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UCE (Universal Cell Embeddings)
Cross-species zero-shot universal cell embedding foundation model.
| Category | Single-cell & foundation models |
|---|---|
| GitHub | snap-stanford/UCE |
| First public | 2023-11-29 (source) |
| Paper | https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.28.568918 |
| License | MIT |
| Pricing | Open source |
| Tags | #foundation-model#cross-species |
| Last checked | 2026-10-16 |
Specs
| Pretraining corpus | Cell atlas data from human and other species (self-supervised) |
|---|---|
| Architecture | Transformer |
| Tasks | Zero-shot embeddings |
| Species | Multi-species (species flag) |
| GitHub stars | 349 |
| Interface | Package |
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