DOGMA: Weaving Structural Information into Data-centric Single-cell Transcriptomics Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01839v1
• Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:10:09 GMT
• Title: DOGMA: Weaving Structural Information into Data-centric Single-cell Transcriptomics Analysis
• Authors: Ru Zhang, Xunkai Li, Yaxin Deng, Sicheng Liu, Daohan Su, Qiangqiang Dai, Hongchao Qin, Rong-Hua Li, Guoren Wang, Jia Li,
• Abstract summary: We propose DOGMA, a data-centric framework designed for the structural reshaping and semantic enhancement of raw data.<n>In complex multi-species and multi-organ benchmarks, DOGMA SOTA performance, exhibiting superior zero-shot robustness and sample efficiency.
• Score: 43.565183518761984
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Recently, data-centric AI methodology has been a dominant paradigm in single-cell transcriptomics analysis, which treats data representation rather than model complexity as the fundamental bottleneck. In the review of current studies, earlier sequence methods treat cells as independent entities and adapt prevalent ML models to analyze their directly inherited sequence data. Despite their simplicity and intuition, these methods overlook the latent intercellular relationships driven by the functional mechanisms of biological systems and the inherent quality issues of the raw sequence data. Therefore, a series of structured methods has emerged. Although they employ various heuristic rules to capture intricate intercellular relationships and enhance the raw sequencing data, these methods often neglect biological prior knowledge. This omission incurs substantial overhead and yields suboptimal graph representations, thereby hindering the utility of ML models. To address them, we propose DOGMA, a holistic data-centric framework designed for the structural reshaping and semantic enhancement of raw data through multi-level biological prior knowledge. Transcending reliance on stochastic heuristics, DOGMA redefines graph construction by integrating Statistical Anchors with Cell Ontology and Phylogenetic Trees to enable deterministic structure discovery and robust cross-species alignment. Furthermore, Gene Ontology is utilized to bridge the feature-level semantic gap by incorporating functional priors. In complex multi-species and multi-organ benchmarks, DOGMA achieves SOTA performance, exhibiting superior zero-shot robustness and sample efficiency while operating with significantly lower computational cost.

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