TranscriptFormer: A generative cell atlas across 1.5 billion years of evolution

James D. Pearce, Sara E. Simmonds, Gita Mahmoudabadi, Lakshmi Krishnan, Giovanni Palla, Ana-Maria Istrate, Alexander Tarashansky, Benjamin Nelson, Omar Valenzuela, Donghui Li, Stephen R. Quake, Theofanis Karaletsos

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DOI: 10.1126/science.aec8514
Published: 2026-07-02
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Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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@article{allodium:10.1126/science.aec8514,
  title = {TranscriptFormer: A generative cell atlas across 1.5 billion years of evolution},
  author = {James D. Pearce and Sara E. Simmonds and Gita Mahmoudabadi and Lakshmi Krishnan and Giovanni Palla and Ana-Maria Istrate and Alexander Tarashansky and Benjamin Nelson and Omar Valenzuela and Donghui Li and Stephen R. Quake and Theofanis Karaletsos},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Science},
  doi = {10.1126/science.aec8514},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec8514}
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - TranscriptFormer: A generative cell atlas across 1.5 billion years of evolution
AU  - James D. Pearce
AU  - Sara E. Simmonds
AU  - Gita Mahmoudabadi
AU  - Lakshmi Krishnan
AU  - Giovanni Palla
AU  - Ana-Maria Istrate
AU  - Alexander Tarashansky
AU  - Benjamin Nelson
AU  - Omar Valenzuela
AU  - Donghui Li
AU  - Stephen R. Quake
AU  - Theofanis Karaletsos
PY  - 2026
JO  - Science
DO  - 10.1126/science.aec8514
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Pearce, J. D., Simmonds, S. E., Mahmoudabadi, G., Krishnan, L., Palla, G., Istrate, A., Tarashansky, A., Nelson, B., Valenzuela, O., Li, D., Quake, S. R., & Karaletsos, T. (2026). TranscriptFormer: A generative cell atlas across 1.5 billion years of evolution. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aec8514

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