reference model question re: conditions about scarches

[M0hammadL]

Yes, we also thought about that too, right now model publishers can explain in additional description field here. I think this would be the best way for people to clarify this? It would be great for every user to attach a notebook to their model submission form.

regarding your side note, we have the pipe-line tutorial and this tutorial for query users. I will try to make the second one more illustrative in the aspects you mentioned.

[ambrosejcarr]

HI Mohammad - thanks for the clarification. We're thinking about a slightly different use case where there is no computational biologist available to tweak the model. We're wondering if you want a non-expert to be able to use this package to transfer labels, extending what they can do with scanpy from identifying reasonable clusters of cells and marker genes to recommending labels for cell types.

One way this might work:

• There would be some basic schema, such as what you've been building in your curation efforts or what we're working on in cellxgene,
• Users can browse models for a tissue and download them,
• Condition key would either match a column from the schema, or be a function that constructs the appropriate query column from fields in the schema.
• input parameters for label transfer are just a query dataset (containing at least condition_key or required metadata to create it) and a model. The package does the rest.

[M0hammadL]

hi @ambrosejcarr
We are working on a website so that you can browse models and even project data on that. However, integrating with cellxgene might take some time. Could we get some people from CZI to help us with this?

[ambrosejcarr]

@M0hammadL we're very interested in this idea and would be able to spend some time on it. Could we set up a call? I'd like to hear more about your vision for how this would work.

[M0hammadL]

@bkmartinjr sure, that would be great? maybe continue via email?