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ArticleNature biotechnology2025

Defining and benchmarking open problems in single-cell analysis.

Malte D Luecken, Scott Gigante, Daniel B Burkhardt, Robrecht Cannoodt, Daniel C Strobl, Nikolay S Markov, Luke Zappia, Giovanni Palla, Wesley Lewis, Daniel Dimitrov and 24 more

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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30 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

34 authors.

Malte D Luecken *Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7464-7921
Scott Gigante *Immunai, New York, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4544-2764
Daniel B Burkhardt *NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
Robrecht Cannoodt *Data Intuitive, Lebbeke, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3641-729X
Daniel C StroblInstitute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.
Nikolay S MarkovDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Luke ZappiaInstitute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7744-8565
Giovanni PallaInstitute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8004-4462
Wesley LewisInterdepartmental Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Daniel DimitrovFaculty of Medicine and Heidelberg University Hospital, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Michael E VinyardDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
D S MagruderDepartment of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
Michaela F MuellerInstitute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.
Alma AnderssonGenentech Inc, South San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4773-9975
Emma DannWellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7400-7438
Qian QinBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2119-6263
Dominik J OttoBasic Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6116-053X
Michal KleinApple, Paris, France.
Olga Borisovna BotvinnikData Sciences Platform, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Louise DeconinckData Mining and Modelling for Biomedicine group, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8100-6823
Kai WaldrantData Intuitive, Lebbeke, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-8555-1361
Sai Nirmayi YasaData Intuitive, Lebbeke, Belgium.
Artur SzałataInstitute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8413-234X
Andrew BenzCellarity, Inc, Somerville, MA, USA.
Zhijian LiBroad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1523-1333
Open Problems Jamboree Members
Jonathan M BloomDepartment of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Angela Oliveira PiscoData Sciences Platform, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Julio Saez-RodriguezFaculty of Medicine and Heidelberg University Hospital, Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Drausin WulsinImmunai, New York, USA.
Luca PinelloMolecular Pathology Unit, Center for Cancer Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1109-3823
Yvan SaeysData Mining and Modelling for Biomedicine group, VIB Center for Inflammation Research, Ghent, Belgium.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0415-1506
Fabian J TheisInstitute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Munich, Neuherberg, Germany. fabian.theis@helmholtz-munich.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2419-1943
Smita KrishnaswamyInterdepartmental Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. smita.krishnaswamy@yale.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-1985

Funding

EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 860329 Marie-Curie ITN "STRATEGY-CKD"European Commission (EC) 101054957Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (Research Foundation Flanders) 1SF3822NU.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) T15U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) 1F31CA257625
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