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Vedran Radojcic

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Aug 21, 2017, 7:30:54 PM8/21/17
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Just wondering if anyone has advice regarding leading edge analysis html output issues. I cannot get the hyperlinks for gene sets used in analysis ("Details of gene sets and signals used in this analysis") to work and am only getting error message "Your file was not found. It may have been moved or deleted. ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND".

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David Eby

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Aug 22, 2017, 12:15:00 AM8/22/17
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Hi Vedran,

It's hard to say without more details, but to hazard a guess this might be caused by spaces or other special characters in file names.  

When the report is built, names of items like gene sets are used to name report files, so if those names contain spaces then your web browser might not be able to handle the file path.  That applies to the Analysis Name as well.  We recommend sticking to alphanumeric names with underscores in place of special characters as needed.

The other obvious possibility is that the original GSEA (or Preranked) analysis input to Leading Edge might have been deleted.  The links in the Leading Edge report point back to the original analysis report pages, so the links will be dead if this is deleted.

Hope that helps.!
Regards,
David

David Eby
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Cancer Informatics Development
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:30 AM, Vedran Radojcic <vedran....@gmail.com> wrote:
Just wondering if anyone has advice regarding leading edge analysis html output issues. I cannot get the hyperlinks for gene sets used in analysis ("Details of gene sets and signals used in this analysis") to work and am only getting error message "Your file was not found. It may have been moved or deleted. ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND".

Thanks

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Vedran Radojcic

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Aug 22, 2017, 1:16:17 AM8/22/17
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I'll try to rerun the analysis to keep the the file relations intact. However, none of the files used to create original report, or report files have been moved or deleted, nor have any special characters been used (pulled from standard msigdbs). Any other suggestions?

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David Eby

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Aug 22, 2017, 5:24:50 AM8/22/17
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I can take a closer look at the files if you like.  Can you ZIP and send us both the Leading Edge report directory and the original analysis directory?  These will typically be in the gsea_home/output directory.

You can send them to our private gsea-team address if you don't want them posted in public (see the Contact page on our website).

- David

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Vedran Radojcic

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Aug 23, 2017, 3:51:10 PM8/23/17
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David Eby

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Aug 23, 2017, 10:17:18 PM8/23/17
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Hi Vedran,

GSEA only generates detailed report pages for the Top X up/down-enriched gene sets, as specified by the "Plot graphs for the top sets of each phenotype" Advanced field setting (default 20, but set to 100 in your analysis).

What's happening is that the gene sets in the Leading Edge analysis point are outside that group of Top 100, so there are no corresponding pages.

GSEA should probably skip the link creation in this case.  I'll file a bug-tracking ticket on this so maybe we can fix it in a future release.

- David

David Eby
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Cancer Informatics Development
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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Vedran Radojcic

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Aug 23, 2017, 11:59:33 PM8/23/17
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Sounds great. I'll look into the position of the GS of interest and expand the criteria when re-running the GSEA.

Thanks

Choah Kim

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Jul 10, 2024, 11:52:30 AM7/10/24
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Hello,

I am having a similar issue opening the gene set hyperlink on the analysis page. None of the hyperlinks seem to work and send me to the ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND error page. 
I did not move or delete anything and also pulled from msigdb. I would greatly appreciate any help with this.

Thank you.

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Anthony Castanza

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Jul 10, 2024, 1:09:54 PM7/10/24
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Could you perhaps provide me with an example of one of the links as your browser is seeing it, as well as the filename of the MSigDB genesets that you used?
One possibility is that you've inadvertently used an old version of MSigDB with an unsupported link format.

-Anthony

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Choah Kim

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Jul 10, 2024, 4:42:19 PM7/10/24
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Here is the link after I click on one of the geneset hyperlinks: file:///Users/ckim/gsea_home/output/jul09/my_analysis.GseaPreranked.1720625055842/edb/HALLMARK_MYC_TARGETS_V1.html
The gene set I used for the GSEA analysis was: ftp.broadinstitute.org://pub/gsea/msigdb/human/gene_sets/h.all.v2023.2.Hs.symbols.gmt 

Best,
Choah


Anthony Castanza

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Jul 10, 2024, 4:57:08 PM7/10/24
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Okay that's quite odd, there shouldn't be a /edb/ in that url, it should simply be

file:///Users/ckim/gsea_home/output/jul09/my_analysis.GseaPreranked.1720625055842/HALLMARK_MYC_TARGETS_V1.html

Did you run GSEA through the UI or from the commandline?

-Anthony

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Curator, Molecular Signatures Database
Mesirov Lab, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Diego

Choah Kim

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Jul 11, 2024, 11:17:18 AM7/11/24
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I tried copy pasting the link you sent me without the /edb/ and it seems to work. 

I ran the GSEA through the GSEA application that I downloaded. I noticed that once I open the html file after running the Leading Edge analysis on that GSEA app, at the top, it tells me this: "Leading edge report for GSEA result folder: edb". I'm not sure what this edb folder is since I never intentionally set it to save there--is there a way to change this?

Thank you,

Choah

Choah Kim

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Jul 11, 2024, 4:18:59 PM7/11/24
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I actually just found that I am unable to open this hyperlink even though I removed the "/edb/" for it:
file:///Users/ckim/gsea_home/output/jul01/my_analysis.GseaPreranked.1719861605448/KEGG_OXIDATIVE_PHOSPHORYLATION.html

Might there be another way to access this data?

Best,
Choah

Anthony Castanza

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Jul 11, 2024, 4:55:11 PM7/11/24
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Hi Choah,

Each time GSEA runs it produces a results folder for the specific run with all the data produced, within that folder is an edb subfolder that contains all the data GSEA needs to reproduce the run as well as a ".edb" file that contains the full set of enrichment data in GSEA's internal database format.

The leading edge analysis tool works by parsing the data from this edb file in the edb subfolder. The issue is that GSEA is producing an incorrect results path in the leading edge analysis run using the edb folder path as the base instead of the correct file path that should start one directory up.


When you ran leading edge analysis did you use the option to select a GSEA run from the application cache or did you manually select the results folder you wanted to analyze? Figuring out exactly how this happened will help us get the bug fixed.


-Anthony

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Mesirov Lab, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Diego

Choah Kim

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Jul 12, 2024, 11:33:15 AM7/12/24
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Hi Anthony,

I selected a GSEA run from the application cache in order to run leading edge analysis.
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