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ArticleNature methods2024

Large-scale foundation model on single-cell transcriptomics.

Minsheng Hao, Jing Gong, Xin Zeng, Chiming Liu, Yucheng Guo, Xingyi Cheng, Taifeng Wang, Jianzhu Ma, Xuegong Zhang, Le Song

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Article in Nature methods, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 340 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Minsheng HaoMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, BNRIST, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6749-5659
Jing GongBioMap, Beijing, China.
Xin ZengBioMap, Beijing, China.
Chiming LiuBioMap, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-3278-2983
Yucheng GuoBioMap, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0743-0308
Xingyi ChengBioMap, Beijing, China.
Taifeng WangBioMap, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-1116-0228
Jianzhu MaDepartment of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. majianzhu@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8236-6609
Xuegong ZhangMOE Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics Division, BNRIST, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. zhangxg@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9684-5643
Le SongBioMap, Beijing, China. songle@biomap.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9655-2787

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62250005,61721003
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large pretrained models have become foundation models leading to breakthroughs in natural language processing and related fields. Developing foundation models for deciphering the 'languages' of cells and facilitating biomedical research is promising yet challenging. Here we developed a large pretrained model scFoundation, also named 'xTrimoscFoundation

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