# MetaCell

Metacells — small, transcriptionally homogeneous groups of single cells used
as the unit of analysis. Three layers: a recommended single-sample workflow,
a multi-sample (batch-corrected) workflow, and a backend zoo comparing all
seven `ov.single.MetaCell` partitioners.

```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1

../Tutorials-single/metacell/index
../Tutorials-single/metacell/t_metacell_recommended
../Tutorials-single/metacell/t_metacell_multisample
```

```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1
:caption: Backend zoo

../Tutorials-single/metacell/zoo/index
../Tutorials-single/metacell/zoo/t_metacell_seacells
../Tutorials-single/metacell/zoo/t_metacell_metaq
../Tutorials-single/metacell/zoo/t_metacell_supercell
../Tutorials-single/metacell/zoo/t_metacell_kmeans
../Tutorials-single/metacell/zoo/t_metacell_random
../Tutorials-single/metacell/zoo/t_metacell_geosketch
../Tutorials-single/metacell/zoo/t_metacell_compare
```