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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

NanoCellAnnotator: Formalizing Expert Cell Type Annotation with Large Language Models.

Md Ishtyaq Mahmud, Veena Kochat, Humaira Anzum, Suresh Satpati, Jagan Mohan Reddy Dwarampudi, Kunal Rai, Tania Banerjee

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Md Ishtyaq MahmudDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6280-7035
Veena KochatDepartment of Genomic Medicine and MDACC Epigenomics Therapy Initiative (METI), MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2614-3790
Humaira AnzumDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA.ORCID 0009-0004-4779-8125
Suresh SatpatiDepartment of Genomic Medicine and MDACC Epigenomics Therapy Initiative (METI), MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8988-6113
Jagan Mohan Reddy DwarampudiDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-2947-4164
Kunal RaiDepartment of Genomic Medicine and MDACC Epigenomics Therapy Initiative (METI), MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2321-6894
Tania BanerjeeDepartment of Information Science Technology, University of Houston, Sugar Land, TX 77479, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4737-0001

Funding

Consortium for Translational and Precision HealthUM1TR004539 · NCATS · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI Bettina M. Beech, FASIHA KANWAL · 2024 to 2026
$17.1M
NCATS NIH HHS UM1 TR004539
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Motivation: Cell-type annotation in spatial transcriptomics is challenging due to sparse gene panels, spatial heterogeneity, and limited availability of tissue-matched reference atlases. Recent approaches have explored large language models (LLMs) for integrating biological knowledge during annotation, but unconstrained inference can produce biologically unsupported predictions and hallucinated cell types. In addition, many LLM-based pipelines rely on large cloud-hosted models that limit reproducibility and deployment in privacy-sensitive environments. Results: We introduce Availability: Code available at https://github.com/ishtyaqmahmud/NanoCellAnnotator.

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Biologically constrained language modelsCell-type annotationConfidence-aware inferenceSpatial transcriptomics

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PMID42395456
PMCPMC13320817

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