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Lei Cao

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:scRNA-seq· 1 Approach:transformer / foundation model· 1

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BioinformaticsNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedMay 5, 2026

RegFormer: A Single-Cell Foundation Model Powered by Gene Regulatory Hierarchies

Luni Hu, Hua Qin, Yong Zhang…·Yuxiang Li

RegFormer improves single-cell RNA sequencing analysis by integrating gene regulatory networks with Mamba-based modeling, outperforming existing models in clustering, integration, and annotation.

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