Adata.obs entries for specific layers

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Does the anndata/scanpy API provide layer-specific masking for adata.obs? Alternatively, is there something like adata.layers['mylayer'].obs?

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No, but you can use mudata!

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Iā€™d suggest you use the obsm attribute of your adata to add a pd.DataFrame with what you want. say:

import numpy, pandas, scanpy
adata   = sc.AnnData(np.zeros((1, 1)))
layer_obs = pd.DataFrame([['abc', 1]], columns=['text', 'int'], index=['0'])
adata.obsm['mylayer'] = layer_obs
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