The TreatmentResponseExperiment Class

Why Do We Need A New Class?

The current implementation for the @treatmentResponse slot in a PharmacoSet has some limitations.

Firstly, it does not natively support dose-response experiments with multiple drugs and/or cancer cell lines. As a result we have not been able to include this data into a PharmacoSet thus far.

Secondly, drug combination data has the potential to scale to high dimensionality. As a result we need an object that is highly performant to ensure computations on such data can be completed in a timely manner.

To resolve these issues, we designed and implement the TreamtentResponseExperiment (or TRE for short)!

Design Philosophy

The current use case is supporting drug combinations experiments in PharmacoGx, but we wanted to create something flexible enough to fit other use cases. As such, we have used the generic term ‘treatment’ to refer to any experimental intervention one can conduct on a set of samples. In context of PharmacoGx, a treatment represents application of one or more anti-cancer compounds to a cancer cell-line. The resulting viability for this cell-line after treatment is the response metric. We hope that the implementation of our class is general enough to support other use cases. For example, the TreatmentResponseExperiment class is also being adopted for radiation dose-response experiments in cancer cell-lines in RadioGx as well as for investigating compound toxicity in healthy human and rat cell-lines in ToxicoGx.

Our design takes the aspects of the SummarizedExperiment and MultiAssayExperiment classes and implements them using the data.table package, which provides an R API to a rich set of tools for scalable, high performance data processing implemented in C.

Anatomy of a TreatmentResponseExperiment

Class Diagram

We have borrowed directly from the SummarizedExperiment class for the rowData, colData, metadata and assays slot names. We also implemented the SummarizedExperiment accessor methods for the TreatmentResponseExperiment. Therefore the interface should be familiar to users of common Bioconductor packages.

Object Structure and Cardinality

There are, however, some important differences which make this object more flexible when dealing with high dimensional data.

Unlike a SummarizedExperiment, there are three distinct subgroups of columns in rowData and colData.

The first are the rowKey and colKey which are implemented internally to map between each assay observation and its associated treatments or samples (rows or columns); these will not be returned by the accessors by default. The second are the rowIDs and colIDs, these hold all of the information necessary to uniquely identify a row or column and are used to generate the rowKey and colKey. Finally, there are the rowMeta and colMeta columns, which store any additional data about treatments or samples not required to uniquely identify a row in either table.

Within the TreatmentResponseExperiment, an assayIndex is stored in the @.intern slot which maps between unique combinations of rowKey and colKey and the experimental observations in each assay. This relationship is maintained using a separate primary key for each assay, which can map to one or more rowKey and colKey combination. For assays containing raw experimental observations, generally each assay row will map to one and only one combination of rowKey and colKey. However, for metrics computed over experimental observations, It may be desirable to summarized over some of the rowID and/or colID columns. In this case, the relationship between the summarized rows and the metadata stored in the rowData and colData slots are retained in the assayIndex, allowing

Also worth noting is the cardinality between rowData and colData for a given assay within the assays list. As indicated by the lower connection between these tables and an assay, for each row or column key there may be zero or more rows in the assay table. Conversely for each row in the assay there may be zero or one key in colData or rowData. When combined, the rowKey and colKey for a given row in an assay become a composite key which uniquely identify an observation.

Constructing a TreatmentResponseExperiment

To deal with the complex kinds of experimental designs which can be stored in a LongTable, we have engineered a new object to help document and validate the way data is mapped from raw data files, as a single large data.frame or data.table, to the various slots of a TreatmentResponseExperiment object.

The DataMapper Class

The DataMapper is an abstract class, which means in cannot be instatiated. Its purpose is to provide a description of the concept of a DataMapper and define a basic interface for any classes inheriting from it. A DataMapper is simply a way to map columns from some raw data file to the slots of an S4 class. It is similar to a schema in SQL in that it defines the valid parts of an object (analogously a SQL table), but differs in that no types are specified or enforced at this time.

This object is not important for general users, but may be useful for other developers who want to map from some raw data to some S4 class. In this case, any derived data mapper should inherit from the DataMapper abstract class. Only one slot is defined by default, a list or List in the @rawdata slot. An accessor method, rawdata(DataMapper), is defined to assign and retrieve the raw data from your mapper object.

The TREDataMapper Class

The TREDataMapper class is the first concrete sub-class of a DataMapper. It is the object which defines how to go from a single data.frame or data.table of raw experimental data to a properly formatted and valid TreatmentResponseExperiment object. This is accomplished by defining various mappings, which let the the user decide which columns from rawdata should go into which slots of the object. Each slot mapping is implemented as a list of character vectors specifying the column names from rawdata to assign to each slot.

Additionally, a helper method has been included, guessMapping, that will try to determine which columns of a TreatmentResponseExperiments rawdata should be assigned to which slots, and therefore which maps.

To get started making a TreatmentResponseExperiment lets have a look at some rawdata which is a subset of the data from Oneil et al., 2016. The full set of rawdata is available for exploration and download from SynergxDB.ca, a free and open source web-app and database of publicly available drug combination sensitivity experiments which we created and released (Seo et al., 2019).

The data was generated as part of the commercial activities of the pharmaceutical company Merck, and is thus named according.

filePath <- system.file('extdata', 'merckLongTable.csv', package='CoreGx',
  mustWork=TRUE)
merckDT <- fread(filePath, na.strings=c('NULL'))
colnames(merckDT)

##  [1] "drug1id"            "drug2id"            "drug1dose"         
##  [4] "drug2dose"          "combination_name"   "cellid"            
##  [7] "batchid"            "viability1"         "viability2"        
## [10] "viability3"         "viability4"         "mu/muMax_published"
## [13] "X/X0_published"

drug1id	drug2id	drug1dose	drug2dose	combination_name
5-FU	Bortezomib	0.35	0.00045	5-FU & Bortezomib
5-FU	Bortezomib	0.35	0.00200	5-FU & Bortezomib
5-FU	Bortezomib	0.35	0.00900	5-FU & Bortezomib
5-FU	Bortezomib	0.35	0.04000	5-FU & Bortezomib
5-FU	L778123	0.35	0.32500	5-FU & L778123
5-FU	L778123	0.35	0.80000	5-FU & L778123

combination_name	cellid	batchid	viability1	viability2	viability3	viability4	mu/muMax_published	X/X0_published
5-FU & Bortezomib	A2058	1	0.814	0.754	0.765	0.849	0.880	0.847
5-FU & Bortezomib	A2058	1	0.792	0.788	0.840	0.852	0.897	0.867
5-FU & Bortezomib	A2058	1	0.696	0.831	0.690	0.806	0.854	0.817
5-FU & Bortezomib	A2058	1	0.637	0.678	0.625	0.627	0.767	0.724
5-FU & L778123	A2058	1	0.679	0.795	0.731	0.700	0.830	0.790
5-FU & L778123	A2058	1	0.667	0.734	0.596	0.613	0.773	0.730

We can see that all the data related to the treatment response experiment is contained within this table.

To get an idea of where in a TreatmentResponseExperiment this data should go, lets come up with some guesses for mappings.

# Our guesses of how we may identify rows, columns and assays
groups <- list(
  justDrugs=c('drug1id', 'drug2id'),
  drugsAndDoses=c('drug1id', 'drug2id', 'drug1dose', 'drug2dose'),
  justCells=c('cellid'),
  cellsAndBatches=c('cellid', 'batchid'),
  assays1=c('drug1id', 'drug2id', 'cellid'),
  assays2=c('drug1id', 'drug2id', 'drug1dose', 'drug2dose', 'cellid', 'batchid')
)

# Decide if we want to subset out mapped columns after each group
subsets <- c(FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, FALSE, TRUE)

# First we put our data in the `TRE`
TREdataMapper <- TREDataMapper(rawdata=merckDT)

# Then we can test our hypotheses, subset=FALSE means we don't remove mapped
#   columns after each group is mapped
guess <- guessMapping(TREdataMapper, groups=groups, subset=subsets)

## [CoreGx::guessMapping,LongTableDataMapper-method]
##  Mapping for group justDrugs: drug1id, drug2id

## [CoreGx::guessMapping,LongTableDataMapper-method]
##  Mapping for group drugsAndDoses: drug1id, drug2id, drug1dose, drug2dose

## [CoreGx::guessMapping,LongTableDataMapper-method]
##  Mapping for group justCells: cellid

## [CoreGx::guessMapping,LongTableDataMapper-method]
##  Mapping for group cellsAndBatches: cellid, batchid

## [CoreGx::guessMapping,LongTableDataMapper-method]
##  Mapping for group assays1: drug1id, drug2id, cellid

## [CoreGx::guessMapping,LongTableDataMapper-method]
##  Mapping for group assays2: drug1id, drug2id, drug1dose, drug2dose, cellid, batchid

guess

## $metadata
## $metadata$id_columns
## [1] NA
## 
## $metadata$mapped_columns
## character(0)
## 
## 
## $justDrugs
## $justDrugs$id_columns
## [1] "drug1id" "drug2id"
## 
## $justDrugs$mapped_columns
## [1] "combination_name"
## 
## 
## $drugsAndDoses
## $drugsAndDoses$id_columns
## [1] "drug1id"   "drug2id"   "drug1dose" "drug2dose"
## 
## $drugsAndDoses$mapped_columns
## [1] "combination_name"
## 
## 
## $justCells
## $justCells$id_columns
## [1] "cellid"
## 
## $justCells$mapped_columns
## character(0)
## 
## 
## $cellsAndBatches
## $cellsAndBatches$id_columns
## [1] "cellid"  "batchid"
## 
## $cellsAndBatches$mapped_columns
## character(0)
## 
## 
## $assays1
## $assays1$id_columns
## [1] "drug1id" "drug2id" "cellid" 
## 
## $assays1$mapped_columns
## character(0)
## 
## 
## $assays2
## $assays2$id_columns
## [1] "drug1id"   "drug2id"   "drug1dose" "drug2dose" "cellid"    "batchid"  
## 
## $assays2$mapped_columns
## [1] "viability1"         "viability2"         "viability3"        
## [4] "viability4"         "mu/muMax_published" "X/X0_published"    
## 
## 
## $unmapped
## character(0)

Since we want our TreatmentResponseExperiment to have drugs as rows and samples as columns, we see that both justDrug and drugsAndDoses yield the same result. So we do not yet prefer one over the other. Looking at justCells and cellsAndBatches, we see one column maps to each of them and therefore still have no preference. For assay1 however, we see that no columns mapped, while assay2 maps many of raw data columns.

Since assays will be subset based on the rowKey and colKey, we know that the rowIDs must be drugsAndDose and the the colIDs must be cellsAndBatches. Therefore, to uniquely identify an observation in any given assay we need all of these columns. We can use this information to assign maps to our TREDataMapper.

rowDataMap(TREdataMapper) <- guess$drugsAndDose
colDataMap(TREdataMapper) <- guess$cellsAndBatches

Looking at our mapped columns for assay2, we must decide if we want these to go into more than one assay. If we do, we should name each item of our assayMap for the TREDataMapper and specify it in a list of character vectors, one for each assay. Since viability is the raw experimental measurement and the final two columns are summaries of it, we will assign them to two assays:sensitivity and profiles.

assays <- list(
  sensitivity=list(
    guess$assays2[[1]],
    guess$assays2[[2]][seq_len(4)]
  ),
  profiles=list(
    guess$assays2[[1]],
    guess$assays2[[2]][c(5, 6)]
  )
)
assays

## $sensitivity
## $sensitivity[[1]]
## [1] "drug1id"   "drug2id"   "drug1dose" "drug2dose" "cellid"    "batchid"  
## 
## $sensitivity[[2]]
## [1] "viability1" "viability2" "viability3" "viability4"
## 
## 
## $profiles
## $profiles[[1]]
## [1] "drug1id"   "drug2id"   "drug1dose" "drug2dose" "cellid"    "batchid"  
## 
## $profiles[[2]]
## [1] "mu/muMax_published" "X/X0_published"

assayMap(TREdataMapper) <- assays

metaConstruct Method

The metaConstruct method accepts a DataMapper object as its only argument, and uses the information in that DataMapper to preprocess all rawdata and map them to the appropriate slots of an S4 object. In our case, we are mapping from the merckDT data.table to a TreatmentResponseExperiment.

At minimum, a TREDataMapper must specify the rowDataMap, colDataMap, and assayMap. Additional maps are available, see ?TREDataMapper-class and ?TREDataMapper-accessors for more details.

After configuration, creating the object is very straight forward.

tre <- metaConstruct(TREdataMapper)

## 2025-08-25 16:11:00 Building assay index...
## 2025-08-25 16:11:00 Joining rowData to assayIndex...
## 2025-08-25 16:11:00 Joining colData to assayIndex...
## 2025-08-25 16:11:01 Joining assays to assayIndex...
## 2025-08-25 16:11:02 Setting assayIndex key...
## 2025-08-25 16:11:03 Building LongTable...
##

TreatmentResponseExperiment Object

As mentioned previously, a TreatmentResponseExperiment has both list and table like behaviours. For table like operations, a given TreatmentResponseExperiment can be thought of as a rowKey by colKey rectangular object.

To support data.frame like sub-setting for this object, the constructor makes pseudo row and column names, which are the ID columns for each row of rowData or colData pasted together with a ‘:’. The ordering of these columns is preserved in the pseudo-dim names, so be sure to arrange them as desirged before creating the TreatmentResponseExperiment.

Row and Column Names

head(rownames(tre))

## [1] "5-FU:Bortezomib:0.35:0.00045" "5-FU:Bortezomib:0.35:0.002"  
## [3] "5-FU:Bortezomib:0.35:0.009"   "5-FU:Bortezomib:0.35:0.04"   
## [5] "5-FU:L778123:0.35:0.325"      "5-FU:L778123:0.35:0.8"

We see that the rownames for the Merck TreatmentResponseExperiment are the cell-line name pasted to the batch id.

head(colnames(tre))

## [1] "A2058:1" "A2058:3" "A2780:1" "A2780:2" "A375:1"  "A375:2"

For the column names, a similar pattern is followed by combining the colID columns in the form ‘drug1:drug2:drug1dose:drug2dose’.

`data.frame` Subsetting

We can subset a TreatmentResponseExperiment using the same row and column name syntax as with a data.frame or matrix.

row <- rownames(tre)[1]
columns <- colnames(tre)[1:2]
tre[row, columns]

## <TreatmentResponseExperiment> 
##    dim:  1 1 
##    assays(2): sensitivity profiles 
##    rownames(1): 5-FU:Bortezomib:0.35:0.00045 
##    rowData(5): drug1id drug2id drug1dose drug2dose combination_name 
##    colnames(1): A2058:1 
##    colData(2): cellid batchid 
##    metadata(0): none

Regex Queries

However, unlike a data.frame or matrix this subsetting also accepts partial row and column names as well as regex queries.

head(rowData(tre), 3)

##    drug1id    drug2id drug1dose drug2dose  combination_name
##     <char>     <char>     <num>     <num>            <char>
## 1:    5-FU Bortezomib      0.35   0.00045 5-FU & Bortezomib
## 2:    5-FU Bortezomib      0.35   0.00200 5-FU & Bortezomib
## 3:    5-FU Bortezomib      0.35   0.00900 5-FU & Bortezomib

head(colData(tre), 3)

##    cellid batchid
##    <char>   <int>
## 1:  A2058       1
## 2:  A2058       3
## 3:  A2780       1

For example, if we want to get all instance where ‘5-FU’ is the drug:

tre['5-FU', ]

## <TreatmentResponseExperiment> 
##    dim:  21 5 
##    assays(2): sensitivity profiles 
##    rownames(21): 5-FU:Bortezomib:0.35:0.00045 5-FU:Bortezomib:0.35:0.002 ... 5-FU:geldanamycin:0.35:2 MK-4541:5-FU:0.045:10 
##    rowData(5): drug1id drug2id drug1dose drug2dose combination_name 
##    colnames(5): A2058:1 A2780:1 A375:1 A427:1 CAOV3:1 
##    colData(2): cellid batchid 
##    metadata(0): none

This has matched all colnames where 5-FU was in either drug1 or drug2. If we only want to match drug1, we have several options:

all.equal(tre['5-FU:*:*:*', ], tre['^5-FU',  ])

## [1] TRUE

As a technicaly note, ‘*’ is replaced with ‘.*’ internally for regex queries. This was implemented to mimic the linux shell style patten matching that most command-line users are familiar with.

`data.table` Subsetting

In addition to regex queries, a TreatmentResponseExperiment object supports arbitrarily complex subset queries using the data.table API. To access this API, you will need to use the . function, which allows you to pass raw R expressions to be evaluated inside the i and j arguments for dataTable[i, j].

For example if we want to subset to rows where the cell line is VCAP and columns where drug1 is Temozolomide and drug2 is either Lapatinib or Bortezomib:

tre[
    # row query
    .(drug1id == 'Temozolomide' & drug2id %in% c('Lapatinib', 'Bortezomib')),
    .(cellid == 'CAOV3') # column query
]

## <TreatmentResponseExperiment> 
##    dim:  8 1 
##    assays(2): sensitivity profiles 
##    rownames(8): Temozolomide:Bortezomib:2.75:0.00045 Temozolomide:Bortezomib:2.75:0.002 ... Temozolomide:Lapatinib:2.75:1.1 Temozolomide:Lapatinib:2.75:5 
##    rowData(5): drug1id drug2id drug1dose drug2dose combination_name 
##    colnames(1): CAOV3:1 
##    colData(2): cellid batchid 
##    metadata(0): none

We can also invert matches or subset on other columns in rowData or colData:

subTRE <- tre[
  .(drug1id == 'Temozolomide' & drug2id != 'Lapatinib'),
  .(batchid != 2)
]

To show that this works as expected:

print(paste0('drug2id: ', paste0(unique(rowData(subTRE)$drug2id),
    collapse=', ')))

## [1] "drug2id: ABT-888, BEZ-235, Bortezomib, Dasatinib, Erlotinib, MK-2206, MK-5108, MK-8669, MK-8776, PD325901, SN-38, Sorafenib, geldanamycin"

print(paste0('batchid: ', paste0(unique(colData(subTRE)$batchid),
    collapse=', ')))

## [1] "batchid: 1"

Accessor Methods

rowData

head(rowData(tre), 3)

##    drug1id    drug2id drug1dose drug2dose  combination_name
##     <char>     <char>     <num>     <num>            <char>
## 1:    5-FU Bortezomib      0.35   0.00045 5-FU & Bortezomib
## 2:    5-FU Bortezomib      0.35   0.00200 5-FU & Bortezomib
## 3:    5-FU Bortezomib      0.35   0.00900 5-FU & Bortezomib

head(rowData(tre, key=TRUE), 3)

## Key: <rowKey>
##    drug1id    drug2id drug1dose drug2dose  combination_name rowKey
##     <char>     <char>     <num>     <num>            <char>  <int>
## 1:    5-FU Bortezomib      0.35   0.00045 5-FU & Bortezomib      1
## 2:    5-FU Bortezomib      0.35   0.00200 5-FU & Bortezomib      2
## 3:    5-FU Bortezomib      0.35   0.00900 5-FU & Bortezomib      3

colData

head(colData(tre), 3)

##    cellid batchid
##    <char>   <int>
## 1:  A2058       1
## 2:  A2058       3
## 3:  A2780       1

head(colData(tre, key=TRUE), 3)

## Key: <colKey>
##    cellid batchid colKey
##    <char>   <int>  <int>
## 1:  A2058       1      1
## 2:  A2058       3      2
## 3:  A2780       1      3

assays

assays <- assays(tre)
assays[[1]]

## Key: <drug1id, drug2id, drug1dose, drug2dose, cellid, batchid>
##            drug1id    drug2id drug1dose drug2dose cellid batchid
##             <char>     <char>     <num>     <num> <char>   <int>
##    1:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045  A2058       1
##    2:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045  A2780       1
##    3:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045   A375       1
##    4:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045   A427       1
##    5:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045  CAOV3       1
##   ---                                                           
## 3796: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750  A2058       1
## 3797: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750  A2780       1
## 3798: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750   A375       1
## 3799: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750   A427       1
## 3800: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750  CAOV3       1
##               combination_name viability1 viability2 viability3 viability4
##                         <char>      <num>      <num>      <num>      <num>
##    1:        5-FU & Bortezomib      0.814      0.754      0.765      0.849
##    2:        5-FU & Bortezomib      0.214      0.195      0.186      0.223
##    3:        5-FU & Bortezomib      1.064      1.080      1.082      1.009
##    4:        5-FU & Bortezomib      0.675      0.582      0.482      0.516
##    5:        5-FU & Bortezomib      0.845      0.799      0.799      0.759
##   ---                                                                     
## 3796: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.090      0.043      0.112      0.103
## 3797: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.025      0.022      0.029      0.023
## 3798: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.151      0.146      0.144      0.171
## 3799: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.142      0.166      0.124      0.175
## 3800: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.091      0.084      0.134      0.119

assays[[2]]

## Key: <drug1id, drug2id, drug1dose, drug2dose, cellid, batchid>
##            drug1id    drug2id drug1dose drug2dose cellid batchid
##             <char>     <char>     <num>     <num> <char>   <int>
##    1:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045  A2058       1
##    2:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045  A2780       1
##    3:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045   A375       1
##    4:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045   A427       1
##    5:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045  CAOV3       1
##   ---                                                           
## 3796: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750  A2058       1
## 3797: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750  A2780       1
## 3798: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750   A375       1
## 3799: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750   A427       1
## 3800: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750  CAOV3       1
##               combination_name mu/muMax_published X/X0_published
##                         <char>              <num>          <num>
##    1:        5-FU & Bortezomib              0.880          0.847
##    2:        5-FU & Bortezomib              0.384          0.426
##    3:        5-FU & Bortezomib              1.033          1.047
##    4:        5-FU & Bortezomib              0.676          0.638
##    5:        5-FU & Bortezomib              0.708          0.667
##   ---                                                           
## 3796: geldanamycin & Topotecan             -0.187          0.193
## 3797: geldanamycin & Topotecan             -0.445          0.135
## 3798: geldanamycin & Topotecan              0.090          0.283
## 3799: geldanamycin & Topotecan             -0.012          0.246
## 3800: geldanamycin & Topotecan             -1.935          0.017

assays <- assays(tre, withDimnames=TRUE)
colnames(assays[[1]])

##  [1] "drug1id"          "drug2id"          "drug1dose"        "drug2dose"       
##  [5] "cellid"           "batchid"          "combination_name" "viability1"      
##  [9] "viability2"       "viability3"       "viability4"

assays <- assays(tre, withDimnames=TRUE, metadata=TRUE)
colnames(assays[[2]])

## [1] "drug1id"            "drug2id"            "drug1dose"         
## [4] "drug2dose"          "cellid"             "batchid"           
## [7] "combination_name"   "mu/muMax_published" "X/X0_published"

assayNames(tre)

## [1] "sensitivity" "profiles"

Using these names we can access specific assays within a TreatmentResponseExperiment.

assay

colnames(assay(tre, 'sensitivity'))

##  [1] "drug1id"          "drug2id"          "drug1dose"        "drug2dose"       
##  [5] "cellid"           "batchid"          "combination_name" "viability1"      
##  [9] "viability2"       "viability3"       "viability4"

assay(tre, 'sensitivity')

## Key: <drug1id, drug2id, drug1dose, drug2dose, cellid, batchid>
##            drug1id    drug2id drug1dose drug2dose cellid batchid
##             <char>     <char>     <num>     <num> <char>   <int>
##    1:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045  A2058       1
##    2:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045  A2780       1
##    3:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045   A375       1
##    4:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045   A427       1
##    5:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045  CAOV3       1
##   ---                                                           
## 3796: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750  A2058       1
## 3797: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750  A2780       1
## 3798: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750   A375       1
## 3799: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750   A427       1
## 3800: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750  CAOV3       1
##               combination_name viability1 viability2 viability3 viability4
##                         <char>      <num>      <num>      <num>      <num>
##    1:        5-FU & Bortezomib      0.814      0.754      0.765      0.849
##    2:        5-FU & Bortezomib      0.214      0.195      0.186      0.223
##    3:        5-FU & Bortezomib      1.064      1.080      1.082      1.009
##    4:        5-FU & Bortezomib      0.675      0.582      0.482      0.516
##    5:        5-FU & Bortezomib      0.845      0.799      0.799      0.759
##   ---                                                                     
## 3796: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.090      0.043      0.112      0.103
## 3797: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.025      0.022      0.029      0.023
## 3798: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.151      0.146      0.144      0.171
## 3799: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.142      0.166      0.124      0.175
## 3800: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.091      0.084      0.134      0.119

colnames(assay(tre, 'sensitivity', withDimnames=TRUE))

##  [1] "drug1id"          "drug2id"          "drug1dose"        "drug2dose"       
##  [5] "cellid"           "batchid"          "combination_name" "viability1"      
##  [9] "viability2"       "viability3"       "viability4"

assay(tre, 'sensitivity', withDimnames=TRUE)

## Key: <drug1id, drug2id, drug1dose, drug2dose, cellid, batchid>
##            drug1id    drug2id drug1dose drug2dose cellid batchid
##             <char>     <char>     <num>     <num> <char>   <int>
##    1:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045  A2058       1
##    2:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045  A2780       1
##    3:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045   A375       1
##    4:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045   A427       1
##    5:         5-FU Bortezomib    0.3500   0.00045  CAOV3       1
##   ---                                                           
## 3796: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750  A2058       1
## 3797: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750  A2780       1
## 3798: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750   A375       1
## 3799: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750   A427       1
## 3800: geldanamycin  Topotecan    0.0223   0.07750  CAOV3       1
##               combination_name viability1 viability2 viability3 viability4
##                         <char>      <num>      <num>      <num>      <num>
##    1:        5-FU & Bortezomib      0.814      0.754      0.765      0.849
##    2:        5-FU & Bortezomib      0.214      0.195      0.186      0.223
##    3:        5-FU & Bortezomib      1.064      1.080      1.082      1.009
##    4:        5-FU & Bortezomib      0.675      0.582      0.482      0.516
##    5:        5-FU & Bortezomib      0.845      0.799      0.799      0.759
##   ---                                                                     
## 3796: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.090      0.043      0.112      0.103
## 3797: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.025      0.022      0.029      0.023
## 3798: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.151      0.146      0.144      0.171
## 3799: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.142      0.166      0.124      0.175
## 3800: geldanamycin & Topotecan      0.091      0.084      0.134      0.119

References

O’Neil J, Benita Y, Feldman I, Chenard M, Roberts B, Liu Y, Li J, Kral A, Lejnine S, Loboda A, Arthur W, Cristescu R, Haines BB, Winter C, Zhang T, Bloecher A, Shumway SD. An Unbiased Oncology Compound Screen to Identify Novel Combination Strategies. Mol Cancer Ther. 2016 Jun;15(6):1155-62. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-15-0843. Epub 2016 Mar 16. PMID: 26983881.
Heewon Seo, Denis Tkachuk, Chantal Ho, Anthony Mammoliti, Aria Rezaie, Seyed Ali Madani Tonekaboni, Benjamin Haibe-Kains, SYNERGxDB: an integrative pharmacogenomic portal to identify synergistic drug combinations for precision oncology, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 48, Issue W1, 02 July 2020, Pages W494–W501, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa421

sessionInfo

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Petr Smirnov

Christopher Eeles

Why Do We Need A New Class?

Design Philosophy

Anatomy of a TreatmentResponseExperiment

Class Diagram

Object Structure and Cardinality

Constructing a TreatmentResponseExperiment

The DataMapper Class

The TREDataMapper Class

metaConstruct Method

TreatmentResponseExperiment Object

Row and Column Names

`data.frame` Subsetting

Regex Queries

`data.table` Subsetting

Accessor Methods

rowData

colData

assays

assay

References

sessionInfo

The TreatmentResponseExperiment Class

Petr Smirnov

Christopher Eeles

Why Do We Need A New Class?

Design Philosophy

Anatomy of a TreatmentResponseExperiment

Class Diagram

Object Structure and Cardinality

Constructing a TreatmentResponseExperiment

The DataMapper Class

The TREDataMapper Class

metaConstruct Method

TreatmentResponseExperiment Object

Row and Column Names

data.frame Subsetting

Regex Queries

data.table Subsetting

Accessor Methods

rowData

colData

assays

assay

References

sessionInfo

`data.frame` Subsetting

`data.table` Subsetting