Transformers in single-cell omics: a review and new perspectives

A Szałata, K Hrovatin, S Becker, A Tejada-Lapuerta… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent efforts to construct reference maps of cellular phenotypes have expanded the
volume and diversity of single-cell omics data, providing an unprecedented resource for …

Profiling cell identity and tissue architecture with single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

GS Gulati, JP D'Silva, Y Liu, L Wang… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomics has broadened our understanding of cellular diversity and gene
expression dynamics in healthy and diseased tissues. Recently, spatial transcriptomics has …

CZ CELLxGENE Discover: a single-cell data platform for scalable exploration, analysis and modeling of aggregated data

CZI Cell Science Program, S Abdulla… - Nucleic Acids …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
Hundreds of millions of single cells have been analyzed using high-throughput
transcriptomic methods. The cumulative knowledge within these datasets provides an …

Integrating single-cell multi-omics and prior biological knowledge for a functional characterization of the immune system

PSL Schäfer, D Dimitrov, EJ Villablanca… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The immune system comprises diverse specialized cell types that cooperate to defend the
host against a wide range of pathogenic threats. Recent advancements in single-cell and …

[HTML][HTML] How to build the virtual cell with artificial intelligence: Priorities and opportunities

C Bunne, Y Roohani, Y Rosen, A Gupta, X Zhang… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Cells are essential to understanding health and disease, yet traditional models fall short of
modeling and simulating their function and behavior. Advances in AI and omics offer …

A deep dive into single-cell RNA sequencing foundation models

R Boiarsky, N Singh, A Buendia, G Getz, D Sontag - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Large-scale foundation models, which are pre-trained on massive, unlabeled datasets and
subsequently fine-tuned on specific tasks, have recently achieved unparalleled success on …

Evaluating the utilities of foundation models in single-cell data analysis

T Liu, K Li, Y Wang, H Li, H Zhao - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Foundation Models (FMs) have made significant strides in both industrial and
scientific domains. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of FMs for single-cell …

Nicheformer: a foundation model for single-cell and spatial omics

AC Schaar, A Tejada-Lapuerta, G Palla, R Gutgesell… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Tissue makeup relies fundamentally on the cellular microenvironment. Spatial single-cell
genomics allows probing the underlying cellular interactions in an unbiased, scalable …

Spatial transcriptomic characterization of pathologic niches in IPF

CH Mayr, D Santacruz, S Jarosch, M Bleck, J Dalton… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Despite advancements in antifibrotic therapy, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) remains a
medical condition with unmet needs. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has …

Synthetic DNA barcodes identify singlets in scRNA-seq datasets and evaluate doublet algorithms

Z Zhang, ME Melzer, KM Arun, H Sun, CJ Eriksson… - Cell Genomics, 2024 - cell.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) datasets contain true single cells, or singlets, in
addition to cells that coalesce during the protocol, or doublets. Identifying singlets with high …