cellannotation / cell-annotation-schema

General, open-standard schema for cell annotations
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marker object #128

Open dosumis opened 3 weeks ago

dosumis commented 3 weeks ago

While annotation table(s) should only expose marker gene names, it would be useful for CAS to support a more complete representation

A set of markers can be represented as a list of objects with keys for gene_name & gene_id. Names supplied in tables can be cross-checked against vars in the linked h5ad file.

It would also be useful for the object support extra metadata about the list:

  1. if it is derived from the dataset - how was it derived? (Free text may suffice)
  2. What is the confidence score for identifying cells in linked dataset with this marker gene set (NS-Forest provides this).

Related issue #127

The only compulsory field = name, but we would aim to fill the rest out via a mix of lookup and curation.