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Run RNA velocity analysis with scVelo on single-cell RNA-seq data — estimate cell-state transitions from spliced/unspliced mRNA dynamics, infer trajectory direction, compute latent time, and identify driver genes. Use when adding directionality to trajectories or studying differentiation dynamics from spliced/unspliced layers (velocyto/STARsolo output); for the general QC, clustering, UMAP, and differential-expression analysis pipeline prefer alterlab-scanpy instead, and for .h5ad data-structure I/O and layer wrangling prefer alterlab-anndata instead. Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.

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# scVelo — RNA Velocity Analysis ## Overview scVelo is the leading Python package for RNA velocity analysis in single-cell RNA-seq data. It infers cell state transitions by modeling the kinetics of mRNA splicing — using the ratio of unspliced (pre-mRNA) to spliced (mature mRNA) abundances to determine whether a gene is being upregulated or downregulated in each cell. This allows reconstruction of developmental trajectories and identification of cell fate decisions without requiring time-course data. **Installation:** `uv pip install "scvelo==0.3.4"` — 0.3.4 (uploaded 2026-02-24) is the current release and the package is now only minimally maintained: its published release notes stop at 0.2.5, upstream CI still targets Python 3.9/3.10, and its dependency declarations (`numpy>=1.17`, `scanpy>=1.5`, `anndata>=0.7.5`) have no upper bounds, so pip will happily build an environment scVelo was never tested against. Practical consequence: install it in its own environment with a pinned NumPy rather than into a current scverse stack. If you hit dtype or scalar-assignment errors under NumPy 2 — most often in `mode="stochastic"`, whose second-moment regression assigns a one-element least-squares result to a scalar — pin `numpy<2` (e.g. `numpy==1.26.4`) and re-run. Check velocity results for silent breakage rather than assuming they are fine: compare the stochastic and dynamical modes, and confirm the streamlines agree with known biology. **Key resources:** - Documentation: https://...

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