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Flaws with current approaches for normalization, PCA, and feature selection?

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I just saw this biorxiv manuscript and I was wondering if there are any ways to easily incorporate multinomial methods in scanpy
Feature Selection and Dimension Reduction for Single Cell RNA-Seq based on a Multinomial Model

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Start by reading the linked biorxiv manuscript and comparing its multinomial approach with Scanpy's current normalization, PCA, and feature-selection workflows. Determine whether the proposed methods can be incorporated and document the required scope or implementation direction; the issue does not name specific files or tests.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
bioinformatics, machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
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Over a week
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Stale
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Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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