sigAddon: Process new signatures for inclusion into the decosus tool

In caanene1/Decosus: Method to generate robust consensus from published cell deconvolution/aggregation methods

Process new signatures for inclusion into the decosus tool

Description

Function to process signatures from the CellMarker database.

Usage

sigAddon(path=url.inl, is.web = T, min.set=3)

Arguments

path	The path to the CellMarker database. The path can be a web link or local. The function expects this file to contain minimally the "cellName" and "geneSymbol" column.
is.web	Boolen indicating if the path is a web url. Defaults to TRUE.
min.set	Integer indicating min number of genes in the retained signatures.

Details

This function provides a method to integrate the CellMarker signature to the analysis.

Value

A list of data dataframes.

1	Table of the processed signature
2	Raw table used, either from web or local

Note

This function expects your data to come from http://bio-bigdata.hrbmu.edu.cn/CellMarker/download.jsp Example url is "http://bio-bigdata.hrbmu.edu.cn/CellMarker/download/Human_cell_markers.txt".

Author(s)

Chinedu A. Anene, PhD

References

Depends on: base R functions.

See Also

The output of this function works well for the Decosus tool.

caanene1/Decosus documentation built on Nov. 18, 2024, 7:38 p.m.