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  • Computational biology
  • Genomics
  • Pharmacology

Background:

  • Drug resistance is a significant hurdle in cancer therapy.
  • Single-cell profiling reveals resistance mechanisms, but foundation models for drug response prediction are under-explored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce scDrugMap, a framework for benchmarking and predicting drug responses using single-cell foundation models.
  • To systematically evaluate the performance of various foundation models in single-cell drug response prediction.

Main Methods:

  • Evaluated eight single-cell foundation models and two large language models.
  • Analyzed 495,000 cells from 60 diverse datasets covering various tissues, drugs, and cancer types.
  • Assessed model performance in pooled-data, cross-data (fine-tuned), and zero-shot settings.

Main Results:

  • scFoundation demonstrated strong performance, especially in tumor tissues.
  • UCE achieved the best results after fine-tuning in cross-data analysis.
  • scGPT exhibited the highest accuracy in zero-shot predictions.

Conclusions:

  • scDrugMap offers the first comprehensive benchmark of foundation models for single-cell drug response prediction.
  • The platform accelerates drug discovery and supports translational precision oncology by providing user-friendly tools.