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\docType{methods}
\name{cellTypeMarkers}
\alias{cellTypeMarkers}
\alias{cell.type.marker}
\alias{cellTypeMarkers,SCFind,character-method}
\title{return all the gene markers for a specified cell.type}
\usage{
cellTypeMarkers(object, cell.types, background.cell.types, top.k = 5,
  sort.field = "f1")

cell.type.marker(object, cell.types, background.cell.types, top.k,
  sort.field)

\S4method{cellTypeMarkers}{SCFind,character}(object, cell.types,
  background.cell.types, top.k = 5, sort.field = "f1")
}
\arguments{
\item{object}{SCFind object}

\item{cell.types}{the cell types that we want to extract the marker genes}

\item{background.cell.types}{the universe of cell.types to consider}

\item{top.k}{how many genes to retrieve}

\item{sort.field}{the dataframe will be sorted according to this field}
}
\value{
a data.frame that each row represent a gene score for a specific cell type
}
\description{
return all the gene markers for a specified cell.type

Find marker genes for a specific cell type
}
