arXiv:2608. 06824v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A central task in virtual cell modeling is predicting single-cell transcriptional responses to unseen genetic perturbations and drug combinations, and biological networks provide valuable priors on gene relationships.
By Quanquan Li, Yihe Chi, Liuyang Song, Hongbo Zhang, Jingyu Li, Xidong Xi, Conghua Wei, Yijie Sun, Yu Chen, Xin Liu, Qi Hu, Jing Ke, Guitao Cao
arXiv:2606. 27752v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Single-cell perturbation models can reduce costly wet-lab screening by predicting how cells respond transcriptionally to interventions.
By Dongxia Wu, Mingyu Li, Yuhui Zhang, Anurendra Kumar, Emma Lundberg, Serena Yeung-Levy, Emily B. Fox
arXiv:2606. 13713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting cellular transcriptional responses to genetic perturbations is a central problem in single-cell biology, especially in the zero-shot setting where the perturbed gene or gene combination is unseen during training.
By Wei Zhang, Xun Jiang, Yuesi Xi, Ming Tang
arXiv:2608.23114v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Predicting transcriptome-wide responses to unseen genetic perturbations remains a major computational challenge because accurate prediction requires...
By Jiawen Liu, Xuechenxiao Cao, Yutong Li, Bing Liu, Jiaming Liang, Tinghe Zhang, Xiaoqi Sheng, Hongmin Cai
CellRFT is a reinforcement fine‑tuning framework designed to improve single‑cell perturbation modeling by directly optimizing biological evaluation metrics. It employs policy‑gradient methods to learn from non‑differentiable biological rewards and aggregates multiple rewards hierarchically. Experiments show that CellRFT enhances perturbation prediction across various pretrained models and reveals interactions between different biological criteria, suggesting new ways to shape model behavior and evaluation design.
By Jie Yan, Li Liu, Hanze Guo, Jiaxin Hu, Houxin He, Xiaoning Qi, Haoran Wang, Cong Li, Zhong-Yuan Zhang, Yong Wang
arXiv:2606. 12838v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Predicting single-cell transcriptional responses to genetic, chemical and cytokine perturbations is a fundamental challenge in computational biology and AI Virtual Cell (AIVC) modeling, with direct implications for drug discovery and the elucidation of gene regulatory networks.
By Danning Jiang, Zheming An, Yalong Zhao, Lipeng Lai