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ArticleGigaScience2025

NApy: efficient statistics in Python for large-scale heterogeneous data with enhanced support for missing data.

Fabian Woller, Lis Arend, Christian Fuchsberger, Markus List, David B Blumenthal

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Fabian WollerBiomedical Network Science Lab, Department Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberger Straße 74, 91052 Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5492-6819
Lis ArendInstitute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, A.-Volta-Str. 21, 39100 Bolzano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7990-8385
Christian FuchsbergerInstitute for Biomedicine, Eurac Research, A.-Volta-Str. 21, 39100 Bolzano, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5918-8947
Markus ListData Science in Systems Biology, TUM School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Maximus-von-Imhof-Forum 3, 85354 Freising, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0941-4168
David B BlumenthalBiomedical Network Science Lab, Department Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberger Straße 74, 91052 Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8651-750X

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 516188180European Regional Development Fund FESR1157
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Abstract

backgroundExisting Python libraries and tools lack the ability to efficiently compute statistical test results for large datasets in the presence of missing values. This presents an issue as soon as constraints on runtime and memory availability become essential considerations for a particular use case. Relevant research areas where such limitations arise include interactive tools and databases for exploratory analysis of biomedical data.

resultsTo address this problem, we present the Python package NApy, which relies on a Numba and C++ backend with OpenMP parallelization to enable scalable statistical testing for mixed-type datasets in the presence of missing values.

conclusionsBoth with respect to runtime and memory consumption, NApy outperforms competitor tools and baseline implementations with naive Python-based parallelization by orders of magnitude, thereby enabling on-the-fly analyses in interactive applications. NApy is publicly available at https://github.com/DyHealthNet/NApy .

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SoftwareHumansProgramming Languagesefficient computing and parallelizationlarge-scale datasetsmissing dataPythonstatistical software

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