adds gene metadata to the giotto object
addGeneMetadata(gobject, new_metadata, by_column = F, column_gene_ID = NULL)giotto object
new metadata to use
merge metadata based on gene_ID column in fDataDT
column name of new metadata to use if by_column = TRUE
giotto object
You can add additional gene metadata in two manners: 1. Provide a data.table or data.frame with gene annotations in the same order as the gene_ID column in fDataDT(gobject) 2. Provide a data.table or data.frame with gene annotations and specificy which column contains the gene IDs, these gene IDs need to match with the gene_ID column in fDataDT(gobject)