DSFT {QSutils} | R Documentation

## Downsampling followed by fringe trimming

### Description

Diversity indices are influenced to a greater or lesser degree by the sample size on which they are computed. This function helps to minimize the bias inherent to sample size. First the vector of abundances is scaled to a smaller sample size, then all haplotypes with abundances below a given threshold are excluded with high confidence.

### Usage

    DSFT(nr, size, p.cut = 0.002, conf = 0.95)

### Arguments

`nr` | Vector of observed haplotype counts.
`size` | Size to downsample.
`p.cut` | Abundance threshold.
`conf` | Confidence in trimming.

### Value

Vector of logicals, with false the haplotypes to be excluded.

### Author(s)

Mercedes Guerrero-Murillo and Josep Gregori

### References

Gregori J, Perales C, Rodriguez-Frias F, Esteban JI, Quer J, Domingo E. Viral quasispecies complexity measures. Virology. 2016 Jun;493:227-37. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.03.017. Epub 2016 Apr 6. Review. PubMed PMID: 27060566.

Gregori J, Salicrú M, Domingo E, Sanchez A, Esteban JI, Rodríguez-Frías F, Quer J. Inference with viral quasispecies diversity indices: clonal and NGS approaches. Bioinformatics. 2014 Apr 15;30(8):1104-1111. Epub 2014 Jan 2. PubMed PMID: 24389655.

### Examples

    # Generate viral quasispecies abundance data.
    set.seed(123)
    n <- 2000
    y <- geom.series(n,0.8)+geom.series(n,0.0004)
    nr.pop <- round(y*1e7)
    # Get a sample of 10000 reads from this population.
    sz2 <- 10000
    nr.sz2 <- table(sample(length(nr.pop),size=sz2,replace=TRUE,p=nr.pop))
    # Filter out haplotypes below 0.1%.
    thr <- 0.1
    fl <-  nr.sz2>=sz2*thr/100
    nr.sz2 <- nr.sz2[fl]
    Shannon(nr.sz2) #0.630521
    # DSFT to 5000 reads.
    sz1 <- 5000
    fl <- DSFT(nr.sz2,sz1)
    nr.sz2 <- nr.sz2[fl]
    # Compute size corrected Shannon entropy.
    Shannon(nr.sz2) #0.6189798

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