| Editor’s Assessment | CELLxGENE is a popular open-source tool to find, download, and visually explore curated and standardized single-cell biology datasets. Biologists without the bioinformatics skills to use the command line but still want to analyse their single-cell transcriptomics datasets using this platform as it provides an intuitive graphical interface. Though its server-side installation and execution remain too complex and impractical for many. This paper presents Portable-CELLxGENE, standalone small executables of CELLxGENE for more easy installation. Providing downloadable versions of Portable-CELLxGENE for Windows and MacOS, along with its source code, that are available at GitHub https://github.com/george-hall-ucl/portable-cellxgene under a GPLv3 license. Peer-review helped streamline the MacOS installation and improve the documentation, and testing proved it was very easy to install and run. Test datasets are provided and developers are encouraged to contribute to Portable-CELLxGENE by submitting a pull request on the GitHub repository. |
| Editor’s Assessment | CELLxGENE is a popular open-source tool to find, download, and visually explore curated and standardized single-cell biology datasets. Biologists without the bioinformatics skills to use the command line but still want to analyse their single-cell transcriptomics datasets using this platform as it provides an intuitive graphical interface. Though its server-side installation and execution remain too complex and impractical for many. This paper presents Portable-CELLxGENE, standalone small executables of CELLxGENE for more easy installation. Providing downloadable versions of Portable-CELLxGENE for Windows and MacOS, along with its source code, that are available at GitHub https://github.com/george-hall-ucl/portable-cellxgene under a GPLv3 license. Peer-review helped streamline the MacOS installation and improve the documentation, and testing proved it was very easy to install and run. Test datasets are provided and developers are encouraged to contribute to Portable-CELLxGENE by submitting a pull request on the GitHub repository. |
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