Rename features for the Seurat object

Usage

RenameFeatures(
  object,
  newnames = NULL,
  assays = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE,
  srt = NULL
)

Arguments

object: A Seurat object.
newnames: A vector with the same length of features in Seurat object, or characters named with old features.
assays: Assays to rename.
verbose: Whether to print the message. Default is TRUE.
srt: Deprecated alias for object; supply exactly one of the two. It will be removed in scop 1.0.0.

Examples

data(panc8_sub)
head(rownames(panc8_sub))
#> [1] "A1CF"   "A4GALT" "AAAS"   "AACS"   "AADAC"  "AADAT" 
# Simply convert genes from human to mouse and preprocess the data
genenames <- make.unique(
  thisutils::capitalize(rownames(panc8_sub),
    force_tolower = TRUE
  )
)
names(genenames) <- rownames(panc8_sub)
panc8_rename <- RenameFeatures(
  panc8_sub,
  newnames = genenames
)
#> ℹ [2026-10-11 23:03:40] Rename features for the assay: RNA
head(rownames(panc8_rename))
#> [1] "A1cf"   "A4galt" "Aaas"   "Aacs"   "Aadac"  "Aadat"