Identify Communication Hotspots — identifyCommunicationHotspots • scMetaLink

Find spatial regions with high metabolite communication activity. **Note**: This function requires running computeSpatialCommunication() with analysis_level='spot' first.

identifyCommunicationHotspots(
  object,
  metabolite = NULL,
  type = "sender",
  n_hotspots = 5,
  method = "density"
)

Arguments

object: A scMetaLink object with spatial communication results
metabolite: Character. Metabolite ID or name to analyze (NULL for aggregate)
type: Character. "sender" or "receiver" to identify production or sensing hotspots
n_hotspots: Integer. Number of hotspot regions to identify
method: Character. Method for hotspot detection: "density" or "clustering"

Value

A data.frame with hotspot information