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Remove Layers from Seurat or SCE Object by Pattern

Source: R/utils_functions.R
DO.DietSCE.Rd

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")
#> 2025-07-26 09:21:09 - pattern:  data
#> 2025-07-26 09:21:10 - Object has no layers, pattern does not need to be removed from layers.