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chanzuckerberg / cellxgene

An interactive explorer for single-cell transcriptomics data
https://chanzuckerberg.github.io/cellxgene/
MIT License
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Add ability to search for genes by alternative gene symbols or IDs #1673

Open mattcai opened 4 years ago

mattcai commented 4 years ago

Currently, each gene in cellxgene has only one name associated with it (the Index of adata.var). However, the other fields in adata.var can be used to hold alternative gene IDs. For example, if the Index is HGNC symbols, another column could contain Ensembl gene IDs for the same genes. Anton.Ogorodnikov@ucsf.edu has requested the ability to search for genes using any of the columns/gene IDs in adata.var.

brianraymor commented 3 years ago

Per PM triage:

@brianraymor to add information to an epic for search and filtering and then close. @ambrosejcarr may also want to include with data modalities?