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xCell loads the xCell.data object wich is a list with the spill over and calibration paramters, the signatures and the list of genes it uses. However, one can use different signautres and different spill over functions to perform the analysis.

In addition xCell provides significance assessment of the null hypothesis that the cell type is not in the mixture:

1. xCellSignifcanceBetaDist - uses predefined beta distribution parameters from random mixtures generated using the reference data sets. Recommended.
2. xCellSignifcanceRandomMatrix - uses random maxtrix and caculates beta distribution parameters.

See documentation for more details on each function.

# Data input
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xCell is developed by the Butte lab. Please contact Dvir Aran: dvir.aran at ucsf edu for any questions or suggestions.

To cite xCell: Aran, Hu and Butte, xCell: Digitally portraying the tissue cellular heterogeneity landscape. bioRxiv, 2017
To cite xCell: Aran, Hu and Butte, xCell: Digitally portraying the tissue cellular heterogeneity landscape. bioRxiv, 2017

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