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• 2024-04-03

Training foundation models on large collections of scRNA-seq data

• Sergei Rybakov, Felix Fischer, Maciek Wiatrak, Ilan Gold, Yanay Rosen, Sunny Sun, Chaichontat Sriworarat, Fabian Theis, Jeremie Kalfon, Alex Wolf

A few labs and companies now train models on large-scale scRNA-seq count matrices and related data modalities. But unlike for many other data types, there isn’t yet a playbook for data scales that don’t fit into memory.