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- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
SVC: A Vision Transformer-based Spatially and Virtually Embedded Cell Model for Deciphering Subcellular Spatial Transcriptomic Heterogeneity
Hui Song Wan, Penghui Yang, Siyu Hou…·Xiang Zhou
SVC predicts subcellular transcript localization and co-organization using a Vision Transformer model, revealing disease patterns and spatial biology not accessible at the cell level.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.07.757371 - GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
Decoding super-enhancer regulatory grammar and pathogenic gain-of-function variants directly from DNA sequence
Yan Liang, 徐小慧, Yiping Mao…·Nan Liu
This paper introduces Borzoi-SE, a deep learning framework that identifies super-enhancers and detects pathogenic variants directly from DNA sequence across multiple human cell lineages.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.11.756618 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
A hippocampal digital Twin reveals latent structure in freely flying bats
Adam S. Lowet, Yongrong Qiu, Angelo Forli…·Michael M. Yartsev
This paper develops a functional digital twin of the hippocampus in bats to uncover latent neural organization during natural flight behavior.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.09.758148 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
A multimodal foundation model to integrate histology with spatial molecular programs
Zongxu Zhang, Bowen Qin, Yu Zhao…·Zexian Zeng
SQUALL integrates histology and spatial transcriptomics to enable virtual spatial gene expression profiling and clinical prediction across cancers and platforms.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
tRNAZAP: Deep learning toolkit for nanopore tRNA signal analysis
Pooria Daneshvar Kakhaki, Stuart Akeson, Neda Ghohabi Esfahani…·Miten Jain
tRNAZAP is a deep learning toolkit for analyzing nanopore tRNA sequencing data, achieving high accuracy in segmentation and classification tasks.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.28.755067 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint✦ In-depth digest
MtbAIM: AI/ML-guided endpoint-specific prediction of small-molecule activity across drug-susceptible and drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Tree models on RDKit/Morgan features predict M.tb activity and MIC endpoints for drug-susceptible and resistant isolates, slightly beating pretrained embeddings; released as a Colab tool.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.28.754881 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Representing biological concepts as directions in foundation model embeddings
Ahmad Shamail, Claire D. McWhite
This paper shows that biological concepts can be represented as directions in foundation model embeddings, enabling interpretable and reusable analysis of diverse biological properties.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.10.758204 - BioengineeringbioRxivPreprint
Coordinated Enhancement of Molecular and Spatial Fidelity for Biological Inference in Spatial Transcriptomics
Xiaofei Wang, Ningfeng Que, Hanyu Liu…·Chao Li
FOCUS improves spatial transcriptomics by coordinating molecular and spatial fidelity across multiple tasks and datasets, revealing clearer biological patterns in immunology, development, and oncology.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Reformulating Protein Corona Prediction as Universal Protein-conditioned Learning
Xinhe Wu, Chen Wang, Yadong Jin…·Huan Tang
This paper introduces NanoPCT, a framework that predicts protein corona formation by learning universal patterns across proteins and enables zero-shot prediction for unseen proteins.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.09.752255 - NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
Linear NeuroPaint: An Efficient Baseline for Cross-Session Neural Alignment and Inpainting
Yuan Yao, Jì Xià, Liam Paninski, Kenneth D. Miller
Linear NeuroPaint evaluates a linear model for cross-session neural alignment and inpainting, finding it less accurate than nonlinear models but computationally efficient.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.03.756082 - PathologybioRxivPreprint
UniMedSeg: Unified Multi-Modal Medical Image Segmentation via Uncertainty Guided Encoding and Frequency-Spatial Dual-Prompt Decoding
Jingling Zhang, Shu ting Zheng, Xiang Fei Liu…·Jia Gu
UniMedSeg improves multi-modal medical image segmentation by integrating uncertainty-guided encoding and dual-prompt decoding for better domain generalization and spatial risk estimation.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.03.755900 - MicrobiologybioRxivPreprint
Label-free identification of bacterial species using adapted vision transformers
Erik Hallström, Vinodh K. Kandavalli, M. Henar Marino Miguélez…·Carolina Wählby
This paper develops a vision transformer model for rapid bacterial species identification from time-lapse images without fluorescent labels, achieving high accuracy on clinical isolates.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.09.757828 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
EventHorizon: A Foundation Model for Clinical Flow Cytometry
Mattia Medina Grespan, Muir J. Morrison, Brendan D. O’Fallon…·David P. Ng
EventHorizon is a foundation model for clinical flow cytometry that uses self-supervised learning to generate embeddings for diagnostic use, achieving high accuracy in identifying genetic abnormalities.
1 citation - Plant BiologyFrontiers in Plant SciencePeer-reviewed
Vision Normalizing Flows for the probability-informed detection of banana diseases from in-field images
Alisa Prusokiene, Augustinas Prusokas, Renata Retkutė
The paper develops a vision normalizing flow model to detect banana diseases from in-field images with high accuracy, using pre-trained embeddings and probabilistic density estimation.
DOI 10.3389/fpls.2026.1937900 - BioengineeringbioRxivPreprint
Predicting viral host range for reverse zoonosis surveillance
Edward B. Irvine, Thomas Bikias, Theo Schifferli…·Sai T Reddy
The paper predicts viral host range using a combination of experimental screening and deep learning to identify potential animal reservoirs for reverse zoonotic transmission.
- GenomicsbioRxivPreprint
Cerberus: bidirectional state space blocks improve accuracy and efficiency of regulatory sequence models
David R. Kelley, Han Yuan, Xingfan Huang, Johannes Linder
The paper introduces Cerberus, an improved regulatory sequence model using bidirectional state space blocks, achieving higher accuracy and efficiency than existing models like Borzoi.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.02.756377 - Synthetic BiologybioRxivPreprint
VesiScope: A stand-alone tool for the automatic detection, quantification and size analysis of GUVs from phase contrast microscopy images
Dario Cecchi, Angelo Lasala, Federica Poli…·Stefano Palagi
VesiScope detects and analyzes GUVs from phase contrast images using a YOLOv11 model, enabling accurate and efficient label-free quantification.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.08.757674 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
GRASP: Graph Representation Learning with Assay Supervision for Molecular Properties
Satya Pratik Srivastava, Rohan Gorantla, Sharath Krishna Chundru…·Rajeev Kumar Singh
GRASP is a graph Transformer that learns molecular structure from ZINC20 data and adapts to ChEMBL bioactivity, achieving better performance than existing models on ADMET prediction tasks.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.28.755019 - EcologybioRxivPreprint
STEM-LM: Spatio-Temporal Ecological Modeling via Masked Language Model for Multi-Species Distribution
Jacky Kaiyuan Li, Wonseop Lim, Robin Rheem…·Rasmus Nielsen
STEM-LM uses masked language modeling to predict multi-species distributions by treating species presence as tokens in a spatio-temporal 'sentence', achieving high discrimination on ecological datasets.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.13.724718 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint✦ In-depth digest
PIE: Generalizing perturbation effects across unseen perturbations, contexts and datasets
Rishi Verma, Abhinav Adduri, Beatrice Bevilacqua…·Yusuf Roohani
Predicting differentially expressed genes and expression shifts per condition from database embeddings plus per-gene evidence, PIE reaches 1.2–3.2 times the best baseline's AUPRC on unseen contexts, perturbations and datasets.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Evaluating in-context learning with prompting regimes for transformer-based synthetic health tabular data generation
Amanda Bertgren, Fredrik Öhberg, Paolo Soda…·Christer Grönlund
This study evaluates zero shot, one shot, and few shot prompting regimes for transformer-based synthetic health tabular data generation using small models, finding zero shot improves fidelity but reduces privacy.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.29.754354 - MicrobiologybioRxivPreprint
Structure-Informed Stress-Testing of the Standard Numbering Scheme for Class B β-Lactamases Using AlphaFold2
Muhammad Musshif Khan Niazi, Haris Ahmed Khan
The paper uses AlphaFold2 to model class B β-lactamases without experimental structures, tests the BBL numbering scheme's validity, and identifies structural exceptions.
DOI 10.64898/2026.10.01.756119 - PhysiologybioRxivPreprint
Wavelet Transform improves time-frequency characterization of the Electroretinographic Oscillatory Potentials as compared to Short-Time Fourier Transform across experimental and clinical models
Patrick Reiman, Sean Ghiam, Avigail Beryozkin…·Boris Rosin
This study compares wavelet transform and short-time Fourier transform for analyzing electroretinographic oscillatory potentials, finding wavelet transform provides better time-frequency resolution and disease-specific insights.
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Dataset structure outweighs method choice in single-cell cell-type annotation
In a 63-tool benchmark, dataset identity explained ≈84% of Cohen's κ variance on synthetic data versus ≈4% for tool identity, and k-nearest-neighbor (kNN) purity predicted accuracy near-linearly (R² = 0.85–0.99).
- NeurosciencebioRxivPreprint
AREION: A Foundation Model for Atlas-Agnostic Representation Learning of Brain Connectome
Zhao Zhang, Hongming Li, Yuanwang Zhang…·Yong Fan A
AREION learns atlas-agnostic representations of brain connectomes, outperforming baselines with fewer parameters and strong transferability across atlases.
- BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
Reaction-aware hypergraph learning of chemical representations with LARK
Jianbo Qiao, Yuhang Liu, Junru Jin…·Leyi Wei
This paper introduces LARK, a framework that learns chemical representations from reactions, showing improved performance in reaction prediction and molecular property prediction.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.15.751932 - BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
A moving target: non-stationary selection governs unsupervised prediction of viral fitness
Stéphane Aris‐Brosou, Matthieu Vilain
This paper develops an unsupervised pipeline to predict viral fitness using sequence data and finds that protein alignment, not model size, is key for accurate prediction.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.17.752359 - BiochemistrybioRxivPreprint
Screening Lipid Nanoparticles through Structure-Ratio Alignment
Yoonho Lee, Yunhak Oh, Heesun Choi, Chanyoung Park
This paper introduces STRATA, a framework that models interactions between lipid nanoparticle components and their ratios to improve prediction of transfection efficiency.
DOI 10.64898/2026.07.08.737142 - Pharmacology & ToxicologybioRxivPreprint
Assessing chemical toxicity across Eukaryota using multimodal transformers
Styrbjörn Käll, Mikael B. Gustavsson, Patrik Svedberg…·Erik Kristiansson
TRIDENT-2 predicts chemical toxicity across eukaryotic species using multimodal transformers, achieving accuracy across diverse chemicals and taxa.
DOI 10.64898/2026.09.23.753795