binary wire format with flatbuffers (#509)

* first flatbuffer schema

* do not lint auto-generated files

* add flatbuffers package

* add flatbuffer module

* wire up /data/X/T route

* use flatbuffers for matrix data fetc

* clarity and comments

* add flatbuffer layout route

* clean up obsolete code

* fix tests

* move flake8 config to setup.cfg

* add comments

* lint

* rework layout routes for fbs

* add more type support to fbs

* lint

* add flatbuffer support for annotations

* function name improvements

* fix botched merge with master

* remove unused import

* route cleanup for flatbuffers

* rename function for clarity

* add missing globals to Jest tests

* fix client JS tests

* fix routes for Python tests

* comments for clarity

* non-finite floating point hardening

* more non-finite number handling

* lint

* fix tests for summarizeAnnotations

* harden diffexp calculation against FP errors

* cleanup unused code

* lint

* add encoding tests for flatbuffers

* application type specified as strings

* fix spelling error

* improve variable names

* add note about documentation gap

* rename FBS DataFrame to Matrix

client/src/components/brushableHistogram/index.js

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import memoize from "memoize-one";
 import { kvCache } from "../../util/stateManager";
 import * as globals from "../../globals";
 import actions from "../../actions";
+import finiteExtent from "../../util/finiteExtent";
 
 @connect(state => ({
   world: state.controls.world,
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ class HistogramBrush extends React.Component {
       histogramCache.x = d3
         .scaleLinear()
         .domain(
-          d3.extent(varValues)
+          finiteExtent(varValues)
         ) /* replace this if we have ranges for genes back from server like we do for annotations on cells */
         .range([0, this.width]);