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GenePT

Uses text embeddings of gene descriptions from a general LLM to represent cells, and performs surprisingly well.

GenePT (Stanford, 2023) showed that embeddings from GPT-3.5 gene summaries rival specialised models on many tasks, questioning how much single-cell pretraining adds.

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How it works

GenePT aggregates LLM gene-description embeddings weighted by expression.

Strengths
  • Cheap, interpretable
Limitations
  • No perturbation modelling
Since
2023

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