Seurat (version 1.4.0)

FindAllMarkersNode: Find all markers for a node

Description

This function finds markers for all splits at or below the specified node

Usage

FindAllMarkersNode(object, node = NULL, genes.use = NULL,
  thresh.use = 0.25, test.use = "bimod", min.pct = 0.1,
  min.diff.pct = 0.05, print.bar = TRUE, only.pos = FALSE,
  max.cells.per.ident = Inf, return.thresh = 0.01, do.print = FALSE,
  random.seed = 1)

Arguments

object

Seurat object. Must have object@cluster.tree slot filled. Use BuildClusterTree() if not.

node

Node from which to start identifying split markers, default is top node.

genes.use

Genes to test. Default is to use variable genes (object@var.genes)

thresh.use

Limit testing to genes which show, on average, at least X-fold difference (log-scale) between the two groups of cells.

test.use

Denotes which test to use. Seurat currently implements "bimod" (likelihood-ratio test for single cell gene expression, McDavid et al., Bioinformatics, 2011, default), "roc" (standard AUC classifier), "t" (Students t-test), and "tobit" (Tobit-test for differential gene expression, as in Trapnell et al., Nature Biotech, 2014), 'poisson', and 'negbinom'. The latter two options should only be used on UMI datasets, and assume an underlying poisson or negative-binomial distribution.

min.pct

- only test genes that are detected in a minimum fraction of min.pct cells in either of the two populations. Meant to speed up the function by not testing genes that are very infrequently expression

print.bar

Print a progress bar once expression testing begins (uses pbapply to do this)

only.pos

Only return positive markers (FALSE by default)

max.cells.per.ident

Down sample each identity class to a max number. Default is no downsampling.

return.thresh

Only return markers that have a p-value < return.thresh, or a power > return.thresh (if the test is ROC)

random.seed

Random seed for downsampling

Value

Returns a dataframe with a ranked list of putative markers for each node and associated statistics