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A z score (or standardized value) is measured in units of the standard deviation. It tells you how many standard deviations the value x is above (to the right of) or below (to the left of) the mean, μ. Values of x that are larger than the mean have positive z scores, and values of x that are smaller than the mean have negative z scores. If x equals the mean, then x has a zero z score. It is important to note that the mean of the z scores is zero, and the standard deviation is one.
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Reconstruction of Single-Cell Innate Fluorescence Signatures by Confocal Microscopy

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UCell and pyUCell: single-cell gene signature scoring for R and Python.

Massimo Andreatta^1,2,3,4, Santiago J Carmona^1,2,3,4

¹Department of Pathology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva 1206, Switzerland.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

|February 10, 2026

Summary

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Gene signature scoring quantifies biological signals in single-cell omics data. UCell (R) and pyUCell (Python) provide fast, robust tools for this analysis, integrating with major platforms.

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Area of Science:

Computational biology
Single-cell omics analysis

Background:

Single-cell omics technologies generate high-dimensional data.
Quantifying biological signals within these datasets is crucial for discovery.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce UCell and pyUCell as efficient tools for gene signature scoring.
To enable robust quantification of biological signals in single-cell omics data.

Main Methods:

Rank-based gene signature scoring implemented in R (UCell) and Python (pyUCell).
Integration with popular single-cell analysis workflows like Seurat, Bioconductor, and scanpy/scverse.

Main Results:

UCell and pyUCell offer fast and robust performance for gene signature scoring.
These tools facilitate seamless integration into existing single-cell analysis pipelines.

Conclusions:

Gene signature scoring is a powerful method for analyzing single-cell omics data.
UCell and pyUCell provide accessible and efficient implementations for researchers.