get_testing_data

Helper function to obtain some sample data

A common bioinformatics task in single-cell data analysis is to purify a cell type or cell population of interest from heterogeneous datasets. 'scGate' automatizes marker-based purification of specific cell populations, without requiring training data or reference gene expression profiles. Briefly, 'scGate' takes as input: i) a gene expression matrix stored in a 'Seurat' object and ii) a “gating model” (GM), consisting of a set of marker genes that define the cell population of interest. The GM can be as simple as a single marker gene, or a combination of positive and negative markers. More complex GMs can be constructed in a hierarchical fashion, akin to gating strategies employed in flow cytometry. 'scGate' evaluates the strength of signature marker expression in each cell using the rank-based method 'UCell', and then performs k-nearest neighbor (kNN) smoothing by calculating the mean 'UCell' score across neighboring cells. kNN-smoothing aims at compensating for the large degree of sparsity in scRNA-seq data. Finally, a universal threshold over kNN-smoothed signature scores is applied in binary decision trees generated from the user-provided gating model, to annotate cells as either “pure” or “impure”, with respect to the cell population of interest. See the related publication Andreatta et al. (2022) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac141>.

Massimo Andreatta

scGate

Marker-Based Cell Type Purification for Single-Cell Sequencing
Data

Ariel Berenstein

Josep Garnica

Santiago Carmona

get_testing_data function

<dl><dt>version</dt>
<dd>Which sample dataset</dd>
<dt>destination</dt>
<dd>Save to this directory</dd></dl>

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Download sample data — get_testing_data

<dl>

<dt>version</dt>
<dd>Which sample dataset</dd>


<dt>destination</dt>
<dd>Save to this directory</dd>

</dl>

get_testing_data: Download sample data

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