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Seurat (version 1.2.1)

find.markers: Gene expression markers of identity classes

Description

Finds markers (differentially expressed genes) for identity classes

Usage

find.markers(object, ident.1, ident.2 = NULL, genes.use = NULL, thresh.use = log(2), test.use = "bimod")

Arguments

object
Seurat object
ident.1
Identity class to define markers for
ident.2
A second identity class for comparison. If NULL (default) - use all other cells for comparison.
genes.use
Genes to test. Default is to use all genes.
thresh.use
Limit testing to genes which show, on average, at least X-fold difference (log-scale) between the two groups of cells.

Increasing thresh.use speeds up the function, but can miss weaker signals.

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)

Value

Matrix containing a ranked list of putative markers, and associated identistics (p-values, ROC score, etc.)