Nezar Abdennur
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genomics and Computational Biology and the Department of Systems Biology at UMass Chan Medical School.
I lead a computational research group (https://abdenlab.org) with a dual mandate. My group's biological research focuses on the 3D organization of the genome (3C/Hi-C technologies), its relationship to the epigenome, and the resulting manifold influences on cellular fate, differentiation, aging, and disease. My group's open-source interests are in supporting foundational software infrastructure to improve genomic and multi-omic data science, especially in the scientific Python ecosystem.
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Jupyter Widgets connect Python objects with web-based visualizations and UIs, enabling both programmatic and interactive manipulation of data and code. For example, lasso some points in a scatterplot visualization and access that selection in Python as a DataFrame.
anywidget makes it simple and enjoyable to bring these capabilities to your own Python classes, and it ensures easy installation and usage by end users in various environments. In this tutorial, you will create your own custom widgets with anywidget and learn the skills to be effective in extending your own Python classes with web-based superpowers.