Cell atlases such as Tabula Muris and Tabula Sapiens are multi-organ single cell omics data sets describing entire organisms. A cell atlas approximation is a lossy and lightweight compression of a cell atlas that can be streamed via the internet.
This project enables biologists, doctors, and data scientist to quickly find answers for questions such as:
- What types of cells populate the human heart?
- What is the expression of a specific gene across cell types in C elegans?
- What are the marker genes of a specific cell type in mouse pancreas?
- What fraction of cells (of a specific type) express a gene of interest?
This package enables users to ask those questions using the JavaScript API.
The latest API version is v1.
We support several organs and organisms: human, mouse, lemur (a type of monkey), zebrafish, C. elegans. More organisms and organs are planned for the near future.
Tutorial and reference documentation is available at https://atlasapprox.readthedocs.io.
An object containing one function for each API endpoint is exported by the @fabilab/atlasapprox npm package:
// EC6 imports
import atlasapprox from '@fabilab/atlasapprox';
// CommonJS variant
//let atlasapprox = require('@fabilab/atlasapprox');
(async () => {
let data = await atlasapprox.organisms();
console.log(data);
}
})();