arXiv:2607. 23821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Identifying therapeutic target genes from single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data remains a fundamental challenge in translational biology.
By Shuyu Chen, Chen Zhu, Ye Zhang, Yang Li, Qiqi Xie, Haohan Wang
arXiv:2603. 11872v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Translating single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data into mechanistic biological hypotheses remains a critical bottleneck, as agentic AI systems lack direct access to transcriptomic representations while expression foundation models remain opaque to natural language.
By Omar Coser
The study evaluated nine transcriptomic models—five bulk RNA‑seq and four single‑cell RNA‑seq—designed to predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors. Across independent datasets, bulk models performed near chance while single‑cell models offered only modest gains, and pathway analyses revealed inconsistent biomarker signals. The results highlight the limited cross‑cohort robustness and biological consistency of current transcriptomic ICI predictors.
By Yuheng Liang, Lucy Chhuo, Ahmadreza Argha, Nona Farbehi, Lu Chen, Roohallah Alizadehsani, Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Min Yang, Thantrira Porntaveetusm, Youqiong Ye, Hamid Alinejad-Rokny
arXiv:2505. 14725v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Respiratory viral infections pose a global health burden, yet the cellular immune mechanisms underlying protection and pathology remain unclear.
By Xuejun Sun, Yiran Song, Xiaochen Zhou, Ruilie Cai, Yu Zhang, Xinyi Li, Rui Peng, Jialiu Xie, Yuanyuan Yan, Muyao Tang, Prem Lakshmanane, Baiming Zou, James S. Hagood, Raymond J. Pickles, Didong Li, Fei Zou, Xiaojing Zheng
arXiv:2606. 11144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Resistance to first-line osimertinib in EGFR-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the canonical example of predictable clonal evolution under therapeutic pressure, yet no public benchmark exists for training or evaluating computational models on the corresponding longitudinal patient trajectories.
By Abhijoy Sarkar, Aarchi Singh Thakur
The paper introduces scTrilemma, a latent-bottleneck variational autoencoder designed to address the representation trilemma in single‑cell RNA‑seq data: preserving biological identity and state, remaining robust to nuisance context, and retaining gene‑level variation for expression analysis. scTrilemma routes expression‑derived variation to the embedding, decoder, or prior, gating gene tokens by expression and conditioning the prior on unlabeled pseudo‑bulk context, all under a single reconstruction objective without target annotations. In zero‑shot evaluations on successive CZ CELLxGENE Census releases, scTrilemma simultaneously satisfies all three demands, maintaining biological state, differential‑expression, and pathway structure across multiple disease settings, and latent interventions show context can be removed with minimal impact on other demands.
By Yunhak Oh, Yoonho Lee, Junseok Lee, Namkyeong Lee, Sang-Yeon Hwang, Yinhua Piao, Hyomin Kim, Seonghwan Kim, Jaechang Lim, Woo Youn Kim, Sungsoo Ahn, Chanyoung Park
arXiv:2606. 29949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: H&E-stained whole-slide images offer cohort-scale availability and rich spatial context but lack molecular specificity, whereas bulk RNA-seq provides transcriptome-wide resolution at high cost with limited archival availability.
By Dominik Winter, Dominik Vonficht, Lo\"ic Le Bescond, Christian Gebbe, Marco Rosati, Richard J. Chen, Markus Schick, Ross Stewart, Nicolas Brieu
arXiv:2506. 22228v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Single-cell sequencing is revolutionizing biology by enabling detailed investigations of cell-state transitions.
By Rong Ma, Xi Li, Jingyuan Hu, Bin Yu
arXiv:2607. 29043v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has become an essential tool in modern cellular biology, and generating accurate synthetic scRNA-seq data is becoming increasingly important.
By Yu Song, Hao Sun, Ikuko Nishikawa, Yen-Wei Chen
arXiv:2606. 07760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding cellular phenotypes and how they respond to perturbations is critical for disease biology and therapeutic design.
By Alma Andersson, Aya Abdelsalam Ismail, Edward De Brouwer, Doron Haviv, Tommaso Biancalani, Kyunghyun Cho, Gabriele Scalia, A\"icha BenTaieb, Hector Corrada Bravo
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:2606. 30695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-cell drug perturbation models should predict not only transcriptional response magnitude, but also whether a treatment alters the proliferative state of a cell.
By Dingping Zhao, Jie Lin