The paper introduces a multimodal framework that learns subcellularly resolved cell embeddings by integrating RNA expression profiles, protein sequence representations, and protein structural information. It uses a cross‑attention architecture to model interactions across distinct subcellular compartments, producing embeddings that capture both molecular expression patterns and functional protein properties. This approach is presented as the first to jointly incorporate transcriptomic data, protein sequences, and structural knowledge within a unified cross‑modal learning paradigm.
CellMSA introduces a novel single‑cell representation learning framework that leverages a multiple‑sequence‑alignment‑inspired context model. For each target cell, it retrieves relevant cells across batches and related cell types, summarizing cross‑cell patterns into a context‑dependent gene‑pair representation that is fed into a pair‑aware encoder. Pretraining on a massive human single‑cell corpus (≈109 million cells) and subsequent benchmarks demonstrate consistent performance gains over existing methods.
By Suyuan Zhao, Minghao Liu, Yizhen Luo, Zaiqing Nie
arXiv:2606. 13007v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clustering is fundamental to scRNA-seq analysis, serving as a cornerstone for identifying cell populations and resolving tissue heterogeneity.
By Ping Xu, Pengjiang Li, Tian Du, Zaitian Wang, Jiawei Gu, Ziyue Qiao, Pengfei Wang, Yuanchun Zhou
arXiv:2608. 02688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Phenotypic drug discovery enables the discovery of functional relationships between molecular structures and cellular responses.
By Xuan Lin, Jingyu Sheng, Tengfei Ma, Li Sun, Dapeng Xiong
arXiv:2605.07938v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Single-cell representation learning (SCRL) from gene expression data offers a way to uncover the complex regulatory logic underlying cellular funct...
By Sachini Weerasekara, Natasha Darras, Sagar Kamarthi, Colles Price, Jacqueline Isaacs
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