vargenes_vst {symphony}

Function to find variable genes using variance stabilizing transform (vst) method

Description

Function to find variable genes using variance stabilizing transform (vst) method

Usage

vargenes_vst(object, groups, topn, loess.span = 0.3)

Arguments

object

expression matrix

groups

finds variable genes within each group then pools

topn

Return top n genes

loess.span

Loess span parameter used when fitting the variance-mean relationship

Value

A data.frame of variable genes, with means and standard deviations.