diffexpr

A python package using rpy2 to port DESeq2 into python.

Installation

Dependencies are pandas (python), rpy2 (python), and DESeq2 (R) Best way to setup the environment should be via docker, but it should also be possible to install the dependency packages using conda:

conda config --add channels defaults
conda config --add channels bioconda
conda config --add channels conda-forge
conda create -q -n diffexpr python=3.6 \
    pandas tzlocal rpy2 biopython ReportLab pytest-cov \
    bioconductor-deseq2 codecov
conda activate diffexpr # activate diffexpr environment
Rscript setup.R #to install DESeq2 correctly 
python setup.py install

Docker

We build two docker images in our CI workflow:

diffexpr (ghcr.io/wckdouglas/diffexpr/diffexpr): contains minimal dependencies for executing code in this package
diffexpr-dev (ghcr.io/wckdouglas/diffexpr/diffexpr-dev): is the same as diffexpr, but with additional python packages (matplotlib, seaborn, and jupyterlab) for using this package in jupyter notebook analysis (see below for how to spin up the jupyterlab instance from within the container), feel free to file an issue or put a PR to include your favorite packages!

Example

An example of running DESeq2 in python using diffexpr package is provided here.

This should be reproducible by:

git clone https://github.com/wckdouglas/diffexpr.git
cd diffexpr
docker run \
    -p 1234:1234 \
    --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)",target=/jupyter \
    ghcr.io/wckdouglas/diffexpr/diffexpr-dev:master

and go to http://localhost:1234 to access the jupyter lab instance

The --mount type=bind,source="$(pwd)",target=/jupyter option will mount the local filesystem (current directory) at /jupyter, such that the container has access to all the files under the current directory, the example notebook is under /jupyter/example/deseq_example.ipynb:

Citation

‼️ Please cite the original DESeq2 paper if you used this package in your work:

@article{Love2014,
  doi = {10.1186/s13059-014-0550-8},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-014-0550-8},
  year = {2014},
  month = dec,
  publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}},
  volume = {15},
  number = {12},
  author = {Michael I Love and Wolfgang Huber and Simon Anders},
  title = {Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for {RNA}-seq data with {DESeq}2},
  journal = {Genome Biology}
}

Alternatives

pyDESeq2 is a pure python implementation of DESeq2.