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license: cc-by-sa-4.0 | |
task_categories: | |
- tabular-regression | |
tags: | |
- biology | |
- aging | |
- biomarkers | |
- epigenetics | |
- bioinformatics | |
- life sciences | |
size_categories: | |
- 10K<n<100K | |
language: | |
- en | |
pretty_name: ComputAge Bench | |
configs: | |
- config_name: default | |
data_files: | |
- split: test | |
path: "computage_bench_meta.tsv" | |
# ComputAge Bench Dataset | |
## Introduction | |
![intro](fig1.png) | |
**DNA methylation** is a chemical modification of DNA molecules that is present in many biological species, including humans. | |
Specifically, methylation most often occurs at the cytosine nucleotides in a so-called **CpG context** (cytosine followed by a guanine). | |
This modification is engaged in a variety of cellular events, ranging from nutrient starvation responses to X-chromosome inactivation to transgenerational inheritance. | |
As it turns out, methylation levels per CpG site change systemically in aging, which can be captured by various machine learning (ML) models called **aging clocks** | |
and used to predict an individual’s age. Moreover, it has been hypothesized that the aging clocks not only predict chronological age, but can also estimate | |
**biological age**, that is, an overall degree of an individual’s health represented as an increase or decrease of predicted age relative to the general population. | |
However, comparing aging clock performance is no trivial task, as there is no gold standard measure of one’s biological age, so using MAE, Pearson’s *r*, or other | |
common correlation metrics is not sufficient. | |
To foster greater advances in the aging clock field, [we developed a methodology and a dataset]() for aging clock benchmarking, ComputAge Bench, which relies on measuring | |
model ability to predict increased ages in samples from patients with *pre-defined* **aging-accelerating conditions** (AACs) relative to samples from | |
healthy controls (HC). **We highly recommend consulting the Methods and Discussion sections of our paper before proceeding to use this dataset and to build | |
any conclusions upon it.** | |
## Dataset description | |
This dataset was collected by combining publicly available datasets of DNA methylation in human blood and saliva samples from the | |
[NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) (GEO) data repository according to the criteria described in [our publication](), | |
and it comprises samples from patients with aging-accelerating conditions and healthy controls. From all these public datasets, we selected only samples that had | |
annotated ages and conditions (some disease vs. healthy control). | |
All methylation profiling platforms in this dataset represent different generations of Illumina Infinium BeadChip human methylation arrays. | |
Detailed documentation for these platforms can be accessed at the [manufacturer’s website](https://support.illumina.com/?tab=microarrays) | |
(Methylation → Select One → Infinium Human Methylation 450K BeadChip or Infinium MethylationEPIC BeadChip). | |
The dataset consists of two main parts: data and meta. Data is stored with parquet in the “\~/data” folder and contains methylation profiles across samples, | |
and meta contains additional information, such as subject’s age, gender, condition, etc., and is stored as “\~/computage_bench_meta.tsv”. | |
Both parts are described further below in more details. | |
In total, the dataset comprises **10,404 samples** and **900,449 features** (DNA methylation sites) coming from 65 separate studies | |
(some features are missing in some files). It is common for biological (omics) datasets to have N << P, so we had to put samples as columns and features as rows | |
in order to save the dataset in the parquet format. We recommend transposing data upon loading in order to match with meta rows, | |
as mentioned further below in the [Usage Guidelines](https://huggingface.co/datasets/computage/computage_bench#usage-guidelines) section. | |
Its main purpose is to be used in aging clock benchmarking (for more details on that, again, proceed to the | |
[Usage Guidelines](https://huggingface.co/datasets/computage/computage_bench#usage-guidelines) and don’t hesitate to visit | |
[our paper]()). Nevertheless, you are free to use it for any other well-minded purpose you find suitable. | |
Repository structure: | |
``` | |
computage_bench | |
|__ data # Folder with DNA methylation data | |
|__ computage_bench_data_<DatasetID_1>.parquet | |
|__ . . . | |
|__ README.md # This file | |
|__ computage_bench_meta.tsv # Meta table with sample annotations (age, condition, etc.) | |
``` | |
## Data description | |
DNA methylation per site can be reported in two ways: as **beta values**, or as **M values**. Briefly, beta values represent the ratio of methylated signal | |
(probe intensity or sequencing read counts) to total signal per site (sum of methylated and unmethylated probe intensities or sequencing read counts), | |
while M value is the log2 ratio of the methylated signal versus an unmethylated signal. A more thorough explanation can be found in | |
[Du et al., 2010](https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-11-587). | |
In the original datasets deposited on GEO, therefore, DNA methylation values were represented either as a beta fraction (ranging from 0 to 1), | |
beta percentages (ranging from 0 to 100), or M-values (can be both negative and positive, equals 0 when beta equals 0.5). We converted all data | |
to the beta-value fractions ranging from 0 to 1. The values outside this range were treated as missing values (NaNs), as they are not biological. | |
In each dataset, only samples that appeared in the cleaned meta table (that is, were relevant for benchmarking) were retained. | |
### Row names | |
DNA methylation site IDs according to the output from a methylation profiling platform. | |
### Column names | |
GEO sample IDs. | |
## Meta description | |
### Row names | |
GEO sample IDs, as in data columns | |
### Column names | |
**DatasetID**: GEO ID of a dataset that contains a respective sample. | |
**PlatformID**: GEO ID of a platform that was used to obtain a respective sample. | |
Platform IDs can be mapped to the common platform names (that represent an approximate number of profiled methylation sites) as follows: | |
GPL8490 = 27K, GPL13534 = 450K, GPL16304 = 450K, GPL21145 = 850K/EPIC, GPL23976 = 850K/EPIC, GPL29753 = 850K/EPIC. | |
**Tissue**: sample source tissue. “*Blood*” stands for peripheral blood samples, “*Saliva*” stands for saliva samples, and “*Buccal*” stands for buccal swab samples. | |
**CellType**: sample cell type. Either a specific cell population (mostly immune cell subtypes with cell type-specific molecular markers) | |
or broader sample categories such as whole blood, buffy coat, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), or peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL). | |
Some samples lack cell type annotation. | |
**Gender**: abbreviated sample donor gender. *M* = Male, *F* = Female, *O* = Other, *U* = Unknown. | |
**Age**: sample donor chronological age in years (“float” data type). In the original datasets deposited on GEO, | |
it can be either rounded by the researchers to full years, or converted from months, weeks, or days. Where available, we calculated years from the smaller units. | |
**Condition**: health or disease state of a sample donor. | |
**Class**: class of the respective sample condition. Healthy control samples (HC) are included in a separate healthy control class with the same abbreviation (HC). | |
## Usage Guidelines | |
### Benchmark a new aging clock | |
First, install our nice [library](https://github.com/ComputationalAgingLab/ComputAge) for convenient interaction with datasets and other tools built to design | |
aging clocks: | |
`pip install computage` | |
Now, suppose you have trained your brand-new epigenetic aging clock model using the classic `scikit-learn` library. You saved your model as `pickle` file. | |
Then, the following block of code can be used to benchmark your model. | |
We also implemented imputation of missing values from the [SeSAMe package](https://github.com/zwdzwd/sesame) | |
and added several published aging clock models for comparison. | |
```python | |
from computage import run_benchmark | |
# first, define a method to impute NaNs for the in_library models | |
# we recommend using imputation with gold standard values from SeSAMe | |
imputation = 'sesame_450k' | |
# for example, take these three clock models for benchmarking | |
models_config = { | |
'in_library':{ | |
'HorvathV1':{'imputation':imputation}, | |
'Hannum':{'imputation':imputation}, | |
'PhenoAgeV2':{'imputation':imputation}, | |
}, | |
# here we can define a name of our new model, as well as path | |
# to the pickle file (.pkl) that contains it | |
'new_models':{ | |
#'my_new_model_name': {'path':/path/to/model.pkl} | |
} | |
} | |
# run the benchmark | |
bench = run_benchmark(models_config, | |
experiment_prefix='my_model_test', | |
output_folder='./benchmark' | |
) | |
# upon completion, the results will be saved in the folder you have specified for output | |
``` | |
### Explore the dataset | |
In case you only want to explore our dataset locally, use the following commands to download it: | |
```python | |
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download | |
snapshot_download( | |
repo_id='computage/computage_bench', | |
repo_type="dataset", | |
local_dir='.') | |
``` | |
Once downloaded, the dataset can be open with `pandas` (or any other `parquet` reader). | |
```python | |
import pandas as pd | |
# let's choose a study id, for example `GSE100264` | |
df = pd.read_parquet('data/computage_bench_data_GSE100264.parquet').T | |
# note that we transpose data for a more convenient perception of samples and features | |
# don't forget to explore metadata (which is common for all datasets): | |
meta = pd.read_csv('computage_bench_meta.tsv', sep='\t', index_col=0) | |
``` | |
## Additional Information | |
### Licensing Information | |
The dataset is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) v4.0 license. | |
### Citation Information | |
Please, cite us as | |
ComputAgeBench: Epigenetic Aging Clocks Benchmark | |
https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.06.597715 | |