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A mechanism-annotated benchmark reveals limited fidelity to drug-response signatures in single-cell perturbation models
Lehang Li, Shaoming Duan, Xinyu Zha…·Binxing Fang
This paper introduces a benchmark to evaluate single-cell drug perturbation models by assessing their fidelity to drug-response signatures, finding that expression similarity is a poor proxy for mechanism preservation.
DOI 10.64898/2026.08.19.745729