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Transcribe DNA to RNA and translate to protein using Biopython, with NCBI codon-table selection, CDS validation, and six-frame ORF finding. Use when converting a CDS or ORF to its amino-acid sequence, selecting a non-standard (mitochondrial, bacterial,…
Integrate multiple scRNA-seq samples or batches with Harmony, scVI/scANVI, Seurat (CCA/RPCA), fastMNN, Scanorama, or BBKNN. Resolves which method to use for the dataset size and design, how strongly to correct, when integration is the wrong move (confounded…
Automated reference-based cell type annotation for single-cell RNA-seq using CellTypist, SingleR, Azimuth, scANVI, and scmap to transfer labels from a reference. Use when annotating cell types from a reference atlas or pretrained model, transferring labels…
Infers ligand-receptor cell-cell communication from scRNA-seq with a consensus-first workflow (LIANA), plus CellPhoneDB specificity tests, CellChat pathway probabilities, and NicheNet downstream ligand-activity. Use when ranking ligand-receptor interactions…
Dimensionality reduction and graph-based clustering for single-cell RNA-seq with Scanpy (Python) and Seurat (R). Resolves which algorithm to use (Leiden vs Louvain), how many PCs and neighbors to set, how to sweep and validate resolution, when a split is…
Infer large-scale copy-number alterations from tumor single-cell or single-nucleus RNA-seq to separate malignant from normal cells and call subclones, using inferCNV, copyKAT, Numbat, and SCEVAN. Use when separating malignant from normal cells in a tumor…
Read, write, create, and convert single-cell objects across AnnData (Python), Seurat (R), and SingleCellExperiment (R). Use when loading 10X Cell Ranger output (raw vs filtered), importing or exporting h5ad/RDS/h5mu/zarr, building AnnData or Seurat objects…
Test whether cell-type proportions or composition changed between conditions in single-cell data using Milo (miloR), scCODA, sccomp, and propeller. Use when comparing cell-type proportions / composition between conditions, asking which populations expanded or…
Detect and remove doublets (two or more cells in one droplet) from single-cell RNA-seq using scDblFinder (R), Scrublet (Python), and DoubletFinder (R). Use when flagging artificial intermediate populations before clustering, setting the expected doublet rate…
Assign cells to their sample of origin from cell or nucleus hashing (CITE-seq HTOs, MULTI-seq lipid/cholesterol tags, CellPlex CMOs) and call cross-sample doublets using Seurat HTODemux/MULTIseqDemux, hashsolo, demuxEM, GMM-Demux, and demuxmix. Use when…
Reconstructs single-cell lineage trees and clonal relationships from CRISPR/Cas9 scars, static expressed barcodes (LARRY/CellTag), or somatic mtDNA mutations using Cassiopeia, Startle, and CoSpar. Use when building a phylogeny from barcode scars, choosing a…
Detect cluster marker genes and assign manual cell type labels in single-cell RNA-seq using Scanpy (Python) and Seurat (R). Use when finding genes that distinguish clusters, ranking markers for annotation, scoring gene signatures, hand-labeling clusters, or…
Infers metabolite-mediated cell-cell communication from scRNA-seq by scoring enzyme-to-sensor pairs (MEBOCOST), with metabolic flux (scFEA), FBA state (Compass), and neurotransmitter (NeuronChat) alternatives. Use when studying metabolic crosstalk between…
Integrate multimodal single-cell data (CITE-seq RNA+protein, 10x Multiome RNA+ATAC, unpaired/diagonal RNA+ATAC) and choose the right joint method. Use when classifying an integration task by anchor structure (paired vs unpaired), denoising CITE-seq ADT…
Analyze Perturb-seq / CROP-seq single-cell CRISPR screens. Use when assigning guides as a mixture problem, removing non-perturbed escaper cells with Mixscape, choosing a calibrated test (SCEPTRE conditional resampling) over naive DE, quantifying effect size…
Quality control, ambient-RNA handling, normalization, and feature selection for single-cell RNA-seq using Scanpy (Python) and Seurat (R). Use when filtering low-quality cells with MAD-adaptive thresholds, setting tissue-aware mito cutoffs, removing ambient…
Analyze single-cell ATAC-seq with Signac/ArchR (R) and SnapATAC2 (Python alternative). Use when processing scATAC fragments, choosing a framework, calling consensus peaks, running TF-IDF/LSI while diagnosing the depth component, scoring chromVAR motif…
Infers developmental trajectories, pseudotime, RNA velocity, and directed fate probabilities from single-cell data using PAGA, Slingshot, Monocle3, DPT, Palantir, scVelo, and CellRank 2. Use when ordering cells along a differentiation continuum, choosing a…
Tests miRNAs for differential expression with DESeq2 or edgeR using small-RNA-aware normalization and filtering. Use when deciding which normalization survives a library dominated by a few hyper-abundant miRNAs (compositional fragility); choosing DESeq2 vs…
Discovers novel miRNAs and quantifies known miRNAs with miRDeep2 by scoring genome-mapped read stacks against the Dicer/Drosha biogenesis signature. Use when deciding whether a study needs de novo discovery at all versus known-miRNA quantification; choosing…
Quantifies known miRNAs, isomiRs, tRFs, and A-to-I editing fast with miRge3.0 by aligning collapsed reads to curated miRBase or MirGeneDB libraries. Use when choosing miRBase versus MirGeneDB as the reference; deciding whether to collapse isomiRs to the…
Trims kit-specific 3' adapters, strips UMIs or 4N degenerate ends, size-selects, and collapses small RNA-seq reads (miRNA, piRNA, tRF) with cutadapt or fastp. Use when choosing the kit's 3' adapter; setting the size window (18-26 nt miRNA vs 24-32 nt piRNA);…
Predicts and prioritizes miRNA target genes with seed-based tools (miRanda, TargetScan, miRDB) and experimentally validated databases (miRTarBase, multiMiR). Use when deciding that a predicted target is a hypothesis not a finding; ranking by the right score…
Profiles non-miRNA small RNAs - tRNA-derived fragments (tRFs/tsRNAs), piRNAs, and rRNA/snoRNA-derived species - with MINTmap, unitas, SPORTS, and proTRAC. Use when annotating all small-RNA classes in a library; quantifying tRFs at locus resolution where tRNA…
Reconstructs single cells from sub-cellular spatial capture units (Visium HD 2um bins, Stereo-seq DNB spots, Slide-seqV2 beads) by aggregating bins UP into cells rather than deconvolving a mixture DOWN. Use when choosing a bin size and recognizing the…
Segments cells/nuclei and extracts image features from imaging spatial transcriptomics (Xenium, MERFISH/MERSCOPE, CosMx) and H&E/IF tissue images using Cellpose, StarDist, Baysor, and Squidpy. Use when choosing a segmentation strategy (DAPI nucleus +…
Maps cell-cell communication and ligand-receptor co-expression in spatial transcriptomics (Visium, Xenium, MERFISH, CosMx, Slide-seq) with Squidpy ligrec, COMMOT, stLearn, CellChat-spatial, and NicheNet. Use when choosing a method by whether spatial distance…
Loads spatial transcriptomics data from Visium, Visium HD, Xenium, MERFISH/MERSCOPE, CosMx, Slide-seq/Curio, and Stereo-seq into AnnData or SpatialData using spatialdata-io and Squidpy. Use when deciding which platform class is in hand (imaging/in-situ vs…
Estimates per-spot cell type composition of spatial transcriptomics mixtures (Visium, Slide-seq, Stereo-seq) from an scRNA-seq reference with cell2location, RCTD, SPOTlight, stereoscope, SpatialDWLS, or reference-free STdeconvolve. Use when deciding whether a…
Identify spatially coherent tissue domains (regions like cortical layers, tumor vs stroma) in Visium, Visium HD, Xenium, MERFISH, Slide-seq, and Stereo-seq data with Squidpy, BANKSY, BayesSpace, STAGATE, and GraphST. Use when distinguishing a domain (a region…
Integrates spatial RNA with a second modality (protein, ATAC, or histone marks) on spatial CITE-seq, DBiT-seq, spatial-ATAC, or Visium CytAssist data. Use when deciding vertical (same-pixel co-profiling -> WNN/MOFA joint factors) versus diagonal (serial…
Build the spatial neighbor graph that every downstream spatial statistic (Moran's I, neighborhood enrichment, co-occurrence, spatial domains) inherits, using Squidpy. Use when choosing the graph type (kNN vs Delaunay vs fixed-radius vs Visium hex grid) and…
Quality control, filtering, and normalization for spatial transcriptomics (Visium, Visium HD, Xenium, MERFISH/MERSCOPE, CosMx, Slide-seq) with Squidpy and Scanpy. Use when setting QC floors that do NOT delete real low-count imaging cells (an scRNA…
Analyzes multiplexed antibody-imaging data (CODEX/PhenoCycler, MIBI-TOF, IMC, CyCIF, Opal/Vectra mIF) as continuous protein intensity rather than transcript counts, using scimap and squidpy. Use when choosing an intensity transform/normalization (arcsinh…
Detects spatially variable genes, spatial autocorrelation, and cell-type colocalization for spatial transcriptomics using Squidpy with PySAL/esda for local statistics. Use when choosing an SVG method by its null and scaling (SpatialDE/SPARK GP…
Plots spatial transcriptomics expression, clusters, and annotations on tissue using Squidpy and Scanpy. Use when choosing the plotter and spot size by platform fork (sc.pl.spatial / sq.pl.spatial_scatter with real scalefactors and capture diameter for…
Retrieves and interprets AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) models by UniProt accession, reading pLDDT and PAE confidence correctly. Use when treating pLDDT as PER-RESIDUE confidence (not global accuracy) and recognizing a long low-pLDDT stretch as…
Detects putative ligand-binding pockets and druggable cavities de novo on an apo protein structure with fpocket, P2Rank, CASTp, and DoGSiteScorer, ranking them by druggability/ligandability score. Use when detecting cavities on an apo structure with no bound…
Measures geometric properties of protein structures with Biopython Bio.PDB - interatomic distances, distance matrices, bond and dihedral angles (phi/psi/chi, Ramachandran), superposition and RMSD, center of mass, radius of gyration, and solvent accessible…
Maps protein-protein and protein-ligand interfaces with Bio.PDB, computing contact residues and buried surface area (BSA). Use when choosing a contact cutoff and stating its rationale (heavy-atom 4-5A vs CA-CA 8A vs a SASA-based definition); deciding a…