity. MCAR values 
    are assumed to 
    distribute uniformely in the dataset as well as along the intensity range. 
    \item \textbf{Missing Not At Random (MNAR)}: On the contrary, MNAR have a 
    more precise cause.
    Notably, in mass spectrometry-based analysis, chemical species whose 
    abundance are too close 
    to the lower limit of detection of the instrument record a higher rate of 
    missing values. This is why,
MNAR-devoted imputation methods used in proteomics focus on left-censored data 
(that is, the distribution of which with respect to the abundance is truncated 
on the left side, i.e. on the region depicting the lower abundances).
\end{itemize}

However, it also makes sense to classify the missing value according to the 
analyte they impact, regardless of the underlying mechanism. This is why, in
\Biocpkg{Prostar}, it has been decided to separate:
\begin{itemize}
\item \textbf{POV} (standing for \textbf{Partially Observed Value}).
\item \textbf{MEC} (standing for \textbf{Missing in the Entire Condition}).
\end{itemize}
All the missing values for a given protein in a given condition are considered 
POVs \textbf{if and only if there is at least one observed value for this 
protein in this condition}. Alternatively, \textbf{if all the intensity values 
are missing for this protein in this condition}, the missing values are 
considered MECs.
As a result, each missing values is either POV or MEC. Moreover, for a given 
protein across several conditions, the missing values can split into POVs and 
MECs, even though within a same condition they are all of the same type.

With the default color setting, POVs are depicted in light blue and MECs in 
light orange.

In \Biocpkg{Prostar}, the following assumptions are made:
\begin{itemize}
    \item \textbf{In peptide-level datasets}, it is either possible to 
    consider all the missing values, either POVs or MECS, as of the same type 
    and to blindly apply one of the \textbf{basic methods} proposed. As a more 
    refined alternative, we propose to rely on \Biocpkg{imp4p}, which 
    considers that:
    \begin{itemize}
        \item MECs should always assumed to be MNAR. Note that imputing MEC 
        values is a real issue as, in the condition of interest, there is no 
        observed value to rely the imputation on.
        \item No assumption should be made on POVs: they can be a mix of MCAR 
        and MNAR values, and the missingness mechanism of each is diagnosed 
        before the imputation, thanks to an \Biocpkg{imp4p} routine.
    \end{itemize}
    \item \textbf{In protein-level datasets}:
    \begin{itemize}
        \item The number of POVs is generally not large enough to perform an 
        accurate diagnosis of the POV missingness mechanism, as proposed with 
        \Biocpkg{imp4p} at peptide-level. Thus, they are all assumed to be 
        MCAR.
        \item MECs are always assumed to be MNAR and imputed accordingly. 
    \end{itemize}
\end{itemize}
As a whole, it is advised to work at peptide-level rather than protein-level, 
and to use the refined imputation mechanism of \Biocpkg{imp4p}.

\textbf{Remarks}: 
\begin{itemize}
    \item Sometimes, an analyte (and not a missing value) can be referred to 
    as \textbf{Lapala}, when it has both observed values and MEC (which means 
    it is observed in some conditions and not observed in others). This term 
    was coined from French "l\`a/pas-l\`a"(meaning "here/not-here").
    \item Contrarily to the normalization step, where it is possible to choose 
    between \textbf{within conditions} and \textbf{overall} application of the 
    algorithm, the imputation step cannot be applied overall-wise, but only 
    condition-wise. The rationale behind is that in case of very different 
    conditions, it does not make sense to rely on the observed values of one 
    condition to impute those of the others. With this regards, 
    \Biocpkg{Prostar} strongly differs from most of the other proteomics 
    software tools, where the imputation can borrow information from multiple 
    independent conditions.
\end{itemize}

\subsubsection{Protein-level imputation}\label{sec:proteinimputation}
As a consequence of the previous paragraph, in protein-level datasets, 
\Biocpkg{Prostar} proposes to use an MCAR-devoted imputation algorithm for 
POVs, and an MNAR-devoted one for MECs.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/protein-POV.png}
\caption{POV imputation}\label{fig:prot-POV}
\end {figure}

On the first tab (see Figure~\ref{fig:prot-POV}), select the algorithm to 
impute POV values, among the following ones, and tune its parameter 
accordingly:
\begin{itemize}
    \item \textbf{None}: No imputation is performed for POVs.
    \item \textbf{SLSA} (Structured Least Square Adaptative): It is a 
    regression based imputation method which account for a possible 
    hierachical design. It does not require any parameter tuning.
    \item \textbf{DetQuantile}: It is advised to use DetQuantile to impute 
    MECs rather than POVs, however, in some case, it may be interesting to 
    rely on a single imputation method for all the missing values. This is 
    why, this method is proposed also proposed for POV imputation. DetQuantile 
    description and parameter tuning is described below.
    \item \textbf{KNN} (K-nearest neighbors):  KNN imputation proposes to 
    estimate each missing value by the mean of the observed values of other 
    proteins with a similar intensity pattern (called neighbors). One only has 
    to tune $K$, the number of neighbors to account for. The method simply
    wraps the one of the \Biocpkg{impute} package, however, contrarily to the 
    classical implementation and use, the function processes one condition at 
    a time, rather than all the conditions at once. 
\end{itemize}
According to our expertise, we advise to select the \textbf{SLSA} algorithm 
from \CRANpkg{imp4p} but the other methods can also be of interest in specific 
situations.

The first distribution plot depicts the mean intensity of each condition 
conditionally to the number of missing values it contains.
It is useful to check that more values are missing in the lower intensity 
range (due to left censorship).

The heatmap on the right hand side clusters the proteins according to their 
distribution of missing values across the conditions. Each line of the map 
depicts a protein. On the contrary, the columns do not depicts the replicates 
anymore, as the abundance values have been reordered so as to cluster the 
missing values together. Similarly, the proteins have been reordered, so as 
to cluster the proteins that have a similar amount of missing values 
distributed in the same way over the conditions. Each line is colored so as 
to depicts the mean abundance value within each condition. This heatmap is 
also helpful to decide what is the main origin of missing values (MCAR or 
MNAR).

Click on \textbf{Perform Imputation}. A short text shows up to summarize the 
result of the imputation, but the graphics are not updated.
However, the next tab is enabled, on which the plots are updated with the 
imputation results.

After POVs, it is possible to deal with MECs. As a matter of fact, it is always 
dangerous to impute them, as in absence of any value to rely on, the imputation 
is arbitrary and risks to spoil the dataset with maladjusted values. As an 
alternative, it is possible to (1) keep the MEC as is in the dataset, yet, it 
may possibly impede further processing, (2) discard them at the filter step 
(see Section~\ref{sec:filtering}) so as to process them separately. However, 
this will make it impossible to include these proteins (and their processing) 
in the final statistics, such as for instance FDR. 

For MEC imputation, several methods are available (see 
Figure~\ref{fig:prot-MEC}):
\begin{itemize}
    \item \textbf{None}: If MEC are not going to be imputed, this is what to 
    select.
    \item \textbf{DetQuantile}: It proposes to impute each missing value
    within a given sample by a deterministic value (usually a low value). The 
    rationale behind is that MEC values corresponds to proteins that are below 
    the quantification limit in one condition, so that they should not be 
    imputed according to observed values in the other conditions. Although the 
    use of a deterministic value slightly disturb the intensity distribution, 
    it makes the MEC values easy to spot, as they all correspond to a known 
    numerical value. Concretely, the imputation value is chosen as a (small) 
    \textbf{quantile} -the first parameter) of each sample distribution. 
    Depending on the dataset, a quantile between 1\% and 5\% should be used, 
    depending on the stringency you want to apply on proteins quantified only 
    in one condition of a pairwise comparison. In case of a dataset with too 
    few proteins, the lower quantile may lead to instable values. In such a 
    case, we advise to use a larger quantile value (for instance 10\% or 
    greater) but to use a smaller multiplying \textbf{factor} (the second 
    parameter) so as to keep the imputation value reasonably small with 
    respect to the detection limit (for instance, consider a factor of 0.2 or 
    smaller). In any case, when using detQuantile, the list of imputation 
    values for each sample appears above the graphics.
    \item \textbf{Fixed value}: As an alternative, it is possible for the user 
    to tune the imputation with a specific value that will be used in all 
    samples of all conditions. Although appealing for its simplicity, this 
    method may lead to important data distortion, so it is advised to use 
    \textbf{detQuantile} algorithm whenever possible.
\end{itemize}
Based on our experience, we advise to use \textbf{detQuantile} algorithm.

Click on \textbf{Perform Imputation}. A short text shows up to summarize the 
result of the imputation, but the graphics are not updated.
As the imputation is finished, the updated plots would not be informative, so 
they are not displayed on the final tab (referred to as \textbf{Validate \& 
save}).
Note that when displaying or exporting the data, the color code used with 
missing values is still used for the imputed values, so that at any moment, 
it is possible to trace which proteins were imputed.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/protein-MEC.png}
\caption{POV imputation}\label{fig:prot-MEC}
\end {figure}

\subsubsection{Peptide-level imputation}\label{sec:peptideimputation}

Notice that at peptide level, many lines of the dataset may corresponds to 
identified peptides with no quantification values.
In order to avoid spoiling the dataset with their meaningless imputed values, 
it is demanded to filter them before proceeding (see 
Section~\ref{sec:filtering}). 

Two plots are available in order to facilitate the understanding of the 
missing value distribution.
These plots are the same as for protein-level imputation:

The distribution plot on the left depicts the mean intensity of each condition 
conditionally to the number of missing values it contains.
It is useful to check that more values are missing in the lower intensity 
range (due to left censorship).

The heatmap on the right hand side clusters the proteins according to their 
distribution of missing values across the conditions. Each line of the map 
depicts a protein. On the contrary, the columns do not depicts the replicates 
anymore, as the abundance values have been reordered so as to cluster the 
missing values together. Similarly, the proteins have been reordered, so as 
to cluster the proteins that have a similar amount of missing values 
distributed in the same way over the conditions. Each line is colored so as 
to depicts the mean abundance value within each condition. This heatmap is 
also helpful to decide what is the main origin of missing values (MCAR or 
MNAR).

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/peptide-basicImputation.png}
\caption{Interface of the imputation of missing values tool.}
\label{fig:peptide-bimp}
\end {figure}

To impute the missing peptide intensity values, it is either possible to rely on
classical methods of the state of the art, or to use \CRANpkg{imp4p}. The former
ones are available by choosing \textbf{Basic methods} in the \textbf{Algorithm} 
drop-down menu (see Figure~\ref{fig:peptide-bimp}). Another drop-down menu 
appears proposing one of the following methods:
\begin{itemize}
    \item \textbf{None}: No imputation is performed. This option is convenient 
    to recover the original missing value distribution when comparing several 
    imputation methods.
    \item \textbf{DetQuantile}: It proposes to impute each missing value 
    within a given sample by a deterministic value (usually a low value). The 
    rationale behind is that MEC values corresponds to peptides that are 
    below the quantification limit in one condition, so that they should not 
    be imputed according to observed values in the other conditions. Although 
    the use of a deterministic value slightly disturb the intensity 
    distribution, it makes the MEC values easy to spot, as they all correspond 
    to a known numerical value. Concretely, the imputation value is chosen as 
    a (small) \textbf{quantile} -the first parameter) of each sample 
    distribution. Depending on the dataset, a quantile between 1\% and 5\% 
    should be used, depending on the stringency you want to apply on proteins 
    quantified only in one condition of a pairwise comparison. In case of a 
    dataset with too few analytes (which is more likely to be the case at 
    protein-level than at peptide-level), the lower quantile may lead to 
    instable values. In such a case, we advise to use a larger quantile 
    value (for instance 10\% or greater) but to use a smaller multiplying 
    \textbf{factor} (the second parameter) so as to keep the imputation value 
    reasonably small with respect to the detection limit (for instance, 
    consider a factor of 0.2 or smaller). In any case, when using detQuantile, 
    the list of imputation values for each sample appears above the graphics.
    \item \textbf{KNN} (K-nearest neighbors):  KNN imputation proposes to 
    estimate each missing value by the mean of the observed values of other 
    peptides with a similar intensity pattern (called neighbors). One only has 
    to tune $K$, the number of neighbors to account for. The method simply 
    wraps the one of the \Biocpkg{impute} package, however, contrarily to the 
    classical implementation and use, the function processes one condition at 
    a time, rather than all the conditions at once. 
    \item \textbf{MLE} (Maximum Likelihood Estimation): This method, from the 
    \Biocpkg{norm} package, propose to estimate the expected abundance value 
    of each peptide in each condition (with the maximum likelihood estimate), 
    and to use this expected value as replacement of missing values. There is 
    no parameter to tune with MLE imputation.
\end{itemize}

All these methods are applied on all missing values, without diagnosing their 
nature, as explained in Section~\ref{sec:vmnomenclature}.
Alternatively, it is possible to rely on \CRANpkg{imp4p} (see 
Figure~\ref{fig:peptide-imp4p}). It works as follows:
\begin{enumerate}
    \item For POVs, a diagnosis of the nature of each missing value is perform. 
    As an output each POV is endowed with a probability of being either MNAR 
    or MCAR.
    \item Several iterations (as many as tuned on the interface, default is 
    10 - the more iteration, the more accurate the imputation) of the 
    following algorithm are performed:
        \begin{itemize}
            \item Randomly assign each POV to either MCAR or MNAR, according 
            to its diagnosis probability.
            \item If it is MCAR, SLSA algorithm is used for imputation.
            \item If it is MNAR, IGCDA algorithm is used for imputation.
        \end{itemize}
    \item All the POV imputed values computed along the iterations are average 
    to provide the imputation final results.
    \item Optionally, it is possible to impute the MECs. To do so, one relies 
    on a slightly modified version of IGCDA, which requires tuning 2 
    parameters: First is the upper bound of the MNAR imputed values, expressed 
    as a quantile of the distribution of observed values in each sample 
    (default is centile 2.5). Second is the probability distribution defined 
    on the trange of MNAR values (either uniform or beta): Beta is more 
    conservative, as it provides more weight on values that are close to the 
    detection limit, which reduces the risk of creating artificial 
    differentially abundant peptides (and thus proteins).
\end{enumerate}

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/peptide-imp4p.png}
\caption{Interface of the imputation of missing values tool.}
\label{fig:peptide-imp4p}
\end {figure}

It is possible to directly visualize the effect of an imputation method on 
the updated plots. If the imputation does not produce the expected effect, 
it is possible to test another one. To do so, one chooses another 
method in the list and click on \textbf{Perform imputation}. 
This action does not modify the dataset but offers a 
preview of the imputed quantitative data.
It is possible to visualize as many imputation methods/tuning as desired. 
Once the correct one is found, one validates the choice by clicking on 
\textbf{Save imputation}. Then, a new "imputed" dataset is created and loaded 
in memory. This new dataset becomes the new current dataset and the "Imputed" 
version appears in the upper right drop-down menu. All plots and tables in 
other menus are automatically updated.


\subsection{Aggregation}\label{aggregation}

This steps only hold for peptide-level dataset. Its purpose is to build a 
protein-level dataset on the basis of the peptide intensities that have been
processed in \Biocpkg{Prostar}.

If this step has not been fulfilled at the initial data conversion (see 
Section~\ref{sec:import}), it is first necessary to specify which column 
metadata of the peptide-level dataset contains the parent protein IDs 
(which will be used to index the protein-level dataset that is going to be 
created).


Once the parent protein IDs are specified, two barplots are displayed 
(see Figure~\ref{fig:aggregation}). They provide the distribution 
of proteins according to their number of peptides (either all of them, or 
only those which are specific to a single protein). These statistics are 
helpful to understand the distribution of shared peptides, as well as the
peptide/protein relationships.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/aggregation.png}
\caption{Aggregation screen}\label{fig:aggregation}
\end {figure}

Aggregation requires to tune the following parameters:
\begin{itemize}
    \item \textbf{Include shared peptides}: Here, one defines if protein 
    intensity should be defined only by aggregating protein-specific peptides, 
    or if (and thus how) shared peptides should be included. If shared 
    peptides are not included, one faces the risk of losing some proteins 
    (those which do not have a single specific peptide). Three options are 
    available:
    \begin{itemize}
        \item \textbf{No (only protein-specific peptides)}.
        \item \textbf{Yes (shared peptides processed as protein specific)}.
        \item \textbf{Yes (proportional redistribution of shared peptides)}. 
        This last option is the most accurate one, yet, it is slower, for 
        proportional redistribution is iterated as many time as necessary to 
    reach convergence.
    \end{itemize}
    \item \textbf{Consider}: The user specifies which peptides should be 
    considered for aggregation.
    \begin{itemize}
    \item \textbf{All peptides}, regardless of their intensities.
    \item \textbf{Only the $N$ most abundant ones}. In such a case, one 
        has to specify a value for $N$.
    \end{itemize}
    \item Finally, one defines the aggregation \textbf{Operator}: Sum or Mean. 
    However, in case of proportional redistribution of the shared peptide 
    intensities, only the mean operator is available.
\end{itemize}

Once the aggregation is appropriately tuned, click on 
\textbf{Perform aggregation}.

On the second tab, one selects the columns of the peptide dataset that 
should be kept in the metadata of the protein dataset (e.g. the sequence of the 
peptides). For any given parent-protein, the corresponding information of all 
of its child-peptides will be grouped and stored in the protein dataset 
metadata. Once done, one clicks on \textbf{Save aggregation}. This creates a 
new "aggregated" dataset that is directly loaded in memory. 

As the new dataset is a protein one, the \textbf{Aggregation} menu has been 
disabled. Thus, the interface automatically switches to the homepage. However, 
the aggregated dataset is accessible and can be analyzed (in the 
\textbf{Data mining} menu) and processed (in the \textbf{Data processing} menu).

The aggregation being more computationaly demanding than other processing 
steps, the current version of \Biocpkg{Prostar} does not provide the same 
flexibility regarding the parameter tuning. Here, it is necessary to save the 
aggregation result first, then, check the results in the 
\textbf{Descriptive statistics},
and possibly to go back to the imputed dataset with the dataset 
versions dropdown menu to test another aggregation tuning. Contrarily to 
other processing steps, it is not possible to visualize on-the-fly the 
consequences of the parameter tuning, and to save it afterward. 

Naturally, the output of this step is not a peptide dataset anymore, but a 
protein dataset. As a result, all the plots available in \Biocpkg{Prostar} 
are deeply modified. Notably, all those which are meaningless at a protein-level
are not displayed anymore.



\subsection{Hypothesis testing}\label{sec:hp}

\subsubsection{Peptide-level}\label{sec:peptidehp}

\fixme[TODO]{missing functionality}

\subsubsection{Protein-level}\label{sec:proteinhp}
For datasets that do not contain any missing values, 
or for those where these missing values have been imputed, 
it is possible to test whether each protein is significantly 
differentially abundant between the conditions.
To do so, click on \textbf{Hypothesis testing} in the \textbf{Data processing} 
menu (see Figure~\ref{fig:hp}). 

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/hp.png}
\caption{Hypothesis testing step}
\label{fig:hp}
\end {figure}

First, choose the test contrasts. In case of 2 conditions to compare, there is 
only one possible contrast. 
However, in case of $N  \geq 3$ conditions, several pairwise contrasts are 
possible. 
Notably, it is possible to perform $N$ tests of the \textbf{1vsAll} type, or 
$N(N-1)/2$ tests of the \textbf{1vs1} type.
Then, choose the type of statistical test, between limma (see the 
\Biocpkg{limma} package) or t-test (either Welch or Student, up to the user's 
choice). This makes appear a density plot representing the log fold-change 
(logFC) (as many density curves on the plot as contrasts). Thanks to the FC 
density plot, tune the \textbf{log(FC) threshold}.
We advise to tune the logFC threshold conservatively by avoiding discarding to 
many proteins with it. Moreover, it is important tune the logFC to a small 
enough value, so as to avoid discarding too many proteins. In fact, it is 
important to keep enough remaining proteins for the next coming FDR 
computation step (see Section~\ref{sec:pushpval}), as \emph{(i)} FDR 
estimation is more reliable with many proteins, \emph{(ii)} FDR, which relates 
to a percentage, does not make sense on too few proteins.
Finally, run the tests and save the dataset to preserve the results (i.e. all 
the computed p-values). Then, a new dataset containing the p-values and logFC 
cut-off for the desired contrasts, can be explored in the \textbf{Differential 
analysis} tab available in the \textbf{Data mining} menu.




\section{Data mining}
\subsection{Descriptive statistics}\label{sec:descriptivestatistics}

Several plots are proposed to help the user have a 
quick and as complete as possible overview of the dataset. This menu is 
an essential element for to check that each processing step 
gives the expected result.

\subsubsection{Overview}
This panel simply displays a table summarizing various quantitative elements 
on the datasets (see Figure~\ref{fig:sdov}).
It roughly amounts to the data summary that is displayed along with each demo 
dataset (see Section~\ref{sec:demomode}).

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/descstat-overview.png}
\caption{Home screen of the Descriptive statistics menu}\label{fig:sdov}
\end {figure}

\subsubsection{Missing values}

On the second tab, barplots depicts the distribution of missing values: the 
left hand side barplot represents the number of missing values in each sample. 
The different colors correspond to the different conditions (or groups, or 
labels). The second barplot (in the middle) displays the distribution of 
missing values; the red bar represents the empty protein count (i.e. the 
number of lines in the quantitative data that are only made of missing values).
The last barplot represents the same information as the previous one, yet, 
condition-wise. Let us note that protein with no missing values are 
represented in the last barplot while not on the second one (to avoid a too 
large Y-scale).

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/desc_missValues.png}
\caption{Histrograms for the overview of the missing values}\label{fig:sdmv}
\end {figure}

\subsubsection {Data explorer}\label{sec:dataexplorer}
The third tab %is the data explorer (see Figure 4): it 
makes it possible to view the content of the MSnset structure. It is made of 
three tables, which can be displayed one at a time thanks to the radio button
menu. The first one, named \textbf{Quantitative data} contains the intensity 
values (see Figure~\ref{fig:sdqv1}). 

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/desc_quantiData.png}
\caption{View of quantitative data in the MSnSet dataset}\label{fig:sdqv1}
\end {figure}

The missing values are represented by colored empty cells. The second one is 
referred to \textbf{Protein metadata}. It contains all the column dataset that 
are not the quantitative data (see Figure~\ref{fig:sdqv2}). 

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/desc_fdata.png}
\caption{View of feature meta-data in the MSnSet dataset}\label{fig:sdqv2}
\end {figure}

The third tab, \textbf{Replicate metadata}, summarizes the experimental 
design, as defined when converting the data (see Section~\ref{sec:import}). 


\begin {figure}
\includegraphics{images/desc_pdata.png}
\caption{View of samples meta-data in the MSnSet dataset}\label{fig:sdqv3}
\end {figure}

\subsubsection {Correlation matrix}

In this tab, it is possible to visualize the extent to which the replicates 
correlate or not (see Figure~\ref{fig:sdcm}). The contrast of the correlation 
matrix can be tuned thanks to the color scale on the left hand side menu.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics{images/desc_corrmatrix.png}
\caption{Correlation matrix for the quantitative data.}\label{fig:sdcm}
\end {figure}

\subsubsection {Heatmap}
A heatmap as well as the associated dendrogram is depicted on the fifth tab 
(see Figure~\ref{fig:sdhm}). The colors represent the intensities: red for 
high intensities and green for low intensities. White color corresponds to 
missing values. The dendrogram shows a hierarchical classification of the 
samples, so as to check that samples are related according to the experimental 
design. It is possible to tune the clustering algorithm\footnote{Computing the 
heatmap and the dendrogram may be very computationally demanding depending on 
the dataset.} that produces the dendrogram by adjusting the two parameters of 
the \Rfunction{hclust} \R{} function:
\begin {itemize}
\item \textbf{Distance}: the parameter method of \Rfunction{stats::dist} 
function (default is \emph{'euclidean'}).
\item \textbf{Linkage}: the parameter method of \Rfunction{stats::hclust} 
function (default is \emph{'complete'}).
\end {itemize}

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics{images/desc_heatmap.png}
\caption{Heatmap and dendrogram for the quantitative data.}\label{fig:sdhm}
\end {figure}

\subsubsection {PCA}\label{sec:pca}

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/desc_PCA.png}
\caption{Principal compenent analysis tab.}\label{fig:pca}
\end {figure}

A Principal Component Analysis visualization is provided by wrapping the 
\CRANpkg{FactoMineR} package (see Figure~\ref{fig:pca}). To better interpret 
the PCA displays, the reader is referred to the \CRANpkg{FactoMineR} 
documentation. 


\subsubsection {Intensity distributions}\label{sec:densityplot}
These plots shows the distribution of the log-intensity of proteins for each 
condition (see Figure~\ref{fig:sddp}).

The left hand plot represents a smoothed histogram of each sample intensity. 
The right hand side plot display the same information under the form of a 
boxplot or a violin plot, depending on the user's choice. In both cases, it is 
possible to ajust the plot legends, as well as to specify the color code 
(one color per condition or per sample).

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/desc_intdistrib.png}
\caption{Densityplot the quantitative data.}\label{fig:sddp}
\end {figure}



\subsubsection{CV distribution}

Finally, the last tabs display a density plot of the variance (within each 
condition) conditionally to the log-intensities  (see 
Figure~\ref{fig:sdvdZoomOut}).
As is, the plot is often difficult to read, as the high variances are 
concentrated on the lower intensity values. 
However, it is possible to interactively zoom in on any part of the plot by 
clicking and dragging (see Figure~\ref{fig:sdvdZoomIn}).

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/desc_CVDist_ZoomOut.png}
\caption{CV distribution for the quantitative data.}\label{fig:sdvdZoomOut}
\end {figure}

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/desc_CVDist_ZoomIn.png}
\caption{Zoom in of the CV distribution for the quantitative data.}
\label{fig:sdvdZoomIn}
\end {figure}


\subsection{Differential analysis}\label{diffana}

If one clicks on \textbf{Differential analysis} in the \textbf{Data mining} 
menu, it is possible to analyze the protein-level outputs of all statistical 
tests (see Section~\ref{sec:hp}).
Such analysis follows 5 steps, each corresponding to a separate tab in the 
\textbf{Differential analysis} menu.

\subsubsection{General methodology}

On the first tab, select a pairwise comparison of interest\footnote{In case of 
a dataset with only 2 different conditions, only one comparison is possible.}. 
The corresponding volcano plot is displayed. By clicking on a protein in the 
volcano plot, one or several tables appears below the plot. In any case, a 
table containing the  intensity values of the protein across the samples is 
displayed, with the same color code as in the Data explorer (for missing 
values for instance). In addition, if peptide-level information has been 
uploaded in the \Biocpkg{Prostar} session, then, the intensity values of the 
protein can be linked to the original peptides of the dataset. Thus, the 
peptides intensities (for both protein-specific and shared peptides) are 
displayed in the 2 other tables.

Possibly, swap the FC axis with the corresponding tick-box, depending on 
layout preferences. Possibly, push some p-values to 1, as detailed in 
Section~\ref{sec:pushpval} (see Figure~\ref{fig:pushpval}). 
\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/pushpval.png}
\caption{Differential analysis - Tab 1}\label{fig:pushpval}
\end {figure}

Then move on to the next tab, referred to as \textbf{p-value calibration} 
(see Figure~\ref{fig:cp4p-default}).  
Possibly\footnote{The default tuning of the calibration being the most 
conservative one, it is possible to skip this step without any risk to spoil 
the data.}, tune the calibration method, as as detailed in 
Section~\ref{sec:cp4p}.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/cp4p-default.png}
\caption{Differential analysis - Tab 2}\label{fig:cp4p-default}
\end {figure}

Move on to the next tab and adjust the FDR threshold (see 
Figure~\ref{fig:fdr-thresh}), which corresponds to the horizontal dashed line 
on the volcano plot.  The checkbox ``Show p-value table'' displays a table 
below the volcano plot, where each line represents a protein along with its 
p-value and logFC. Moreover, it is indicated by a binary variable if, 
according to the FDR threshold, the protein is deemed differentially abundant 
or not. For better visualization, this binary variable also encodes the color 
code applied to each line. The ``Tooltip'' parameter amounts to the list of 
the avialable meta-data. It is possible to select several of them. The 
selected one will (1) appear beside the mouse pointer when flying over each 
protein point in the volcano plot; (2) add the corresponding column in the 
table below the volcano plot. This table can be easily exported: The user only 
has to choose whether all the proteins should appear in the exported table, or 
only the differentially abundant ones. The volcano plot can be saved thanks to 
the menu available in the upper right corner of the plot.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/fdr-thresh.png}
\caption{Differential analysis - Tab 3}\label{fig:fdr-thresh}
\end {figure}

Move on to the last tab (referred to as \textbf{Summary}) to have a 
comprehensive overview of the differential analysis parameters (see 
Figure~\ref{fig:anadiffsum}). If necessary copy/paste this table for later use.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/anadiffsum.png}
\caption{Differential analysis - Tab 4}\label{fig:anadiffsum}
\end {figure}

Possibly, go back to the first tab, so as to select another pairwise 
comparison and process it. Alternatively, it is possible to continue with the 
current protein list so as to explore the functional profiles of the proteins 
found statistically differentially abundant between the compared conditions 
(see Section~\ref{sec:GOAnalysis}).



\subsubsection{Focus on: Push p-values}\label{sec:pushpval}
When working on more than two conditions to compare, the missing value 
filtering options may be difficult to tune, as a given protein can be 
well-observed in a group of conditions (with no or few missing values) and 
largely missing in the remaining conditions. To avoid missing relevant 
proteins with such a behavior, it is advised to be rather loose at the 
filtering step (for instance by filtering only proteins that are never seen in 
the majority of the samples of each condition).

However, with loose filters, proteins with many missing values are kept in the 
dataset and are then imputed, so as to present a complete intensity 
distribution for the differential analysis.
Therefore, when focusing on a specific comparison among the multiple possible 
ones, it is thus possible to face proteins which have largely been imputed in 
the two conditions, so that in practice, one analyses the differential 
abundance of a protein that is probabibly missing in the two conditions. From 
an analytical viewpoint, such protein must not appears as differentially 
abundant, even if its p-value is exceptional, for it is too largely based on 
imputed values that are not trustworthy.

This is why, the push p-value option is proposed: it makes it possible to 
force the p-values of these proteins to 1, and prevent them to become false 
discoveries. Concretely, one simply has to tune 
parameters of the menu, which are similar to those of the missing value 
filtering (Section~\ref{sec:filtering}). However, instead of producing 
discarding some proteins, it keeps them with a p-value forced to 1 (i.e. a 
log(p-value) to 0).

As an illustration, Figure~\ref{fig:pushpval} displays a case were all the 
proteins with less than 2 observed (i.e. not imputed) values within each 
condition have their p-values pushed to 1. These proteins appear as points on 
the horizontal axis of the graph. Notably, the snapshot was made when the 
mouse pointer had clicked on one of these proteins which p-value was pushed 
(the one with an intensity value between 5.5 and 6). Its intensity values 
across the samples appears in the table below, where one observes that 5 out 
of 6 values are colored as POV or MEC (see Section~\ref{sec:imputation}). 
Clearly, such a protein as very poor mass spectrometry evidence, so that even 
if the imputed values are of different magnitude (leading to a theoretically 
appealing p-value), it makes sense to discard it.

\subsubsection{Focus on: Calibration plots}\label{sec:cp4p}

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/cp4p-ideal.png}
\caption{The ideal case of well calibrated p-values}\label{fig:cp4p-ideal}
\end {figure}

The primary goal of a calibration plot is to check that the p-values have a 
distribution that is compliant with FDR computation theory.
Given a supposedly known proportion of non-diffentially abundant proteins 
(generally noted $\pi_0$), a good calibration plot is supposed to depict a 
curve that follows a straight line of slope $\pi_0$ except for a sharp 
increase on the right hand side, as depicted on Figure~\ref{fig:cp4p-ideal}. 
The sharp increase, which is the sign of a good discrimination between 
proteins which are differentially abundant and those which are not, is 
depicted in green. On the contrary, any bulb of the curve above the $\pi_0$ 
line (in blue), anywhere in the middle of the graph is depicted in red, for 
it is the sign of an insufficient calibration. On Figure~\ref{fig:cp4p-ideal}, 
the calibration deviation is almost immaterial and the sharpness of the right 
hand side increase is real: both can be noticed thanks to colored caption 
(*Uniformity underestimation* relates to possible red bulps and 
*DA protein concentration* relates to the sharpness of the green region; the 
last caption, in blue, being $\pi_0$).

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/cp4p-pb1.png}
\caption{Badly calibrated p-values, case 1}\label{fig:cp4p-pb1}
\end {figure}


\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/cp4p-pb2.png}
\caption{Badly calibrated p-values, case 2}\label{fig:cp4p-pb2}
\end {figure}

However, it is possible to face situations where the right hand side is not 
sharp enough (see Figure~\ref{fig:cp4p-pb1}), or where the entire distribution 
is ill-calibrated (see Figure~\ref{fig:cp4p-pb2}).
In such a cases, FDR computation would lead to spurious values and to 
biologically irrelevant conclusions. However, if the calibration is not too 
bad, it is possible to compensate it, by overestimating $\pi_0$. This what the 
first calibration is made for (see Figure~\ref{fig:cp4p-choice}): several 
different estimates are depicted by lines of various slope, so as to help the 
practitioner to choose the most adapted one to the p-value distribution at 
hand. In the worst case, it is always possible to chose the Benjamini-Hochberg 
options (corresponding to the safer case of $\pi_0=1$), which is not 
represented on the graph for it always corresponds to a diagonal line.

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/cp4p-choice.png}
\caption{Tuning the $\pi_0$ estimate}\label{fig:cp4p-choice}
\end {figure}

For more details, the interested reader is referred to the \CRANpkg{CP4P} 
package and the companion publication available in the ``Useful links'' page 
of \Biocpkg{Prostar} (as well as our tutorial on FDR published by JPR in 2017, 
also referenced on the same page).



\subsection{Gene Ontology analysis}\label{sec:GOAnalysis}

The Gene Ontology (GO, \url{http://www.geneontology.org}) is a controlled 
vocabulary for
annotating three biological aspects of gene products. This ontology is made of 
three 
parts : Molecular Function (MF), Biological Process (BP) and Cellular Component 
(CC). 

\textbf{GO analysis} is proposed in the \textbf{Data 
mining} menu. It aims to provide the user with a global view of what is 
impacted (in a biological point of view) in the experiment, by showing which
GO terms are represented (GO classification tab), or over-represented compared 
to a reference (GO enrichment tab). 

\Biocpkg{Prostar} relies on the package \Biocpkg{clusterProfiler} to perform 
both GO Classification and GO Enrichment. We propose a GO analysis interface 
with four separated tabs (see Figure~\ref{fig:GO_tab1}): 
\begin{itemize}
\item GO Setup 
\item GO classification
\item Go Enrichment
\item Parameter summary
\end{itemize}

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/GO_tab1.png}
\caption{GO Setup tab}\label{fig:GO_tab1}
\end {figure}

The left-hand side of the \textbf{GO Setup} tab allows it to set the input 
parameters, namely: 
\begin{itemize}
\item \textbf{Source of protein ID}: user indicates either a column in the 
current dataset or chooses a file (1 ID per line). 
\item \textbf{Id From}: the type of ID supplied (UNIPROT by default).
\item \textbf{Genome Wide Annotation}: the organism to consider for the 
analysis.  
\item \textbf{Ontology}: the level of the ontology to work with. 
\end{itemize}

Once these parameters filled, clicking on \textbf{Map proteins IDs} launches 
the mapping
of the IDs onto the GO categories of the annotation package. 
Then, on the right-hand side of the panel, 
the proportion of proteins that cannot be mapped onto the annotation package
is indicated (this informative ouput does not interrupt the process, unless no 
protein maps). Next step is to perform either GO Classification or GO 
Enrichment (or both). 

In the \textbf{GO Classification} tab (see Figure~\ref{fig:GO_tab2}), one has 
to indicate which level(s) of the ontology to consider.
Then clicking on the "Perform GO grouping" button launches the analysis 
(function \Rfunction{groupGO()} of the \Biocpkg{clusterProfiler} package). 
The graphics shows the most represented GO categories for a user-defined 
ontology at (a) user-defined level(s).

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/GO_tab2.png}
\caption{GO classification tab}\label{fig:GO_tab2}
\end {figure}

The \textbf{GO Enrichment} tab (see Figure~\ref{fig:GO_tab3}) allows it to 
know which
GO categories are significantly enriched in the users list, compared 
to a chosen reference ('background' or 'universe'). 
This background can either be : 
\begin{enumerate}
\item the entire 
organism (in this case, the totality of the proteins identified with an 
"ENTREZGENE" ID in the annotation package specified in the GO Setup tab 
constitutes the background), or 
\item  the entire dataset loaded in Prostar (e.g. all the proteins IDs of the 
'Leading\_razor\_protein' column of the dataset, as illustrated on 
Figure~\ref{fig:GO_tab1}), or 
\item  a custom IDs list provided in a separate file by the user (one ID per 
line). 
\end{enumerate}


\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/GO_tab3.png}
\caption{GO enrichment tab}\label{fig:GO_tab3}
\end {figure}

The enrichment tab calls the \Rfunction{groupGO()} function of the 
\Biocpkg{clusterProfiler} package. This function performs a significance test
for each category, followed by a multiple test correction at a user-defined 
level.
Concretely, this level is tuned thanks to 
the "FDR (BH Adjusted $P$-value cutoff)" field. 
Analysis is launched by clicking the \textbf{Perform enrichment analysis} 
button.

Once the analysis has been performed, the result is displayed via two graphics 
on the right-hand side of the panel (see Figure~\ref{fig:GO_tab3}). 
The first one (top) is a barplot showing the five most significant categories. 
The length of each bar represents the number of proteins within the 
corresponding category. 
The second one (bottom) is a dotplot ranked by decreasing \textit{GeneRatio}, 
which reads: 
$$
{\textit{GeneRatio}}
=
\frac{\#(\mbox{Genes of the input list in this category})}
{\#(\mbox{Total number of Genes in the category})}.
$$


The last tab is the \textbf{Save GO analysis} one. It allows saving the results:
GO classification, GO enrichment, or both (see Figure~\ref{fig:GO_tab4}).
Then, a new GOAnalysis dataset is created and loaded in memory. 

As usual in Prostar, it is possible to export this new dataset via the 
\textbf{Data
manager} menu, either in MSnSet or in Excel format. 

\begin {figure}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{images/GO_tab4.png}
\caption{GO analysis summary}\label{fig:GO_tab4}
\end {figure}

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%\subsection{Affinity purification comparisons}
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\section{Session information}\label{sec:sessionInfo}

```{r}
sessionInfo()
```
