#!/usr/bin/perl ########################################################################### # Purpose: To calculate the correlation of two sets of scores in one file. # Usage: correlation.pl infile.bed output.txt column1 column2 # (column start from 1) # Written by: Yi Zhang (June, 2005) ########################################################################### if (!$ARGV[0] || !$ARGV[1] || !defined($ARGV[2]) || !defined($ARGV[3]) ) { print STDERR "Usage: correlation.pl infile.bed output.txt column1 column2\n"; print STDERR " (column start from 1)\n"; exit; } my $file = $ARGV[0]; my $out = $ARGV[1]; die "The input columns contain numerical values: $ARGV[2], $ARGV[3].\n" if ($ARGV[2] =~ /[a-zA-Z]+/ || $ARGV[3] =~ /[a-zA-Z]+/); my $col1 = $ARGV[2] - 1; my $col2 = $ARGV[3] - 1; my ($f, $o); my (@a, @b); my $n_t = 0; open($f, $file) or die "Could't open $file, $!\n"; while(<$f>) { chomp; my @t = split(/\t/); if ($n_t == 0) { $n_t = scalar(@t) - 1; die "The input column number exceeds the size of the file: $col1, $col2, $n_t\n" if ( $col1 > $n_t || $col2 > $n_t ); } die "The columns you have selected contain non numeric characters:$t[$col1] and $t[$col2] \n" if ($t[$col1] =~ /[a-zA-Z]+/ || $t[$col2] =~ /[a-zA-Z]+/); push(@a, $t[$col1]); push(@b, $t[$col2]); } close($f); my $result = correlation(\@a, \@b); open($o, ">$out") or die "Couldn't open $out, $!\n"; $col1 = $col1 + 1; $col2 = $col2 + 1; print $o "The correlation of column $col1 and $col2 is $result\n"; close($o); print "The correlation of column $col1 and $col2 is $result\n"; sub correlation { my ($array1ref, $array2ref) = @_; my ($sum1, $sum2); my ($sum1_squared, $sum2_squared); foreach (@$array1ref) { $sum1 += $_; $sum1_squared += $_**2; } foreach (@$array2ref) { $sum2 += $_; $sum2_squared += $_**2; } my $numerator = (@$array1ref**2) * covariance($array1ref, $array2ref); my $denominator = sqrt(((@$array1ref * $sum1_squared) - ($sum1**2)) * ((@$array1ref * $sum2_squared) - ($sum2**2))); my $r; if ($denominator == 0) { print STDERR "The denominator is 0.\n"; exit 0; } else { $r = $numerator / $denominator; } return $r; } sub covariance { my ($array1ref, $array2ref) = @_; my ($i, $result); for ($i = 0; $i < @$array1ref; $i++) { $result += $array1ref->[$i] * $array2ref->[$i]; } $result /= @$array1ref; $result -= mean($array1ref) * mean($array2ref); } sub mean { my ($arrayref) = @_; my $result; foreach (@$arrayref) { $result += $_; } return $result/@$arrayref; }