PhyloVelo - Phylogeny-based transcriptomic velocity of single cells

September 18, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

PhyloVelo is a computational framework to quantify the transcriptomic velocity field from phylogeny-resolved scRNA-seq data. PhyloVelo utilizes monotonically expressed genes (MEGs) along cell divisions as a transcriptomic clock to reconstruct the velocity vector fields of cell-state transitions, which enables robust and systematic cell-fate mapping in diverse biological contexts.

Installation

git clone https://github.com/kunwang34/PhyloVelo
cd ./PhyloVelo
pip install .

Docs

PhyloVelo Docs

Data

References

Kun Wang, Liangzhen Hou, Xin Wang, Xiangwei Zhai, Zhaolian Lu, Zhike Zi, Weiwei Zhai, Xionglei He, Christina Curtis, Da Zhou*, Zheng Hu*. PhyloVelo enhances transcriptomic velocity field mapping using monotonically expressed genes. Nature Biotechnology. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-023-01887-5 (2023.07).

Note

PhyloVelo is still under development, some API names and call methods in notebooks may have changed, and the model performance may also be slightly different.