Aggregating signature counts from MFF files from one or more studies (folders).

Aggregate signature counts data using archaic_prepare() from multiple study directories into a single data frame or matrix.

archaic_pool(dat)

Arguments

dat	may be a list of count data matrices generated by archaic_prepare() or a vector of folder names containing MFF files.

Value

The function creates a matrix of counts with combined samples from multiple studies (stored as .csv MFF files and/or .RData file). The number of rows of this matrix is same as the number of study samples across all the studies considered, with columns representing mismatch signatures and the c matrix cells recording the counts of the signatures occurring in the samples.