LIANA+ Analysis

Author

Ahmed M. Elhossiny

Here we will use LIANA+ (Dimitrov et al. 2024) to analyze cell-cell communication in our dataset. LIANA+ uses geospatial metrics in cell-type agnostic approach to infer potential ligand-receptor interactions between spots. It only takes the expression values and spatial coordinates of the spots as input, and generates metrics for spatial correlation of their expression as a proxy for potential interactions.

1 Setup and data import

LIANA+ is a python-package, so we will use reticulate to interface with it with R. The exact conda environment used in this run can be installed using this yml file using conda env create -f liana.yml. Data can be downloaded from Zenodo here.

Code

# Setup -------------------------------------------------------------------

setwd(dirname(rstudioapi::getSourceEditorContext()$path))

suppressPackageStartupMessages({
  library(Seurat)
  library(tidyverse)
  library(reticulate)
  library(qs)
  library(parallel)
  library(pbapply)
  use_condaenv("/envs/liana/")
})

sc <- import('scanpy', convert = F)
li <- import('liana', convert = F)
ad <- import('anndata', convert = F)
np <- import('numpy', convert = F)

merged <- qread("outputs/Spatial_Clustering/tumor_tumoradj_GoL_samples_annotated_v2_lite_new_deconv.qs")

# Running LIANA on tumor samples ------------------------------------------

tumor <- subset(merged, subset = tissue == 'PDAC')
tumor <- SplitObject(tumor, split.by = 'sample_id')

cl <- makeCluster(detectCores() - 1) 
clusterEvalQ(cl, {
  library(Seurat)
  library(tidyverse)
  library(reticulate)
  library(qs)
  library(parallel)
  use_condaenv("/envs/liana/")
})

tumor_LR_itx <- pblapply(cl = cl, X = tumor, FUN = function(x){
  
  sc <- import('scanpy', convert = F)
  li <- import('liana', convert = F)
  ad <- import('anndata', convert = F)
  np <- import('numpy', convert = F)
  
  DefaultAssay(x) <- 'Spatial'
  adata <- ad$AnnData(
    X = t(GetAssayData(x, assay = 'Spatial', layer = 'data')),
    obs = x@meta.data
  )
  adata$var_names <- rownames(x)
  adata$obs_names <- colnames(x)
  adata$obsm['spatial'] <- GetTissueCoordinates(x)[,c('x','y')]
  bandwidth <- li$ut$query_bandwidth(coordinates=adata$obsm['spatial'],
                                     start= as.integer(0),
                                     end= as.integer(500),
                                     interval_n= as.integer(20)) %>% py_to_r()
  bandwidth <- 
    bandwidth[[2]] %>%
    filter(neighbours == 6) %>%
    pull(bandwith) %>%
    min()
  li$ut$spatial_neighbors(
    adata,
    bandwidth = as.integer(bandwidth),
    cutoff = 0.1,
    kernel = 'gaussian',
    set_diag = TRUE
  )
  # li$pl$connectivity(adata, idx=as.integer(0), size=1.3)
  lrdata = li$mt$bivariate(adata,
                           resource_name='cellchatdb', 
                           local_name="norm_product", 
                           global_name="morans", 
                           n_perms=as.integer(100), 
                           mask_negatives=TRUE, 
                           add_categories=TRUE, 
                           nz_prop=0.01,
                           use_raw=FALSE,
                           verbose=TRUE
  )
  
  ranked_itx <- lrdata$var$sort_values("morans", ascending=FALSE) %>%
    py_to_r() %>%
    mutate(p_adj = p.adjust(morans_pvals, method = 'BH')) %>%
    rownames_to_column(var = 'pair') 
  ranked_itx$sample <- unique(py_to_r(lrdata$obs['sample_id']))
  
  co_exp <- t(py_to_r(lrdata$X))
  colnames(co_exp) <- py_to_r(lrdata$obs_names$to_list())
  rownames(co_exp) <- py_to_r(lrdata$var_names$to_list())
  
  cats <- t(py_to_r(lrdata$layers['cats']))
  colnames(cats) <- py_to_r(lrdata$obs_names$to_list())
  rownames(cats) <- py_to_r(lrdata$var_names$to_list())
  
  return(list(ranked_itx = ranked_itx, co_exp = co_exp, cats = cats))
})
qsave(tumor_LR_itx, "liana_res_tumor_global_morans_local_norm_product.qs")

tumor_LR_itx <- qread("liana_res_tumor_global_morans_local_norm_product.qs")
tumor_LR_ranks <- lapply(tumor_LR_itx, function(x){x[[1]]}) %>%
  bind_rows()

tumor <- lapply(tumor, function(x){
  x[['LRMoran']] <- CreateAssayObject(tumor_LR_itx[[unique(x$sample_id)]][[2]])
  x[['cat']] <- CreateAssayObject(tumor_LR_itx[[unique(x$sample_id)]][[3]])
  return(x)
})
tumor <- reduce(tumor, merge)
tumor <- JoinLayers(tumor, assay = 'Spatial')
qsave(tumor, "liana_res_mapped_tumor_global_morans_local_norm_product.qs")

# Running LIANA on GoL samples ------------------------------------------

gol <- subset(merged, subset = tissue == 'Healthy')
rm(merged);gc()
gol <- SplitObject(gol, split.by = 'sample_id')

cl <- makeCluster(detectCores() - 1) 
clusterEvalQ(cl, {
  library(Seurat)
  library(tidyverse)
  library(reticulate)
  library(qs)
  library(parallel)
  use_condaenv("envs/liana/")
})

GoL_LR_itx <- pblapply(cl = cl, X = gol, FUN = function(x){
  
  sc <- import('scanpy', convert = F)
  li <- import('liana', convert = F)
  ad <- import('anndata', convert = F)
  np <- import('numpy', convert = F)
  
  DefaultAssay(x) <- 'Spatial'
  adata <- ad$AnnData(
    X = t(GetAssayData(x, assay = 'Spatial', layer = 'data')),
    obs = x@meta.data
  )
  adata$var_names <- rownames(x)
  adata$obs_names <- colnames(x)
  adata$obsm['spatial'] <- GetTissueCoordinates(x)[,c('x','y')]
  bandwidth <- li$ut$query_bandwidth(coordinates=adata$obsm['spatial'],
                                     start= as.integer(0),
                                     end= as.integer(500),
                                     interval_n= as.integer(20)) %>% py_to_r()
  bandwidth <- 
    bandwidth[[2]] %>%
    filter(neighbours == 6) %>%
    pull(bandwith) %>%
    min()
  li$ut$spatial_neighbors(
    adata,
    bandwidth = as.integer(bandwidth),
    cutoff = 0.1,
    kernel = 'gaussian',
    set_diag = TRUE
  )
  # li$pl$connectivity(adata, idx=as.integer(0), size=1.3)
  lrdata = li$mt$bivariate(adata,
                           resource_name='cellchatdb', 
                           local_name='norm_product', 
                           global_name="morans", 
                           n_perms=as.integer(100), 
                           mask_negatives=TRUE, 
                           add_categories=TRUE, 
                           nz_prop=0.01,
                           use_raw=FALSE,
                           verbose=TRUE
  )
  
  ranked_itx <- lrdata$var$sort_values("morans", ascending=FALSE) %>%
    py_to_r() %>%
    mutate(p_adj = p.adjust(morans_pvals, method = 'BH')) %>%
    rownames_to_column(var = 'pair') 
  ranked_itx$sample <- unique(py_to_r(lrdata$obs['sample_id']))
  
  co_exp <- t(py_to_r(lrdata$X))
  colnames(co_exp) <- py_to_r(lrdata$obs_names$to_list())
  rownames(co_exp) <- py_to_r(lrdata$var_names$to_list())
  
  cats <- t(py_to_r(lrdata$layers['cats']))
  colnames(cats) <- py_to_r(lrdata$obs_names$to_list())
  rownames(cats) <- py_to_r(lrdata$var_names$to_list())
  
  return(list(ranked_itx = ranked_itx, co_exp = co_exp, cats = cats))
})
qsave(GoL_LR_itx, "liana_res_gol_global_morans_local_norm_product.qs")

gol_LR_ranks <- lapply(GoL_LR_itx, function(x){x[[1]]}) %>%
  bind_rows()

gol <- lapply(gol, function(x){
  x[['LRMoran']] <- CreateAssayObject(GoL_LR_itx[[unique(x$sample_id)]][[2]])
  x[['cat']] <- CreateAssayObject(GoL_LR_itx[[unique(x$sample_id)]][[3]])
  return(x)
})

gol <- reduce(gol, merge)
gol <- JoinLayers(gol, assay = 'Spatial')
qsave(gol, "liana_res_mapped_gol_global_morans_local_norm_product.qs")
gol <-  qread("liana_res_mapped_gol_global_morans_local_norm_product.qs")

References

Dimitrov, Daniel, Philipp Sven Lars Schäfer, Elias Farr, Pablo Rodriguez-Mier, Sebastian Lobentanzer, Pau Badia-i-Mompel, Aurelien Dugourd, Jovan Tanevski, Ricardo Omar Ramirez Flores, and Julio Saez-Rodriguez. 2024. “LIANA+ Provides an All-in-One Framework for Cell–Cell Communication Inference.” Nature Cell Biology 26 (9): 1613–22.