# BrainBeacon

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  🧠 A cross-species foundation model for single-cell–resolved brain spatial transcriptomics
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BrainBeacon is a foundation model pretrained on large-scale brain spatial transcriptomics data across species and platforms.
It provides unified embeddings for downstream tasks such as cell type annotation, clustering, cross-species alignment, and in-silico perturbation.

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BrainBeacon is designed to support multi-species and multi-platform spatial transcriptomics analysis with a unified tokenization and modeling pipeline.
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installation
api/index
notebooks/index
references

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