DINOcell: Learning Generalizable Perturbation Effects through Self-Distillation
Jonathan Li, Nilgun Tasdemir, Sofia Kyriazopoulou-Panagiotopoulou, Sophie Xu, Allyson J. Merrell, Josephine Susanto, Ashley A. Cass, David DeTomaso, Holly Steach, Julie C. Chow, Li Wang, Neal G. Ravindra, Aram Kang, Grace X. Y. Zheng, Mary Chua, , Amaro N Taylor-Weiner
DINOcell predicts cellular responses to perturbations using self-distillation in single-cell transcriptomics, outperforming baselines for single and combination gene effects.
bioRxiv · Dec 19, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics