The Human Cell Atlas (HCA) is an exciting new global research initiative funded by the Chan-Zuckerberg foundation, which aims at building a comprehensive map of all the thousands of cell types in the human body. A few weeks ago, Genestack attended the HCA meeting which took place in Stockholm, focusing on the computational challenges and methods required to build such a cell atlas. Here are some of the topics that have been discussed.
We were very excited to attend TriCon for the first time a couple of weeks ago. From now on, this event will be a must on our conference list. We put together our notes from the conference and wrote a summary of the topics we found most interesting: The "Integrative Informatics for pharma" track was the closest to our interests. During the talks, representatives of pharmacutical companies and software…
There are many different tools and methods for visualising the structure of high-dimensional single-cell RNA-seq data as well as for identifying subpopulations of cells. Most of these methods focus on keeping dissimilar samples far away from each other. However, since RNA-seq data often presents strong variability in expression profiles from…