Six years on, scvi-tools still widely used — outlasting foundation models and coding agents
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-16
Computational biologist Adam Gayoso reflected that scvi-tools, released six years ago, remains widely used: it first survived a generation of single-cell foundation models, and now stands up against powerful coding agents. The quoted post is the original 2019 announcement of the tool's first beta on PyPi. A reminder that well-built domain tools haven't been easily displaced by the AI wave.
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