Interoperability between R and Python using BiocPy Workshop
The BiocPy project aims to facilitate development of Bioconductor workflows in Python. This workshop will provide an overview of the core data structures implemented in BiocPy (e.g., GenomicRanges, SummarizedExperiment) that were ported from R. Participants will be guided through two Bioconductor-derived workflows in Python. The first will involve reading an RDS file containing genomic ranges and performing downstream range-based analyses. The second will use the scRNAseq package to access public single-cell RNA-seq datasets, followed by cell type annotation using the SinglePy package. Attendees will learn how to represent and manipulate their datasets in Python in the same manner as in R/Bioconductor. All packages in BiocPy are published to PyPI and code is opensource @ https://github.com/BiocPy.