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The challenges of single cell transcriptomics on difficult human tissue: the placenta
NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics · Jun 27, 2026 · 2 min

A comparison of five single-cell transcriptomics methods on human placenta reveals that sample processing drastically alters detected cell-type proportions, while in situ combinatorial indexing shows a strong, unexpected bias toward nuclear rather than cytoplasmic RNA.

CAMUS: scalable phylogenetic network estimation
Bioinformatics · Jul 1, 2026 · 2 min

CAMUS is a new scalable algorithm for estimating phylogenetic networks that can analyze datasets of up to 201 species in hours, overcoming the strict computational limits of previous methods.

Contrastive Learning on Multimodal Analysis of Electronic Health Records
Journal of the American Statistical Association · Jul 8, 2026 · 1 min

The authors developed a multimodal contrastive learning model for Electronic Health Records that mathematically connects the loss function to the singular value decomposition of a pointwise mutual information matrix, enabling a novel privacy-preserving algorithm.