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scVelo - RNA velocity generalized through dynamical modeling

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scVelo is a scalable toolkit for RNA velocity analysis in single cells, based on Bergen et al. (Nature Biotech, 2020) <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0591-3>_.

RNA velocity enables the recovery of directed dynamic information by leveraging splicing kinetics. scVelo generalizes the concept of RNA velocity (La Manno et al., Nature, 2018 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0414-6>_) by relaxing previously made assumptions with a stochastic and a dynamical model that solves the full transcriptional dynamics. It thereby adapts RNA velocity to widely varying specifications such as non-stationary populations.

scVelo is compatible with scanpy_ and hosts efficient implementations of all RNA velocity models.

scVelo's key applications ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

• estimate RNA velocity to study cellular dynamics.
• identify putative driver genes and regimes of regulatory changes.
• infer a latent time to reconstruct the temporal sequence of transcriptomic events.
• estimate reaction rates of transcription, splicing and degradation.
• use statistical tests, e.g., to detect different kinetics regimes.

scVelo has, for instance, recently been used to study immune response in COVID-19 patients and dynamic processes in human lung regeneration. Find out more in this list of application examples <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=18195185735875895912>_.

Latest news ^^^^^^^^^^^

• Feb/2021: scVelo goes multi-core
• Dec/2020: Cover of Nature Biotechnology <https://www.nature.com/nbt/volumes/38>_
• Nov/2020: Talk at Single Cell Biology <https://coursesandconferences.wellcomegenomecampus.org/our-events/single-cell-biology-2020/>_
• Oct/2020: Helmholtz Best Paper Award <https://twitter.com/ICBmunich/status/1318611467722199041>_
• Oct/2020: Map cell fates with CellRank <https://cellrank.org>_
• Sep/2020: Talk at Single Cell Omics <https://twitter.com/fabian_theis/status/1305621028056465412>_
• Aug/2020: scVelo out in Nature Biotech <https://www.helmholtz-muenchen.de/en/aktuelles/latest-news/press-information-news/article/48658/index.html>_

Reference ^^^^^^^^^ Bergen et al. (2020), Generalizing RNA velocity to transient cell states through dynamical modeling, Nature Biotech <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-0591-3>_. |dim|

Support ^^^^^^^ Found a bug or would like to see a feature implemented? Feel free to submit an issue <https://github.com/theislab/scvelo/issues/new/choose>. Have a question or would like to start a new discussion? Head over to GitHub discussions <https://github.com/theislab/scvelo/discussions>. In either case, you can also always send us an email <mailto:[email protected]>. Your help to improve scVelo is highly appreciated. For further information visit scvelo.org <https://scvelo.org>.

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