CytoTable

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Summary

Image-based profiling often entails preparing data for analysis by transforming the outputs of image analysis tools into a consistent, analysis-ready format. CytoTable streamlines analyses by harmonizing CellProfiler (.csv or .sqlite), cytominer-database (.sqlite), DeepProfiler (.npz), or other sources such as IN Carta output data at scale. This helps biologists by lowering the barrier between image acquisition and data interpretation, enabling them to focus on biological insights rather than file formats or data wrangling.

CytoTable creates Parquet or AnnData files for both independent analysis and for input into Pycytominer. The output files (such as Parquet and AnnData file formats) have a documented data model, including referenceable schema where appropriate (for validation within Pycytominer or other image-based profiling projects).

📔🧑‍🏫 Check out our demonstration notebook for a one-stop reference of how to use CytoTable. CytoTable mise en place (general overview)

📓☁️ Consider also checking out our demonstration notebook covering how to use cloud-based data sources with CytoTable. CytoTable from the cloud (cloud-based overview)

The name for the project is inspired by:

• Cyto: "1. (biology) cell." (Wiktionary: Cyto-)
• Table:
  • "1. Furniture with a top surface to accommodate a variety of uses."
  • "3.1. A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns."
    (Wiktionary: Table)

Installation

Install CytoTable from PyPI or from source:

# install from pypi
pip install cytotable

# install directly from source
pip install git+https://github.com/cytomining/CytoTable.git

Contributing, Development, and Testing

We test CytoTable using ubuntu-latest and macos-latest GitHub Actions runner images.

Please see contributing.md for more details on contributions, development, and testing.

Relationship to other projects

CytoTable focuses on image-based profiling data harmonization and serialization. At scale, CytoTable transforms data into file formats which can be directly integrated with:

Please let us know how you use CytoTable (we'd love to add your project to this list)!

• Pycytominer for the bioinformatics pipeline for image-based profiling.
• coSMicQC for quality control.
• CytoDataFrame for interactive visualization of profiles with single cell images.

References

• Pycytominer
• cytominer-database
• DeepProfiler
• CellProfiler
• cytominer-eval