2026-04-12

Top 40

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Single-cell

Coupling chromatin accessibility with expression to infer regulatory programs

Fetal atlases now pair chromatin accessibility with expression across 817,740 cells, revealing motif syntax governing cell-type-specific gene regulation.

Genomics

Benchmarks and multiplexed assays sharpen somatic and germline variant accuracy

Reference-material benchmarks and multiplexed functional data now anchor variant-level accuracy claims across somatic, germline, and splicing analyses.

Tools & infrastructure

Benchmarks and learned models reshape metagenomic analysis from raw reads and unitigs

New preprints and published pipelines benchmark metagenomic workflows on simulated or curated references, with learned models now operating directly on raw…

Single-cell

Learned representations recover structure from noisy, sparse transcriptomic measurements

Deep generative and contrastive models now address covariates, missing modalities, and cross-modal translation across single-cell and spatial transcriptomic…

ML / AI methods

Learned models are benchmarked on and generate raw DNA and protein sequences

Benchmarks of general LLMs on raw genomes and new generative protein and DNA models test sequence-level biological fidelity across tasks.

6 Omics software tools extend reproducibility to environments and outputs↑ 1.7×Tools & infrastructure 7 Linking regulatory layers to target genes across single-cell and spatial modalities↑ 1.6×Single-cell 8 Biomedical predictive models show limited generalisation under cohort and sequence shift↑ 1.7×ML / AI methods 9 Learned representations recover regulatory structure from sequence and expression dataML / AI methods 10 LLM agents automate bioinformatics workflows with verifiable, grounded outputsML / AI methods 11 Learned graph encoders feeding task-specific heads in drug and protein predictionML / AI methods 12 Statistical tests for selection, hidden variation and FST outliers in genome dataGenomics 13 Diffusion and LLM generators now condition on flexible pockets and MD/QM-derived dataStructural bio & protein design 14 Whole-genome comparisons resolve duplication, transfer, and synteny across diverse…Genomics 15 Calibration and uncertainty quantification of mechanistic models across data typesSystems biology 16 MD and integrative modeling resolve ligand-specific helix plasticity in GPCRsStructural bio & protein design 17 Reproducible environments, DNA library design and standard formats for biology toolsTools & infrastructure 18 Generative and coarse-grained models extend peptide and polymer simulation scalesStructural bio & protein design 19 Lowering molecular simulation cost through workflows, learned potentials, and storageStructural bio & protein design 20 Genomic position and 3D context shape regulatory element output in yeast and BrassicaEpigenomics