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
arXiv:2606. 26563v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Single-cell studies require analysts to convert raw measurements into specific biological claims through multi-step workflows and integration of metadata, assay context, and auxiliary evidence.
By Ian Diks, Zhen Yang, Arjun Banerjee, Tim Proctor, Kenny Workman
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
arXiv:2601. 21800v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce BioAgent Bench, an evaluation suite designed for measuring the performance and robustness of AI agents in common bioinformatics tasks.
By Dionizije Fa, Marko Culjak, Bruno Pandza, Mateo Cupic
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:2607. 14097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce RegNetAgents, an AI-oriented multi-agent framework for structured, query-driven regulatory candidate identification across heterogeneous gene regulatory networks.
By Jose A. Bird
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. 16262v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The acceleration of automated scientific discovery has been fundamentally bottlenecked by the epistemic gap between the semantic reasoning of large language models (LLMs) and the deterministic physics of mammalian biology.
By Christopher Baker, Tianyu Ren, Karen Rafferty, Hui Wang, Simon McDade
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:2601. 12805v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown growing promise in biomedical research, particularly for knowledge-driven interpretation tasks.
By Xiaohan Huang, Meng Xiao, Chuan Qin, Qingqing Long, Jinmiao Chen, Yuanchun Zhou, Hengshu Zhu
arXiv:2502. 18864v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scientific discovery is driven by scientists generating novel hypotheses for complex problems that undergo rigorous experimental validation.
By Juraj Gottweis, Wei-Hung Weng, Alexander Daryin, Tao Tu, Petar Sirkovic, Artiom Myaskovsky, Grzegorz Glowaty, Felix Weissenberger, Alessio Orlandi, Dan Popovici, Anil Palepu, Keran Rong, Ryutaro Tanno, Khaled Saab, Fan Zhang, Jacob Blum, Andrew Carroll, Kavita Kulkarni, Nenad Tomasev, Dina Zverinski, Ivor Rendulic, Elahe Vedadi, Florian Hasler, Luka Rimanic, Marina Boia, Ivan Budiselic, Ben Feinstein, Mathias Bellaiche, Tom Sheffer, Jan Freyberg, Jeremy Ratcliff, Ottavia Bertolli, Katherine Chou, Avinatan Hassidim, Burak Gokturk, Amin Vahdat, Yuan Guan, Vikram Dhillon, Eeshit Dhaval Vaishnav, Byron Lee, Tiago R D Costa, Jos\'e R Penad\'es, Gary Peltz, Yossi Matias, James Manyika, Demis Hassabis, Yunhan Xu, Pushmeet Kohli, Annalisa Pawlosky, Alan Karthikesalingam, Vivek Natarajan
arXiv:2607. 19400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-trained foundation models (FMs) have begun transforming single-cell genomics, but scaling them raises privacy concerns.
By Jiayuan Ding, Jianhui Lin, Ziyang Miao, Nils Mechtel, Shiyu Jiang, Yixin Wang, Zhaoyu Fang, Jorge D. Martin-Rufino, Chen Weng, Reuben Saunders, Weize Xu, Jonathan S. Weissman, Min Li, Jiliang Tang, Wei Ouyang, Yuancheng Ryan Lu, Xiaojie Qiu