satijalab
Add possibility to rename features
Since there is a RenameCells() function, it would be helpful to also have a function to rename features. The current advice is to create a new assay object with renamed features, which can be very memory intensive.
Hi Frederik, we are aware that this is a highly-requested feature. We are investigating ways to make this happen (it's a bit more complicated that just renaming the matrices in the Assay object) and will update if/when we make any progress on this.
Hello - I realize this is tangential to the issue above, but I just thought I'd mention it: having the ability to alias features in plots/report would be incredibly useful. The use-case is that the GTF commonly uses the NCBI/Ensembl identifier, and this actually makes a great deal of sense to do. This makes them unique and it preserves unambiguous connection to the source if anyone wants to query the source DB. However, one almost never wants to use those labels in a figure. From what I can see seurat objects tend to preferentially use GeneName, which is better, but it would be nicer still if one could update the [email protected], such as re-naming those features of highest interest to the user. A good example would be gene name vs. CD nomenclature, such as labeling a feature "CD95/FAS".
I realize it's probably a sizable change to make feature has a distinct ID and label that's respected across all plotting code; however, the first step is probably getting the assay objects to have some formal concept of that.
Also wondering about an update for this!! Thank you so much for the great tool already :)
