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Valentine Svensson
California Institute of TechnologyORCID 0000-0002-9217-2330Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints
Biology Disciplines
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2016-2026 · peak 5/yrCo-Author Collaboration Network
10 top collaborators · 24 mutual co-author links16 papers
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- GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
Back to basics: Observed statistics are sufficient to predict drug responses
Valentine Svensson, Umair Khan, Hamed Heydari…·Shreshth Gandhi
The paper introduces Rhaister, a perturbation-response predictor that uses summary statistics to predict drug responses, outperforming virtual-cell models in speed and accuracy.
2 citations - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Improving SCVI for low-count cells through self-supervised augmentation
The paper improves SCVI by addressing low-UMI cell representation issues through self-supervised augmentation, preserving cell identity and variation at lower UMI depths.
DOI 10.64898/2026.02.11.705441 - Systems BiologybioRxivPreprint
Tahoe-x1: Scaling Perturbation-Trained Single-CellFoundation Models to 3 Billion Parameters
Shreshth Gandhi, Farnoosh Javadi, Valentine Svensson…·Nima Alidoust
The paper introduces Tahoe-x1, a large-scale perturbation-trained single-cell foundation model with 3 billion parameters, achieving state-of-the-art performance in cancer-related tasks.
- GenomicsbioRxivPreprint✦ In-depth digest
Tahoe-100M: A Giga-Scale Single-Cell Perturbation Atlas for Context-Dependent Gene Function and Cellular Modeling
Jesse M. Zhang, Airol A. Ubas, Richard de Borja…·Johnny X. Yu
A 100-million-cell atlas: 50 cancer lines pooled as spheroid villages, treated with 379 drugs at several doses, profiled by combinatorial-barcoding scRNA-seq and embedded with a 10-dimensional scVI model.
- BioinformaticsNature BiotechnologyPeer-reviewed
scvi-tools: a library for deep probabilistic analysis of single-cell omics data
Adam Gayoso, Romain Lopez, Galen K. Xing…·Nir Yosef
scvi-tools provides a Python package for probabilistic analysis of single-cell omics data, offering standardized interfaces and extensible tools for various analysis tasks.
819 citationstop 1% - NeuroscienceNaturePeer-reviewed
An integrated transcriptomic and epigenomic atlas of mouse primary motor cortex cell types
Zizhen Yao, Hanqing Liu, Fangming Xie…·Eran A. Mukamel
The paper creates a comprehensive atlas of mouse primary motor cortex cell types using integrated transcriptomic and epigenomic data from over 600,000 samples.
- BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewed
Interpretable factor models of single-cell RNA-seq via variational autoencoders
Valentine Svensson, Adam Gayoso, Nir Yosef, Lior S. Pachter
The paper introduces an interpretable variational autoencoder for single-cell RNA-seq to identify gene programs in large datasets.
193 citationstop 1% - BioinformaticsGenome biologyPeer-reviewed
RNA velocity and protein acceleration from single-cell multiomics experiments
Gennady Gorin, Valentine Svensson, Lior S. Pachter
The paper extends RNA velocity to incorporate protein data, enabling temporal cell state inference from single-cell multiomics experiments.
85 citations - Developmental BiologyNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Single-cell transcriptomics identifies CD44 as a new marker and regulator of haematopoietic stem cells development
Morgan Oatley, Özge Vargel Bölükbaşı, Valentine Svensson…·Christophe Lancrin
The paper identifies CD44 as a marker and regulator of haematopoietic stem cell development through single-cell transcriptomics and functional experiments.
- BioinformaticsNature BiotechnologyPeer-reviewed
Droplet scRNA-seq is not zero-inflated
The paper investigates zero-values in droplet-based scRNA-seq data and finds they align with count statistics, suggesting biological variation rather than technical limitations.
356 citationstop 1% - GenomicsDatabasePeer-reviewed
A curated database reveals trends in single-cell transcriptomics
Valentine Svensson, Eduardo da Veiga Beltrame, Lior S. Pachter
The paper curates a database of single-cell transcriptomics studies to analyze trends in the field and provides insights into cell type identification.
222 citationstop 1% - GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
Quantifying the tradeoff between sequencing depth and cell number in single-cell RNA-seq
Valentine Svensson, Eduardo da Veiga Beltrame, Lior S. Pachter
The paper quantifies the tradeoff between sequencing depth and cell number in single-cell RNA-seq, finding that deeper sequencing per cell provides greater benefits than increasing cell numbers beyond 15,000 reads per cell.
23 citations - GenomicsNature MethodsPeer-reviewed
SpatialDE - Identification of spatially variable genes
Valentine Svensson, Sarah Amalia Teichmann, Oliver Stegle
SpatialDE identifies spatially variable genes from spatial transcriptomics and single-cell data, revealing genes with disease implications missed by conventional methods.
695 citationstop 1% - Systems BiologybioRxivPreprint
Temporal mixture modelling of single-cell RNA-seq data resolves a CD4+ T cell fate bifurcation
Tapio Lönnberg, Valentine Svensson, Kylie R James…·Sarah A. Teichmann
The paper uses single-cell RNA sequencing and computational modeling to resolve CD4+ T cell fate bifurcation during Plasmodium infection, showing external influence on fate decisions by monocytes.
- GenomicsbioRxiv
Power Analysis of Single Cell RNA‐Sequencing Experiments
Valentine Svensson, Kedar N Natarajan, Lam-Ha Ly…·Sarah A Teichmann
This paper evaluates the sensitivity and accuracy of scRNA-seq protocols using spike-ins and a standardized pipeline, comparing sequencing depth trade-offs and RNA degradation effects.
DOI 10.1038/nmeth.4220