perCellQCFilters {scuttle} | R Documentation

## Compute filters for low-quality cells

### Description

Identifies low-quality cells as outliers for frequently used QC metrics.

### Usage

    perCellQCFilters(
      x,
      sum.field = "sum",
      detected.field = "detected",
      sub.fields = NULL,
      ...
    )

### Arguments

`x` | A DataFrame containing per-cell QC statistics, as computed by `perCellQCMetrics`.
`sum.field` | String specifying the column of `x` containing the library size for each cell.
`detected.field` | String specifying the column of `x` containing the number of detected features per cell.
`sub.fields` | Character vector specifying the column(s) of `x` containing the percentage of counts in subsets of “control features”, usually mitochondrial genes or spike-in transcripts. If set to `TRUE`, this will default to all columns in `x` with names following the patterns `"subsets_.*_percent"` and `"altexps_.*_percent"`.
`...` | Further arguments to pass to `isOutlier`.

### Details

This function simply calls `isOutlier` on the various QC metrics in `x`.

- For `sum.field`, small outliers are detected. These are considered to represent low-quality cells that have not been insufficiently sequenced. Detection is performed on the log-scale to adjust for a heavy right tail and to improve resolution at zero.

- For `detected.field`, small outliers are detected. These are considered to represent low-quality cells with low-complexity libraries. Detection is performed on the log-scale to adjust for a heavy right tail. This is done on the log-scale to adjust for a heavy right tail and to improve resolution at zero.

- For each column specified by `sub.fields`, large outliers are detected. This aims to remove cells with high spike-in or mitochondrial content, usually corresponding to damaged cells. While these distributions often have heavy right tails, the putative low-quality cells are often present in this tail; thus, transformation is not performed to ensure maintain resolution of the filter.

Users can control the outlier detection (e.g., change the number of MADs, specify batches) by passing appropriate arguments to `...`.

### Value

A DataFrame with one row per cell and containing columns of logical vectors. Each column specifies a reason for why a cell was considered to be low quality, with the final `discard` column indicating whether the cell should be discarded.

### Author(s)

Aaron Lun

### See Also

`perCellQCMetrics`, for calculation of these metrics.

`isOutlier`, to identify outliers with a MAD-based approach.

### Examples

    example_sce <- mockSCE()
    x <- perCellQCMetrics(example_sce, subsets=list(Mito=1:100))

    discarded <- perCellQCFilters(x,
        sub.fields=c("subsets_Mito_percent", "altexps_Spikes_percent"))
    colSums(as.data.frame(discarded))

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