Framework of giotto object to store and work with spatial expression data
raw_exprsraw expression counts
norm_exprnormalized expression counts
norm_scaled_exprnormalized and scaled expression counts
custom_exprcustom normalized counts
spatial_locsspatial location coordinates for cells
cell_metadatametadata for cells
gene_metadatametadata for genes
cell_IDunique cell IDs
gene_IDunique gene IDs
spatial_networkspatial network in data.table/data.frame format
spatial_gridspatial grid in data.table/data.frame format
spatial_enrichmentslot to save spatial enrichment-like results
dimension_reductionslot to save dimension reduction coordinates
nn_networknearest neighbor network in igraph format
imagesslot to store giotto images
parametersslot to save parameters that have been used
instructionsslot for global function instructions
offset_fileoffset file used to stitch together image fields
OS_platformOperating System to run Giotto analysis on