Researchers often represent the roughly twenty-thousand-dimensional transcript space in a lower-dimensional latent space, with cells lying on a submanifold.

“Because these things are called transcripts, right? This is called then the transcriptome. Yeah. And, and, and de facto then you have this sort of twenty thousand dimension space that we very often encode in a sort of nicer latent space that sort of has like an, a sub manifold, like sort of this, this subspace where these actual cell cloud lives, right?”