abagen.io.read_probes¶
- abagen.io.read_probes(fname, copy=False)[source]¶
Loads Probes.csv file found at fname
Probe files contain metadata on all genetic probes used in the AHBA data. These files should be the same for every donor.
This information can be used to e.g., query expression data for certain genes, collapse data across probes from the same gene, etc.
- Parameters:
- Returns:
probes – Dataframe containing information for P genetic probes. The row index is the unique probe ID assigned during processing, which can be used to match metadata to information obtained with
read_microarray()
andread_pacall()
. Columns include ‘probe_name’, ‘gene_id’, ‘gene_symbol’, ‘gene_name’, ‘entrez_id’, and ‘chromosome’.- Return type:
(P, 6) pandas.DataFrame