Rename features for the Seurat object

Usage

RenameFeatures(srt, newnames = NULL, assays = NULL)

Arguments

srt: 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.

Examples

data("panc8_sub")
head(rownames(panc8_sub))
#> [1] "A1CF"   "A2M"    "A4GALT" "AAAS"   "AACS"   "AADAC" 
# Simply convert genes from human to mouse and preprocess the data
genenames <- make.unique(
  capitalize(rownames(panc8_sub),
    force_tolower = TRUE
  )
)
names(genenames) <- rownames(panc8_sub)
panc8_rename <- RenameFeatures(
  panc8_sub,
  newnames = genenames
)
#> ℹ [2025-07-02 02:54:35] Rename features for the assay: RNA
head(rownames(panc8_rename))
#> [1] "A1cf"   "A2m"    "A4galt" "Aaas"   "Aacs"   "Aadac"