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Junwei Sun

Johns Hopkins UniversityORCID 0000-0001-8518-5064Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintJul 24, 2026

Beyond Expression Prediction: Benchmarking Differential Expression Classification in Single-Cell Perturbation Models

Junwei Sun, Yuxun He, Ouyang Zhu, Yiqun T. Chen

This paper benchmarks differential expression classification in single-cell perturbation models, finding that simple baselines often outperform deep learning models.

DOI 10.64898/2026.07.20.739620

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Evolutionary BiologyNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewedDec 30, 2024

Molecular Characterization of the Sea Lamprey Retina Illuminates the Evolutionary Origin of Retinal Cell Types

Junqiang Wang, Lin Zhang, Martina Cavallini…·Yi‐Rong Peng

The paper characterizes lamprey retinal cell types using single-cell RNA-seq and compares them to jawed vertebrates, finding conserved and divergent cell types and regulatory elements.

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