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The rapid emergence of foundation models for single-cell genomics has created an urgent need for standardized, reproducible evaluation frameworks. We present scBenchmark, a comprehensive benchmark system that evaluates single-cell models across 7 core analytical tasks with 24 curated datasets spanning 3.

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.