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ArticleGenome biology2025

scExtract: leveraging large language models for fully automated single-cell RNA-seq data annotation and prior-informed multi-dataset integration.

Yuxuan Wu, Fuchou Tang

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Article in Genome biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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2 authors.

Yuxuan WuBiomedical Pioneering Innovation Center, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
Fuchou TangBiomedical Pioneering Innovation Center, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China. tangfuchou@pku.edu.cn.

Funding

Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality 7242109
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell RNA sequencing has revolutionized cellular heterogeneity research, but analyzing the abundance of unannotated public datasets remains challenging. We present scExtract, a framework leveraging large language models to automate scRNA-seq data analysis from preprocessing to annotation and integration. scExtract extracts information from research articles to guide data processing, outperforming existing reference transfer methods in benchmarks. We introduce scanorama-prior and cellhint-prior, which incorporate prior annotation information for improved batch correction while preserving biological diversities. We demonstrate scExtract's utility by integrating 14 datasets to create a comprehensive human skin atlas of 440,000 cells.

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Data CurationRNA-SeqSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisSoftwareHumansLarge Language ModelsMolecular Sequence AnnotationSingle-Cell Gene Expression AnalysisDataset integrationLarge language modelsSingle-cell RNA sequencing

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PMID40537825
PMCPMC12178070

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