Training Models on Atlas-Scale Single-Cell Datasets

TileDB, in collaboration with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, is tackling the challenges of managing large-scale single-cell data to advance life sciences research, as highlighted in a recent webinar. The session showcased TileDB's innovative methodologies for handling multimodal data, emphasizing its unique multidimensional array format and cloud-native architecture that enable researchers to explore vast datasets, such as the single-cell census, without local downloads. TileDB's SOMA platform addresses key data challenges like scalability, interoperability, accessibility, and analysis efficiency, while the newly introduced tiledb-soma-ml library facilitates machine learning model training on single-cell data using PyTorch. Additionally, TileDB's vector search capabilities enhance single-cell research by automating cell type annotations and enabling interactive analyses, which are crucial for advancing computational biology amidst the surge of single-cell data.