# Announcements

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## [About the Announcements category](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/about-the-announcements-category/14)

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**Author:** [@niryosef](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/niryosef)\
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For scverse-related announcements.

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## [Welcome to the scverse discourse!](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/welcome-to-the-scverse-discourse/7)

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**Author:** [@system](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/system)\
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**Last updated:** [October 19, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/welcome-to-the-scverse-discourse/7 "2020-10-19T18:30:59Z")

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Please use this forum to ask questions about any scverse packages, get help with specific code and discuss novel ideas. Bug reports should go to the issues of the respective package. Please also familiarize yourself wi…

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## [Community Meeting 2024-10-15](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-10-15/3282)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [October 8, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-10-15/3282 "2024-10-08T13:39:04Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2024-10-15 18:00 CEST CEST will be another community meeting! Mayar Ali and Merel Kuijs will talk about about GraphCompass, a framework tailored for the differential analysis of cell spatial organization…

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## [Community Meeting 2024-10-01](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-10-01/2532)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [September 24, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-10-01/2532 "2024-09-24T15:19:37Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2024-10-01 18:00 CEST we are kicking off this semester’s community meetings. Daniel Jones will talk about about proseg, a method for cell segmentation in in situ spatial transcriptomics, supporting Xeniu…

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## [Community Meetings: summer break 2024](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meetings-summer-break-2024/2385)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [July 15, 2024, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meetings-summer-break-2024/2385 "2024-07-15T16:20:01Z")

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:loudspeaker: Attention! We are taking a summer break from our community meetings and will return with a new series. Huge thanks to all participants, speakers, and audience. It’s been a fruitful period, and we are excite…

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## [Community Meeting 2024-07-09](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-07-09/2366)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [July 2, 2024, 1:57pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-07-09/2366 "2024-07-02T13:57:36Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2024-07-09 18:00 CEST will be another community meeting! Zhijian Li will talk about about pychromVAR, a package for inferring transcription factor binding variability from scATAC-seq data by implmenting …

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## [Community Meeting 2024-06-25](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-06-25/2350)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [June 24, 2024, 8:27am UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-06-25/2350 "2024-06-24T08:27:22Z")

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Tomorrow, 2024-06-24, at 18:00 CEST will be another community meeting! Louis Faure will talk about about scFates, a scalable Python suite for fast tree inference and advanced pseudotime downstream analysis, with a foc…

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## [Community Meeting 2024-06-11](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-06-11/2319)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [June 5, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-06-11/2319 "2024-06-05T16:56:15Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2024-06-11 18:00 CEST will be another community meeting! Zehua Zeng will talk about about OmicVerse, a package for multi omics data analysis with Python, including bulk, single-cell and spatial data. For…

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## [Community Meeting 2024-05-28](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-05-28/2290)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [May 21, 2024, 8:22am UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-05-28/2290 "2024-05-21T08:22:21Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2024-05-28 18:00 CEST will be another community meeting! Quentin Blampey will talk about about scyan, a method that provides a fast cell population annotation without requiring any training label, only b…

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## [Community Meeting 2023-05-14](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-05-14/2265)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [May 9, 2024, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-05-14/2265 "2024-05-09T10:16:18Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2024-05-14 18:00 CEST will be another community meeting! Dominik Otto will talk about about Mellon, a non-parametric cell-state density estimator based on a nearest-neighbors-distance distribution. For m…

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## [Community Meeting 2024-04-30](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-04-30/2239)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [April 25, 2024, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-04-30/2239 "2024-04-25T09:34:17Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2024-04-30 18:00 CEST will be another community meeting! Dongze He will talk about about simpleaf, a rust framework to make using alevin-fry even simpler. simpleaf encapsulates the process of creating an…

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## [Community Meeting 2024-03-05](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-03-05/2123)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [February 27, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-03-05/2123 "2024-02-27T12:53:56Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2024-03-05 18:00 CET will be another community meeting! Robert Petryszak will talk about about CellPhoneDB, and how to infer cell-cell communication from single-cell multiomics data. For more information…

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## [Community Meeting 2024-02-20](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-02-20/2081)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [February 13, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-02-20/2081 "2024-02-13T15:31:15Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2024-02-20 18:00 CET will be another community meeting! @vitkl will talk about about cell2location, a Bayesian model that can resolve fine-grained cell types in spatial transcriptomic data and create com…

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## [Community Meeting 2024-02-06](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-02-06/2047)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [February 2, 2024, 8:01am UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2024-02-06/2047 "2024-02-02T08:01:55Z")

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Join us on 2024-02-06 at 18:00 CET for our first community meeting for this semester! Daniel Dimitrov will discuss the Multi-condition cell-cell communication using LIANA+. Learn more at the GitHub repository: GitHub - s…

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## [Community Meeting 2023-12-12](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-12-12/1942)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [December 5, 2023, 8:51am UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-12-12/1942 "2023-12-05T08:51:33Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2023-12-12 18:00 CET our last community meeting for the year! Felix Fischer will talk about about scaling cross-tissue single-cell annotation models. For more information, here is the GitHub repository:…

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## [Community Meeting 2023-11-14 18:00 CET](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-11-14-18-00-cet/1868)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [November 8, 2023, 10:31pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-11-14-18-00-cet/1868 "2023-11-08T22:31:52Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2023-11-14 18:00 CET will be another community meeting! @PhilippWeiler will talk about about the CellRank 2, a general framework for single-cell fate mapping based on various data modalities. For more in…

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## [Community Meeting 2023-10-31 18:00 CET](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-10-31-18-00-cet/1837)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [October 26, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-10-31-18-00-cet/1837 "2023-10-26T16:07:07Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2023-10-31 18:00 CET will be another community meeting! @gtca will talk about about the brand-new features for scalability and analytics for scverse data structures. The discussion will include, among ot…

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## [Community Meeting 2023-10-17 18:00 CEST](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-10-17-18-00-cest/1821)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [October 12, 2023, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-10-17-18-00-cest/1821 "2023-10-12T13:16:48Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2023-10-17 18:00 CEST will be another community meeting! @grst , agoose77 & Jim Pivarski will talk about Awkward arrays in AnnData, which are used to store nested or ragged data structures, like lists o…

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## [Scverse Hackathon Announcement](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/scverse-hackathon-announcement/1792)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [October 3, 2023, 7:47am UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/scverse-hackathon-announcement/1792 "2023-10-03T07:47:25Z")

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Date: November 27-29, 2023 Location: Cambridge We are pleased to announce that scverse will be hosting a hackathon in Cambridge from November 27th to 29th. This edition of the scverse Hackathon is specifically focused …

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## [Community Meeting 2023-10-03 18:00 CEST](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-10-03-18-00-cest/1783)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [September 27, 2023, 7:57am UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-10-03-18-00-cest/1783 "2023-09-27T07:57:56Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2023-10-03 18:00 CEST will be another community meeting! @Intron7 will talk about rapids-singlecell, a library designed to accelerate single cell data analysis by utilizing the capabilities of GPU comput…

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## [Community Meeting 2023-09-19 18:00 CEST](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-09-19-18-00-cest/1754)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [September 12, 2023, 7:54am UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-09-19-18-00-cest/1754 "2023-09-12T07:54:08Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2023-09-19 18:00 CEST will be another community meeting! Kai Zhang will talk about a SnapATAC2, a Python/Rust package for single-cell epigenomics analysis. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! For …

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## [Community Meeting 2023-09-05 18:00 CEST](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-09-05-18-00-cest/1715)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [August 28, 2023, 6:50am UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-09-05-18-00-cest/1715 "2023-08-28T06:50:04Z")

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Our community meetings are back. Join us next Tuesday, September 5th, 2023, at 18:00 CEST for @BorisMuzc talk about PyDESeq2, a python implementation of the DESeq2 method for differential expression analysis with bulk RN…

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## [Community meetings: summer break](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meetings-summer-break/1639)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [July 26, 2023, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meetings-summer-break/1639 "2023-07-26T13:20:07Z")

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Thanks to everyone for joining our community meetings! We’ll be taking a summer break and look forward to returning on August 22nd. During this time, feel free to catch up on any past sessions you may have missed on our Y…

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## [Community Meeting 2023-07-25 18.00 CEST](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-07-25-18-00-cest/1619)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [July 19, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-07-25-18-00-cest/1619 "2023-07-19T12:38:45Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2023-07-25 18:00 CEST will be another community meeting! @LeahAWasser will talk about pyopensci, a diverse and welcoming community focused on supporting the Python scientific open source software that dr…

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## [Community Meeting 2023-07-11 18.00 CEST](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-07-11-18-00-cest/1576)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [July 5, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-07-11-18-00-cest/1576 "2023-07-05T14:32:12Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2023-07-11 18:00 CEST will be another community meeting! @zoepiran will talk about biolord, a deep generative framework for disentangling known and unknown attributes in single-cell data. Looking forward…

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## [Community Meeting 2023-06-27 18.00 CEST](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-06-27-18-00-cest/1540)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [June 22, 2023, 7:59am UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-06-27-18-00-cest/1540 "2023-06-22T07:59:27Z")

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Next Tuesday at 2023-06-27 18:00 CEST will be another community meeting! Geert-Jan Huizing will talk about Mowgli, a method for the integration of paired multi-omics data! Looking forward to seeing everyone there! For …

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## [New core members](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/new-core-members/1522)

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**Author:** [@mikelkou](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/mikelkou)\
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**Last updated:** [June 16, 2023, 9:39am UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/new-core-members/1522 "2023-06-16T09:39:35Z")

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We are thrilled to introduce the newest members of our core team! Please join us in welcoming Anna Schaar (@AnnaS), Martin Kim (@martinkim0), Mikaela Koutrouli (@mikelkou) and Philipp Angerer @flying-sheep! We’re confid…

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## [Scverse community meetings](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/scverse-community-meetings/1092)

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**Author:** [@ivirshup](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/ivirshup)\
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**Last updated:** [June 12, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/scverse-community-meetings/1092 "2023-06-12T16:06:08Z")

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Hey all! We’re going to start our (long promised) scverse community meetings next week! They will be at 2023-02-06T23:00:00Z (UTC) and repeat every other week. Some links: Calendar event | ics file Meeting notes an…

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## [Community meeting 2023-05-16 18:00 CEST](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-05-16-18-00-cest/1406)

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**Author:** [@grst](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/grst)\
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**Last updated:** [May 9, 2023, 7:00pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/community-meeting-2023-05-16-18-00-cest/1406 "2023-05-09T19:00:30Z")

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At the next meeting 2023-05-16 18:00 CEST, we will discuss Genomic Ranges support in AnnData. Scverse community meetings are open to everyone and a great way to get in touch with the community. Notes/Agenda | Zoom link …

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## [New ecosystem package: Sobolev alignment](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/new-ecosystem-package-sobolev-alignment/1387)

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**Author:** [@grst](https://discourse.scverse.org/u/grst)\
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**Last updated:** [May 4, 2023, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.scverse.org/t/new-ecosystem-package-sobolev-alignment/1387 "2023-05-04T18:31:15Z")

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Sobolev alignment just got added to the list of ecosystem packages. It provides deep probabilistic models for comparing single cell profiles from pre-clinical models and patients.

[Next page](https://discourse.scverse.org/c/announcements/6.md?page=1)