Thanks for the amazing webinar Chris! I sincerely appreciate the work from the JMP Academic Team to provide resources to the academic community. I have been using the platform and your workflow to analyze a proteomics dataset in JMP17Pro and had the following questions:
- You used the hierarchical clustering platform with Hybrid Ward as a QC screen and to explore missing values. When I try to do this on my data set of ~1000 mitochondrial proteins, I receive an error that there are too many missing values to cluster and I am basically forced to impute values to do any clustering. Why did this error not show up for you when you clustered to identify missing values before removing columns with too much missing data?
- I have also been trying to modify the script in your journal file that removes columns with too many zeros (my data has blanks and not zeros but same concept, I think). I need a further level of evaluation as I have 13 rows of Control samples and 13 rows of Experimental samples in the data and want to filter (or create 2 additional new groupings like you did) for any columns of a protein in which “Control Missing Too Many Values” and “Experimental Missing Too Many Values”. Sometimes when a protein is predominantly missing from samples in one condition and present in another, that could be biologically interesting so I would not necessarily want that filtered because the column as a whole did not have 60% non-blanks. I know a little R for coding but am struggling to find a way to do this in JSL.
- Is it possible to change the graphing on the volcano plots in the Response Screening to color FDR Pvalues < 0.02 or <0.05 (and not the defaulting 0.01)? I can change the location of the reference line (see image below) but it would be nice to have points colored consistent with an FDR cutoff of choice and also have the legend updated on the Logworth by Difference plot. I thought a workaround would be to generate a new table of the differences (log2 FC) and P-values and take them into GraphBuilder where I have more control but I get the same coloring of only the points <0.01 so the coloring setting seems to follow the table (see image below).


Thank you for any assistance,
TK