(carried over from humancellatlas/table-testing#8)
- i am by no means a (SC) domain expert / this is just my guess about how things will shake out
- there may well be situations where a person will have a dataset where elements ("rows") correspond to genes, which each include a list of per-cell metrics
- doing a transpose of a distributed matrix is possible and will be supported
- the thesis is just that, in "99%" of cases, "rows as cells" will map domain needs to infrastructure-{assumptions,conventions} better than "columns as cells"