Identifies cell-to-cell Interaction Changed Genes (ICG), i.e. genes that are differentially expressed due to proximity to other cell types.
findCellProximityGenes(...)Arguments passed on to findInteractionChangedGenes
gobjectgiotto object
expression_valuesexpression values to use
selected_genessubset of selected genes (optional)
cluster_columnname of column to use for cell types
spatial_network_namename of spatial network to use
minimum_unique_cellsminimum number of target cells required
minimum_unique_int_cellsminimum number of interacting cells required
diff_testwhich differential expression test
mean_methodmethod to use to calculate the mean
offsetoffset value to use when calculating log2 ratio
adjust_methodwhich method to adjust p-values
nr_permutationsnumber of permutations if diff_test = permutation
exclude_selected_cells_from_testexclude interacting cells other cells
do_parallelrun calculations in parallel with mclapply
coresnumber of cores to use if do_parallel = TRUE
set_seedset a seed for reproducibility
seed_numberseed number