Merge pull request #314 from scverse/ori-scarches_toturial_encode_cov…

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Changes scarches tutorial

scrna/scarches_scvi_tools.ipynb

@@ -297,9 +297,15 @@
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    },
    "source": [
-    "We train the reference using the standard SCVI workflow, except we add a few non-default parameters that were identified to work well with scArches."
+    "We train the reference using the standard SCVI workflow, except we add a few non-default parameters that were identified to work well with scArches. \n",
+    "It is essential to encode covariates here as this allows scArches to map new batches in the encoder to the existing data and thereby provides batch integration. "
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": []
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": 11,