The Seurat object is a representation of single-cell expression data for R; each Seurat
object revolves around a set of cells and consists of one or more Assay-class
objects, or individual representations of expression data (eg. RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, etc).
These assays can be reduced from their high-dimensional state to a lower-dimension state
and stored as DimReduc-class
objects. Seurat objects also store additional
meta data, both at the cell and feature level (contained within individual assays). The
object was designed to be as self-contained as possible, and easily extendible to new methods.
assays
A list of assays for this project
meta.data
Contains meta-information about each cell, starting with number of genes detected (nGene)
and the original identity class (orig.ident); more information is added using AddMetaData
active.assay
Name of the active, or default, assay; settable using DefaultAssay
active.ident
The active cluster identity for this Seurat object; settable using Idents
graphs
A list of Graph-class
objects
neighbors
...
reductions
A list of dimmensional reduction objects for this object
project.name
Name of the project
misc
A list of miscellaneous information
version
Version of Seurat this object was built under
commands
A list of logged commands run on this Seurat
object
tools
A list of miscellaneous data generated by other tools, should be filled by developers only using Tool<-