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title: "Analyzing data"
author: "Mike Blazanin"
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```{r global options, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(
collapse = TRUE,
comment = "#>"
)
knitr::opts_knit$set(root.dir = tempdir())
```
# Where are we so far?
1. Introduction: `vignette("gc01_gcplyr")`
2. Importing and reshaping data: `vignette("gc02_import_reshape")`
3. Incorporating experimental designs: `vignette("gc03_incorporate_designs")`
4. Pre-processing and plotting your data: `vignette("gc04_preprocess_plot")`
5. Processing your data: `vignette("gc05_process")`
6. **Analyzing your data:** `vignette("gc06_analyze")`
7. Dealing with noise: `vignette("gc07_noise")`
8. Best practices and other tips: `vignette("gc08_conclusion")`
9. Working with multiple plates: `vignette("gc09_multiple_plates")`
10. Using make_design to generate experimental designs: `vignette("gc10_using_make_design")`
So far, we've imported and transformed our measures, combined them with our design information, pre-processed, processed, and plotted our data. Now we're going to analyze our data by summarizing our growth curves into a number of metrics.
If you haven't already, load the necessary packages.
```{r setup}
library(gcplyr)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
```
```{r}
# This code was previously explained
# Here we're re-running it so it's available for us to work with
example_tidydata <- trans_wide_to_tidy(example_widedata_noiseless,
id_cols = "Time")
ex_dat_mrg <- merge_dfs(example_tidydata, example_design_tidy)
ex_dat_mrg$Well <-
factor(ex_dat_mrg$Well,
levels = paste(rep(LETTERS[1:8], each = 12), 1:12, sep = ""))
ex_dat_mrg$Time <- ex_dat_mrg$Time/3600 #Convert time to hours
ex_dat_mrg <-
mutate(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Well, Bacteria_strain, Phage),
deriv = calc_deriv(x = Time, y = Measurements),
deriv_percap5 = calc_deriv(x = Time, y = Measurements,
percapita = TRUE, blank = 0,
window_width_n = 5, trans_y = "log"),
doub_time = doubling_time(y = deriv_percap5))
sample_wells <- c("A1", "F1", "F10", "E11")
# Drop unneeded columns (optional, but makes things cleaner)
ex_dat_mrg <- dplyr::select(ex_dat_mrg,
Time, Well, Measurements, Bacteria_strain, Phage,
deriv, deriv_percap5)
```
```{r, include = FALSE}
# Here we're only keeping the wells that at one point or another in
# this vignette we visualize. This cuts down on vignette build time
# with no visual indication of the change
ex_dat_mrg <- dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% c("A1", "A7", "B4", "B10",
"B5", "B11", "F1", "E11",
"F10", "A4", "E2", "H8"))
```
# Analyzing data with summarize
Ultimately, analyzing growth curves requires summarizing the entire time series of data by some metric or metrics. gcplyr makes it easy to calculate a number of metrics of interest, which I've grouped into categories:
### Most common metrics
* [the lag time](#lag)
* [the maximum cellular growth rate (i.e. minimum doubling time)](#max_percap)
* [the maximum density (e.g. carrying capacity)](#maxdens)
* [the area under the curve](#auc)
### Growth
* [the initial density](#init_dens)
* [the lag time](#lag)
* [the time to reach some density](#dens_thresh)
* [the time to reach some growth rate](#percap_thresh)
* [the maximum per-capita growth rate (i.e. minimum doubling time)](#max_percap)
### Saturation
* [the mid-point time or inflection point](#midpoint)
* [the maximum density (e.g. carrying capacity)](#maxdens)
### Total growth
* [the area under the curve](#auc)
* [the centroid of area under the curve](#centroid)
### Diauxic growth
* [the density and time when a diauxic shift occurs](#diauxie)
* [the maximum per-capita growth rate during diauxie](#diauxic_percap)
### Growth with antagonists (e.g. phages)
* [the peak bacterial density before a decline (e.g. from phage predation)](#peak_dens)
* [the extinction time (e.g. from phage predation)](#extin_time)
* [the area under the curve](#auc)
* [the centroid of area under the curve](#centroid)
The following sections show how you can use `gcplyr` functions to calculate these metrics.
But first, we need to familiarize ourselves with one more `dplyr` function: `summarize`. Why? Because the upcoming `gcplyr` analysis functions *must* be used *within* `dplyr::summarize`. **If you’re already familiar with `dplyr`'s `summarize`, feel free to skip the primer in the next section.** If you’re not familiar yet, don’t worry! Continue to the next section, where I provide a primer that will teach you all you need to know on using `summarize` with `gcplyr` functions.
# Another brief primer on dplyr: summarize
Here we're going to focus on the `summarize` function from `dplyr`, which *must* be used with the `group_by` function we covered in our first primer: [A brief primer on dplyr](vignette("05_process")). `summarize` carries out user-specified calculations on *each* group in a grouped `data.frame` independently, producing a new `data.frame` where each group is now just a single row.
For growth curves, this means we will:
1. `group_by` our data so that every well is a group
2. `summarize` each well into one or several metrics
As before, to use `group_by` we simply pass the `data.frame` to be grouped, and the names of the columns we want to group by. Since `summarize` will drop columns that the data aren't grouped by and that aren't summarized, we will typically want to list all of our design columns for `group_by`, along with the plate name and well. Again, make sure you're *not* grouping by Time, Measurements, or anything else that varies *within* a well, since if you do `dplyr` will group timepoints within a well separately.
Then, we run `summarize`. `summarize` works much like `mutate` did, where we specify:
1. the name of the variable we want results saved to
2. the function that calculates the summarized results
Just like `mutate`, if we want additional summary metrics, we simply add them to the summarize. However, unlike `mutate`, `summarize` functions return just a single value for each group.
As you'll see throughout the rest of this article, we'll be using `group_by` and `summarize` to calculate our metrics of interest. If you want to learn more, `dplyr` has extensive documentation and examples of its own online, but this primer and the coming example should be sufficient to analyze data with `gcplyr`.
# Plotting summarized metrics
Once you've calculated your summarized metrics, you should plot them on the original data to make sure everything matches what you expect. We can plot summarized values right on top of our original data:
* density or rate metrics can be plotted as a horizontal line with `geom_hline`
* time metrics can be plotted as a vertical line with `geom_vline`
* pairs of metrics that correspond to both density/rate and time can be plotted as a point with `geom_point`
You'll see examples of these plots throughout this article.
# The most common metrics
## Lag time {#lag}
Bacteria often have a period of time before they reach their maximum growth rate. If you would like to quantify this lag time, you can use the `lag_time` function. `lag_time` needs the x and y values, as well as the (per-capita) derivative and the blank value (the value of your `Measurements` that corresponds to a population density of 0; if your data have already been normalized, simply add `blank = 0`). It will find the maximum derivative, then project the tangent line with that slope back until it crosses the starting density.
Below, I calculate lag time. So that you can see a visualization of what this tangent-line calculation does, I also calculate the `max_percap`, `max_percap_time`, `max_percap_dens`, and `min_dens`, but you don't have to do that.
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
lag_time = lag_time(y = Measurements, x = Time,
deriv = deriv_percap5, blank = 0),
max_percap = max_gc(deriv_percap5),
max_percap_time = Time[which_max_gc(deriv_percap5)],
max_percap_dens = Measurements[which_max_gc(deriv_percap5)],
min_dens = min_gc(Measurements))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = log(Measurements))) +
geom_point() +
facet_wrap(~Well) +
geom_abline(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
color = "red",
aes(slope = max_percap,
intercept = log(max_percap_dens) - max_percap*max_percap_time)) +
geom_vline(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(xintercept = lag_time), lty = 2) +
geom_hline(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(yintercept = log(min_dens)))
```
Notice how in some of the wells the minimum density value isn't the *initial* density? We can fix that by overriding the default minimum density calculation with `first_minima` via the `y0` argument of `lag_time`.
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
min_dens = first_minima(Measurements, return = "y"),
lag_time = lag_time(y = Measurements, x = Time,
deriv = deriv_percap5, blank = 0,
y0 = min_dens),
max_percap = max_gc(deriv_percap5),
max_percap_time = Time[which_max_gc(deriv_percap5)],
max_percap_dens = Measurements[which_max_gc(deriv_percap5)])
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = log(Measurements))) +
geom_point() +
facet_wrap(~Well) +
geom_abline(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
color = "red",
aes(slope = max_percap,
intercept = log(max_percap_dens) - max_percap*max_percap_time)) +
geom_vline(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(xintercept = lag_time), lty = 2) +
geom_hline(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(yintercept = log(min_dens)))
```
## Maximum growth rate and minimum doubling time {#max_percap}
If you want to calculate the bacterial maximum growth rate (i.e. the minimum doubling time), it will often be sufficient to use `max_gc` on the per-capita derivatives we calculated in `vignette("gc05_process")`. (`max_gc` works just like `R`'s built-in `max`, but with better default settings for growth curve analyses with `summarize`).
We can also save the time when this maximum occurs using the `which_max_gc` function. `which_max_gc` returns the *index* of the maximum value, so then we can get the `Time` value at that index and save it to a column titled `max_percap_time`. (`which_max_gc` and `extr_val` work just like `R`'s built-in `which.max` and `[`, but with better default settings for growth curve analyses with `summarize`)
If you would like the equivalent minimum doubling time, you can simply calculate the maximum growth rate as above and then convert that into the equivalent minimum doubling time using the `doubling_time` function.
It is important to note that `gcplyr` calculates the maximum *realized* growth rate during your growth curve. This is distinct from the intrinsic growth rate (the maximum *possible* growth rate), although the two will be quite similar if you started your growth curves at sufficiently low densities (see: [Ghenu et al., 2024. Challenges and pitfalls of inferring microbial growth rates from lab cultures. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.](https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1313500))
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
max_percap = max_gc(deriv_percap5, na.rm = TRUE),
max_percap_time = extr_val(Time, which_max_gc(deriv_percap5)),
doub_time = doubling_time(y = max_percap))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = deriv_percap5)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well) +
geom_point(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = max_percap_time, y = max_percap),
size = 2, color = "red") +
coord_cartesian(ylim = c(-1, NA))
```
## Maximum density {#maxdens}
The maximum bacterial density can be a measure of bacterial growth yield/efficiency. If your bacteria plateau in density, the maximum density can also be a measure of bacterial carrying capacity. If you want to quantify the maximum bacterial density, we can use `max_gc` to get the global maxima of `Measurements` (`max_gc`, `which_max_gc`, and `extr_val` work just like `R`'s built-in `max`, `which.max`, and `[`, but with better default settings for growth curve analyses with `summarize`).
See [Peak bacterial density] for identifying *local* maxima of `Measurements` (e.g. if you wanted the first peak in Well E11 shown below).
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
max_dens = max_gc(Measurements, na.rm = TRUE),
max_time = extr_val(Time, which_max_gc(Measurements)))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = Measurements)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well) +
geom_point(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = max_time, y = max_dens),
size = 2, color = "red")
```
## Area under the curve {#auc}
The area under the curve is a common metric of total bacterial growth, for instance in the presence of antagonists like antibiotics or phages. If you want to calculate the area under the curve, you can use the `gcplyr` function `auc`. Simply specify Time as the x and Measurements as the y data whose area-under-the-curve you want to calculate.
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
auc = auc(x = Time, y = Measurements))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
```
# Growth metrics
## Initial density {#init_dens}
If you want to identify the initial density of your bacteria, it will often be sufficient to use `min_gc` (this works just like `R`'s built-in `min`, but with better default settings for growth curve analyses with `summarize`).
We can also save the time when this minimum occurs using the `which_min_gc` function. `which_min_gc` returns the *index* of the minimum value, so then we can get the `Time` value at that index and save it to a column titled `min_time`. (`which_min_gc` and `extr_val` work just like `R`'s built-in `which.min` and `[`, but with better default settings for growth curve analyses with `summarize`)
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
min_dens = min_gc(Measurements, na.rm = TRUE),
min_time = extr_val(Time, which_min_gc(Measurements)))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = Measurements)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well) +
geom_point(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = min_time, y = min_dens),
size = 2, color = "red")
```
In some cases (e.g. growing with phages), bacteria may later drop to a lower density than they started in the growth curve. In this case, we want the first *local* minima of the Measurements data, rather than the global minima:
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
min_dens = first_minima(y = Measurements, x = Time, return = "y"),
min_time = first_minima(y = Measurements, x = Time, return = "x"))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
```
Note that you can tune the sensitivity of `first_minima` to different heights and widths of peaks and valleys using the `window_width`, `window_width_n`, and `window_height` arguments. You should check that `first_minima` is working with your data by plotting it, although the default sensitivity works much of the time.
## Lag time
See [the lag time section in the Most Common Metrics section](#lag)
## Time to reach threshold density {#dens_thresh}
If you want to quantify how long it takes bacteria to reach some threshold density, you can use the `first_above` function. In this example, we'll use a Measurements value of 0.1 as our threshold.
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
above_01 = first_above(y = Measurements, x = Time,
threshold = 0.1, return = "x"))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = Measurements)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well) +
geom_vline(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(xintercept = above_01), lty = 2, color = "red")
```
## Time to reach threshold growth rate {#percap_thresh}
If you want to quantify how long it takes bacteria to reach some threshold per-capita growth rate, you can use the `first_above` function. In this example, we'll use a per-capita derivative of 1 as our threshold.
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
percap_above_1 = first_above(y = deriv_percap5, x = Time,
threshold = 1, return = "x"))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = deriv_percap5)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well) +
geom_vline(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(xintercept = percap_above_1), lty = 2, color = "red") +
coord_cartesian(ylim = c(-1, NA))
```
## Maximum growth rate and minimum doubling time
See [the maximum growth rate section in the Most Common Metrics section](#max_percap)
# Saturation metrics
## Mid-point time or inflection point {#midpoint}
If you want to find the mid-point or inflection point of bacterial growth, there are two different approaches:
1. Mid-point: find the point when the density first reaches half the maximum density.
2. Inflection point: find the point when the derivative is at a maximum.
In growth curve analysis approaches using fitting of a symmetric function (e.g. when other `R` packages fit a logistic function to data), these two points will be equivalent. However, since `gcplyr` does model-free analyses, we do not assume symmetry, and so the points may be very similar or very different.
For the mid-point, we use the `first_above` function, with the threshold equal to the maximum bacterial density divided by 2. For the inflection point, we find the time when the `deriv` was at a maximum using `which_max_gc` (`which_max_gc` and `extr_val` work just like `R`'s built-in `which.max` and `[`, but with better default settings for growth curve analyses with `summarize`).
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
mid_point = first_above(y = Measurements, x = Time, return = "x",
threshold = max_gc(Measurements)/2),
infl_point = extr_val(Time, which_max_gc(deriv)))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = Measurements)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well) +
geom_vline(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(xintercept = mid_point), lty = 2, color = "red") +
geom_vline(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(xintercept = infl_point), lty = 2, color = "blue")
```
## Maximum density
See [the maximum density section in the Most Common Metrics section](#maxdens)
# Total growth metrics
## Area under the curve
See [the area under the curve section in the Most Common Metrics section](#auc)
## Centroid of area under the curve {#centroid}
The centroid, or center of mass, of the area under the curve can function as a metric of total microbial growth. If the area under the curve were a solid object, the centroid is the point where that object would balance perfectly. The centroid has both an x coordinate and a y coordinate. To calculate the centroid coordinates, you can use the `gcplyr` function `centroid_x` and `centroid_y`. Simply specify Time as the x and Measurements as the y data whose centroid you want to calculate.
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
centr_x = centroid_x(x = Time, y = Measurements),
centr_y = centroid_y(x = Time, y = Measurements))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = Measurements)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well) +
geom_point(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = centr_x, y = centr_y))
```
# Diauxic growth metrics
## Diauxic shifts {#diauxie}
Bacteria frequently exhibit a second, slower, burst of growth after their first period of rapid growth. This is common in growth curves and is called *diauxic growth*.
If we plot the data from some of our example data wells with no phage added, we'll see this pattern repeatedly:
```{r}
nophage_wells <- c("A1", "A4", "E2", "F1")
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% nophage_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = Measurements)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well, scales = "free")
```
We can identify the time when bacteria switch from their first period of rapid growth to their second period by finding a minima in the derivative values. Specifically, we want to identify the second minima (the first minima will occur at the beginning of the growth curve, when bacteria are just starting to grow). Let's look at some of the derivative values to see this.
```{r}
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% nophage_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = deriv)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well, scales = "free")
```
We can use the `gcplyr` function `find_local_extrema` to find that minima. Specify `deriv` as the y data and `Time` as the x data, and that we want `find_local_extrema` to `return` the `x` values associated with local minima. It will return a vector of those `x` values, and we're going to save just the second one.
At the same time, we're also going to save the density where the diauxic shift occurs. First, we'll use `find_local_extrema` again, but this time to save the *index* where the diauxic shift occurs to a column titled `diauxie_idx`. Then, we can get the `Measurements` value at that index. (Note that it wouldn't work to just specify `return = "y"`, because the `y` values in this case are the `deriv` values). (`extr_val` works just like `R`'s built-in `[`, but with better default settings for growth curve analyses with `summarize`).
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
diauxie_time = find_local_extrema(x = Time, y = deriv, return = "x",
return_maxima = FALSE, return_minima = TRUE,
window_width_n = 39)[2],
diauxie_idx = find_local_extrema(x = Time, y = deriv, return = "index",
return_maxima = FALSE, return_minima = TRUE,
window_width_n = 39)[2],
diauxie_dens = extr_val(Measurements, diauxie_idx))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
# Plot data with a point at the moment of diauxic shift
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% nophage_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = Measurements)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well, scales = "free") +
geom_point(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% nophage_wells),
aes(x = diauxie_time, y = diauxie_dens),
size = 2, color = "red")
```
If needed, you can tune the sensitivity of `find_local_extrema` to different heights and widths of peaks and valleys using the `window_width`, `window_width_n`, and `window_height` arguments.
## Growth rate during diauxie {#diauxic_percap}
In the previous section we identified when bacteria shifted into their second period of rapid growth ('diauxic growth'). If you want to find out what the peak per-capita growth rate was during that second burst, we'll have to use `max` on the subset of data after the diauxic shift identified by `find_local_extrema`
Just as we did in the previous section, we'll use `find_local_extrema` to save the time when the diauxic shift occurs. Then, we'll find the maximum of the per-capita derivative after that shift occurs. Finally, we'll find the time when that post-diauxie maximum growth rate occurs. Note that we're using `max_gc` and `which_max_gc`, which work just like `R`'s built-in `max` and `which.max`, but with better default settings for growth curve analyses with `summarize`.
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(
group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
diauxie_time =
find_local_extrema(x = Time, y = deriv, return = "x",
return_maxima = FALSE, return_minima = TRUE,
window_width_n = 39)[2],
diauxie_percap = max_gc(deriv_percap5[Time >= diauxie_time]),
diauxie_percap_time =
extr_val(Time[Time >= diauxie_time],
which_max_gc(deriv_percap5[Time >= diauxie_time]))
)
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
# Plot data with a point at the moment of peak diauxic growth rate
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% nophage_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = deriv_percap5)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well, scales = "free") +
geom_point(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% nophage_wells),
aes(x = diauxie_percap_time, y = diauxie_percap),
size = 2, color = "red")
```
# Metrics of growth with antagonists
## Peak bacterial density {#peak_dens}
[We previously found the global maximum in bacterial density](#maxdens) using the simple `max_gc` and `which_max_gc` functions. The first *local* maxima can also be of interest. This is especially true when bacteria are grown with phages, where their first peak density can act as a proxy measure for their susceptibility to the phage. If you're interested in finding the first local maxima in bacterial density, you can use the `gcplyr` function `first_maxima`.
`first_maxima` simply requires the `y` data you want to identify the peak in. Specify `Measurements` as the y data and `Time` as the x data, and that we want `first_peak` to `return` the `x` and `y` values associated with the peak. We'll save those in columns `first_maxima_x` and `first_maxima_y`, respectively.
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
first_maxima_x = first_maxima(x = Time, y = Measurements,
return = "x"),
first_maxima_y = first_maxima(x = Time, y = Measurements,
return = "y"))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = Measurements)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well) +
geom_point(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% sample_wells),
aes(x = first_maxima_x, y = first_maxima_y),
color = "red", size = 1.5)
```
Note that you can tune the sensitivity of `first_maxima` to different heights and widths of peaks and valleys using the `window_width`, `window_width_n`, and `window_height` arguments, although the defaults work much of the time.
## Extinction time {#extin_time}
The time when bacterial density falls below some threshold can also be of interest. This is especially true when bacteria are grown with phages, where this 'extinction time' can act as a proxy measure for their susceptibility to the phage. If you're interested in finding the extinction time, you can use the `gcplyr` function `first_below`. In this example, we'll use a Measurements value of 0.15 as our threshold.
```{r}
ex_dat_mrg_sum <-
summarize(
group_by(ex_dat_mrg, Bacteria_strain, Phage, Well),
extin_time = first_below(x = Time, y = Measurements, threshold = 0.15,
return = "x", return_endpoints = FALSE))
head(ex_dat_mrg_sum)
phage_wells <- c("A7", "B10", "F10", "H8")
ggplot(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg, Well %in% phage_wells),
aes(x = Time, y = Measurements)) +
geom_line() +
facet_wrap(~Well) +
geom_vline(data = dplyr::filter(ex_dat_mrg_sum, Well %in% phage_wells),
aes(xintercept = extin_time), lty = 2)
```
## Area under the curve
See [the area under the curve section in the Most Common Metrics section](#auc)
## Centroid of area under the curve
See [the centroid section in the Total Growth Metrics section](#centroid)
# What's next?
Now that you've analyzed your data, you can read about approaches to deal with noise in your growth curve data, or you can read some concluding notes on best practices for running statistics, merging growth curve analyses with other data, and additional resources for analyzing growth curves.
1. Introduction: `vignette("gc01_gcplyr")`
2. Importing and reshaping data: `vignette("gc02_import_reshape")`
3. Incorporating experimental designs: `vignette("gc03_incorporate_designs")`
4. Pre-processing and plotting your data: `vignette("gc04_preprocess_plot")`
5. Processing your data: `vignette("gc05_process")`
6. Analyzing your data: `vignette("gc06_analyze")`
7. **Dealing with noise:** `vignette("gc07_noise")`
8. **Best practices and other tips:** `vignette("gc08_conclusion")`
9. Working with multiple plates: `vignette("gc09_multiple_plates")`
10. Using make_design to generate experimental designs: `vignette("gc10_using_make_design")`