--- title: "Modeling site, platform, relatedness, and spatial structure" author: "Selçuk Korkmaz" date: "`r Sys.Date()`" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette: toc: true vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Modeling site, platform, relatedness, and spatial structure} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8} --- ```{r setup, include=FALSE} knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>", message = FALSE, warning = FALSE ) library(splitGraph) ``` Beyond the classic subject / batch / study / time relations, `splitGraph` models several further leakage axes, in two families: - **Cluster-style relations** — collection **site**, tissue / anatomical **region**, sequencing **platform**, and **assay** — are categorical groupings. Each is auto-detected from a metadata column and handled by its own constraint mode, exactly like `subject` or `batch`. - **Pairwise relations** — genetic **relatedness** and **spatial** proximity — are continuous and defined *between pairs*. They are modelled as thresholded edges and grouped by transitive closure, a partition a single categorical column cannot express. This vignette builds and groups by each, and shows how the threshold drives the pairwise grouping. # Cluster-style relations: site, region, platform, assay `graph_from_metadata()` auto-detects `site_id`, `region_id`, `platform_id`, and `assay_id` columns and builds the corresponding typed nodes and edges. Each then has its own constraint mode. The example below uses site, platform, and assay; `region` behaves identically (a `region_id` column and `mode = "region"`) and is omitted only to keep the output short. ```{r cluster} meta <- data.frame( sample_id = paste0("S", 1:6), subject_id = c("P1", "P1", "P2", "P2", "P3", "P3"), site_id = c("NYC", "NYC", "BOS", "BOS", "NYC", "BOS"), platform_id = c("illumina", "illumina", "nanopore", "nanopore", "illumina", "nanopore"), assay_id = c("rnaseq", "rnaseq", "rnaseq", "wgs", "wgs", "wgs"), stringsAsFactors = FALSE ) g <- graph_from_metadata(meta, graph_name = "structure-demo") grouping_vector(derive_split_constraints(g, mode = "site")) grouping_vector(derive_split_constraints(g, mode = "platform")) grouping_vector(derive_split_constraints(g, mode = "assay")) ``` Whatever mode is primary, every detected cluster relation is also carried into the `split_spec` as a *blocking annotation*, so a downstream consumer can block on site, platform, or assay even when the split unit is something else — here, subject: ```{r block-annotations} spec <- as_split_spec(derive_split_constraints(g, mode = "subject"), graph = g) spec$block_vars head(spec$sample_data[, c("sample_id", "group_id", "site_group", "platform_group", "assay_group")]) ``` Any of these relations can also participate in a **composite** derivation, where several dependency sources are combined and each connected component becomes one group: ```{r composite} constraint <- derive_split_constraints( g, mode = "composite", strategy = "strict", via = c("Subject", "Site", "Platform") ) grouping_vector(constraint) ``` # Pairwise relation: genetic relatedness Some leakage is pairwise and continuous rather than a clean grouping. Genetic relatedness is the canonical example: a kinship coefficient — typically from a tool such as KING or PLINK — links *pairs* of subjects. `relatedness_edges_from_kinship()` takes such a pair table, keeps pairs at or above a threshold, and emits `subject_related_to` edges; `mode = "relatedness"` then groups by transitive closure over those edges (so a chain of related individuals lands in one group). ```{r relatedness} # A kinship table over subject pairs (one sample per subject here for clarity). # P1-P2 and P2-P3 clear the threshold and chain together; P5-P6 form a second # related pair; P1-P4 is too weak to count. kin <- data.frame( id1 = c("P1", "P2", "P1", "P5"), id2 = c("P2", "P3", "P4", "P6"), kinship = c(0.25, 0.20, 0.02, 0.30), stringsAsFactors = FALSE ) rel_edges <- relatedness_edges_from_kinship(kin, threshold = 0.1) meta_r <- data.frame( sample_id = paste0("S", 1:6), subject_id = paste0("P", 1:6), stringsAsFactors = FALSE ) samples <- create_nodes(meta_r, "Sample", "sample_id") subjects <- create_nodes(meta_r, "Subject", "subject_id") belongs <- create_edges(meta_r, "sample_id", "subject_id", "Sample", "Subject", "sample_belongs_to_subject") g_rel <- build_dependency_graph(list(samples, subjects), list(belongs, rel_edges)) rel_groups <- grouping_vector(derive_split_constraints(g_rel, mode = "relatedness")) rel_groups ``` The grouping is a transitive closure over the `subject_related_to` edges. The network below draws those edges between subjects, coloured by the relatedness group each subject (and therefore its samples) lands in: the P1–P2–P3 chain becomes one group even though P1 and P3 were never linked directly, P5–P6 form a second, and the unrelated P4 stands alone. ```{r rel-plot, fig.width = 6.5, fig.height = 4.5} subject_group <- setNames(rel_groups[meta_r$sample_id], meta_r$subject_id) kept_pairs <- kin[kin$kinship >= 0.1, c("id1", "id2")] rel_net <- igraph::graph_from_data_frame( kept_pairs, directed = FALSE, vertices = data.frame(name = meta_r$subject_id) ) palette_rel <- c("#4C78A8", "#F58518", "#54A24B", "#B279A2") set.seed(1) plot(rel_net, vertex.color = palette_rel[as.integer(factor(subject_group[igraph::V(rel_net)$name]))], vertex.size = 34, vertex.label.color = "white", vertex.label.font = 2, edge.color = "grey60", edge.width = 2, main = "Relatedness clusters (kinship >= 0.1)") ``` The threshold is the key knob, and it belongs to the *edge-building* step, not the grouping. Raising it drops weaker links: at `0.22` the P2–P3 pair (kinship `0.20`) no longer qualifies, so that chain breaks and P3 splits into its own group, while the stronger P5–P6 pair is untouched: ```{r rel-threshold} rel_strict <- relatedness_edges_from_kinship(kin, threshold = 0.22) g_rel_strict <- build_dependency_graph(list(samples, subjects), list(belongs, rel_strict)) grouping_vector(derive_split_constraints(g_rel_strict, mode = "relatedness")) ``` # Pairwise relation: spatial proximity Spatial proximity works the same way over sample coordinates — for example spot locations from spatial transcriptomics, positions on a tissue slide, or geographic site coordinates. `spatial_edges_from_coords()` connects samples within a radius (Euclidean distance over the coordinate columns), and `mode = "spatial"` groups the resulting connected components. ```{r spatial} # Two spatial clusters. Cluster 1 (S1-S3) is a chain: neighbouring pairs are # within the radius, but the endpoints are not. coords <- data.frame( sample_id = paste0("S", 1:6), x = c(0, 1, 2, 6.0, 6.9, 6.2), y = c(0, 1, 0, 6.0, 6.6, 5.3), stringsAsFactors = FALSE ) adj_edges <- spatial_edges_from_coords(coords, radius = 1.5) meta_s <- data.frame( sample_id = paste0("S", 1:6), subject_id = paste0("P", 1:6), stringsAsFactors = FALSE ) samples_s <- create_nodes(meta_s, "Sample", "sample_id") subjects_s <- create_nodes(meta_s, "Subject", "subject_id") belongs_s <- create_edges(meta_s, "sample_id", "subject_id", "Sample", "Subject", "sample_belongs_to_subject") g_sp <- build_dependency_graph(list(samples_s, subjects_s), list(belongs_s, adj_edges)) sp_groups <- grouping_vector(derive_split_constraints(g_sp, mode = "spatial")) sp_groups ``` Plotting the coordinates, drawing the within-radius adjacency edges in grey, and colouring points by the derived group makes the transitive closure concrete: S1–S2 and S2–S3 are each within the `1.5` radius, so all three share a group even though S1 and S3 are `2` units apart and were never linked directly. Every sample in the second cluster is likewise reachable from the others, while the two clusters are far enough apart to stay separate: ```{r sp-plot, fig.width = 6.5, fig.height = 5} sp_grp <- factor(sp_groups[coords$sample_id]) row_of <- setNames(seq_len(nrow(coords)), coords$sample_id) from_i <- row_of[sub("^sample:", "", adj_edges$data$from)] to_i <- row_of[sub("^sample:", "", adj_edges$data$to)] palette_sp <- c("#4C78A8", "#F58518") plot(coords$x, coords$y, type = "n", asp = 1, xlab = "x", ylab = "y", main = "Spatial groups (radius = 1.5)") segments(coords$x[from_i], coords$y[from_i], coords$x[to_i], coords$y[to_i], col = "grey60", lwd = 2) points(coords$x, coords$y, pch = 19, cex = 3.5, col = palette_sp[as.integer(sp_grp)]) text(coords$x, coords$y, labels = coords$sample_id, col = "white", cex = 0.8, font = 2) legend("topleft", legend = levels(sp_grp), pch = 19, col = palette_sp[seq_along(levels(sp_grp))], title = "Spatial group", bty = "n") ``` # Deriving on a subset is leakage-safe Real splits are derived on a *subset* of samples — the training rows, say. For pairwise (and composite) modes this raises a subtle question: if a sample that *bridges* two others is left out of the subset, could those two still inherit a shared group from the full graph? They do not. When you pass `samples =`, grouping is recomputed within that subset, so structure that exists only through an excluded sample never leaks across the split. The spatial chain makes this visible. S1 and S3 shared a group only because S2 bridged them; ask for S1 and S3 alone, and they correctly fall into separate groups: ```{r subset-scoping} grouping_vector( derive_split_constraints(g_sp, mode = "spatial", samples = c("S1", "S3")) ) ``` # Thresholds are inputs, not modeling Because the threshold (kinship cutoff, spatial radius) is applied up front in the edge-building helpers, it is a *derivation input*, not a modeling choice: `splitGraph` forms groups over whatever edges survive and never computes folds itself. The resulting `split_spec` is handed to a downstream consumer for execution, exactly as with every other mode — see the *adapter-cookbook* and *cross-language-handoff* vignettes for that step.