scverse 2024 recap: Joint TileDB-CZI Workshop

The inaugural scverse conference in Munich united the single-cell research community, including researchers and toolkit developers, to encourage collaboration and standardization within the field. Sponsored by TileDB, the event featured presentations and workshops, including a session led by TileDB and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) that demonstrated the integration of TileDB with CZI's CELLxGENE project, highlighting its scalable query capabilities for single-cell datasets. This integration facilitates machine learning model training and cell similarity searches on large-scale data, emphasizing TileDB's commitment to interoperability with scverse packages through an I/O API. The conference provided a platform to showcase TileDB's advancements, particularly its role in enabling efficient access to single-cell data, and fostered discussions on topics like machine learning and spatial transcriptomics, reinforcing the importance of community engagement in advancing single-cell analysis.