selectTopMarkers {monocle} | R Documentation

## Select the most cell type specific markers

### Description

This is a handy wrapper function around dplyr's top_n function to extract the most specific genes for each cell type. Convenient, for example, for selecting a balanced set of genes to be used in semi-supervised clustering or ordering.

### Usage

    selectTopMarkers(marker_specificities, num_markers = 10)

### Arguments

`marker_specificities` | The dataframe of specificity results produced by `calculateMarkerSpecificity()`
`num_markers` | The number of markers that will be shown for each cell type

### Value

A data frame of specificity results

[Package monocle version 2.18.0 Index]