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Seurat (version 3.1.1)

Assay-class: The Assay Class

Description

The Assay object is the basic unit of Seurat; each Assay stores raw, normalized, and scaled data as well as cluster information, variable features, and any other assay-specific metadata. Assays should contain single cell expression data such as RNA-seq, protein, or imputed expression data.

Arguments

Slots

counts

Unnormalized data such as raw counts or TPMs

data

Normalized expression data

scale.data

Scaled expression data

key

Key for the Assay

var.features

Vector of features exhibiting high variance across single cells

meta.features

Feature-level metadata

misc

Utility slot for storing additional data associated with the assay