Select a Specific Cell from a Clone Population

Source: R/dynamics_relevant_functions.R

Randomly selects a specific cell from the living cells of a given clone type based on the cell lineage information.

select_cell_index(cell_info, clone_type)

Arguments

cell_info

Data frame containing cell lineage information with columns: clone, parent, birth_time, death_time, cell_index, clone_index

clone_type

Character string specifying the clone type from which to select a cell

Value

An integer representing the selected cell's unique index

Details

This function filters the cell_info data frame to find all living cells (those without a death_time) of the specified clone type. If there is only one such cell, it is returned directly. If there are multiple cells, one is chosen randomly with equal probability.

Living cells are identified as those where death_time is NA in the cell_info data frame.

Example usage:

cell_info <- data.frame( clone = c("Clone1", "Clone1", "Clone2"), death_time = c(NA, 5, NA), cell_index = c(1, 2, 3) ) clone_type <- "Clone1"

selected_cell_index <- select_cell_index(cell_info, clone_type) print(selected_cell_index) # Possible output: 1