Modeling Cell-Cycle-Aware Single-Cell Drug Perturbation Responses

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30695v2
• Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:53:46 GMT
• Title: Modeling Cell-Cycle-Aware Single-Cell Drug Perturbation Responses
• Abstract summary: scCycleMol is a cell-cycle-aware perturbation prediction framework built on a curated 24-hour SciPlex3 benchmark.<n> scCycleMol derives cell-cycle supervision from the treated state and applies it to predicted treated expression.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Single-cell drug perturbation models should capture transcriptional response magnitude and whether a treatment changes the proliferative state of the cell. This is difficult because cell-cycle variation is often treated as a nuisance factor, and benchmark processing rarely makes drug-induced phase changes a primary prediction target. We introduce scCycleMol, a cell-cycle-aware perturbation prediction framework built on a curated 24-hour SciPlex3 benchmark with standardized molecule identities, dose and cell-line metadata, modeled genes, and expression-derived cell-cycle supervision. scCycleMol derives cell-cycle supervision from the treated state and applies it to predicted treated expression without using phase as an input covariate. The model includes a learnable full-expression cell-cycle head with circular G1/S/G2M targets, and we evaluate readout-only supervision (with stop-gradient) versus closed-loop supervision (backpropagating through decoder, dose-response module, and drug representation). We also compare molecular representations and pretraining sources to isolate the effect of the cell-cycle objective. On a processed 24-hour SciPlex3 benchmark (635,541 cells, 186 perturbations, 188 compound embeddings, 3 cell lines, 4 doses plus DMSO, 5,080 genes), the best LINCS-pretrained circular variant reaches 0.9093 mean all-gene R-squared and 0.6843 mean DE-gene R-squared. Under matched preprocessing, closed-loop cell-cycle supervision improves phase accuracy by 0.54-0.62 points while keeping mean all-gene R-squared within 0.003 of matched chemCPA no-cell-cycle models; Tahoe-pretrained readout-only circular supervision achieves the strongest phase accuracy at 0.9609.

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