findVariableGenes {symphony}

Function to find variable genes using mean variance relationship method

Description

Function to find variable genes using mean variance relationship method

Usage

findVariableGenes(
  X,
  groups,
  min_expr = 0.1,
  max_expr = Inf,
  min_dispersion = 0,
  max_dispersion = Inf,
  num.bin = 20,
  binning.method = "equal_width",
  return_top_n = 0
)

Arguments

X

expression matrix

groups

vector of groups

min_expr

min expression cutoff

max_expr

max expression cutoff

min_dispersion

min dispersion cutoff

max_dispersion

max dispersion cutoff

num.bin

number of bins to use for scaled analysis

binning.method

how bins are computed

return_top_n

returns top n genes

Value

A data.frame of variable genes