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Rahul M. Dhodapkar
University of Southern CaliforniaORCID 0000-0002-2014-7515Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
Biology Disciplines
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2021-2025 · peak 4/yrCo-Author Collaboration Network
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Scaling Large Language Models for Next-Generation Single-Cell Analysis
Syed Asad Rizvi, Daniel Levine, Aakash M. Patel, Shiyang Zhang, Eric Wang, Curtis Jamison Perry, Ivan Vrkic, Nicole Mayerli Constante, Zirui Fu, Sizhuang He, David Zhang, Cerise Tang, Zhuoyang Lyu, Rayyan Y. Darji, Chang Li, , David van Dijk
This paper scales large language models for single-cell analysis, improving predictive and generative capabilities and enabling biological discovery through virtual screening.
bioRxiv · Apr 14, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics
Causal identification of single-cell experimental perturbation effects with CINEMA-OT
Mingze Dong, Bao Wang, Jessica Wei, Antonio H. de O. Fonseca, Curtis J. Perry, Alexander Frey, Feriel Ouerghi, Ellen F. Foxman, Jeffrey Joseph Ishizuka, Rahul M. Dhodapkar, David van Dijk
CINEMA-OT identifies causal effects of single-cell perturbations by separating confounding variation, outperforming existing methods on simulated and real datasets.
Nature Methods · Nov 1, 2023Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
BrainLM: A foundation model for brain activity recordings
Josue Ortega Caro, Antonio H. de O. Fonseca, Christopher L. Averill, Syed Asad Rizvi, Matteo Rosati, James M. Cross, Prateek Mittal, Emanuele Zappala, Daniel Levine, Rahul M. Dhodapkar, Insu Han, Amin Karbasi, Chadi G. Abdallah, David van Dijk
A masked-prediction model pretrained on 6,700 hours of fMRI that fine-tunes to predict clinical variables, forecasts future brain states, and recovers functional networks without supervision.
bioRxiv · Sep 12, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience
Cell2Sentence: Teaching Large Language Models the Language of Biology
Daniel M. Levine, Syed Asad Rizvi, Sacha Lévy, Nazreen Pallikkavaliyaveetil, David Zhang, Xingyu Chen, Sina Ghadermarzi, Ruiming Wu, Zihe Zheng, Ivan Vrkic, Anna Zhong, Daphne Raskin, Insu Han, Antonio Henrique de Oliveira Fonseca, Josue Ortega Caro, , David van Dijk
Cell2Sentence converts single-cell gene expression profiles into text-like cell sentences so standard large language models like GPT-2 can be fine-tuned for cell generation and cell-type annotation.
bioRxiv · Sep 11, 2023 · PreprintBioinformatics
A deep generative model of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein predicts future variants
SpikeGPT2, a deep generative model of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein sequences, predicts future mutations with high accuracy and identifies variants that may increase transmissibility and immune evasion.
bioRxiv · Jan 17, 2023 · PreprintBioinformatics
Topological analysis of single-cell data reveals shared glial landscape of macular degeneration and neurodegenerative diseases
Manik Razdan Kuchroo, Marcello DiStasio, Eda Calapkulu, Maryam Ige, Le Zhang, Amar H. Sheth, Madhvi Menon, Yu Xing, Scott Gigante, Jessie Huang, Rahul M. Dhodapkar, Bastian Rieck, Guy Wolf, Smita Krishnaswamy, Brian P. Hafler
A topological machine learning approach applied to single-nucleus RNA sequencing identifies shared glial activation states in AMD, AD, and MS.
bioRxiv · Jan 19, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience