Kana: Single cell analysis in the browser

Kana comes from the Telugu word kaṇaṁ (కణం), which means ... drumroll... cell kana is a web application for single-cell data analysis that works directly in the browser. That's right - the calculations are performed client-side, by your browser, on your computer! This differs from the usual paradigm of, e.g., Shiny applications where data needs to be sent to a backend server that does the actual analysis. Our client-side approach has a number of advantages: - Your data is never transferred anywhere, so you don't have to worry about problems with data privacy. These can be especially hairy when your backend server lies in a different jurisdiction from your data source. By performing the analysis on the client, we avoid all of these issues. - kana is super-cheap to run and deploy, just serve it as a static website. There's no need to maintain a server or cloud compute instance - let the user's machine take care of it. It also naturally scales to any number of users as they're automatically providing the compute. - By removing network latency, we can achieve a smooth interactive experience. This ranges from steps such as animated dimensionality reductions to user-driven marker detection and celltype annotation. Kana: Single cell analysis in the browser is the open-source project kanaverse/kana (https://github.com/kanaverse/kana) by kanaverse, released under MIT. Ion packages it unmodified from commit ecb0360c5e00, adding only a manifest, an icon and a storage compatibility script.

Written by kanaverse, published to Oikou by Ben Grande.

• ★ 156 stars on GitHub
• Licence: MIT
• Upstream version v3.0.1
• Built from commit ecb0360c5e00

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Not rated. Nobody has said who this app is suitable for, so Personal Clouds and the Oikou app treat it as 18+.

Internet

It asks to reach these hosts, and no others:

• cors-proxy.aaron-lun.workers.dev
• jkanche.com
• kanaverse.org
• any address under bioconductor.org
• support.10xgenomics.com
• cf.10xgenomics.com

Personal Cloud tools

• Keep a database of its own on your Personal Cloud ion.db

Notifications

It does not send push notifications.

Isolated pages

Runs its pages isolated (shared memory). Its pages get shared memory and precise timers, and load files from other sites only when those sites allow it.

Storage

Up to 16 MB on your Personal Cloud.

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