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BoYueGRN: Zero-shot causal discovery of directed gene regulatory networks from single-cell transcriptomes via amortized inference over synthetic structural causal models

Aug 2026 · bioRxiv · 0 citations
Biology

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BoYueGRN reframes directed GRN inference as a train-once, reuse-across-datasets paradigm, which opens the door to systematic, atlas-scale mapping of regulatory dynamics across human diseases.

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