scvi-tools (single-cell variational inference tools) is a package for probabilistic modeling and analysis of single-cell omics data, built on top of PyTorch and AnnData.
scvi-tools is composed of models that perform many analysis tasks across single-cell, multi, and spatial omics data:
In the user guide, we provide an overview of each model. All model implementations have a high-level API that interacts with Scanpy and includes standard save/load functions, GPU acceleration, etc.
scvi-tools contains the building blocks to develop and deploy novel probablistic models. These building blocks are powered by popular probabilistic and machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch Lightning and Pyro. For an overview of how the scvi-tools package is structured, you may refer to the codebase overview page.
We recommend checking out the skeleton repository as a starting point for developing and deploying new models with scvi-tools.
For conda,
conda install scvi-tools -c conda-forge
and for pip,
pip install scvi-tools
Please be sure to install a version of PyTorch that is compatible with your GPU (if applicable).
If you use scvi-tools in your work, please cite
A Python library for probabilistic analysis of single-cell omics data
Adam Gayoso, Romain Lopez, Galen Xing, Pierre Boyeau, Valeh Valiollah Pour Amiri, Justin Hong, Katherine Wu, Michael Jayasuriya, Edouard Mehlman, Maxime Langevin, Yining Liu, Jules Samaran, Gabriel Misrachi, Achille Nazaret, Oscar Clivio, Chenling Xu, Tal Ashuach, Mariano Gabitto, Mohammad Lotfollahi, Valentine Svensson, Eduardo da Veiga Beltrame, Vitalii Kleshchevnikov, Carlos Talavera-López, Lior Pachter, Fabian J. Theis, Aaron Streets, Michael I. Jordan, Jeffrey Regier & Nir Yosef
Nature Biotechnology 2022 Feb 07. doi: 10.1038/s41587-021-01206-w.
along with the publicaton describing the model used.
You can cite the scverse publication as follows:
The scverse project provides a computational ecosystem for single-cell omics data analysis
Isaac Virshup, Danila Bredikhin, Lukas Heumos, Giovanni Palla, Gregor Sturm, Adam Gayoso, Ilia Kats, Mikaela Koutrouli, Scverse Community, Bonnie Berger, Dana Pe’er, Aviv Regev, Sarah A. Teichmann, Francesca Finotello, F. Alexander Wolf, Nir Yosef, Oliver Stegle & Fabian J. Theis
Nature Biotechnology 2023 Apr 10. doi: 10.1038/s41587-023-01733-8.
scvi-tools is part of the scverse project (website, governance) and is fiscally sponsored by NumFOCUS. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to help the project pay for developer time, professional services, travel, workshops, and a variety of other needs.
FAQs
Deep probabilistic analysis of single-cell omics data.
We found that scvi-tools demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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