Create metagenes#

Last Updated: Jan 29, 2024

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#

`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