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Performs Scanpy single-cell RNA-seq QC, normalization, HVG selection, PCA/UMAP/t-SNE, clustering, exploratory marker ranking, pseudobulk preparation, visualization, and Seurat or SingleCellExperiment RDS conversion to h5ad. Applies to established exploratory scRNA-seq workflows with explicit count and expression provenance; complementary skills cover scvi-tools models and AnnData format details.

Handles annotated matrices in single-cell analysis, .h5ad and Zarr files, and integration with the scverse ecosystem. This is the data format skill—for analysis workflows use scanpy; for probabilistic models use scvi-tools; for population-scale queries use cellxgene-census.

Fits probabilistic models for single-cell omics, including scVI batch integration, scANVI annotation, totalVI CITE-seq, MultiVI RNA/ATAC integration, and posterior differential expression. Use for generative modeling, reference mapping, multimodal analysis, or model-based uncertainty; use scanpy for standard preprocessing and exploratory analysis.

Prepares bulk RNA-seq FASTQ, Salmon, STAR or featureCounts output for gene-level differential expression. Covers nf-core/rnaseq and standalone quantification, biological replication, strandedness, reference provenance, validated count assembly and a PyDESeq2 handoff. Use for FASTQ-to-counts analysis, nf-core/rnaseq configuration, STAR/Salmon quantification, or building a counts matrix for DESeq2. For single-cell data use scanpy; for statistical fitting alone use pydeseq2.

Queries the CZ CELLxGENE Census programmatically for versioned public single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data. Use when you need population-scale cell metadata, gene expression slices, Census summary counts, source H5AD URIs/downloads, embeddings, spatial Census data, or reference atlas comparisons across organisms, tissues, diseases, assays, and cell types. For analyzing your own local single-cell data use scanpy, anndata, or scvi-tools.