studySEtoQTLTools: Split study SummarizedExperiment object into invidiual input...

View source: R/qtl_QTLTools.R

studySEtoQTLToolsR Documentation

Split study SummarizedExperiment object into invidiual input files for QTLTools.

Description

Uses the qtl_group metadata column (required) to split a single SummarizedExperiment object into multiple independent input files for QTLTools. Write the files directly to disk.

Usage

studySEtoQTLTools(se, assay_name, out_dir, extra_qtl_group = NULL)

Arguments

se

SummarizedExperiment object.

assay_name

Name of the assay in the SummarizedExperiment object used for QTL mapping.

out_dir

Path to the output directory where the QTLTools input files will be written.

extra_qtl_group

Used to split the datasets using some additional metadata column in additon to the qtl_group column. This can for example be used to perform sex-specific or population-specific eQTL analysis.

Value

None


kauralasoo/eQTLUtils documentation built on March 12, 2023, 8:50 p.m.