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Cell state discovery is crucial for understanding biological systems and enhancing medical outcomes. A key aspect of this process is identifying distinct biomarkers that define specific cell states. However, difficulties arise from the…

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Cell identity encompasses various semantic aspects of a cell, including cell type, pathway information, disease information, and more, which are essential for biologists to gain insights into its biological characteristics. Understanding…

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Biomedical named entity recognition (NER) presents unique challenges due to specialized vocabularies, the sheer volume of entities, and the continuous emergence of novel entities. Traditional NER models, constrained by fixed taxonomies and…

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Cell clustering is crucial for uncovering cellular heterogeneity in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data by identifying cell types and marker genes. Despite its importance, benchmarks for scRNA-seq clustering methods remain…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-03 Ping Xu , Zaitian Wang , Zhirui Wang , Pengjiang Li , Jiajia Wang , Ran Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Yuanchun Zhou

Automated single-cell annotation is difficult when the most abundant genes are not the most discriminative ones, or when a target state is poorly covered by a fixed reference atlas. GPTCelltype-style one-shot prompting allows large language…

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Multimodal single-cell technologies enable the simultaneous collection of diverse data types from individual cells, enhancing our understanding of cellular states. However, the integration of these datatypes and modeling the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Bhavya Mehta , Nirmit Deliwala , Madhav Chandane

Zero-shot named entity recognition (NER) aims to develop entity recognition systems from unannotated text corpora. This task presents substantial challenges due to minimal human intervention. Recent work has adapted large language models…

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Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables high-resolution analysis of cellular heterogeneity, but its complexity, which is marked by high dimensionality, sparsity, and batch effects, which poses major computational challenges.…

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Applications of single-cell RNA sequencing in various biomedical research areas have been blooming. This new technology provides unprecedented opportunities to study disease heterogeneity at the cellular level. However, unique…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-26 Xinlei Mi , William Bekerman , Peter A. Sims , Peter D. Canoll , Jianhua Hu

Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) has become a routinely used technique to quantify the gene expression profile of thousands of single cells simultaneously. Analysis of scRNA-seq data plays an important role in the study of cell states…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-13 Matthew Brendel , Chang Su , Zilong Bai , Hao Zhang , Olivier Elemento , Fei Wang

The Semantic Table Annotation (STA) task, which includes Column Type Annotation (CTA) and Cell Entity Annotation (CEA), maps table contents to ontology entities and plays important roles in various semantic applications. However, complex…

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Timestamp automatic annotation (TAA) is a crucial procedure for analyzing time-series ScRNA-seq data, as they unveil dynamic biological developments and cell regeneration process. However, current TAA methods heavily rely on manual…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-22 Xiran Chen , Sha Lin , Xiaofeng Chen , Weikai Li , Yifei Li

Cell detection is an essential task in cell image analysis. Recent deep learning-based detection methods have achieved very promising results. In general, these methods require exhaustively annotating the cells in an entire image. If some…

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Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology provides high-throughput gene expression data to study the cellular heterogeneity and dynamics of complex organisms. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used for automatic cell…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Rui Yang , Wenrui Dai , Chenglin Li , Junni Zou , Dapeng Wu , Hongkai Xiong

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables dissecting cellular heterogeneity in tissues, resulting in numerous biological discoveries. Various computational methods have been devised to delineate cell types by clustering scRNA-seq data…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-18 Tram Huynh , Zixuan Cang

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has the potential to provide powerful, high-resolution signatures to inform disease prognosis and precision medicine. This paper takes an important first step towards this goal by developing an…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-15 Bryan He , Matthew Thomson , Meena Subramaniam , Richard Perez , Chun Jimmie Ye , James Zou

Automated cellular instance segmentation is a process utilized for accelerating biological research for the past two decades, and recent advancements have produced higher quality results with less effort from the biologist. Most current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Matthew Keaton , Ram Zaveri , Gianfranco Doretto

The rapid growth of biomedical data, tools, and literature has created a fragmented research landscape that outpaces human expertise. While AI agents offer a solution, they typically rely on static, manually curated toolsets, limiting their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Ruofan Jin , Zaixi Zhang , Mengdi Wang , Le Cong

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), especially temporally resolved datasets, enables genome-wide profiling of gene expression dynamics at single-cell resolution across discrete time points. However, current technologies provide only…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-19 Yue Ling , Peiqi Zhang , Zhenyi Zhang , Peijie Zhou

Zero-shot single-cell cell-type annotation aims to determine a cell's type from a given set of expressed genes without any training. Existing knowledge-graph-based RAG approaches retrieve evidence by expanding from source entities and…

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