LucaCell: a sequence-centric foundation model for cross-species single-cell analysis
Yan Sun, Yong He, Minsi Ren, Yanhui Wang, Penghao Xu, Yong Hou, Yu Kang, Tingjun Hou, Jieping Ye, Huanming Yang, Zheng Wang
LucaCell is a sequence-centric foundation model that improves cross-species single-cell analysis by using mRNA sequence embeddings instead of fixed gene identifiers.
bioRxiv · Sep 14, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics