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Single-cell analysis in Python. Scales to >100M cells.

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Analyze single-cell gene expression data efficiently, even with datasets larger than 100 million cells.

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Single-cell analysis in Python. Scales to >100M cells.

scanpy has 2.5k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 756 times. scanpy is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2017. scanpy is available under the BSD-3-Clause license. Its main topics are anndata, bioinformatics, data-science, machine-learning.

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Single-cell analysis in Python. Scales to >100M cells.

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scanpy is an open-source project. It is released under the BSD-3-Clause license.

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Yes. scanpy is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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scanpy is available under the BSD-3-Clause license.

What language is scanpy written in?

scanpy is written mainly in Python.

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