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Rebuilding the Airway Cell Atlas from a Landmark Nature Study Using Cellxgene VIP in BxGenomics

Published by Susan @ May 15, 2025, 3:01 pm
In the high-impact Nature study “Local and systemic responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adults (Yoshida et al.,2021)”, scientists uncovered why children often fare better than adults when infected with COVID-19. At Cellxgene VIP (Li et al., 2022), we brought this discovery to life—moving beyond reading the findings to reconstructing them through dynamic, interactive visualizations. Cellxgene VIP is an interactive frontend visualization plugin for the cellxgene framework allowing researchers to generate a comprehensive set of high resolution plots with fully customizable settings in real time. It is part of BxGenomics, an integrated online platform developed by researchers at BioInfoRx for the analysis and visualization of both single-cell and bulk RNA-seq data.