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diffxpy integration

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Area – Differential Expression
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Description

  • Additional function parameters / changed functionality / changed defaults?
  • New analysis tool: A simple analysis tool you have been using and are missing in sc.tools?
  • New plotting function: A kind of plot you would like to seein sc.pl?
  • External tools: Do you know an existing package that should go into sc.external.*?
  • Other?

I'd really like a smarter d/e method to be accessible easily from Scanpy, one that allows proper treatment of covariates etc. MAST is obviously very popular, but fiddly to integrate from R. I see diffxpy mentioned about the place here, and see it's an in-house tool of yours. Is there a reason it's not been integrated already? If nobody's working on it, shall I take a crack at it?

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing sc.external and sc.tools entry points and how Scanpy exposes differential-expression methods. Then examine diffxpy's integration requirements, including covariate handling, and clarify the intended API and supported functionality. Done means a documented, tested Scanpy-accessible integration is agreed and implemented.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
bioinformatics
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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