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Sep 2026
Explicit Mechanistic Operators in Predictive Virtual Cells: Evidence, Failure Modes, and a Minimum Falsification Framework for Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction
This Perspective asks whether a biologically specified mechanistic operator improves out-of-distribution prediction of single-cell perturbation responses beyond strong simple, relational, transport-based, and learned-dynamical comparators.
Mikołaj Stańczak, Sarfaraz K. Niazi
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