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Geneformer
Transformer pretrained on ~30M single-cell transcriptomes for network biology predictions.
| Category | Single-cell & foundation models |
|---|---|
| First public | 2023-05-31 (source) |
| Paper | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06139-9 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Pricing | Open source |
| Tags | #foundation-model#transfer-learning |
| Last checked | 2026-10-16 |
Compare with… Geneformer vs scGPT
Specs
| Pretraining corpus | ~30M (original) / ~104M transcriptomes |
|---|---|
| Architecture | Transformer |
| Tasks | In silico perturbation, cell + gene classification (fine-tuning) |
| Species | Human |
| GitHub stars | — |
| Interface | — |
Specs come from each project's README, paper or official page · Geneformer site · Geneformer paper. “—” means we couldn't verify it.
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