arXiv:2506. 11152v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Single-cell transcriptomics and proteomics have become a great source for data-driven insights into biology, enabling the use of advanced deep learning methods to understand cellular heterogeneity and gene expression at the single-cell level.
By Hiren Madhu, Jo\~ao Felipe Rocha, Tinglin Huang, Siddharth Viswanath, Smita Krishnaswamy, Rex Ying
arXiv:2608. 06659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper shows that latent-space predictive pretraining can provide a scalable route to foundation models for spatial transcriptomics.
By Haiping Liu, Qian Zhao, Lijing Lin, Jingyuan Sun, Hongpeng Zhou
arXiv:2607. 09166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics enables profiling of spatial gene expression but is limited by high cost and low throughput, motivating prediction from H&E histopathology images.
By Keunho Byeon, Sunhong Park, Jeewoo Lim, Jin Tae Kwak
arXiv:2608. 14710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting spatial gene expression from hematoxylin and eosin (H\&E)-stained images offers a cost-effective alternative to spatial transcriptomics (ST).
By Ruochen Liu, Wei Lou
arXiv:2608. 00985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid growth of single-cell transcriptomic data has enabled the development of foundation models pretrained primarily by reconstructing masked expression values.
By Jiaqi Xiong, Yuntao hu, Yu Zheng, Yifei Shi, Xinyue Guo, Jiaxin Qi
arXiv:2606. 00685v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) capture transcription factor-target interactions and are central to understanding cell-state regulation and disease.
By Tianyang Xu, Tianci Liu, Niraj Rayamajhi, Ryan Patrick, Kranthi Varala, Ying Li, Jing Gao
arXiv:2606. 07676v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is a powerful tool for exploring biological properties dependent on structure, proximity, and interaction in tissue.
By Joseph Boyd, Matthew Lyon, Martino Mansoldo, Christian Hurry, Finnian Firth
arXiv:2608. 14330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) enables genome-wide gene expression profiling while preserving tissue architecture, but its cost and limited scalability remain major bottlenecks.
By Ruyter Swann, Dorent Reuben, Racoceanu Daniel
arXiv:2608. 14924v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) links tissue morphology with molecular programs, motivating multimodal pretraining methods that align histology images with gene expression.
By Azim Dehghani Amirabad, Junchao Zhu, Pushpak Pati, Walid Abdelmoula, Tommaso Mansi, Rui Liao
arXiv:2606. 09558v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivation: Transformer-based models are increasingly applied to large-scale single-cell transcriptomics, showing strong performance through self-supervised learning on millions of cells.
By Mikele Milia, Louis Fabrice Tshimanga, Henning Mueller, Manfredo Atzori, Barbara Di Camillo
arXiv:2607. 14163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Most single-cell foundation models are adapted from language models, representing each cell as a sequence of gene tokens.
By Ridvan Yesiloglu, Sakib Mostafa, James Zou, Ash Alizadeh, Jiajun Wu, Lei Xing, Ehsan Adeli, Md Tauhidul Islam
arXiv:2512. 17678v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Selecting compact and informative gene subsets from single-cell transcriptomic data is essential for biomarker discovery, improving interpretability, and cost-effective profiling.
By Daphn\'e Chopard, Jorge da Silva Gon\c{c}alves, Irene Cannistraci, Thomas M. Sutter, Julia E. Vogt