Combine Cell Annotations
Combine Cell Annotations can be found in the Toolbox here:Cell Preparation () | Combine Cell Annotations ()
The tool takes as input multiple Cell Annotations () and outputs a single Cell Annotations () element. This can be useful to reduce the number of elements needed to describe a set of cells.
The combining is very flexible. For example, it supports:
- Different pieces of information for the same cells. An example could be QC metrics from QC for Single Cell with cell type probabilities from Predict Cell Types.
- The same pieces of information from different cells.
- Different pieces of information from different cells.
Cells are considered to be the same if they have the same sample and barcode.
There are two limitations of combining:
- If two Cell Annotations describe the same cell with contradictory information in the same column, then combining will fail with a warning.
- If two Cell Annotations describe different types of information in the same column, such as numbers in one and text in the other, then combining will fail with a warning.