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Nicheformer: a foundation model for single-cell and spatial omics

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By Anna Christina Schaar, Alejandro Tejada-Lapuerta, Giovanni Palla, Robert M. Gutgesell
| biorxiv.org
Abstract Tissue makeup relies fundamentally on the cellular microenvironment. Spatial single-cell genomics allows probing the underlying cellular interactions in an unbiased, scalable fashion. To learn a unified cell representation that accounts for local dependencies in the cellular microenvironment, we propose Nicheformer, a transformer-based foundation model that combines human and mouse dissociated single-cell and targeted spatial transcriptomics data.
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Nicheformer: a foundation model for single-cell and spatial omics

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By Giovanni Palla, Robert M. Gutgesell, Anna Christina Schaar, Alejandro Tejada-Lapuerta
| biorxiv.org
Abstract Tissue makeup and the corresponding orchestration of vital biological activities, ranging from development and differentiation to immune response and regeneration, rely fundamentally on the cellular microenvironment and the interactions between cells. Spatial single-cell genomics allows probing such interactions in an unbiased and, increasingly, scalable fashion.
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