Arpiar Saunders, PhD

@your_arpy

Neurophysiologist & molecular engineer at @OHSUBrain. Developing viral tech to map the brain’s cellular organization and understand neuropsychiatric disorders.

Vollum Institute / OHSU arpiarsaunderslab.com Joined March 2020

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Arpiar Saunders, PhD @your_arpy May 7, 2025

@kennypavan's AnnSQL software for facile, lightning-fast analysis of large-scale scRNA-seq datasets is out now in @BioinfoAdv. >19k downloads thus far and we'd love to grow the developer base. Easily analyze millions of RNA profiles from your laptop. No HPC necessary!

Bioinformatics Advances Verified account @BioinfoAdv May 6, 2025

🔍 Recently published in Bioinformatics Advances: "AnnSQL: A Python SQL-based package for fast large-scale single-cell genomics analysis using minimal computational resources"

Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1093/bioadv…

Authors: @kennypavan and @your_arpy

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Arpiar Saunders, PhD @your_arpy Apr 4, 2025

Well-deserved @SynBioGaoLab !

Xiaojing Gao @SynBioGaoLab Apr 3, 2025

Grateful for the recognition and for my team's dedication. When I wrote it in Oct, I didn't anticipate that the title would feel defiant. The original draft even had a now quaint reference to "the comparative comfort of the ivory tower", which was wisely removed.
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Arpiar Saunders, PhD @your_arpy Feb 9, 2025

It’s important for us scientists to articulate that the NIH cuts are surgically cruel: designed not to save money, but to maximally implode the capacity and infrastructure for research; research that saves and improves lives around the world. Why? Just cruelty.

Arpiar Saunders, PhD @your_arpy Dec 20, 2024

Our latest work in collaboration with the Bourhy Lab (Pasteur Inst.) in which we use scRNA-seq to characterize host-rabies molecular interactions across diverse human brain cell types. Recommended if you're interested in "system virology" or glial biology: tinyurl.com/3a7e9vwp

Arpiar Saunders, PhD @your_arpy Nov 17, 2024

We’ll keep adding features to AnnSQL. Give it a shot if you’re working with large-scale scRNA-seq analysis and prefer to use your laptop

Kenny Pavan @kennypavan Nov 13, 2024

New feature in #AnnSQL!

Easily create meta cell views for massive single-cell datasets. In this example: 600k cells are grouped by type & age to provide a summary of molecular diversity.

Live long and analyze🖖#Bioinformatics #DuckDb #Genomics

tinyurl.com/ytw4ufe8

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