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Introduction

The data in this vignette is shipped with the cellatlas repository. The count matrix and metadata are provided in the cellatlas/examples folder as an AnnData object. We will begin by loading the object and converting it to a SingleCellExperiment object.

if (!file.exists("clicktags.rds"))
    download.file("https://github.com/pachterlab/voyager/raw/documentation-devel/vignettes/clicktags.rds", destfile = "clicktags.rds")
sce <- readRDS("clicktags.rds")
sce <- addPerCellQCMetrics(sce)
names(colData(sce))
#> [1] "sum"      "detected" "total"
plotColData(sce, "sum") +
    plotColData(sce, "detected") 

plotColData(sce, x = "sum", y = "detected", bins = 100) +
    scale_fill_distiller(palette = "Blues", direction = 1)
#> Scale for fill is already present.
#> Adding another scale for fill, which will replace the existing scale.

bcrank <- barcodeRanks(counts(sce))

knee <- metadata(bcrank)$knee
inflection <- metadata(bcrank)$inflection

plot(bcrank$rank, bcrank$total, log="xy",
      xlab="Rank", ylab="Total ClickTags count", cex.lab=1.2)
#> Warning in xy.coords(x, y, xlabel, ylabel, log): 1 y value <= 0 omitted from
#> logarithmic plot

abline(h=inflection, col="darkgreen", lty=2)
abline(h=knee, col="dodgerblue", lty=2)

sce <- sce[, colSums(counts(sce)) > inflection]

sce
#> class: SingleCellExperiment 
#> dim: 20 3368 
#> metadata(0):
#> assays(1): counts
#> rownames(20): ClickTag1 ClickTag2 ... ClickTag19 ClickTag20
#> rowData names(1): feature_name
#> colnames(3368): AAACCTGCAAACTGCT AAACCTGGTAGCTTGT ... TTTGTCAGTCACCCAG
#>   TTTGTCATCTCTTATG
#> colData names(3): sum detected total
#> reducedDimNames(0):
#> mainExpName: NULL
#> altExpNames(0):
sessionInfo()
#> R version 4.4.2 (2024-10-31)
#> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
#> Running under: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
#> 
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#> BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas-pthread/libblas.so.3 
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