An S4 container for exploratory genomic data analysis. Stores optional raw counts, normalized data, sample metadata, highly variable genes (HVGs), and PCA dimensionality reduction results.

Slots

counts

Optional counts matrix (features x samples). Can be NULL.

normalized

Normalized expression matrix (features x samples).

metadata

Sample-level metadata data.frame (rows = samples).

HVGs

Character vector of selected highly variable gene IDs (row names).

DimReduction

List for PCA results with Scores, Eigenvectors, percent_var.

DEGs

List container for differential expression results.