CellFM (Nature Communications 2025)
github.com/biomed-ai/cellfm800M-parameter single-cell foundation model pretrained on ~100 million human cells, the largest single-species single-cell corpus to date, using an Enhanced Retentive Network (ERetNet) with linear-time complexity instead of standard transformer attention; supports cell type annotation, perturbation response prediction, gene function prediction, and gene network analysis, with pretrained weights and LoRA fine-tuning scripts (Sun Yat-sen University, Chongqing University & Huawei, 117+ stars, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Sourced from
- Awesome AI for Science — github.com/biomed-ai/cellfm
- GitHub — github.com/biomed-ai/cellfm
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