past.Utils.geary_genes

past.Utils.geary_genes(adata, n_tops=3000, k=30)

Select spatially variable genes for better downstream analysis

Parameters:

  • adata – target dataset of anndata format

  • n_tops – number of spatially variable genes to select

  • k – number of neighbors to consider when construct K-NN graph

Returns:

target dataset of anndata format containing n_top SVGs

Return type:

scanpy.anndata