28 items, newest first.
preprint✓ VerifiedVC0139
Metzner E, Guruvayurappan K, Southard KM, Ardy RC, Dey KK, Norman TM. · bioRxiv · 2026-10-12
Norman/Dey labs (MSKCC): CRISPRa Multiome Perturb-seq of 119 TFs + dual-guide Perturb-seq of 1,225 TF pairs in RPE-1; chromatin priming predicts emergent states; Mosaic (Transformer) predicts TF-pair interaction residuals (r=0.484) and nominated a validated triple-TF combination.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0038
Sanaki Y, Shigenobu S, Niwa R. · bioRxiv · 2026-09-24
ISP3 platform: Geneformer-based sequential multi-gene in silico perturbation.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0138
Yu et al. · bioRxiv · 2026-08-12
PerturbLDM: Tahoe-100M-pretrained latent diffusion for conditional sc response generation across drug/dose/cell-line.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0054
Denvis O. · Research Square · 2026-07-22
Empirical comparison of virtual cell models: the baseline gap persists.
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preprintBrain tumor✓ VerifiedVC0071
Mayfield JD. · bioRxiv · 2026-04-23
Proteome-calibrated mechanistic digital twin of the GBM astrocyte (bioRxiv 2026).
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0053
Vollenweider M, Bühlmann P. · bioRxiv · 2026-04-22
Signal, Bounds, and Baselines: principles for evaluating virtual cell perturbation models.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0135
Cheng et al. · bioRxiv · 2026-04-14
VCHarness: autonomous AI coding agent that searches/refines perturbation-response model architectures for virtual cells.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0033
Wang C et al. · bioRxiv · 2026-03-20
X-Cell (Xaira): 4.9B-param diffusion model, perturbation scaling laws.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0136
Li et al. · bioRxiv · 2026-03-16
AetherCell unifies clinical RNA-seq and perturbation assays for generative response prediction and in vivo repurposing.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0137
Chuai et al. · bioRxiv · 2026-03-05
AlphaCell: genome-wide virtual-cell world model with OT conditional flow matching for cross-context perturbation dynamics.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0046
Swinderman JT et al. · bioRxiv · 2026-02-05
Probe-based scalable single-cell profiling for virtual-cell perturbation mapping.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0035
Zhang Y, Su Y, Wefers Z, Su S, Li H, Li T, Wang C, Burgess J, Lozano A, Zhou L, Ding D, Nirschl J, Lundberg E, Yeung-Levy S. · bioRxiv · 2026-01-20
CellFluxV2: image generative foundation model for virtual cell modeling.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0034
Kalfon J, Peyré G, Cantini L. · bioRxiv · 2025-12-15
scPRINT-2: next-gen cell foundation models and benchmarks.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0055
Hasanaj E, Cole E, Mohammadi S, Addagudi S, Zhang X, Song L, Xing EP. · bioRxiv · 2025-06-28
Multimodal benchmarking of FM representations for perturbation response.
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preprintPartly relevant✓ VerifiedVC0020
Adduri AK et al. · bioRxiv · 2025-06-27
State preprint (bioRxiv June 2025).
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0115
Recursion / Valence Labs · arXiv · 2025-05-20
Recursion/Valence perspective: virtual cells should predict, explain, discover via lab-in-the-loop.
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preprintBrain tumor✓ VerifiedVC0093
Kint S et al. · bioRxiv · 2025-05-14
Spatial epigenomic niches underlie GBM cell-state plasticity.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0021
Pearce JD, Simmonds SE, Mahmoudabadi G, Krishnan L, Palla G, Istrate A, Tarashansky A, Nelson B, Valenzuela O, Li D, Quake SR, Karaletsos T. · bioRxiv · 2025-04-29
TranscriptFormer (CZI): generative cross-species cell atlas, 112M cells, 12 species.
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preprintPartly relevant✓ VerifiedVC0032
Rizvi SA et al. · bioRxiv · 2025-04-17
C2S-Scale (Yale/Google): scaling LLMs to 27B for single-cell analysis and virtual screening.
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preprintBrain tumor✓ VerifiedVC0092
Khan SM et al. · bioRxiv · 2025-04-04
Spatial architecture of GBM from core to edge; niche-specific states.
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preprintPartly relevant✓ VerifiedVC0037
Sun R, Qian L, Li Y, Cheng H, Xue Z, Zhang X, Tan L, Zhan Y, Hu W, Xiao Q, Liu Z, Zhang G, Weinan E, Zhou P, Wen H, Zhu Y, Guo T. · bioRxiv · 2025-02-10
Preprint of the perturbation-proteomics foundation model for virtual cells.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0027
Wang C, Cui H, Zhang A, Xie R, Goodarzi H, Wang B. · bioRxiv · 2025-02-08
scGPT-spatial: continual pretraining for spatial transcriptomics.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0022
Ho N, Ellington CN, Hou J, Addagudi S, Mo S, Tao T, Li D, Zhuang Y, Wang H, Cheng X, Song L, Xing EP. · bioRxiv · 2024-12-03
AIDO.Cell (GenBio AI): dense transcriptome-scale context single-cell models.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0051
Wenteler A, Occhetta M, Branson N, Curean V, Huebner M, Dee W, Connell W, Chung SP, Hawkins-Hooker A, Ektefaie Y, Valdez Córdova CM, Gallagher-Syed A. · bioRxiv · 2024-10-03
PertEval-scFM: benchmarking scFMs for perturbation effect prediction.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0012
Rosen Y, Roohani Y, Agrawal A, Samotorcan L, Tabula Sapiens Consortium, Quake SR, Quake SR, Leskovec J. · bioRxiv · 2023-11-29
Universal Cell Embeddings (UCE), cross-species zero-shot cell embedding (Leskovec/Quake).
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0023
Wen H, Tang W, Dai X, Ding J, Jin W, Xie Y, Tang J. · bioRxiv · 2023-10-05
CellPLM: cell language model beyond single cells (spatial context).
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0031
Levine D et al. · bioRxiv · 2023-09-14
Cell2Sentence: cells as text for LLMs.
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preprint✓ VerifiedVC0030
Yang F, Wang W, Wang F, Fang Y, Tang D, Huang J, Lu H, Yao J. · bioRxiv · 2021-12-07
scBERT: early pretrained language model for cell type annotation.
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