kana
kanaverse.org
Spec sheet
- Purpose
- Kana is a web application for single-cell data analysis that runs directly in the browser.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Deployment
- The project can be deployed by serving its static files, including through GitHub Pages or other static hosting providers, without a backend server.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Free plan
- YesRead 23 Sep 2026 · kanaverse.org
- Integrations
- The GitHub project describes kanapi as a Node API layer that can run Kana single-cell analysis in backend environments and communicate over WebSockets.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Analysis
- It can analyze single-cell datasets and produce UMAPs, t-SNEs, clusters, and marker genes.Read 12 Oct 2026 · kanaverse.org
- Analysis features
- The standard workflow includes quality filtering, normalization, PCA, graph-based clustering, dimensionality reduction, marker detection, and gene set enrichment.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Data import formats
- Matrix Market (.mtx), 10x HDF5, AnnData H5AD, RDS files containing SummarizedExperiment or SingleCellExperiment objects, and Bioconductor ExperimentHub datasetsRead 23 Sep 2026 · kanaverse.org
- Data privacy
- The official site says analysis runs on the user's device and that data never leaves the computer.Read 12 Oct 2026 · kanaverse.org
- Developers
- The official site names Jayaram Kancherla and Aaron Lun as Kana's developers.Read 12 Oct 2026 · kanaverse.org
- Exploration
- Users can explore pre-analyzed datasets, make custom cell selections, detect markers, annotate cell types, and filter analyses by cell annotation.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Input formats
- Supported inputs include Matrix Market files, HDF5 in 10x V3 or AnnData h5ad formats, RDS files containing SummarizedExperiment or derivatives such as SingleCellExperiment, and ExperimentHub IDs.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Multimodal analysis
- Kana supports multimodal analysis for Cite-seq data and/or CRISPR.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Project license
- The GitHub project lists an MIT license.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com
- Technical implementation
- Kana uses scran.js and WebAssembly, and runs computations in Web Workers to keep the interface responsive.Read 12 Oct 2026 · github.com
Plans and prices
Free Free Always free · Runs in your browser on your device Read 12 Oct 2026 · kanaverse.org
Where Specifiction places it
- Statistical Analysis Software#60 of 1067.6