Toward a foundation model of causal cell and tissue biology with a Perturbation Cell and Tissue Atlas

JE Rood, A Hupalowska, A Regev - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Comprehensively charting the biologically causal circuits that govern the phenotypic space
of human cells has often been viewed as an insurmountable challenge. However, in the last …

Cell Painting: a decade of discovery and innovation in cellular imaging

S Seal, MA Trapotsi, O Spjuth, S Singh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Modern quantitative image analysis techniques have enabled high-throughput, high-content
imaging experiments. Image-based profiling leverages the rich information in images to …

Multiplexed, image-based pooled screens in primary cells and tissues with PerturbView

T Kudo, AM Meireles, R Moncada, Y Chen, P Wu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Optical pooled screening (OPS) is a scalable method for linking image-based phenotypes
with cellular perturbations. However, it has thus far been restricted to relatively low-plex …

Building, benchmarking, and exploring perturbative maps of transcriptional and morphological data

S Celik, JC Hütter, SM Carlos, NH Lazar… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The continued scaling of genetic perturbation technologies combined with high-dimensional
assays such as cellular microscopy and RNA-sequencing has enabled genome-scale …

A pooled cell painting CRISPR screening platform enables de novo inference of gene function by self-supervised deep learning

S Sivanandan, B Leitmann, E Lubeck, MM Sultan… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Pooled CRISPR screening has emerged as a powerful method of mapping gene functions
thanks to its scalability, affordability, and robustness against well or plate-specific …

Gene-level representation learning via interventional style transfer in optical pooled screening

M Bigverdi, B Höckendorf, H Yao… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Optical pooled screening (OPS) combines automated microscopy and genetic perturbations
to systematically study gene function in a scalable and cost-effective way. Leveraging the …

Biological cartography: Building and benchmarking representations of life

S Celik, JC Huetter, S Melo, N Lazar… - … 2022 Workshop on …, 2022 - openreview.net
The continued scaling of genetic perturbation technologies combined with high-dimensional
assays (microscopy and RNA-sequencing) has enabled genome-scale reverse-genetics …

Mapping variant effects on anti-tumor hallmarks of primary human T cells with base-editing screens

ZH Walsh, P Shah, N Kothapalli, SB Shah… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) in key T cell genes can drive clinical pathologies and
could be repurposed to improve cellular cancer immunotherapies. Here, we perform …

NIS-Seq enables cell-type-agnostic optical perturbation screening

CI Fandrey, M Jentzsch, P Konopka, A Hoch… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Optical pooled screening offers a broader-scale alternative to enrichment-based
perturbation screening, using fluorescence microscopy to correlate phenotypes and …

Highly multiplexed, image-based pooled screens in primary cells and tissues with PerturbView

T Kudo, AM Meireles, R Moncada, Y Chen, P Wu… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Optical pooled screening (OPS) is a highly scalable method for linking image-based
phenotypes with cellular perturbations. However, it has thus far been restricted to relatively …