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parse the substring inside a given cell identifier which corresponds to the nucleotide barcode

guessBarcodes.Rd

guessBarcodes parses given cell identifiers to identify the substring which correspond to the nucleotide barcode included in the experiment.

Usage

guessBarcodes(cell_name, min_barcode_length = 6L)

Arguments

cell_name

character, a cell identifier, typicall with prefix and/or suffix (e.g. "ACTGATGCAT-1", "SampleA_ATGAACCTATGG")

min_barcode_length

integer, minimum length of the nucleotide barcode (Default: 6)

Value

a vector with the input cell_name decomposed into these three entries:

prefix

prefix which exists in the input cell_name (NA if doesn't exist in cell_name)

cell_name

the actual nucleotide barcode

suffix

suffix which exists in the input cell_name (NA if doesn't exist in cell_name)

Details

Numeric / string prefices/suffices were typically added to cell identifiers to avoid wrong mapping across samples; however often these create issues when trying to merge data on the *same* sample but annotated using different workflows. This function attempts to resolve such issues by extracting the nucleotide barcodes actually introduced in the experiment.