Use of t-SNE and #UMAP is increasing in biology! So I wonder how stochasticity of both the algorithms affect how we interpret the results? Can somebody enlighten? (#tSNE at least makes it clear in its acronym that it is stochastic)
I am a plant pathologist. I study host-pathogen coevolution in wild plant pathosystems using population genomics. (Max Planck Institute for Biology , Germany)