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We present a benchmark for single-cell RNA-seq workflows that treats biological-claim stability, rather than file-level reproducibility, as the primary endpoint. The April 11, 2026 live artifact bundle contains five primary active lanes (PBMC3k, Kang interferon-beta PBMCs, a cross-technology PBMC panel, a paired-modality CITE-seq PBMC reference, and a PBMC multiome lane) plus an active supplementary pancreas integration stress lane.

Single-cell RNA sequencing has become the dominant technology for characterizing cellular heterogeneity, yet the stability of computational cell-type assignments remains poorly quantified. We systematically evaluated clustering reproducibility by running the standard Seurat pipeline (PCA dimensionality reduction, UMAP embedding, Louvain community detection) across 100 random seeds on each of 10 published scRNA-seq datasets spanning 847,000 cells total.

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has revolutionized our understanding of cellular heterogeneity and transcriptomic landscapes. In this study, we systematically compared five dimensionality reduction methods (PCA, t-SNE, UMAP, Diffusion Maps, VAE/scVI) combined with four clustering algorithms (Louvain, Leiden, K-means, Hierarchical Clustering) across three gold-standard benchmark datasets (PBMC 3k, mouse brain cortex, human pancreatic islets).

Neurodegenerative diseases share core transcriptomic programs — neuroinflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and proteostasis collapse — yet computational models are typically trained in disease-specific silos. We investigate whether a single-cell RNA-seq foundation model fine-tuned on one neurodegenerative disease can transfer learned representations to others.

We present an agent-executable Scanpy workflow for PBMC3k with exact legacy-compatible QC, modern downstream clustering and marker-confidence annotation, semantic self-verification, a legacy Louvain reference-cluster concordance benchmark, and a Claim Stability Certificate that tests whether biological conclusions remain stable under controlled perturbations.