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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

scLASER: a robust framework for simulating and detecting time-dependent single-cell dynamics in longitudinal studies.

Lauren A Vanderlinden, Juan Vargas, Jun Inamo, Jade Young, Chuangqi Wang, Fan Zhang

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Lauren A VanderlindenDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4019-8395
Juan VargasDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Jun InamoDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9927-7936
Jade YoungDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Chuangqi WangDepartment of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
Fan ZhangDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6102-2970

Funding

Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI)UM1TR004399 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI JANINE A HIGGINS, RONALD J. SOKOL · 2023 to 2026
$30.7M
Accelerating Medicines Partnership-Autoimmune and Immunologic Disease Tissue Research Core Admin Supplement: Preclinical Studies in Sjogren'sUC2AR081032 · NIAMS · OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION · PI Joel Marvin Guthridge, JUDITH A JAMES · 2022 to 2026
$30.7M
Computational Bioscience Program Training GrantT15LM009451 · NLM · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Katherina Kechris-Mays, Arjun Krishnan · 2007 to 2026
$11.7M
Deciphering Complement-Dependent Macrophage Phenotypes in Human Autoimmune ArthritisR01AR085156 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI FAN ZHANG · 2025 to 2026
$766k
NCATS NIH HHS UM1 TR004399NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR085156NIAMS NIH HHS UC2 AR081032NLM NIH HHS T15 LM009451
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Longitudinal single-cell clinical studies enable tracking within-individual cellular dynamics, but methods for modeling temporal phenotypic changes and estimating power remain limited. We present scLASER, a framework detecting time-dependent cellular neighborhood dynamics and simulating longitudinal single-cell datasets for power estimation. Across benchmark experiments, scLASER shows consistently higher sensitivity than traditional cluster--based approaches, with particularly pronounced gains in rare cell types and non-linear temporal patterns. Applications to inflammatory bowel disease (95,813 cells, 38 patients) reveal treatment-responsive NOTCH3+ stromal trajectories with high cell type discrimination (AUC > 0.92), while analysis of COVID-19 data (188,181 cells, 84 patients) identifies three distinct axes of T cell activity (cytotoxic effector, NK immunoreceptor signaling, and interferon-stimulated gene programs) over disease progression. scLASER enables robust longitudinal single-cell analysis and optimization of study design.

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