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scFoundation

100M-parameter foundation model trained on 50M human single-cell transcriptomes.

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CategorySingle-cell & foundation models
GitHubbiomap-research/scFoundation
First public2024-06-06 (source)
Paperhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02305-7
LicenseApache-2.0 (code); model weights under separate terms
PricingOpen source
Tags#foundation-model
Last checked2026-10-16

Specs

Pretraining corpus50M+ human cells
ArchitecturexTrimoGene transformer, 100M params
TasksEmbeddings, annotation, fine-tuning
SpeciesHuman
GitHub stars434
InterfaceDocker

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