Brand
The plates
Every section of the site opens with a plate: a figure engraved from the lab's own data. This page draws each figure and each of the engraver's tools they are made of.
Plate II
The map of our publications
Pl. II Every work a dot, placed by the likeness of its title and abstract to all the others; where works gather, islands rise, each named by the terms that set it apart. Hover a dot for its title.
742 works in 16 islands, from a vocabulary of 5,123 terms · data synced 2026-11-06
Plate II.1
Pl. II.1 The same map on a theme's page: the theme's works large and in their island's colour, all others small in ink.
Single-cell and spatial atlases · 7 works
Plate VII
Before the marble rolls
- GATA-1 against PU.1
Pl. VII The head of the home page's landscape seen from above: the marble on the progenitors' plateau, and the first decision, where the cells part to the red-cell or the white-cell side.
Wild-type baseline of the myeloid network (Krumsiek et al. 2011), simulated at build
Plate —
This part of the atlas is not charted
- Erythrocyte
- Megakaryocyte
- Granulocyte
- Monocyte
- Terra incognita
Pl. — The 404 page: the whole landscape, its four valleys named for the cell types, fading into blank paper.
Wild-type baseline of the myeloid network, simulated at build
Plate IV
Works by kind
| Series | Total works | By step from 1992 |
|---|---|---|
| Article | 480 | 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 2, 1, 4, 2, 7, 3, 8, 8, 15, 16, 19, 25, 19, 33, 36, 30, 24, 28, 22, 30, 30, 37, 27, 30, 21 |
| Preprint | 89 | 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 3, 6, 5, 10, 9, 10, 16, 27 |
| Review | 34 | 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 6, 2, 4, 4, 2, 6, 2, 4 |
| Dataset | 13 | 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 3, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 3, 1 |
| Book chapter | 70 | 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 5, 5, 6, 5, 10, 2, 4, 8, 3, 6, 0, 3, 3, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0 |
| Software | 6 | 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 4, 2 |
Pl. IV One ridge per kind of work, years from left to right; each ridge is scaled to its own busiest year, the total follows its name.
Computed from 742 works attributed to the lab · data synced 2026-11-06
Plate V
The range of our tools
| Name | stars |
|---|---|
| Scanpy | 2609 |
| single-cell-tutorial | 1599 |
| Single-cell best practices | 1299 |
| anndata | 783 |
| scVelo | 515 |
| scib | 436 |
| scArches | 414 |
| ehrapy | 370 |
| scGen | 361 |
| single-cell-transformer-papers | 343 |
| dca | 275 |
| paga | 249 |
| moscot | 219 |
| zellkonverter | 209 |
| scCODA | 205 |
| regvelo | 200 |
| sc-pert | 186 |
| kBET | 181 |
| nicheformer | 179 |
| CellFlow | 166 |
| chemCPA | 162 |
| CPA | 157 |
| anndata2ri | 154 |
| paperbee | 137 |
| sfaira | 135 |
| ncem | 121 |
| destiny | 114 |
| scib-pipeline | 85 |
| DRVI | 83 |
| scib-reproducibility | 76 |
| scTab | 70 |
| AutoGeneS | 64 |
| trVAE | 63 |
| spatial_scog_workshop_2022 | 54 |
| neural_organoid_atlas | 53 |
| spapros | 51 |
Pl. V Every tool a summit, its height its GitHub stars on a log scale and its elevation given after its name; the featured tools stand in the front range.
36 repositories, 12,377 stars in all · data synced 2026-11-06
Plate III
A chart of the lab
| Name | works | Linked to |
|---|---|---|
| Fabian Theis | 733 | Alex Example, Ilan Gold, Kemal Inecik, Philipp Angerer |
| Kemal Inecik | 12 | Fabian Theis |
| Philipp Angerer | 12 | Fabian Theis, Ilan Gold |
| Ilan Gold | 5 | Fabian Theis, Philipp Angerer |
| Alex Example | 0 | Dana Demo, Fabian Theis, Gray Placeholder |
| Blake Sample | 0 | Casey Placeholder, Eli Example |
| Casey Placeholder | 0 | Blake Sample, Indigo Example |
| Dana Demo | 0 | Alex Example |
| Eli Example | 0 | Blake Sample |
| Frankie Sample | 0 | |
| Gray Placeholder | 0 | Alex Example |
| Harper Demo | 0 | |
| Indigo Example | 0 | Casey Placeholder |
| Jordan Sample | 0 | |
| Kai Placeholder | 0 | |
| Lee Demo | 0 | |
| Morgan Example | 0 | |
| Noor Sample | 0 | |
| Oak Placeholder | 0 | |
| Parker Demo | 0 | |
| Quinn Example | 0 |
Pl. III Every person a star, brighter for more works; lines join people who work together, and each group of linked stars is washed in its own colour.
21 people, 10 collaborations from shared works, shared software and declared connections · data synced 2026-11-06
Plate X
Where our coauthors work
| Country | works |
|---|---|
| Germany | 485 |
| United States | 144 |
| United Kingdom | 106 |
| Switzerland | 55 |
| Netherlands | 37 |
| Sweden | 32 |
| Australia | 25 |
| Canada | 21 |
| Denmark | 19 |
| Israel | 17 |
| Austria | 16 |
| Italy | 15 |
| China | 13 |
| Spain | 13 |
| France | 13 |
| Qatar | 13 |
| Finland | 12 |
| Belgium | 11 |
| Singapore | 10 |
| Japan | 9 |
| Poland | 7 |
| Hungary | 6 |
| Norway | 6 |
| India | 5 |
| Türkiye | 4 |
| South Africa | 4 |
| Brazil | 3 |
| Czechia | 3 |
| Egypt | 3 |
| Greece | 3 |
| Portugal | 3 |
| South Korea | 2 |
| Russia | 2 |
| Slovenia | 2 |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 |
| Fiji | 1 |
| France | 1 |
| Croatia | 1 |
| Ireland | 1 |
| Iran | 1 |
| Lithuania | 1 |
| Luxembourg | 1 |
| Malaysia | 1 |
| Romania | 1 |
| Thailand | 1 |
Pl. X Countries washed and hatched by the number of works with a coauthor there, in five classes; arcs run along great circles from Munich.
45 countries from the affiliations of 508 works · Author affiliations from Crossref and OpenAlex in the works snapshot
Plate XI
The years in layers
| Period | works | Events |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 56 | arrived: Gray Placeholder; arrived: Harper Demo; arrived: Kai Placeholder; left: Ilan Gold |
| 2025 | 58 | arrived: Frankie Sample; left: Oak Placeholder |
| 2024 | 45 | arrived: Casey Placeholder |
| 2023 | 51 | arrived: Blake Sample; arrived: Ilan Gold; left: Parker Demo |
| 2022 | 48 | arrived: Kemal Inecik; left: Noor Sample |
| 2021 | 41 | arrived: Dana Demo; arrived: Indigo Example; left: Morgan Example |
| 2020 | 33 | arrived: Jordan Sample; arrived: Oak Placeholder |
| 2019 | 42 | arrived: Alex Example; arrived: Lee Demo; arrived: Parker Demo |
| 2018 | 32 | arrived: Noor Sample |
| 2017 | 34 | arrived: Morgan Example |
| 2016 | 43 | |
| 2015 | 37 | |
| 2014 | 22 | arrived: Philipp Angerer |
| 2013 | 27 | |
| 2012 | 25 | |
| 2011 | 20 | |
| 2010 | 24 | |
| 2009 | 12 | |
| 2008 | 11 | |
| 2007 | 15 | arrived: Fabian Theis |
| 2006 | 16 | |
| 2005 | 10 |
Pl. XI One stratum per year, youngest on top, as thick as the year's works and preprints; its pattern says what dominated the year, and the margin marks who arrived and who left.
29 years of works, preprints, releases and people · data synced 2026-11-06
The engraver's tools
The functions of engrave.ts on their own. Tone comes from line and dot, never from grey: hatching from white to black, cross-hatching, stipple; the swelling line; the eight lithologies of the strata; the bands of a guilloché drawn one by one; a graticule; seeded noise drawn as contours.
Medallions
Twelve people, each from their id, at the three avatar sizes; the hue comes from the seed unless a page gives one.
Vignettes and the colour strip
Ornaments engraved from the identifiers of recent works, for pages without a plate; the colour strip carries the eight data hues along the top of every inner page.
Plate XII
Works and their citations
| Series | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Works | 10 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 24 | 20 | 25 | 27 | 22 | 37 | 43 | 34 | 32 | 42 | 33 | 41 | 48 | 51 | 45 | 58 | 56 |
Pl. XII Works published each year since 2005, an area washed and hatched under a swelling line.
ORCID, Crossref and Europe PMC
Plate XII.2
| Series | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citations | 81 | 126 | 81 | 303 | 553 | 859 | 1113 | 1983 | 1720 | 2032 | 5298 | 2847 | 3834 | 10616 | 9197 | 8062 | 5333 | 5369 | 4408 | 2223 | 1539 | 89 |
Pl. XII.2 Citations to date of the works published in that year: a line with a mark at every year.
Crossref and Europe PMC
Plate XII.3
| Series | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Releases | 10 | 17 | 26 | 24 | 156 | 32 | 48 | 46 |
Pl. XII.3 Software releases each year, hatched bars.
GitHub