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chanzuckerberg / cellxgene

An interactive explorer for single-cell transcriptomics data
https://chanzuckerberg.github.io/cellxgene/
MIT License
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Support for gene signatures #1468

Open alokito opened 4 years ago

alokito commented 4 years ago

Some users would like to visualize the expression of many genes at a time that represent a biological process, commonly known as a gene signature. This ticket is to support visualization of (potentially weighted) combinations of genes. The simplest thing would be to compute the combined value and use that to display a heat map. Furthermore it is desired to understand the spatial localization of particular genes within the signature across clusters; this more advanced view could perhaps be a trellis plot, or a quick way of switching between a single gene and the combination, or some other visualization that you clever folks at CZI may invent.

colinmegill commented 4 years ago

@alokito Happy to report that this feature is slated for development over the coming months. Please do join the slack https://join-cellxgene-users.herokuapp.com/ to follow along

colinmegill commented 4 years ago

If you could leave links, or even better images with links, here to visualizations that you find compelling re: more advanced visualizations like trellis, that bit is novel to the process here.

colinmegill commented 4 years ago

Linking #632