This constructs a meta cell cover object and puts it into scdb. It gets an MC assignment (cell->MC_ID), and a matrix, and call standard api of this class to compute the footprints.

mcell_new_mc(mc_id, mc, outliers, scmat)

Arguments

mc_id

id of scdb meta cell object ot be added

mc

assignment of metacell id to cell

outliers

the list of outliers

scmat

a single cell RNA matrix object