FindTransferAnchors.Rd

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\name{FindTransferAnchors}
\alias{FindTransferAnchors}
\title{Find transfer anchors}
\usage{
FindTransferAnchors(
  reference,
  query,
  normalization.method = "LogNormalize",
  recompute.residuals = TRUE,
  reference.assay = NULL,
  reference.neighbors = NULL,
  query.assay = NULL,
  reduction = "pcaproject",
  reference.reduction = NULL,
  project.query = FALSE,
  features = NULL,
  npcs = 30,
  l2.norm = TRUE,
  dims = 1:30,
  k.anchor = 5,
  k.filter = 200,
  k.score = 30,
  max.features = 200,
  nn.method = "annoy",
  n.trees = 50,
  eps = 0,
  approx.pca = TRUE,
  mapping.score.k = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE
)
}
\arguments{
\item{reference}{\code{\link{Seurat}} object to use as the reference}

\item{query}{\code{\link{Seurat}} object to use as the query}

\item{normalization.method}{Name of normalization method used: LogNormalize
or SCT.}

\item{recompute.residuals}{If using SCT as a normalization method, compute
query Pearson residuals using the reference SCT model parameters.}

\item{reference.assay}{Name of the Assay to use from reference}

\item{reference.neighbors}{Name of the Neighbor to use from the reference.
Optionally enables reuse of precomputed neighbors.}

\item{query.assay}{Name of the Assay to use from query}

\item{reduction}{Dimensional reduction to perform when finding anchors.
Options are:
\itemize{
   \item{pcaproject: Project the PCA from the reference onto the query. We
   recommend using PCA when reference and query datasets are from scRNA-seq}
   \item{cca: Run a CCA on the reference and query }
}}

\item{reference.reduction}{Name of dimensional reduction to use from the
reference if running the pcaproject workflow. Optionally enables reuse of
precomputed reference dimensional reduction.}

\item{project.query}{Project the PCA from the query dataset onto the
reference. Use only in rare cases where the query dataset has a much larger
cell number, but the reference dataset has a unique assay for transfer. In
this case, the default features will be set to the variable features of the
query object that are alos present in the reference.}

\item{features}{Features to use for dimensional reduction. If not specified,
set as variable features of the reference object which are also present in
the query.}

\item{npcs}{Number of PCs to compute on reference if reference.reduction is
not provided.}

\item{l2.norm}{Perform L2 normalization on the cell embeddings after
dimensional reduction}

\item{dims}{Which dimensions to use from the reduction to specify the
neighbor search space}

\item{k.anchor}{How many neighbors (k) to use when finding anchors}

\item{k.filter}{How many neighbors (k) to use when filtering anchors. Set to
NA to turn off filtering.}

\item{k.score}{How many neighbors (k) to use when scoring anchors}

\item{max.features}{The maximum number of features to use when specifying the
neighborhood search space in the anchor filtering}

\item{nn.method}{Method for nearest neighbor finding. Options include: rann,
annoy}

\item{n.trees}{More trees gives higher precision when using annoy approximate
nearest neighbor search}

\item{eps}{Error bound on the neighbor finding algorithm (from
\code{\link{RANN}})}

\item{approx.pca}{Use truncated singular value decomposition to approximate
PCA}

\item{mapping.score.k}{Compute and store nearest k query neighbors in the
AnchorSet object that is returned. You can optionally set this if you plan
on computing the mapping score and want to enable reuse of some downstream
neighbor calculations to make the mapping score function more efficient.}

\item{verbose}{Print progress bars and output}
}
\value{
Returns an \code{AnchorSet} object that can be used as input to
\code{\link{TransferData}}
}
\description{
Find a set of anchors between a reference and query object. These
anchors can later be used to transfer data from the reference to
query object using the \code{\link{TransferData}} object.
}
\details{
The main steps of this procedure are outlined below. For a more detailed
description of the methodology, please see Stuart, Butler, et al Cell 2019.
\doi{10.1016/j.cell.2019.05.031}; \doi{10.1101/460147}

\itemize{

  \item{Perform dimensional reduction. Exactly what is done here depends on
  the values set for the \code{reduction} and \code{project.query}
  parameters. If \code{reduction = "pcaproject"}, a PCA is performed on
  either the reference (if \code{project.query = FALSE}) or the query (if
  \code{project.query = TRUE}), using the \code{features} specified. The data
  from the other dataset is then projected onto this learned PCA structure.
  If \code{reduction = "cca"}, then CCA is performed on the reference and
  query for this dimensional reduction step. If \code{l2.norm} is set to
  \code{TRUE}, perform L2 normalization of the embedding vectors.}
  \item{Identify anchors between the reference and query - pairs of cells
  from each dataset that are contained within each other's neighborhoods
  (also known as mutual nearest neighbors).}
  \item{Filter low confidence anchors to ensure anchors in the low dimension
  space are in broad agreement with the high dimensional measurements. This
  is done by looking at the neighbors of each query cell in the reference
  dataset using \code{max.features} to define this space. If the reference
  cell isn't found within the first \code{k.filter} neighbors, remove the
  anchor.}
  \item{Assign each remaining anchor a score. For each anchor cell, determine
  the nearest \code{k.score} anchors within its own dataset and within its
  pair's dataset. Based on these neighborhoods, construct an overall neighbor
  graph and then compute the shared neighbor overlap between anchor and query
  cells (analogous to an SNN graph). We use the 0.01 and 0.90 quantiles on
  these scores to dampen outlier effects and rescale to range between 0-1.}
}
}
\examples{
\dontrun{
# to install the SeuratData package see https://github.com/satijalab/seurat-data
library(SeuratData)
data("pbmc3k")

# for demonstration, split the object into reference and query
pbmc.reference <- pbmc3k[, 1:1350]
pbmc.query <- pbmc3k[, 1351:2700]

# perform standard preprocessing on each object
pbmc.reference <- NormalizeData(pbmc.reference)
pbmc.reference <- FindVariableFeatures(pbmc.reference)
pbmc.reference <- ScaleData(pbmc.reference)

pbmc.query <- NormalizeData(pbmc.query)
pbmc.query <- FindVariableFeatures(pbmc.query)
pbmc.query <- ScaleData(pbmc.query)

# find anchors
anchors <- FindTransferAnchors(reference = pbmc.reference, query = pbmc.query)

# transfer labels
predictions <- TransferData(
  anchorset = anchors,
  refdata = pbmc.reference$seurat_annotations
)
pbmc.query <- AddMetaData(object = pbmc.query, metadata = predictions)
}

}
\references{
Stuart T, Butler A, et al. Comprehensive Integration of
Single-Cell Data. Cell. 2019;177:1888-1902 \doi{10.1016/j.cell.2019.05.031};
}
\concept{integration}