Transforms an SPATA2 object to an object of class SummarizedExperiment. See details for more information.

asSummarizedExperiment(object, ...)

Arguments

object

An object of class spata2.

...

The features to be renamed specified according to the following syntax: 'new_feature_name' = 'old_feature_name'. This applies to coordinates, too. E.g. ... ~ 'image_col' = 'x', 'image_row' = 'y' renames the coordinate variables to 'image_col' and 'image_row'.

Value

An object of class SummarizedExperiment.

Details

Output object contains the count matrix in slot @assays and feature data.frame combined with barcode-spot coordinates in slot @colData.

Slot @metadata is a list that contains the image object in slot $image.