hest.HESTData.unify_gene_names

hest.HESTData.unify_gene_names(adata: sc.AnnData, species='human', drop=False) → sc.AnnData

unify gene names by resolving aliases

Parameters:

• adata (sc.AnnData) – scanpy anndata

• species (str, optional) – species, choose between [“human”, “mouse”]. Defaults to “human”.

• drop (bool, optional) – whenever to drop gene names having no alias. Defaults to False.

Returns:

anndata with unified gene names in var_names

Return type:

sc.AnnData