Remove Layers from Seurat or SCE Object by Pattern

This function removes layers from a Seurat or SCE object's RNA assay based on a specified regular expression pattern. It is supposed to remove no longer needed layers from th object.

Usage

DO.DietSCE(sce_object, assay = "RNA", pattern = "^scale\\.data\\.")

Arguments

sce_object: Seurat or SCE object.
assay: Name of the assay from where to remove layers from
pattern: regular expression pattern to match layer names. Default "^scale\.data\."

Value

Seurat or SCE object with specified layers removed.

Author

Mariano Ruz Jurado

Examples

sce_data <-
    readRDS(system.file("extdata", "sce_data.rds", package = "DOtools"))

sce_data <- DO.DietSCE(sce_data, pattern = "data")
#> 2026-01-21 13:39:45 - pattern:  data
#> 2026-01-21 13:39:45 - Object has no layers, pattern does not need to be removed from layers.