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MAI

This is the released version of MAI; for the devel version, see MAI.

Mechanism-Aware Imputation


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

A two-step approach to imputing missing data in metabolomics. Step 1 uses a random forest classifier to classify missing values as either Missing Completely at Random/Missing At Random (MCAR/MAR) or Missing Not At Random (MNAR). MCAR/MAR are combined because it is often difficult to distinguish these two missing types in metabolomics data. Step 2 imputes the missing values based on the classified missing mechanisms, using the appropriate imputation algorithms. Imputation algorithms tested and available for MCAR/MAR include Bayesian Principal Component Analysis (BPCA), Multiple Imputation No-Skip K-Nearest Neighbors (Multi_nsKNN), and Random Forest. Imputation algorithms tested and available for MNAR include nsKNN and a single imputation approach for imputation of metabolites where left-censoring is present.

Author: Jonathan Dekermanjian [aut, cre], Elin Shaddox [aut], Debmalya Nandy [aut], Debashis Ghosh [aut], Katerina Kechris [aut]

Maintainer: Jonathan Dekermanjian <Jonathan.Dekermanjian at CUAnschutz.edu>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("MAI")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("MAI")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("MAI")
Utilizing Mechanism-Aware Imputation (MAI) HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text
LICENSE Text

Details

biocViews Classification, Metabolomics, Software, StatisticalMethod
Version 1.18.0
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.14 (R-4.1) (5 years)
License GPL-3
Depends R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports caret, parallel, doParallel, foreach, e1071, future.apply, future, missForest, pcaMethods, tidyverse, stats, utils, methods, SummarizedExperiment, S4Vectors
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URL https://github.com/KechrisLab/MAI
Bug Reports https://github.com/KechrisLab/MAI/issues
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Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package MAI_1.18.0.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) MAI_1.18.0.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) MAI_1.18.0.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) MAI_1.18.0.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/MAI
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/MAI
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/MAI/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/MAI/
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