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Single-cell Foundation Models

Geneformer and scGPT demonstrate large pretrained representations across multiple single-cell tasks.

Early research stage

Version0.3

Last updated2026-08-15

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Why It Matters

Reusable representations may reduce task-specific model development.

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What Changed

Pretraining now spans tens of millions of cell profiles.

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Institution

The University of Hong KongHong Kong · University

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Researchers

Yuanhua HuangScientist Fabian TheisScientist

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Related Problems

Virtual CellsComputational Biology

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Sources

APaperPrimary

Transfer learning enables predictions in network biology

Peer-reviewed Geneformer study.

NatureOpen source ↗

APaperPrimary

scGPT: toward building a foundation model for single-cell multi-omics

Peer-reviewed scGPT study.

Nature MethodsOpen source ↗