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Who writes papers?
There are no actual rules about the order of authorships of papers in academic journals.
 • Valentine Svensson
GEO data unlocks vs paper publication
Occasionally, when a paper is published with a new interesting dataset, the GEO accession is locked as ‘private’ until a certain release date.
 • Valentine Svensson
An update on automatic cell number extraction from single-cell papers
I was reminded that about a year ago (May 2025) I investigated whether LLM-based website crawlers could be used to extract how many cells were collected…
 • Valentine Svensson
10x Flex preserves biological processes
The 10x Genomics Flex kit for single-cell RNA-sequencing relies on a fixed set of gene probes as opposed to untargeted RNA-sequencing.
 • Valentine Svensson
Creating a Tahoe sculpture
Last year, the company I work for rebranded as Tahoe Therapeutics. It is named after Lake Tahoe at the border between California and Nevada.
 • Valentine Svensson
Improving SCVI for low-count cells through self-supervised augmentation
To improve utility of cells with low UMI counts, I wanted to optimize KL weighting in SCVI models.
 • Valentine Svensson
Serverless GPUs for fast TSNE visualization
TSNE visualization is useful to explore data but is time consuming without access to an Nvidia GPU.
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