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Cell Type-informed Characterization of Spatial Niches from Spatial Multimodal and Multi-omics Data
Gaoyuan Du, Jialuo Xu, Xinrong Wei…·Xuequn Shang
SpaNECT is a framework for characterizing cell niches from spatial multimodal and multi-omics data, outperforming existing methods in diverse biological contexts.
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GatorDuo: Global-Consistency Dual-Graph Refinement With Pseudo-Label Agreement for Spatial Transcriptomics
Zhenhao Zhang, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Jiang Bian…·Yuxi Liu
GatorDuo improves spatial domain identification in spatial transcriptomics by refining dual graphs with pseudo-label agreement and adaptive clustering.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.10.724039 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Redesign selective protein binders using contrastive decoding
RedNet improves protein binder design by incorporating side-chain information and contrastive decoding to enhance binding affinity, folding stability, and selectivity.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.09.722041 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
HAIRpred2: Human Host-Specific Prediction of Antibody-Interacting Residues Using Hybrid Physicochemical and Structural Features
Naman Kumar Mehta, Ruchir Sahni, Nishant Kumar, Gajendra P. S. Raghava
HAIRpred2 predicts antibody-interacting residues in human antigens using structural features, achieving an AUC of 0.78 on an independent test set.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.09.723672 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
An improved generic schema for high fidelity data linkage and sample tracing across complex multi-assay medical entomology studies
Deogratius Roman Kavishe, Rogath Venance Msoffe, Selemani Mmbaga…·Gerry F. Killeen
This paper evaluates an extended data schema for integrating multi-assay entomological data across field, insectary, and lab workflows, achieving high-fidelity sample tracing and data linkage.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.11.724183 - Bioinformaticsnpj Systems Biology and ApplicationsPeer-reviewed
tugMedi: simulator of cancer-cell evolution for personalized medicine based on the genomic data of patients
Iurii Nagornov, Eisaku Furukawa, Momoko Nagai…·Mamoru Kato
tugMedi simulates cancer-cell evolution using patient genomic data to predict drug responses and tumor dynamics.
DOI 10.1038/s41540-026-00736-w - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Preferential IsomiR Enrichment in Extracellular Vesicles Improves Identification of Their Cellular Origins
Rony Chowdhury Ripan, Xiaoman Li, Haiyan Hu
The paper identifies isomiR enrichment in extracellular vesicles and develops a model to link EVs to their cellular origins using miRNA and isomiR features.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.10.724151 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
An assessment of normalization and differential expression methods for miRNA-seq analysis using a realistic benchmark dataset
Ernesto Aparicio‐Puerta, Andrea M Baran, John M. Ashton…·Matthew N. McCall
The paper benchmarks normalization and differential expression methods for miRNA-seq using a realistic dataset, finding RPM normalization and edgeR perform best.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.08.723923 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Systematic Regional Bias is Widespread in ChIP-seq
Oliver Hughes, Gabriel Foley, Brad Balderson…·Mikael Bodén A
The paper identifies systematic regional bias in ChIP-seq data across multiple experiments and proposes metrics to improve data integration.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.10.724164 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
De novo protein discovery in non-model organisms
The paper introduces a de novo method for comparing RNA-seq data across species by analyzing protein domains rather than genes, and identifies species-specific domains in Selaginella species.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.08.723910 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
xNNPCD identifies regulators of programmed cell death by integrating perturbation transcriptomes with cancer dependency profiles
xNNPCD identifies regulators of programmed cell death by integrating CRISPR perturbation data with gene dependency profiles to predict therapeutic agents for apoptosis and ferroptosis.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.10.724150 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Carbohydrate active enzymes in Pectobacteriaceae: coevolving enzyme sets and host adaptation
Emma Hobbs, T.M. Gloster, Leighton Pritchard
The paper catalogs and analyzes CAZyme complements in Pectobacterium and Dickeya genomes, finding coevolution of CAZymes linked to host adaptation and tissue preference.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.08.723719 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Figra: A WebAssembly-based Excel Add-in for publication-quality scientific visualization with ggplot2
Figra enables publication-quality scientific visualization within Excel using ggplot2 via a WebAssembly-based add-in, eliminating the need for external software.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.06.723320 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
ClaroAI-Bench: Evaluating Agentic Scientific Reproducibility on Real Biomedical Papers
ClaroAI-Bench evaluates AI agents' ability to reproduce computational findings from biomedical papers by testing data findability, accessibility, code availability, environment reconstructability, and results reproducibility.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.08.723611 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Task-Specialized Protein Language Models Decode the Sequence Grammar of Post-Translational Modification Sites
Subinoy Adhikari, Jagannath Mondal
The paper fine-tunes a protein language model for PTM-site prediction and shows how model size, annotation depth, and modification chemistry affect PTM recognition.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.08.723918 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Detecting and quantifying overparametrization in RNA language models with REDIAL
Da Teng, Yunrui Qiu, Gokulakannan Sakthivel…·Pratyush Tiwary
This paper introduces REDIAL, an unsupervised framework to detect overparametrization in RNA language models, revealing inefficiencies and design flaws in current models.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
MucOneUp: A Simulation Framework for MUC1-VNTR Variant Benchmarking
MucOneUp generates MUC1-VNTR reference sequences and simulated sequencing reads to benchmark variant calling tools across platforms.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.08.723876 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Amino Acid Insertion Energetics in a POPC Bilayer from Unbiased Molecular Dynamics
Sophie C.A. Bories, Patrick Lagüe
The paper quantifies amino acid side-chain insertion energetics in a POPC bilayer using unbiased molecular dynamics simulations and derives potentials of mean force to characterize bilayer partitioning.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.07.723583 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
StabCell: Stability selection for clustering and marker detection in single-cell RNA sequencing
Niklas Lück, Andrea Rossi, Christian Staerk
StabCell integrates clustering and marker detection in scRNA-seq to improve robustness and reduce false positives by assessing stability across subsampled data.