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Luiz Irber

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A Data Layer for Scientific AI: Icechunk for Agentic Single-Cell Biology Workflows

October 29, 2026

Agents work best when they can branch, explore in parallel, and converge. Using examples from single-cell biology, we show how Icechunk turns a shared cloud Zarr store into a versioned, transactional system of record for agentic science.

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Luiz Irber

A Data Layer for Scientific AI: Icechunk for Agentic Single-Cell Biology Workflows

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