Mehrtash Babadi

Oct 28, 2024 | broadinstitute.org | Corie Lok |Mehrtash Babadi

One of the first steps for researchers in studying and analyzing single cells is to determine the cells’ identity: what type and subtype of cells are these, and how similar or different are they to previously analyzed cells? Scientists then annotate the cells with this information, a process that can take days or even weeks, depending on the number of cells being labeled, and requires labor-intensive literature and database searches.