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@alandenadel.bsky.social
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Bioinformatics scientist @alleninstitute.org. PhD in computational biology from @brown.edu Center for Computational Molecular Biology. Previously at #illumina. he/him

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alandenadel.bsky.social @alandenadel.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I'm exited to share that our paper investigating how increased pre-training dataset size influences single-cell foundation model performance impacts performance on downstream tasks has been published at Nature Methods! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Evaluating the role of pretraining dataset size and diversity on single-cell foundation model performance - Nature Methods
The performance of single-cell foundation models is dependent on many factors. This study assesses the effect of the pretraining dataset’s size and diversity, revealing potential challenges in pursuin...
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Alex Lu @alexijie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Come do a PhD internship with me!
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Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
You have until Dec 1 to apply to the bioml PhD research internship! This is where you apply to work with me, @alexijie.bsky.social @avapamini.bsky.social @lcrawford.bsky.social or Kristen Severson! (new) link and some instructions below apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
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Research Intern - Machine Learning for Biology and Healthcare | Microsoft Careers
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...
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Lorin Crawford @lcrawford.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Come do a research internship with us! Details on the posting and how to upload a research statement given below!
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alandenadel.bsky.social @alandenadel.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We have recently uploaded our revised manuscript “Evaluating the role of pre-training dataset size and diversity on single-cell foundation model performance”. TL;DR: More models, more tasks => same results.
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allen institute @alleninstitute.org · 07/11/2025
Introducing REFLEX, a novel immune profiling assay. This new method allows for the capture of sequence information for potentially millions of T cells simultaneously. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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alandenadel.bsky.social @alandenadel.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We have recently uploaded our revised manuscript “Evaluating the role of pre-training dataset size and diversity on single-cell foundation model performance”. TL;DR: More models, more tasks => same results.
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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Quite an indictment of some of the current single cell "virtual cell" foundation models. Even for the relatively mundane applications, cell labeling, batch correction etc, they are poor compared to much simpler & cheaper methods.
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Zero-shot evaluation reveals limitations of single-cell foundation models - Genome Biology
Foundation models such as scGPT and Geneformer have not been rigorously evaluated in a setting where they are used without any further training (i.e., zero-shot). Understanding the performance of mode...
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Lorin Crawford @lcrawford.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Great to see our paper presenting recall, a framework which calibrates clustering for the impact of data "double-dipping" in single-cell studies, out today in AJHG! Congratulations, @alandenadel.bsky.social and co-authors!
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The American Journal of Human Genetics @ajhgnews.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨Online now! 📄Artificial variables help to avoid over-clustering in single-cell RNA sequencing 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 @alandenadel.bsky.social @lcrawford.bsky.social & co
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Artificial variables help to avoid over-clustering in single-cell RNA sequencing
Calibrated clustering with artificial variables protects against over-clustering single-cell RNA-seq data by controlling for the impact of reusing the same data twice when performing differential expr...
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Julian Stamp @julian-stamp.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Can we find epistasis in human traits? To help, in our preprint, we present the most scalable and powerful framework for detecting epistasis to date: the “sparse marginal epistasis test” (SME). Thank you @lcrawford.bsky.social, @sampatsmith.bsky.social, Dan Weinreich! doi.org/10.1101/2025... 1/6
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Sparse modeling of interactions enables fast detection of genome-wide epistasis in biobank-scale studies
The lack of computational methods capable of detecting epistasis in biobanks has led to uncertainty about the role of non-additive genetic effects on complex trait variation. The marginal epistasis fr...
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alandenadel.bsky.social @alandenadel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Current methods in the field are trained on atlases ranging from 1 to 100 million cells. In our newest preprint, we show that these same approaches tend to plateau in performance with pre-training datasets that are only a fraction of the size.
Figure 1. Strategy to assess the effects of pre-training dataset size and diversity on scFM performance. (A) Schematic of the downsampling approaches, sizes of downsampled pre-training datasets, and data splitting strategy. (B) An example of what evaluation performance might a priori be expected to look like as a function of pre-training dataset size and diversity.
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