Acknowledgements

Funding

This work was supported by the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) through a doctoral fellowship and by the Deparatment of Neuropathology Heidelberg.

Institutional support

ProteoPy was developed at:

  • Department of Neuropathology, Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

  • German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

  • German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK), Heidelberg, Germany

We thank the following research groups for providing the scientific environment in which ProteoPy was developed:

  • The Bludau Lab and the Bioinformatics group within the Department of Neuropathology, University Hospital Heidelberg

  • The Gerstung Lab at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg

Inspiration

ProteoPy’s API design draws direct inspiration from the scanpy and muon ecosystems. By adopting their modular syntax (pp, tl, pl) and AnnData-centric workflow, ProteoPy aims to provide a familiar and accessible interface for researchers already working within the single-cell and multi-omics community. We are grateful to the original authors and contributors of scanpy — in particular Fabian Theis and the Theis Lab — and of muon — notably Danila Bredikhin and the Stegle Lab at EMBL and DKFZ — for creating open, well-designed frameworks that have shaped how the community interacts with high-dimensional biological data.

Software dependencies

ProteoPy builds upon the excellent work of many open-source projects:

We are grateful to the developers and maintainers of these projects for their contributions to the scientific Python ecosystem.

Contact

For correspondence regarding ProteoPy, please contact:

Isabell Bludau

Email: isabell.bludau@med.uni-heidelberg.de