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# coglasso - Collaborative Graphical Lasso <a href="https://drquestion.github.io/coglasso/"><img src="man/figures/logo.png" align="right" height="138" alt="coglasso website" /></a>

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Coglasso implements *collaborative graphical lasso*, an algorithm for
network reconstruction from multi-omics data sets ([Albanese, Kohlen and
Behrouzi, 2026](#references)). Our algorithm joins the principles of the
*graphical lasso* by Friedman, Hastie and Tibshirani
([2008](#references)) and *collaborative regression* by Gross and
Tibshirani ([2015](#references)).

## Installing coglasso

You can install the CRAN release of coglasso with:

``` r
install.packages("coglasso")
```

## Installing the development version

To install the development version of coglasso from
[GitHub](https://github.com/) you need to make sure to install devtools
with:

``` r
if (!require("devtools")) {
  install.packages("devtools")
}
```

You can then install the development version with:

``` r
devtools::install_github("DrQuestion/coglasso")
```

## Usage

Here follows an example on how to reconstruct and select a multi-omics
network with *collaborative graphical lasso*. For a more exhaustive
example we refer the user to the vignette `vignette("coglasso")`. The
package provides example multi-omics data sets of different dimensions,
here we will use `multi_omics_sd_small`. The current version of the
coglasso package accepts multi-omics data sets with *multiple* “omic”
layers, where the single layers are grouped by column. For example, in
`multi_omics_sd_small` the first 14 columns represent transcript
abundances, and the other 5 columns represent metabolite abundances. The
function to perform both network estimation and network selection is
`bs()`. The suggested usage of `bs()` only needs the input data set, the
dimensions of the “omic” layers, and the number of values to explore for
each hyperparameter.

``` r
library(coglasso)

sel_cg <- bs(multi_omics_sd_small, pX = c(14, 5), nlambda_w = 15, nlambda_b = 15, nc = 5)

# To see information about the network estimation and selection
print(sel_cg)
```

`bs()` explores several combinations of the hyperparameters
characterizing *collaborative graphical lasso*. Then, it selects the
combination yielding the best network according to the chosen model
selection method. Among others, this function implements *eXtended
Efficient StARS* (*XEStARS*), a significantly faster and
memory-efficient version of *eXtended StARS* (*XStARS*, [Albanese,
Kohlen and Behrouzi, 2026](#ref)). These are coglasso-adapted versions
of the *StARS* selection algorithm ([Liu, Roeder and Wasserman,
2010](#references)) selecting the hyperparameter combination that yields
the most stable, yet sparse network. *XEStARS* is the default option for
the parameter `method`, so it is enough to enjoy the comfort of the
default behaviour and let the function do the rest. To plot the selected
network, use:

``` r
plot(sel_cg)
```

## References

Albanese, A., Kohlen, W., & Behrouzi, P. (2026). Multi-omics network
reconstruction with collaborative graphical lasso. *Bioinformatics*,
42(7). <https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag477>

Friedman, J., Hastie, T., & Tibshirani, R. (2008). Sparse inverse
covariance estimation with the graphical lasso. *Biostatistics*, 9(3),
432–441. <https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxm045>

Gross, S. M., & Tibshirani, R. (2015). Collaborative regression.
*Biostatistics*, 16(2), 326–338.
<https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxu047>

Liu, H., Roeder, K., & Wasserman, L. (2010). Stability Approach to
Regularization Selection (StARS) for High Dimensional Graphical Models
(arXiv:1006.3316). *arXiv* <https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1006.3316>
