Xaira-Therapeutics/X-Atlas-Orion
X-Atlas/Orion X-Atlas: Orion edition (X-Atlas/Orion) is a Perturb-seq atlas containing two genome-wide Fix-Cryopreserve-ScRNAseq (FiCS) Perturb-seq screens that target all human protein-coding genes (n = 18,903 genes). The dataset is comprised of eight million HCT116 and HEK293T cells, each deeply sequenced to a median of 16,000 unique molecular identifiers (UMIs) per cell. The median on-target knockdown efficiency is 75.4% in HCT116 cells and 51.5% in HEK293T cells, with a… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Xaira-Therapeutics/X-Atlas-Orion.
X-Atlas/Orion
X-Atlas: Orion edition (X-Atlas/Orion) is a Perturb-seq atlas containing two genome-wide Fix-Cryopreserve-ScRNAseq (FiCS) Perturb-seq screens that target all human protein-coding genes (n = 18,903 genes). The dataset is comprised of eight million HCT116 and HEK293T cells, each deeply sequenced to a median of 16,000 unique molecular identifiers (UMIs) per cell. The median on-target knockdown efficiency is 75.4% in HCT116 cells and 51.5% in HEK293T cells, with a median of at least 140 cells per perturbation. Through the release of X-Atlas/Orion, we highlight the potential of FiCS Perturb-seq to address current scalability and variability challenges in data generation, advance foundation model development that incorporates gene-dosage effects, and accelerate biological discoveries.
Preprint: X-Atlas/Orion: Genome-wide Perturb-seq Datasets via a Scalable Fix-Cryopreserve Platform for Training Dose-Dependent Biological Foundation Models <br> Processed h5ads and other metadata: https://doi.org/10.25452/figshare.plus.29190726
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Tutorial
from datasets import load_dataset
# load the entire dataset in streaming mode
ds = load_dataset("Xaira-Therapeutics/X-Atlas-Orion", streaming=True)
# load only hct116
hct116_ds = load_dataset("Xaira-Therapeutics/X-Atlas-Orion", streaming=True, split="HCT116")
# load only hek293t
hek293t_ds = load_dataset("Xaira-Therapeutics/X-Atlas-Orion", streaming=True, split="HEK293T")Dataset
The dataset contains the following information:
Gene metadata
All samples were aligned to the 10x Genomics GRCh38 2024-A pre-built reference genome (human reference (GRCh38) - 2024-A). Official gene symbols and ensembl IDs were extracted from the genes.gtf file.
# load metadata containing mappings to gene tokens and names
gene_metadata = load_dataset("Xaira-Therapeutics/X-Atlas-Orion","gene_metadata")Citation
@article{huang2025xatlasorion,
title={X-Atlas/Orion: Genome-wide Perturb-seq Datasets via a Scalable Fix-Cryopreserve Platform for Training Dose-Dependent Biological Foundation Models},
author={Huang, Ann C and Hsieh, Tsung-Han S and Zhu, Jiang and Michuda, Jackson and Teng, Ashton and Kim, Soohong and Rumsey, Elizabeth M and Lam, Sharon K and Anigbogu, Ikenna and Wright, Philip and Ameen, Mohamed and You, Kwontae and Graves, Christopher J and Kim, Hyunsung John and Litterman, Adam J and Sit, Rene V and Blocker, Alex and Chu, Ci},
journal={bioRxiv},
year={2025},
url={https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.11.659105v1}
}