This web application exemplifies the idea of a "compressed cell atlas", i.e. a nonredundant distillation of one or more single cell omics data sets (three in this case).
The architecture of the compressed atlas is the following:
- A RESTful APIs to request the compressed data (e.g.
/data/gene_names=Car4). - A set of interative plots (mostly heatmaps or variations on the theme, e.g. dot plots) to visuaise the compressed data.
- A voice control system enabling a natural language interface to the visualisations.
At this time, this application is pre-alpha, so the API changes all the time. If you are interested in how it works, write me an email at fabio DOT zanini AT unsw DOT edu DOT au.