createMetagenes

Create metagenes

Description

This function creates an average metagene for gene clusters.

Usage

createMetagenes(
  gobject,
  spat_unit = NULL,
  expression_values = c("normalized", "scaled", "custom"),
  gene_clusters,
  name = "metagene",
  return_gobject = TRUE
)

Arguments

Argument

Description

gobject

Giotto object

spat_unit

spatial unit

expression_values

expression values to use

gene_clusters

numerical vector with genes as names

name

name of the metagene results

return_gobject

return giotto object

Details

An example for the ‘gene_clusters’ could be like this:

cluster_vector = c(1, 1, 2, 2); names(cluster_vector) = c(‘geneA’, ‘geneB’, ‘geneC’, ‘geneD’)

Value

giotto object