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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2026

SiCmiR Atlas: Single-Cell miRNA Landscape Reveals Hub-miRNA and Network Signatures in Human Cancers.

Xiao-Xuan Cai, Jing-Shan Liao, Jia-Jun Ma, Yu-Xuan Pang, Yi-Gang Chen, Yang-Chi-Dung Lin, Yi-Dan Chen, Xin Cao, Yi-Cheng Zhang, Tao-Sheng Xu and 3 more

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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13 authors.

Xiao-Xuan CaiWarshel Institute for Computational Biology, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8842-0358
Jing-Shan LiaoSchool of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China.
Jia-Jun MaSchool of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China.
Yu-Xuan PangWarshel Institute for Computational Biology, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China.
Yi-Gang ChenWarshel Institute for Computational Biology, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China.
Yang-Chi-Dung LinWarshel Institute for Computational Biology, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China.
Yi-Dan ChenWarshel Institute for Computational Biology, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China.
Xin CaoSchool of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China.
Yi-Cheng ZhangSchool of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China.
Tao-Sheng XuWarshel Institute for Computational Biology, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China.
Tzong-Yi LeeInstitute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Hsi-Yuan HuangWarshel Institute for Computational Biology, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China.
Hsien-Da HuangWarshel Institute for Computational Biology, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P. R. China.

Funding

Guangdong S&T Programme 2024A0505050001Guangdong S&T Programme 2024A0505050002Guangdong Young Scholar Development Fund of Shenzhen Ganghong Group Co., Ltd. 2021E0005Guangdong Young Scholar Development Fund of Shenzhen Ganghong Group Co., Ltd. 2022E0035Guangdong Young Scholar Development Fund of Shenzhen Ganghong Group Co., Ltd. 2023E0012Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Program JCYJ20220530143615035Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Program JCYJ20250604141041017Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Program JCYJ20250604141235046Warshel Institute for Computational Biology funding from Shenzhen City and Longgang District LGKCSDPT2025001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are pivotal post‑transcriptional regulators whose single‑cell behavior has remained largely inaccessible due to technical barriers in single-cell small‑RNA profiling. We present SiCmiR, a two‑layer neural network that predicts miRNA expression profiles from only 977 LINCS L1000 landmark genes, thereby reducing sensitivity to dropout in single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data. Proof‑of‑concept analyses illustrate how SiCmiR can uncover candidate hub‑miRNAs in bulk-seq cell lines and hepatocellular carcinoma, scRNA-seq pancreatic ductal carcinoma, and ACTH‑secreting pituitary adenoma and extracellular vesicle (EV)‑mediated crosstalk in glioblastoma. Trained on 6,462 TCGA paired miRNA-mRNA samples, SiCmiR attains state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on cancers and generalizes to unseen cancer types and drug perturbations. We next construct SiCmiR‑Atlas, containing 362 public datasets, 9.36 million cells, and 726 cell types, which is the first dedicated database of single‑cell mature miRNA expression, providing interactive visualization, biomarker identification, and cell‑type‑resolved miRNA-target networks. SiCmiR transforms bulk‑derived statistical power into a single‑cell view of miRNA biology and provides a community resource for biomarker discovery. SiCmiR Atlas is available at https://awi.cuhk.edu.cn/∼SiCmiR/.

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MicroRNAsNeoplasmsSingle-Cell AnalysisGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticHumansSingle-Cell Gene Expression AnalysisMicroRNAsatlasbiomarkerscancershub‐miRNAmiRNAsingle‐cell

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