scLong: A Billion-Parameter Foundation Model for Capturing Long-Range Gene Context in Single-Cell Transcriptomics
BAI Ding, Shentong Mo, Ruiyi Zhang, Yingtao Luo, Jiahao Gao, Jeremy Parker Yang, Qiuyang Wu, Digvijay Singh, Hamidreza Rahmani, Tiffany Amariuta, Danielle Ann Grotjahn, Sheng Zhong, Nathan Lewis, Wei Wang, Trey E. Ideker, , Eric Xing
scLong is a billion-parameter foundation model that captures long-range gene context in scRNA-seq by modeling all genes and integrating gene knowledge, outperforming existing models in various tasks.
Nature Communications · Feb 5, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics