anndata.experimental.AnnCollection

class anndata.experimental.AnnCollection(adatas, *, join_obs='inner', join_obsm=None, join_vars=None, label=None, keys=None, index_unique=None, convert=None, harmonize_dtypes=True, indices_strict=True)

Lazily concatenate AnnData objects along the obs axis.

This class doesn’t copy data from underlying AnnData objects, but lazily subsets using a joint index of observations and variables. It also allows on-the-fly application of prespecified converters to .obs attributes of the AnnData objects.

Subsetting of this object returns an AnnCollectionView, which provides views of .obs, .obsm, .layers, .X from the underlying AnnData objects.

Parameters:

adatas Sequence[AnnData] | dict[str, AnnData]

The objects to be lazily concatenated. If a Mapping is passed, keys are used for the keys argument and values are concatenated.

join_obs Optional[Literal['inner', 'outer']] (default: 'inner')

If “inner” specified all .obs attributes from adatas will be inner joined and copied to this object. If “outer” specified all .obsm attributes from adatas will be outer joined and copied to this object. For “inner” and “outer” subset objects will access .obs of this object, not the original .obs attributes of adatas. If None, nothing is copied to this object’s .obs, a subset object will directly access .obs attributes of adatas (with proper reindexing and dtype conversions). For None`the inner join rule is used to select columns of `.obs of adatas.

join_obsm Optional[Literal['inner']] (default: None)

If “inner” specified all .obsm attributes from adatas will be inner joined and copied to this object. Subset objects will access .obsm of this object, not the original .obsm attributes of adatas. If None, nothing is copied to this object’s .obsm, a subset object will directly access .obsm attributes of adatas (with proper reindexing and dtype conversions). For both options the inner join rule for the underlying .obsm attributes is used.

join_vars Optional[Literal['inner']] (default: None)

Specify how to join adatas along the var axis. If None, assumes all adatas have the same variables. If “inner”, the intersection of all variables in adatas will be used.

label str | None (default: None)

Column in .obs to place batch information in. If it’s None, no column is added.

keys Sequence[str] | None (default: None)

Names for each object being added. These values are used for column values for label or appended to the index if index_unique is not None. Defaults to incrementing integer labels.

index_unique str | None (default: None)

Whether to make the index unique by using the keys. If provided, this is the delimiter between “{orig_idx}{index_unique}{key}”. When None, the original indices are kept.

convert Callable | dict[str, Callable | dict[str, Callable]] | None (default: None)

You can pass a function or a Mapping of functions which will be applied to the values of attributes (.obs, .obsm, .layers, .X) or to specific keys of these attributes in the subset object. Specify an attribute and a key (if needed) as keys of the passed Mapping and a function to be applied as a value.

harmonize_dtypes bool (default: True)

If True, all retrieved arrays from subset objects will have the same dtype.

indices_strict bool (default: True)

If True, arrays from the subset objects will always have the same order of indices as in selection used to subset. This parameter can be set to False if the order in the returned arrays is not important, for example, when using them for stochastic gradient descent. In this case the performance of subsetting can be a bit better.

Examples

>>> from scanpy.datasets import pbmc68k_reduced, pbmc3k_processed
>>> adata1, adata2 = pbmc68k_reduced(), pbmc3k_processed()
>>> adata1.shape
(700, 765)
>>> adata2.shape
(2638, 1838)
>>> dc = AnnCollection([adata1, adata2], join_vars='inner')
>>> dc
AnnCollection object with n_obs × n_vars = 3338 × 208
  constructed from 2 AnnData objects
    view of obsm: 'X_pca', 'X_umap'
    obs: 'n_genes', 'percent_mito', 'n_counts', 'louvain'
>>> batch = dc[100:200] # AnnCollectionView
>>> batch
AnnCollectionView object with n_obs × n_vars = 100 × 208
    obsm: 'X_pca', 'X_umap'
    obs: 'n_genes', 'percent_mito', 'n_counts', 'louvain'
>>> batch.X.shape
(100, 208)
>>> len(batch.obs['louvain'])
100

Attributes

attrs_keys	Dict of all accessible attributes and their keys.
convert	On the fly converters for keys of attributes and data matrix.
has_backed	True if adatas have backed AnnData objects, False otherwise.
n_obs	Number of observations.
n_vars	Number of variables/features.
obs	One-dimensional annotation of observations.
obsm	Multi-dimensional annotation of observations.
shape	Shape of the lazily concatenated data matrix

Methods

lazy_attr(attr[, key])	Get a subsettable key from an attribute (array-like) or an attribute.
to_adata()	Convert this AnnCollection object to an AnnData object.