NowakowskiCortexData: Obtain the Nowakowski cortex data
In drisso/scRNAseq: Collection of Public Single-Cell RNA-Seq Datasets

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Obtain the human cortex single-cell RNA-seq dataset from Nowakowski et al. (2017).

1	NowakowskiCortexData(ensembl = FALSE, location = TRUE)

`ensembl`	Logical scalar indicating whether the output row names should contain Ensembl identifiers.
`location`	Logical scalar indicating whether genomic coordinates should be returned.

Column metadata includes the presumed cell type (WGCNAcluster), patient and tissue region of origin. A variety of dimensionality reduction results are also provided.

If ensembl=TRUE, the gene symbols are converted to Ensembl IDs in the row names of the output object. Rows with missing Ensembl IDs are discarded, and only the first occurrence of duplicated IDs is retained.

If location=TRUE, the coordinates of the Ensembl gene models are stored in the rowRanges of the output. This is only performed when ensembl=TRUE.

All data are downloaded from ExperimentHub and cached for local re-use. Specific resources can be retrieved by searching for scRNAseq/nowakowski-cortex.

A SingleCellExperiment object with a single matrix of TPMs. The reducedDims contains an assortment of dimensionality reduction results.

Aaron Lun

Nowakowski S et al. (2017). Spatiotemporal gene expression trajectories reveal developmental hierarchies of the human cortex. Science 358, 1318-1323.