The Analysis class

This is a lightweight container that references other data in a SpatialMap object. Specifically, expression data will always be stored in a Region object. Analysis objects can point to those data in one or more Region objects, and store the results of downstream analyses across multiple region objects. This construction, i.e. SpatialMap Region combined with SpatialMap Analysis-->Regions, keeps the flexibility of loading studies into SpatialMap, analyzing Regions -acquisitions- on an individual basis, and combining Regions into larger cohorts for cross sample analysis - all without storing data twice.

Details

Region class objects are Analysis objects that store their own data (they point to data within themselves). Analysis objects can be initialized without data, and they are not subject to many constraints.

In a SpatialMap object, Analyses behave just like Regions.

Slots

cells

A list of cells. List names correspond to Region ids

id

The name of the analysis

features

Common features in the Analysis

representations

Any representations of the data

graphs

NN class objects for nearest neighbor representations