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scGPT: Towards Building a Foundation Model for Single-Cell Multi-omics Using Generative AI
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Generative pre-trained models have achieved remarkable success in various domains such as natural language processing and computer vision. Specifically, the combination of large-scale diverse datasets and pre-trained transformers has emerged as a promising approach for developing foundation models. Drawing parallels between linguistic constructs and cellular biology — where texts comprise words, similarly, cells are defined by genes — our study probes the applicability of foundation models to advance cellular biology and genetics research. Utilizing the burgeoning single-cell sequencing data, we have pioneered the construction of a foundation model for single-cell biology, scGPT, which is based on generative pre-trained transformer across a repository of over 33 million cells. Our findings illustrate that scGPT, a generative pre-trained transformer, effectively distills critical biological insights concerning genes and cells. Through the further adaptation of transfer learning, scGPT can be optimized to achieve superior performance across diverse downstream applications. This includes tasks such as cell-type annotation, multi-batch integration, multi-omic integration, genetic perturbation prediction, and gene network inference. The scGPT codebase is publicly available at https://github.com/bowang-lab/scGPT .
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scGPT is a generative pretrained transformer foundation model for single-cell biology, pretrained on over 33 million human scRNA-seq cells and fine-tuned for cell-type annotation, integration, perturbation prediction, and gene network inference. It reports state-of-the-art or competitive performance across these tasks and identifies a scaling law where larger pretraining data improves downstream fine-tuning.
Key findings
- Pretraining used 33 million normal human scRNA-seq cells from CELLxGENE, spanning 51 organs/tissues and 441 studies; UMAP of a 10% subset showed cell types separated into distinct clusters despite over 400 studies.
- Cell-type annotation: scGPT achieved high precision (>0.8) for most hPancreas cell types except rare types, around 0.85 accuracy on multiple sclerosis, and ≥0.7 precision for most tumor-infiltrating myeloid cell types; it outperformed TOSICA and scBert on Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and MacroF1.
- Perturbation prediction: scGPT achieved the highest correlation on both Adamson and Norman datasets versus GEARS and CPA; in reverse perturbation prediction it identified 71.4% correct perturbations (5/7 test cases) within top 5 predictions, a 95.2% speedup over random tryouts (105.5 average attempts out of 210).
- Integration and GRN: PBMC 10K AvgBIO was 0.821, 5–10% higher than compared methods; ASAP PBMC AvgBATCH was 0.951 versus scMoMaT’s 0.916; scGPT uniquely identified 22 Reactome pathways, 14 immune-related, and attention analysis found all top 20 DDIT3-influenced genes and 19/20 BHLHE40-influenced genes as ChIP-Atlas targets.
Methods
- Design: two-stage generative pretraining and fine-tuning of a transformer that jointly learns cell and gene embeddings; a specialized attention mask enables generative prediction on non-sequential gene expression, with fine-tuning objectives including GEP, GEPC, ECS, DAR, and CLS.
- Data: pretraining on 33 million normal human scRNA-seq cells from CELLxGENE; downstream datasets included hPancreas, multiple sclerosis, myeloid, Adamson, Norman, COVID-19, PBMC 10K, Perirhinal Cortex, 10X Multiome PBMC, BMMC, ASAP PBMC, and Immune Human.
- Analysis: benchmarks against TOSICA, scBert, GEARS, CPA, scVI, Seurat, Harmony, scGLUE, and scMoMaT; metrics included Accuracy, Precision, Recall, MacroF1, Pearson correlation and corr(Δ), AvgBIO, AvgBATCH, Overall, and Reactome pathway enrichment.
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- Stated: the scaling law appeared to saturate after 3M pretraining cells; the authors hypothesize larger model sizes could improve performance at 33M and beyond but leave larger model sizes to future work.
- Stated: future work plans larger-scale, more diverse pretraining including multi-omic, spatial omics, diseased conditions, perturbation and temporal data, broader biological validation, and in-context instruction learning.
- Evident: this is a bioRxiv preprint not certified by peer review; results are computational benchmarks, and the text does not report prospective wet-lab validation of predictions.
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“the fine-tuned scGPT consistently showcases performance gain for tasks such as integration376 and cell type annotation.”
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“scGPT achieves a higher overall batch correction287 score AvgBATCH of 0.951 compared to scMoMat (AvgBATCH = 0.916).”
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“scGPT334 consistently demonstrates a significantly higher number of enriched pathways across all clustering335 resolutions.”
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“scGPT stands264 out as the only method that successfully generates a distinct cluster for CD8 Naive cells, while the265 other two methods fail to do so.”
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“The top performers in data integration tasks were models pretrained415 on whole-human, blood, and lung datasets”
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“scGPT identified the top 20 genes most influenced by353 DDIT3 transcription factor repression, which are all found to be signaling targets of DDIT3 in354 the Chip-Atlas database”
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- Not checked yetcites [56] 2022, ChIP-Atlas 2021 update: a data-mining suite for exploring epigenomic landscapes by fully integrating chip-seq, ATAC-seq and Bisulfite-seq data, In: Nucleic acids research
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“Notably, scGPT specifically highlighted pathways related to the adaptive immune system, T-cell340 receptor (TCR) signaling, PD-1 signaling, and MHC II presentation, which were not captured by341 the co-expression network.”
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“In the context of the Perirhinal Cortex dataset,246 scGPT remains competitive against all other methodologies”
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“Notably, scGPT also demonstrates a considerable performance244 for integrating PBMC 10K dataset even without fine-tuning”
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“scGPT's biological288 conservation metrics also compare favorably to scMoMat's”
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“clustering resolution of 0.5, 54 sub-clusters were identified in the UMAP of predicted perturbation”
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“Both methods identi-337 fied 15 common pathways, including those associated with the cell cycle and the immune system.338 However, scGPT uniquely identified additional 22 pathways, out of which 14 were immune-related.”
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“scMoMat produced285 two distinct clusters for each cell type corresponding to the first two and second two batches,286 indicating failure to learn a joint representation.”
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“This superior integra-240 tion performance of scGPT is further supported by its high biological conservation score, with an241 AvgBIO score of 0.821, which is 5-10% higher than the compared methods.”
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“We observed that a set of HLA class II genes was identified as group 1. Similarly, the CD3 genes327 involved in the T3 complex were identified as group 4, with the highest expression present in T328 cells.”
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“scGPT presented more defined cluster structures compared269 to Seurat v4, with a 9% improvement in the AvgBIO score.”
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“We observed the performance of fine-tuned models improved as the383 size of the pre-training data increased.”
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“source of genetic change within 5 attempts represents a 95.2% speedup.”
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“The pre-trained scGPT model successfully identifies the group of315 genes (CD3E, D, and G) encoding the T3 complex for T-cell activation, as well as CD79A and316 CD79B for B-cell signaling, and CD8A and CD8B as co-receptors for HLA class I molecules”
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- Not checked yetcites [52] 1995, Immunobiology: The immune system in health and disease, In: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
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“10X Multiome PBMC [47] scGPT (fine-tuned) 0.758 0.807 0.822 0.645 - - - -”
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“scGLUE [14] 0.747 0.815 0.806 0.619 - - - -”
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“Seurat v4 [46] 0.722 0.784 0.691 0.691 - - - -”
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“ASAP PBMC [49] scGPT (fine-tuned) 0.587 0.645 0.469 0.648 0.951 0.909 0.992 0.732”
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“scMoMat [15] 0.546 0.448 0.557 0.633 0.916 0.849 0.983 0.667”
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“scGPT (Zero-shot) Celltype, AvgBIO = 0.728”
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“BMMC [48] scGPT (fine-tuned) 0.697 0.783 0.725 0.582 0.871 0.834 0.908 0.766”
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“Seurat v4 [46] 0.600 0.737 0.470 0.594 0.678 0.685 0.671 0.631”
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“From data1318 presented in table S5, we noticed a significant drop in the training time per epoch as well as in GPU1319 Memory usage throughout the fine-tuning process.”
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“Specifically, the removal of zero-expressed genes1320 resulted in a substantial reduction in our model's maximum sequence length to approximately 401321 ∼ 60% of its initial length, effectively halving both the time spent on training epochs and peak1322 GPU Memory utilization.”
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“Furthermore, by freezing the embedding layer, we achieved an additional1323 reduction in Peak GPU Memory usage by 1GB, a slight increase in training speed, while preserving1324 a comparable AvgBio score.”
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“These findings319 demonstrate scGPT's ability to generalize the knowledge learned during pre-training and extract320 information relevant to specific tissues or cell types after fine-tuning.”
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“Overall, scGPT demon-273 strates superior cell-type clustering performance in the paired data setting and exhibits robustness274 across diverse biological conservation metrics benchmarked”
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“1,200 highly variable genes, 4,000 highly variable peaks, and all 216 protein features were used as”
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“The evaluation of the integrated cell embeddings was performed using biological conservation”
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- Not checked yetcites Luecken et al. [53] 2022, Benchmarking atlas-level data integration in single-cell genomics, In: Nature methods
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“making it particularly suitable for capturing interactions between genes.”
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“outlined by Roohani, Huang, and Leskovec [38] in their benchmark.”
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“against the functional groups found in the original publication by Norman et al. [37]”
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- Not checked yetcites Norman et al. [37] 2019, Exploring genetic interaction manifolds constructed from rich single-cell phenotypes, In: Science
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“we performed pathway enrich-331 ment analysis against the Reactome database [54] and identified high-confidence”
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- Not checked yetcites Luecken et al. [53] 2022, Benchmarking atlas-level data integration in single-cell genomics, In: Nature methods
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“all methods were provided with the same number of 1,200 highly variable genes as input.”
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“The gene targets selected from the control attention map should reflect the basal”
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“that the columns in the attention map indicate how much the gene of interest affects the other”
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The COVID-19 dataset comprises diverse cellular compositions, making it suitable for evaluating in-context pre-training effects.
“The COVID-19 dataset serves as an ideal task for this investigation, as it comprises diverse412 cellular compositions.”
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Adaptive immune populations exist in the fine-tuning datasets.
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“Empirical benchmarking studies have documented substantial performance degradation for biological foundation models under cross-platform transfer, preprocessing variability, and rare-population evaluation [20–24].”
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“Compared to tasks such as cell annotation and batch correction, perturbation prediction offers experimentally generated model input/output with well-defined objectives, making it a more robust benchmark for assessing foundation models (15, 20, 21).”
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“We chose these models because they offer pretrained weights and have been trained using unsupervised objectives on extensive datasets (ca. 30M single-cell transcriptomes).”
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“However, scGPT directly learns a cell embedding, which is integrated into its pretraining loss of predicting masked genes: scGPT first predicts a masked gene expression bin and a cell embedding from unmasked genes; then, in a second step, it further iteratively refines masked gene expression using the cell embedding predicted in the first step.”
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“Recent work suggests that architectural choices, such as generative versus contrastive pretraining objectives, introduce distinct trade-offs between representation flexibility, interpretability, and robustness to experimental variability [20–23, 36].”
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“Both scGPT and Geneformer fine-tune their cell embeddings for cell type classification.”
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“These models are pre-trained on vast amounts (> 10 M examples) of unlabelled scRNA-seq data, with the aim that such large datasets allow the models to capture general principles of gene regulation and signalling.”
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“Next, the binned values and the gene tokens (i.e., a unique index for each gene) are separately embedded and summed in the embedding space—jointly representing the gene and its binned expression.”
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“Foundation models for single-cell and multi-omic biology, such as scGPT [20], Nicheformer [21], and EpiAgent [22, 23], produce high-quality continuous representations of biological entities that support cross-tissue transfer, perturbation inference, and regulatory feature learning.”
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“We first examine recent foundational models that produce transferable representations across omic modalities, such as scGPT, Nicheformer, and EpiAgent, and discuss their architectural choices, training regimes, and interpretability constraints.”
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“Single-cell foundation models and perturbation predictors support cellular-response forecasting [48-51].”
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“scGPT is available in several variants, each pretrained on multiple different datasets.”
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“Finally, compared to Geneformer, scGPT has 3 the number of parameters, using 12 Transformer layers with 8 attention heads.”
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“scGPT preprocesses each gene expression vector by independently binning values into 50 equidistant bins where the lowest bin is the lowest expression and the highest bin corresponds to the highest expression.”
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“Like Geneformer, scGPT uses an MLM task.”
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“To assess this, we employ metrics based on Average Silhouette Width (ASW) [25] and Average Bio (AvgBIO) scores [7].”
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“To evaluate the performance of scGPT in its pretraining objective, we used the mean squared error (MSE), as used by the original authors for the model’s loss [7].”
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“scGPT [14] focuses on processing these high-dimensional and sparse RNA data to capture complex relationships between cells, thereby supporting transfer learning across datasets and even across species.”
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“Empirical benchmarking studies have shown that performance improvements observed in standard evaluation settings can decrease substantially when models are tested across different laboratories, sequencing platforms, or preprocessing pipelines [20–23].”
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“We developed xTrimoGene, a scalable transformer-based model with both algorithmically efficient and engineering acceleration strategies 14 .”
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“With the help of self-attention mechanisms over the gene dimension, scGPT can encode complex interactions between perturbed and other genes.”
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“This enables the model to learn from existing experimental data (i.e., Perturb-seq data) through few-shot learning and make accurate predictions of gene expressions following perturbation for unseen experiments (OOD).”
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“In oncology, transformer-based methods support clinical text processing, whole-slide and radiologic image interpretation (vision transformers), and genomic sequence modeling [24,25,26,27].”
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“To evaluate their models, most previous works-including scGPT and Geneformer-rely on fine-tuning to specialize task-specific models.”
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“AvgBATCH = 0.6 ∗AvgBIO + 0.4 ∗AvgBATCH”
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“AvgBATCH = (ASWbatch +GraphConn)/2”
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§ 4 Methods462 > 4.7 Benchmarking Experiment Setup860
“batch correction and cell type clustering on four integration datasets: COVID-19 [13], PBMC 10K930 [44], and Perirhinal Cortex [45].”
§ 1 3 > 2.4 scGPT enables accurate multi-batch and multi-omics integration231
“The evaluation was conducted on three integration236 datasets, namely the COVID-19 (18 batches) [13], PBMC 10K (2 batches) [44], and Perirhinal237 Cortex (2 batches) [45].”
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§ 1 3 > 2.2 scGPT improves the precision of cell type annotation120
“fewer than 50 cells belong to the mast and MHC class II cell types out of the 106,000134 cells in the reference set.”
§ 4 Methods462 > 4.6 Datasets775
“The reference set contains 10,600 cells of 13 cell groups (alpha, beta, ductal,807 acinar, delta, PSC, PP, endothelial, macrophage, mast, epsilon, schwann, and t cell). The query808 set contains 4,218 cells of 11 cell groups (alpha, beta, ductal, PP, acinar, delta, PSC, endothelial,809 epsilon, mast, MHC class II).”
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§ 1 3 > 2.2 scGPT improves the precision of cell type annotation120
“out of the 106,000134 cells in the reference set.”
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§ 1 3 > 2.4 scGPT enables accurate multi-batch and multi-omics integration231
“subgroup annotations (48 cell types).”
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“annotations consist of 45 detailed immune cell subtypes.”
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“The original Perturb-seq study covered 236 one-gene or two-gene190 perturbations targeting 105 genes. However, considering all possible combinations of these tar-191 get genes, there are a total of 5,565 potential perturbations. This means that the experimental192 Perturb-seq only represents 5% of the entire perturbation space.”
§ 1 3 > 2.3 scGPT predicts unseen genetic perturbation responses158
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- Authors
- Cui, H., Wang, C., Maan, H., Pang, K., Luo, F., & Wang, B.
- Affiliations
- University Health Network (CA)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Wang, Bo
- Venue
- Nature Methods
- Publisher
- openRxiv
- Published
- 2023-05-01
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 1470-1480
- ISSN
- 1548-7091 (ISSN-L)
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- W4392168151
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- 1,694
- References
- 98
- Citations by year
- 2026: 918 · 2025: 521 · 2024: 234 · 2023: 19
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- 186.38
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- journal article
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- en
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- University Health Network
- Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (DGECR-2020-00294, RGPIN-2020-06189)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Keywords
- scGPT, single-cell multi-omics, foundation models, generative pre-trained transformer, single-cell RNA sequencing, cell type annotation, multi-omics integration, perturbation response prediction, gene network inference, transfer learning, single-cell biology
- MeSH terms
- Multiomics, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Humans, Computational Biology, Gene Regulatory Networks, Single-Cell Analysis
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-11-10, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-11-10 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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