Scbean: a python library for single-cell multi-omics data analysis

Abstract

Summary

Single-cell multi-omics technologies provide a unique platform for characterizing cell states and reconstructing developmental process by simultaneously quantifying and integrating molecular signatures across various modalities, including genome, transcriptome, epigenome, and other omics layers. However, there is still an urgent unmet need for novel computational tools in this nascent field, which are critical for both effective and efficient interrogation of functionality across different omics modalities. Scbean represents a user-friendly Python library, designed to seamlessly incorporate a diverse array of models for the examination of single-cell data, encompassing both paired and unpaired multi-omics data. The library offers uniform and straightforward interfaces for tasks, such as dimensionality reduction, batch effect elimination, cell label transfer from well-annotated scRNA-seq data to scATAC-seq data, and the identification of spatially variable genes. Moreover, Scbean’s models are engineered to harness the computational power of GPU acceleration through Tensorflow, rendering them capable of effortlessly handling datasets comprising millions of cells.

Availability and implementation

Scbean is released on the Python Package Index (PyPI) ( https://pypi.org/project/scbean/) and GitHub ( https://github.com/jhu99/scbean) under the MIT license. The documentation and example code can be found at https://scbean.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.