Detecting cell-level transcriptomic changes of Perturb-seq using Contrastive Fine-tuning of Single-Cell Foundation Models
Wenmin Zhao, Ana Solaguren-Beascoa, Grant W. A. Neilson…·Sera Aylin Cakiroglu
The paper introduces a contrastive fine-tuning method for single-cell foundation models to detect subtle transcriptomic changes in Perturb-seq data, outperforming traditional differential expression methods.