Annotated data.
anndata is a Python package for handling annotated data matrices in memory and on disk, positioned between pandas and xarray. anndata offers a broad range of computationally efficient features including, among others, sparse data support, lazy operations, and a PyTorch interface.
pip install anndata
or conda install anndata -c conda-forge
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If you use anndata
in your work, please cite the anndata
pre-print as follows:
anndata: Annotated data
Isaac Virshup, Sergei Rybakov, Fabian J. Theis, Philipp Angerer, F. Alexander Wolf
bioRxiv 2021 Dec 19. doi: 10.1101/2021.12.16.473007.
You can cite the scverse publication as follows:
The scverse project provides a computational ecosystem for single-cell omics data analysis
Isaac Virshup, Danila Bredikhin, Lukas Heumos, Giovanni Palla, Gregor Sturm, Adam Gayoso, Ilia Kats, Mikaela Koutrouli, Scverse Community, Bonnie Berger, Dana Pe’er, Aviv Regev, Sarah A. Teichmann, Francesca Finotello, F. Alexander Wolf, Nir Yosef, Oliver Stegle & Fabian J. Theis
Nat Biotechnol. 2023 Apr 10. doi: 10.1038/s41587-023-01733-8.