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Find single-cell genomics experiments

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ammawla/encode-toolkit ↗
What it does

Find and integrate ENCODE single-cell genomics data

Best for

Building or validating cell type annotations when authoritative single-cell reference data exists in ENCODE.

Inputs
  • · Tissue/organ name
  • · Assay type (scRNA-seq, scATAC-seq)
  • · Optional: platform, biosample metadata
Outputs
  • · Searchable scRNA-seq/scATAC-seq experiments
  • · Cell type annotations
  • · Integrated count matrices
  • · Quality metrics (TIN, dropout)
Requires
  • · ENCODE REST API
  • · encode_search_experiments
  • · encode_list_files
  • · Seurat/Harmony integration tools
Preconditions

ENCODE data access, single-cell analysis knowledge, awareness of detection-limit artifacts

Failure modes

Insufficient single-cell data for tissue, detection dropout masks cell types, platform-specific biases unaccounted for

Trust signals
  • · Detection-limit awareness (Mawla et al. 2019)
  • · Cross-study reproducibility focus
  • · Platform differences documented (10X vs Smart-seq2 vs Drop-seq)