Recode (i.e., relabel) metadata in Seurat object

Recode (i.e., relabel) metadata in Seurat object. If old label is specified as NA, treated as wildcard that captures all remaining barcodes that have not been relabeled.

recodeBarcode(
  object,
  barcode.recode,
  old.field.name = "Barcode",
  new.field.name = "Barcode",
  exact.match = F
)

Arguments

object

Seurat Object

barcode.recode

Named list where names are new labels, entries are old labels (can be vector of characters). E.g., barcode.recode <- list(in.vitro = c("invitro"), in.vivo = NA)

old.field.name

name of field in which meta dat for recoding is stored. Default is "Barcode".

new.field.name

name of new field in meta data where recoded data will be stored. Default is "Barcode".

exact.match

specify whether entries for old labels in `barcode.recode` are matched exactly. For example, with exact matching, '5' would retrieve '5' but not '15', but without exact matching, '5' would retrieve '5' and '15'. Default is F.

Value

Seurat Object with relabeled metadata

Author

Nicholas Mikolajewicz