A dimensionality reduction technique particularly well suited for visualizing data. (For references, see https://lvdmaaten.github.io/tsne)

The parameters that were used for running t-SNE here are: 50 initial dimensions, perplexity of 30, and theta of 0.5. For datasets with <= 5000 samples, the standard t-SNE algorithm is used. For larger datasets, the Barnes-Hut algorithm is employed.

A dimensionality reduction technique in which the two principal components are chosen to have the largest possible variance.

To analyze relationships between perturbations, we utilize the framework of connectivity. A connectivity score between two perturbations quantifies the similarity of the cellular responses evoked by these perturbations. A score of 1 means that these two perturbations are more similar to each other than 100% of other perturbation pairs. A score of -1 means that these two perturbations are more dissimilar to each other than 100% of other perturbation pairs.

See a heatmap of connections between individual perturbagens in cell lines and all other perturbagens used for the P100 assay or the GCP assay. The tutorial describes the features of the heatmap.

Bring data, in GCT format, from your own P100 or GCP studies to query against our datasets.

Introspect means querying your dataset against itself. Make sure to "Include Introspect" if you would like to see connections within your dataset (in addition to connections between your dataset and Touchstone-P).

In computing connectivity, biological or technical replicates can be aggregated together. Please select which metadata fields should be used to recognize replicates. For example, if you wish to distinguish between different doses of the same compound, make sure to select "pert_dose" (or something similar) as one of the metadata fields by which to group replicates. The possible metadata fields by which to group replicates only appear after you have upload your GCT and selected "Yes" for "Are there replicates in your data?".


Matched mode: When running GUTC, incorporates cell-line information to match query data against matching cell types in Touchstone. Currently this includes the following 9 cell types : [A375, A549, HEPG2, HCC515, HA1E, HT29, MCF7, PC3, VCAP].
Unmatched mode (recommended): When running GUTC, does not incorporate cell-line information when querying the data against Touchstone signatures.


L-Build ("Light" Build):  All levels of L1000 data up to aggregated signatures.
Full Build:  All levels of L1000 data up to aggregated signatures, as well as all relevant additional analyses of the data (Introspect, t-SNE, PCA, etc.).

When querying Touchstone, Feature Space determines what set of genes to query against. When perturbagens are profiled on the L1000 platform, Landmark is recommended. When the queries you wish to use are not landmarks, use BING instead.

Root location within a brew folder that contains the instance matrices and the brew_group folder. Default is brew/pc

List of expected treatment doses in micromolar as a listmaker list. If provided, dose discretization is applied to the pert_dose metadata field to generate a canonicalized pert_idose field. Note this assumes that the pert_dose annotations are in micromolar.

Generates TAS plots and connectivity heatmap of preliminary callibration plates to identify the most suitable experimental conditions of specified parameters. Tool should be run on small pilot experiments, with a variety of experimental parameters such as seeding density and time point. Plots can also be decoupled by parameters such as cell id.

Column filter to sig_build_tool as a listmaker collection

The name of the build used when generating all associated files and folders (e.g. <BUILD_CODE>_metadata). For this reason, the code must be filename compatible.

When merging replicates for L1000, several versions of the merged data are made. This parameter determines which version to use when creating your build. by_rna_well is the default. by_rna_well is recommended.

All data is from the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia resource. Expression data was released 15-Aug-2017, copy number data is dated 27-May-2014, and mutational data is dated 15-Aug-2017.


Feature Mapping: Ensembl Ids from the source data were mapped to Entrez Gene Ids using gene annotations from NCBI (downloaded on 02-Mar-2016).
Normalization:  RNAseq RPKM values were log2 transformed using log2(max(RPKM, eps)). The data were then normalized such that the expression values were comparable across cell lines, by minimizing technical variation and equalizing their distributions (for details of the normalization, see LISS and QNORM entries in the Connectopedia glossary). Post-normalization, the expression values range between 4 and 15 log2 units, with 4 indicating that a gene is minimally or not expressed and 15 indicating the maximum readout.
Z-scores: The number of standard deviations that a gene is above or below the population mean is called its z-score. The "robust" z-score is resistant to outliers by using median instead of mean and median absolute deviation (MAD) instead of standard deviation. The reference population used to compute the median and MAD for a particular gene is all CCLE lines with data for that gene.
Z-scores Within Primary Site: Similar to z-scores, but the reference population used to compute the median and MAD is all CCLE lines from the same lineage with data for that gene.

All scores indicated are in log 2 ratios to reference, binned using the heuristics described in CNVkit.

Deletion:  score < -1.1
Loss:  -1.1 ≤ score ≤ -0.25
No change:  -0.25 < score < +0.2
Gain: +0.2 ≤ score < +0.7
Amplification: +0.7 ≤ score

Access a suite of analysis apps by clicking on the menu (or type command-K to open)

Switch between running a single query and running a batch query.

Give each query a descriptive name that will help you identify your results.

Tip: Each list can have a different number of genes; in fact, you can run a query with only one list (up OR down).

Your query will take about 5 minutes to process; check the History section in the Menu for your results!

Valid genes used in the query have HUGO symbols or Entrez IDs and are well-inferred or directly measured by L1000 (member of the BING gene set). Valid genes not used in a query are those that have a valid HUGO or Entrez identifier but are not part of the BING set. Invalid genes do not have HUGO or Entrez IDs.

Give each query a descriptive name that will help you identify your results.

Your query will take about 5 minutes to process; check the History section in the Menu for your results!

The sig_fastgutc_tool is a reimplementation of our query algorithm that enables faster query results, especially at larger batch sizes. It is the result of crowd-sourced contest. It is currently in beta mode.

Filter datasets by category to see only those of interest.

Data Icons identify published and proprietary datasets.

Click on a row to see a summary of that dataset, including cell lines and treatment conditions, assay type, and dates.

Arrange the table to display the information most important for your work, and add key datasets to favorites.

View details about the collection as a whole and about individual compounds.

View subsets of compounds based on mechanism, drug target, or known disease application.

Purity is assessed by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS) of compounds after receipt from the vendor.

Status as of publication of this resource (March 2017). We will be updating this but let us know if you notice a discrepancy.

Click on a compound to see details about its structure, mechanism, targets, approval status, and vendor.

Mouse over this graphic to see the classes of proteins targeted by drugs in the hub.

This is the current count of perturbagens in the reference (touchstone) dataset.

Select data from perturbagens grouped by their MoA or role in the cell.

Choose a perturbagen type, or view them all.

Touchstone is our reference dataset, made from well-annotated perturbagens profiled in a core set of 9 cell lines.

Detailed List is unavailable for Touchstone v1.1.1.1. A new data visualization approach is in development, but to get results in a table format (similar to Detailed View), please click on Heat Map and download the dataset as a GCT file that can be viewed in Excel or similar apps. Please see here for a detailed explanation.

Articles are tagged with topics. Click on a topic tag to see all related articles.

Look it up! A quick reference guide of CMap terms and their meanings.

Email us with your questions.

Click on the heading to read all the articles in this section on a single page, or open each article separately.

Click on a heading to open a menu of articles.

Each article is tagged with key words that describe its content.

Underlined words link to their definition in the CMap glossary.

Your feedback helps us make Connectopedia more useful.

Average transcriptional impact

TAS is a metric that incorporates the signature strength (the number of significantly differentially expressed transcripts) and signature concordance (the reproducibility of those changes across biological replicates) to capture activity of a compound. The score is computed as the geometric mean of the signature strength and the 75th quantile of pairwise replicate correlations for a given signature. Prior to computing the geometric mean, the signature strength is multiplied by the square root of the number of replicates. This serves to mitigate score shrinkage with increasing replicate number and allows TAS values derived from signatures of different numbers of replicates to be compared with each other.

Signature diversity

Thick black bars signify Transcriptional Activity Scores greater than or equal to 0.5; thinner black bars denote scores less than 0.5. Absence of a bar means no data available. Colored lines (chords) signify similar connectivity scores between cell lines; red for positive connectivity scores of 80-100 (pale to intense color according to the score); blue for negative connectivity. Chords are only shown when TAS scores are > 0.5; thus absence of a chord either means that the perturbagen TAS score is very low, or that no data is available. Chords for individual cell lines can be isolated from the rest of the figure by hovering over the cell line name.

Baseline expression of this gene in each cell line is represented as a z-score (top numbers). Scores were calculated using robust z-score formula:

z-scorei = ( xi - median( X ) )/( MAD( X ) * 1.4826 ),

where:

xi is expression value of a given gene in i-th cell line

X = [ x1, x2 ... xn ] is a vector of expression values for a given gene across n cell lines

MAD( X ) is a median absolute deviation of X

1.4826 is a constant to rescale the score as if the standard deviation of X instead of MAD was used

Median and MAD expression values were calculated using RNA-Seq profiles from a total of 1022 cell lines, comprising data from the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE; Barretina, et al.) and cell lines nominated by the CMap team. Plots show z-score values only for the core LINCS lines used by CMap in L1000 experiments. Light red or light blue regions indicate positive or negative outlier expression, respectively, of the gene relative to the other lines shown; z-score of a positive outlier in the corresponding cell line is in dark red and a negative outlier is in dark blue.

Summary class connectivity shows a boxplot that summarizes the connectivity of a class. Each data point, shown as a light gray dot, represents the median value of connectivity of one member to the other class members. (This corresponds to the median for each row, excluding the main diagonal, in the heatmap shown below.) The box is the distribution of those data points, where the box boundary represents the interquartile range, the vertical line within the box is the median, and the whiskers reflect the minimum and maximum values of the data (exclusive of extreme outliers, which may appear beyond the whiskers).

Connectivity between members of class is a standard heat map of the connectivity scores, summarized across cell lines, between members of the class, where dark red represents the highest positive scores and deep blue the highest negative scores. Individual scores are revealed to the left below the map by hovering over each cell of the map.

Class inter-cell line connectivity is a plot of the median (black line) and Q25-Q75 connectivity scores (blue area around black line) for each cell line as well as the summary scores across cell lines. In some cases perturbations have not been tested in every cell line; the absence of data is indicated by a “0” for that cell line. The example shown reveals that these estrogen agonists show the strongest connectivity to each other in MCF7, a human breast cancer cell line that expresses the estrogen receptor.

Profile status

Colored portion of top bar indicates the Broad assays in which this compound has been profiled.

L1000 cell/dose coverage

For compounds profiled by L1000, cell lines and dose range for which signatures are available are indicated by dark gray bars (lighter gray bar indicates no data is available for that cell line/dose combination). A bar displayed one row above the 10 uM row indicates that doses higher than 10uM were tested. The 6 rows correspond to 6 canonical doses: 20 nM, 100 nM, 500 nM, 1 uM, 2.5 uM, and 10 uM. (In some cases non-canonical doses were tested; these are rounded to the nearest canonical dose for the purpose of this display. For example, if the dose tested was 3.33uM, the 2.5uM bar is shown in dark gray here.)

LINCS Connectivity Map
Workshop Series 2018
LINCS Connectivity Map
Workshop Series 2018
The NIH LINCS Program and the Connectivity Map at the Broad Institute are pleased to announce training workshops on the analysis of large-scale perturbational datasets for biological applications.

Overview

The Connectivity Map at the Broad Institute leads the generation and analysis of large-scale perturbational gene-expression datasets for the NIH LINCS consortium. As part of this effort, over 2 million L1000 profiles have been generated and several additional datasets are being planned. In addition, a number of collaborative projects are ongoing where L1000 data are applied to studies aimed at the identification of the mechanism-of-action of small molecules, identification of gene targets, assessing off-target effects, etc.

Our aim in launching this training workshop series is to help the research community more effectively access and analyze these information-rich datasets. Additionally, we seek to gather feedback from our user community as we plan future L1000 data generation campaigns.

Workshop Series (December 4-6)

A suite of training modules aimed at users of L1000 and LINCS data will be offered. Content will be geared toward people familiar with Connectivity Map or gene expression analysis.

Sessions will include:

  • CMap Data Access and Resources. Using the clue.io platform to efficiently access LINCS and Connectivity Map data, APIs and analysis tools.
  • The Next 2M Profiles. A deep dive into the upcoming release of 2,000,000 gene expression profiles generated by CMap-LINCS.
  • Integrative Connectivity Map. Improving predictions of biological function through the integration of diverse readouts, including gene expression, cell morphology, cell viability and phosphoproteomics.
  • L1000 CRISPR. First reports from the generation and analysis of CRISPR-based loss-of-function signatures of 5,525 genes.
  • Data Visualization and Emerging Analysis Tools. Advances in analytical methods, data harmonization, and tools from the LINCS consortium.
  • Connectivity Map Case Studies. Examples of Connectivity Map L1000 applications in therapeutic discovery projects.
  • Collaboration and Brainstorming. Opportunities to interact and share thoughts with LINCS scientific staff and Broad Institute project leaders.
  • Partner and Share Feedback. Learn how to partner with our team at the Broad Institute to generate L1000 profiles of interest to you, and participate in forums to propose the next LINCS datasets.

Academic and industry researchers working in any relevant scientific discipline where these data may be used are welcome to apply.

Apply and Give Us Your Feedback

Due to limited seats, we ask that anyone who would like to attend please click on the register button above and fill out the brief form (it will take less than 3 minutes to complete). This brief form asks about your experience with Connectivity Map and LINCS so that we might invite users who will maximally benefit from the planned content. In addition, we also welcome your thoughts on the workshop content you might like to see.

Frequently Asked Questions

WHEN IS THE WORKSHOP?

Training workshops will be on Dec 4 - Dec 6, and all events will be at the Broad Institute in Boston. To help plan your travel, we will start at 1:00 PM ET on Tuesday December 4, there will be a full day of workshops throughout Wednesday Dec 5, and the last day on Thursday December 6 will run from 9:00 AM ET to around 1:00 PM ET.

DO I NEED TO REGISTER?

Yes. Due to limited availability, please submit the brief application form (see above for link).

WHO ARE THESE WORKSHOPS INTENDED FOR?

Workshops are intended as training modules for all researchers who have applied or are interested in applying LINCS CMap data to scientific problems. Hence some degree of familiarity with CMap and gene expression analysis is a prerequisite. The training workshops will be focused on computational analysis and interpretation of results, and we recommend that all participants be comfortable with programming.

I AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH CONNECTIVITY MAP DATA, BUT WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND. CAN I APPLY?

We are thrilled to hear that you would like to use the resource! This workshop series is intended for users who are either familiar with these data or have a clear use case for this analysis. Please complete the registration form above and we will try to accommodate as many participants as possible. Also, there are also several resources on clue.io to help you get started with the Connectivity Map should you not be able to attend this year’s training workshop.

ARE TRAVEL GRANTS AVAILABLE?

Yes, academic attendees are eligible to apply for travel grants, which will partially defray your travel expenses. Please indicate your interest in applying for a grant when you submit your application form.

Will the workshops be available online or via webinar?

Due to the nature of the workshop series, we will not be offering an online session/webinar. As the workshops will be heavily hands-on, we feel that having online sessions will detract from the value of the content. If you are unable to attend this year’s workshop series, we will be offering more in the summer of 2019. Please let us know if you would like to be informed of the specific dates and content as we get closer to that time.

MY COMPANY HAS A CONNECTIVITY MAP MEMBERSHIP. HOW DO I SIGN UP FOR THE WORKSHOP?

Registration fees will be waived for researchers from companies that have a CMap Membership agreement, which grants access to CLUE and the ability to generate perturbational datasets. Please complete the registration form above and we will contact you with with further details.

I cannot attend the entire workshop series. Can I still go?

Because there will be limited seating available, we will only be considering applicants who can participate in the full workshop series. If you’re unable to attend all of this year’s workshops, we will be holding another workshop series in the summer of 2019. Please let us know if you would like to be informed of the specific dates and content as we get closer to that time.

I HAVE A SUGGESTION, WHO SHOULD I CONTACT?

Great! Please contact us at cmap2018@broadinstitute.org with any suggestions or questions.

Date

December 4-6, 2018

Venue

Broad Institute, 415 Main St., Cambridge, MA 02142

Registration

Industry:
Standard: $900
Broad CMap Industry Members: Fee waived
Academic/non-profit:
Standard: $720
Travel grants will be available for a select number of academic/non-profit participants.

Contact

cmap2018@broadinstitute.org