# Theis Lab

> Machine learning for single-cell biology and health. The Theis Lab at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich develops machine learning methods for single-cell genomics and computational health.

This site is the lab's own record of its people, research themes, publications, software, datasets, news and open positions, built from the lab's records and from ORCID, Crossref, Europe PMC and GitHub. Institutions: Helmholtz Munich, Technical University of Munich. Data as of 2026-11-06.

Note: This site is a preview. Apart from the publication and software data, its text and people are placeholders.

## Research themes

- [Single-cell and spatial atlases](https://theislab.bio/research/single-cell-and-spatial-atlases/): Placeholder summary about building reference maps of cells and tissues.
- [Generative and foundation models for cells](https://theislab.bio/research/generative-and-foundation-models/): Placeholder summary about models that learn the distribution of cellular states.
- [Perturbation modelling](https://theislab.bio/research/perturbation-modelling/): Placeholder summary about predicting how cells respond to interventions.
- [Multimodal and clinical data](https://theislab.bio/research/multimodal-and-clinical-data/): Placeholder summary about combining molecular measurements with clinical records.
- [Cell dynamics](https://theislab.bio/research/cell-dynamics/): Placeholder summary about inferring how cells change over time.
- [Benchmarking and best practices](https://theislab.bio/research/benchmarking-and-best-practices/): Placeholder summary about comparing methods and writing down recommended workflows.
- [Open-source tools](https://theislab.bio/research/open-source-tools/): Placeholder summary about the software the lab builds and maintains for others.

## Pages

- [People](https://theislab.bio/people/): 14 current members, grouped by role, each with a profile page.
- [Publications](https://theislab.bio/publications/): 742 works of the lab, each with its own page and BibTeX.
- [Software](https://theislab.bio/software/): 36 open-source tools with their repositories, releases and packages.
- [News](https://theislab.bio/news/): news from the lab; [activity](https://theislab.bio/activity/) merges it with new papers, releases and arrivals.
- [Join](https://theislab.bio/join/): how to join the lab; 2 open positions.
- [Topics](https://theislab.bio/topics/): the topic vocabulary; each topic page gathers everything tagged with it.
- [The lab in data](https://theislab.bio/lab/): collaboration graph, collaboration map, timeline and impact.
- [About](https://theislab.bio/about/), [Contact](https://theislab.bio/contact/) and [Press](https://theislab.bio/press/).

## Machine-readable data

- [Full content as Markdown](https://theislab.bio/llms-full.txt): themes, people, software, works, positions and news in one file.
- [JSON API](https://theislab.bio/api/v1/index.json): every endpoint, documented; people, works, software, datasets, topics, themes, news, events, positions, activity and derived views.
- [People (JSON)](https://theislab.bio/api/v1/people.json) and [works (JSON)](https://theislab.bio/api/v1/works.json); one file per person and per work.
- [Atom feed of publications](https://theislab.bio/feeds/works.xml), [of news](https://theislab.bio/feeds/news.xml) and [of all activity](https://theislab.bio/feeds/activity.xml).
- [BibTeX of all publications](https://theislab.bio/publications/theislab.bib); each work and person also has a BibTeX file.
- [Calendar of events](https://theislab.bio/calendar.ics) (iCalendar).

## Optional

- [Alumni](https://theislab.bio/people/alumni/): former members and where they went.
- [Collaboration graph (JSON)](https://theislab.bio/api/v1/graph.json) and [coauthor institutions and countries (JSON)](https://theislab.bio/api/v1/collaborations.json).
- [Sitemap](https://theislab.bio/sitemap-index.xml).