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Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
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- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Post-selection inference in testing for phenotypic differences with scRNA-Seq
Nicolas Sanchez, Lucas Etourneau, Elizabeth A. Purdom
The paper investigates the impact of post-selection inference in scRNA-Seq phenotype testing and proposes batch correction to mitigate false discovery rate inflation.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.17.752411 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Mapping Gene Expression to an Interpretable Semantic Space
Xiaoyu Duan, Manu Aggarwal, Vipul Periwal
The paper introduces MESIC, a method that maps gene expression data into an interpretable semantic space using gene annotations, enabling biological interpretation of clusters and outliers.
- BioengineeringbioRxivPreprint
Single-cell DNA cytometry with magnetic- and fluorescence-activated bead sorting
Seung Won Shin, Sakshi Shah, Chenchen Xia…·Iain C. Clark
The paper introduces magniFIND-seq, a method for single-cell DNA and RNA analysis using digital PCR and commercial sorting instruments, enabling high-purity isolation of rare cell populations.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.12.751168 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint✦ In-depth digest
Incomplete references leave bulk deconvolution targets non-identifiable, but identification has a computable precision price
涵宇 蒋, Fei Gao, Peixi Liu…·Yang Jiang
With an incomplete deconvolution reference, operator history changes estimates and associations, and the target is not point-identified; fitdrop scores remedies on shrinkage, coverage, certification and false certification, and prices measurements.
1 citation - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
DeepSpaceDB 2.0: an interactive spatial transcriptomics database for large-scale Xenium data exploration
Vladyslav Honcharuk, Keiko Takemoto, Marvin C. Masalunga…·Alexis Vandenbon
DeepSpaceDB 2.0 expands its database to include 1,539 public Xenium datasets, offering improved tools for interactive exploration and analysis of spatial transcriptomics data.
- Systems BiologybioRxivPreprint
Interpretable spherical geometry of single-cell state transitions from dominant principal components
Long Yuan, Xuyang Li, My Le…·Alexander S. Szalay
The paper introduces SPHERE-PCA, a method to interpret single-cell state transitions using spherical geometry, revealing structured patterns in developmental and disease datasets.
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Spatial organization and mitigation of autofluorescence in multiplexed spatial proteomics of aged fresh-frozen human brain
Iva Sutevski, Luochen Guo, Niclas Branzell…·Burcu Ayoglu
The paper develops a workflow to reduce autofluorescence in fresh-frozen human brain tissue for multiplexed spatial proteomics and characterizes autofluorescence as a spatially structured feature.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.11.750056 - ImmunologybioRxivPreprint
A lifespan-scale single-cell atlas defines an early-childhood immunometabolic transition linked to age-referenced immune states
Jiayi Zheng, Yu Shi, Yichen Sun…·Jianping Weng
The paper constructs a lifespan single-cell atlas of immune cells, identifies an early-childhood immunometabolic transition around age 6, and develops an age-referenced framework for immune-state analysis.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Setting the SCENE for Interpretable Cell-Gene Embeddings in Single-Cell RNA-seq
O. Møberg, Magnus Blom Petersen, Tue Herlau…·Morten Mørup
This paper introduces SCENE, a probabilistic model for embedding cells and genes in scRNA-seq data, achieving state-of-the-art performance and interpretable visualization.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.12.750699 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
DELPHAI predicts heterogeneous perturbation responses with learned single-cell fitness
Xian Zhang, Hui Wu, Haikun Liu
DELPHAI predicts heterogeneous perturbation responses by jointly training a fitness network and optimal transport network to identify differentially expressed genes and depleted cell lineages.
DOI 10.64898/2026.07.01.735965 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Locat: Joint enrichment and depletion testing identifies localized marker genes in single-cell transcriptomics
Wesley Lewis, Yariv Aizenbud, Francesco Strino…·Fabio Parisi
Locat identifies localized marker genes by testing both enrichment within and depletion outside cell populations in single-cell transcriptomics.
- GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
A Gene-Program Architecture of Mouse T cells
Ziang Zhang, Tianze Wang, Siba Smarak Panigrahi…·the immgenT project
The paper introduces immgenT-GP, a gene-program framework that identifies 200 reproducible gene programs in mouse T cells, capturing lineage identity, activation states, and tissue location.
- GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
A single nuclei expression resource for exploring dog brain cell transcriptomic diversity
Matthew J. Christmas, Eric Pederson, Ola Wallerman…·Kerstin Lindblad‐Toh
The paper presents a single nuclei RNA sequencing resource of dog brain cells, identifying cell types and revealing differences in opioid receptor expression compared to humans and mice.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.14.751376 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Empirical Estimation of Ambient Contamination in Combinatorial Single-Cell Methods Using Multi-Reference Mapping
Fabio Gómez-Cano, Lu‐Guang Jiang, Joshua D. Welch, Alexandre P. Marand
The paper introduces methods to estimate and remove ambient contamination in scifi-ATAC data, improving the accuracy of chromatin profiles and biological discovery.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.11.750809 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint✦ In-depth digest
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Cell Types in Describing Neuronal Physiological Features
Harshil Sharma, Xiao-Ping Liu, Thomas Chartrand…·Zhixin Lu
On 495 human Patch-seq neurons, cell type means predicted electrophysiology better than neural networks on scGPT embeddings or gene panels; fusing scGPT embeddings with cell type labels predicted best.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
scACORN: Context-engineered agent orchestration of specialized small language models for single-cell transcriptomic interpretation
Arash Rasti-Meymandi, Sepideh Nahali, Eustache Paramithiotis…·Elham Dolatabadi
scACORN improves single-cell transcriptomic interpretation by combining specialized small language models with context-engineered agent orchestration, achieving higher accuracy and reducing unsupported gene citations.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Flow Orchestrated Regulatory Genomics Engine (FORGE): A Configurable Nextflow Pipeline for End-to-End snMultiome Analysis
Luis E. Solano, Negin Rahimzadeh, Zechuan Shi, Vivek Swarup
FORGE is a configurable Nextflow pipeline for snMultiome analysis that integrates snRNA-seq and snATAC-seq data through latent-variable models and enables regulatory network inference and differential testing.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Accurate and scalable decontamination of imaging-based spatial transcriptomics via optimal transport
Yuheng Chen, Yuyao Liu, Zitong Chao…·Can Yang
CellDot improves spatial transcriptomics by accurately decontaminating transcript assignments using optimal transport, enhancing biological interpretation and spatial pattern recovery.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.09.750350 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Cell-level random splits leak group-owned answers in single-cell benchmarks
The paper identifies and quantifies leakage in single-cell benchmarks caused by group-owned answers and introduces a tool to assess this leakage before model training.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.09.750484 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
DiffGSP: reversing mRNA diffusion to unlock high-fidelity spatial transcriptomics
Jixin Liu, Shuli Sun, Yang Xu…·Bingqiang Liu
DiffGSP reverses mRNA diffusion to improve spatial transcriptomics fidelity, revealing fine anatomical structures and spatial gene modules in various tissues.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.10.750095 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
LIGER2: Scalable Single-Cell Integration with On-Disk Datasets
Yichen Wang, Andrew Robbins, Gaurav T. Gadhvi, Joshua D. Welch
LIGER2 improves single-cell data integration by enhancing scalability and efficiency while preserving biological variation.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.08.750130 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Differential co-localisation analysis of multi-sample and multi-condition experiments with spatialFDA
Martin Emons, Fabian Scheipl, Samuel Gunz…·Mark D. Robinson
The paper introduces spatialFDA, a framework for analyzing differential co-localisation in spatial omics data, showing its effectiveness in controlled simulations and biological applications.
DOI 10.64898/2026.04.13.718197 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
ImmuneLens: linking transcriptional states and TCR clonotypes through disentangled multimodal learning
Zhijian Duan, Yi Wang, Cuiping Li…·Shuhui Song
ImmuneLens links transcriptional states and TCR clonotypes using disentangled multimodal learning to improve antigen-specificity prediction and reveal T cell heterogeneity in immunotherapy.
- Cell BiologybioRxivPreprint
Mapping Uterine Remodeling from Pregnancy to a New Homeostatic State
Joji Marie Teves, Olga Wienskowska, Loris Mularoni…·Jordi Guiu
This study maps uterine remodeling postpartum using single-cell transcriptomics, revealing a novel homeostatic state that does not revert to pre-pregnancy cellular architecture.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
LucaCell: a sequence-centric foundation model for cross-species single-cell analysis
Yan Sun, Yong He, Minsi Ren…·Zheng Wang
LucaCell is a sequence-centric foundation model that improves cross-species single-cell analysis by using mRNA sequence embeddings instead of fixed gene identifiers.
- GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
Single-cell transcriptomic and epigenomic analysis reveals X-linked sex differences in aging mouse hypothalamus
Doudou Yu, Ilya Osipov, Lexi-Amber Hassell…·Ashley E. Webb
The paper analyzes single-nucleus multi-omics data from mouse hypothalamus to reveal sex-specific aging differences, particularly on the X chromosome.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
SpaCoEx: Sparse Gene Selection for Spatially Varying Co-expression in Spatial Transcriptomics
Michale Jian, Shaojun Pei, Gil Alterovitz
SpaCoEx selects sparse genes for spatially varying co-expression in spatial transcriptomics, improving spatial coherence and annotation agreement in cancer datasets.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.05.749559 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Dynamics of bleomycin-induced lung injury at single-nucleus resolution
Cecilia López‐Martínez, Yu‐Hua Chow, William A. Altemeier…·Chi F. Hung
This study uses snRNA-seq to analyze bleomycin-induced lung injury in mice, identifying dynamic changes and rare cell types not well captured by scRNA-seq.
- Systems BiologybioRxivPreprint
A single-cell view of human tissue aging reveals architectural decline beyond cellular composition
Ernesto Abila, Yimin Zheng, Zsuzsanna Bagó-Horváth, André F. Rendeiro
The paper analyzes single-cell data from human tissues to show that aging involves both cell loss and architectural remodeling, with structural decline independent of cell composition.