Configuration: CellPLM (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.0068 MSE (all genes, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · lower
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source CellPLM on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'CellPLM', dataset 'Replogle', column 'MSE' Configuration: CellPLM (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.184 MSE (top 20 differentially expressed genes per perturbation condition, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · lower
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source CellPLM on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'CellPLM', dataset 'Replogle', column 'MSE DE' Configuration: CellPLM (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.987 Pearson (all genes, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source CellPLM on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'CellPLM', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson' Configuration: CellPLM (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.941 Pearson (top 20 differentially expressed genes per perturbation condition, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source CellPLM on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'CellPLM', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson DE' Configuration: CellPLM (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.38 Pearson delta (all genes in the intersected gene set)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source CellPLM on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'CellPLM', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson Delta' Configuration: CellPLM (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.46 Pearson delta (top 20 differentially expressed genes per perturbation condition)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source CellPLM on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'CellPLM', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson Delta DE' Configuration: GenePT-w (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.0076 MSE (all genes, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · lower
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source GenePT-w on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'GenePT-w', dataset 'Replogle', column 'MSE' Configuration: GenePT-w (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.137 MSE (top 20 differentially expressed genes per perturbation condition, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · lower
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source GenePT-w on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'GenePT-w', dataset 'Replogle', column 'MSE DE' Configuration: GenePT-w (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.987 Pearson (all genes, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source GenePT-w on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'GenePT-w', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson' Configuration: GenePT-w (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.925 Pearson (top 20 differentially expressed genes per perturbation condition, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source GenePT-w on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'GenePT-w', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson DE' Configuration: GenePT-w (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.3 Pearson delta (all genes in the intersected gene set)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source GenePT-w on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'GenePT-w', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson Delta' Configuration: GenePT-w (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.451 Pearson delta (top 20 differentially expressed genes per perturbation condition)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source GenePT-w on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'GenePT-w', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson Delta DE' Configuration: scELMo (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.0077 MSE (all genes, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · lower
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source scELMo on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'scELMo', dataset 'Replogle', column 'MSE' Configuration: scELMo (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.143 MSE (top 20 differentially expressed genes per perturbation condition, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · lower
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source scELMo on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'scELMo', dataset 'Replogle', column 'MSE DE' Configuration: scELMo (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.987 Pearson (all genes, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source scELMo on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'scELMo', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson' Configuration: scELMo (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.921 Pearson (top 20 differentially expressed genes per perturbation condition, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source scELMo on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'scELMo', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson DE' Configuration: scELMo (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.329 Pearson delta (all genes in the intersected gene set)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source scELMo on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'scELMo', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson Delta' Configuration: scELMo (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.458 Pearson delta (top 20 differentially expressed genes per perturbation condition)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source scELMo on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'scELMo', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson Delta DE' Configuration: scGPT-spatial (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.0076 MSE (all genes, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · lower
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source scGPT-spatial on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'scGPT-spatial', dataset 'Replogle', column 'MSE' Configuration: scGPT-spatial (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.18 MSE (top 20 differentially expressed genes per perturbation condition, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · lower
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source scGPT-spatial on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'scGPT-spatial', dataset 'Replogle', column 'MSE DE' Configuration: scGPT-spatial (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.986 Pearson (all genes, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source scGPT-spatial on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'scGPT-spatial', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson' Configuration: scGPT-spatial (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.944 Pearson (top 20 differentially expressed genes per perturbation condition, predicted versus observed post-perturbation expression)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source scGPT-spatial on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'scGPT-spatial', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson DE' Configuration: scGPT-spatial (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.306 Pearson delta (all genes in the intersected gene set)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source scGPT-spatial on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'scGPT-spatial', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson Delta' Configuration: scGPT-spatial (gears-decoder, Chen et al. 2026) Protocol: Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle Dataset subset: Replogle (Chen et al. 2026) 0.38 Pearson delta (top 20 differentially expressed genes per perturbation condition)unitless · higher
Uncertainty: Not reported by the source
Coverage: Not reported scored / Not reported eligible
Independent external evaluation · Source checked Evidence concern: excluded from comparisons Table 4 precision and recall equal accuracy in all eight Nicheformer and CellPLM rows, as micro (global) averaging would give, but recall differs from accuracy in every scGPT-spatial, GenePT-w, scELMo and Novae row. The Methods call precision and recall 'global' without defining the averaging, so they may be averaged differently between models and should not be compared across models.Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 4, columns 'Accuracy', 'Precision' and 'Recall'; Methods 'Cell type annotation' (page 25)
Methods, coverage and source scGPT-spatial on Chen et al. 2026 genetic perturbation prediction, Replogle
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Harmonised benchmarking of foundation models for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveals context-dependent generalisation · Table 5, model 'scGPT-spatial', dataset 'Replogle', column 'Pearson Delta DE'