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Patterns, a Cell Press journal
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A peer-reviewed #openaccess data science journal from @cellpress.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief: Andrew L Hufton (@alhufton.bsky.social)
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New call for submissions!

To help promote critical reassessment of prior work, we are now inviting submissions that present compelling and creative reanalyses.

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Submit before August 1, 2026

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Text presented over a blue and orange background reads: Patterns, a Cell Press journal. Call for papers: Reanalysis. Compelling and creative reanalyses of prior works of high importance and broad impact. August 1, 2026.
October 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Our October issue is now live!
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Featured on the cover this month is a paper presenting LigUnity, a foundation model for predicting small molecule binding affinity for drug discovery and optimization applications www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
In the image, proteins are represented as sailboats drifting in the dark. At the center, stands a lighthouse symbolizing the AI method LigUnity. Its beam illuminates several sailboats, guiding them toward glowing buoys, which symbolize ligands with high activity. The image illustrates the work by Feng et al. in this month's issue of Patterns. Image credit: Bin Feng, International Digital Economy Academy.
October 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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How can AI benefit communities, particularly in low-resource settings? In our latest People of Data interview, Edith Luhanga from @cmu.edu Africa shares her journey in human-centric AI, discussing topics such as digital health, financial inclusion, and digital equity.

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September 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Our September issue is now live! www.cell.com/patterns/iss...

This month's awesome cover image highlights a paper from a team of researchers at @uniulm.bsky.social who present a #quantum algorithm for gene regulatory network discovery
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The journal's cover image illustrates a futuristic city where all structures are interconnected to support the collective prosperity of the organism. At its center is a highly advanced building that receives comprehensive information from across the city and uses it to evaluate the city’s current status as a global entity, which arises from the interconnected components of such a complex network. Similarly, genes within cells function like dynamic circuits by continuously toggling on and off to generate stable patterns known as “attractors,” which influence and control the behaviour of living organisms. In this issue of Patterns, Rossini et al. present an innovative quantum computing approach that rapidly detects these stable genetic patterns—much like navigating a maze—by harnessing quantum mechanical properties. The integration of quantum computing with biology opens new pathways for better understanding the complexity of life. Image credit: Marietta Hamberger.
September 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Our August issue is now live!
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This month's issue includes papers looking at AI governance from the perspective of complexity science, as well as AI applications in disease diagnosis, natural product synthesis, single-cell analysis, and more...
August 11, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Our July issue is now live!
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Several papers in this issue highlight #opensource software and the crucial role it plays in #datascience. Check out our related editorial: www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
Our cover image this month is an artistic rendering of a community garden, seen from above. Each plot in the garden may serve a specific family or group, and the gardeners themselves will have widely varying levels of experience, but across the garden, experience and tools are shared, creating a fertile, cooperative ecosystem that supports a broad community. Image credit: Philip Krzeminski
July 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Our June issue is now live! www.cell.com/patterns/iss...

On the cover is an artwork from Dirk Vanmassenhove that the artist feels evokes findings in a study on gender bias also published in this issue. "Gender, like color, is layered, mutable," he writes.

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On the cover: “Sur Incise / On Intersection”: Seeing through layers “Sur Incise” draws us in with fractured surfaces—blocks of ochre, navy, yellow, and green, colliding with purpose. Its title, referencing Boulez's composition and the act of cutting, hints at fragmentation and ambiguity. At the painting's center lies a human figure—nude, abstracted, shifting between identities. Visible in color but elusive in form, it invites questions: what remains unseen when language fails us? This visual tension mirrors findings from Savoldi et al.'s study on gender bias in machine translation, where systems default to binaries and overlook intersectionality. Just as the painting resists clear categorization, translation models struggle with identities that do not conform to fixed labels—flattening complexity and erasing nuance. “Sur Incise” offers no singular reading. Gender, like color, is layered, mutable. The figure is not absent—only obscured. To perceive it, we must move beyond rigid categories and accept that some meanings are felt rather than defined.Image credit: Picture of the painting “Sur Incise / On Intersection” 2025. Acrylic paint on a linen canvas mounted on an aluminum frame. 120 cm × 120 cm × 1.5 cm. © Dirk Vanmassenhove.
June 13, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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📢Our May issue is now live!
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Discover cutting-edge AI innovations—from explainable catalyst design and domain-specific language models to neuro-inspired algorithms and MRI imputation—shaping the future of science and technology.
May 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Our April issue is now live!
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On the cover this month, researchers from Beijing Jiaotong & Rensselaer Polytech Universities present a graph learning method for predicting extreme failure events in transport networks.
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On the cover: Extreme disasters, such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and landslides, although rare, can severely damage road transportation networks, potentially leading to significant declines in system performance. Predicting the impact of these “black swan” events and estimating the probability of extreme failures has long been a challenge because of the high computational cost of traditional methods. In this issue, Guo et al. propose an importance sampling method based on graph learning that enhances sampling efficiency for extreme failure scenarios in large-scale road transportation networks. This approach provides valuable technical support for improving disaster resilience in infrastructure systems. The cover image illustrates a graph neural network used to analyze and quantify the criticality of road segments within transportation networks under various extreme disasters, thereby facilitating cost-efficient sampling of extreme failure scenarios in large-scale road transportation networks. Image credit: Tingting Zhao, Beijing Jiaotong University.
April 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Our March issue is now live, including a great cover by Z. Wang and @jsulam.bsky.social highlighting their work on breast cancer biomarker discovery

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On the cover: The complex biology reflected in the tissue surrounding and including tumors has important implications on the evolution of cancer and on the overall prognosis of the patient. However, this microenvironment is very complex and heterogeneous, making it difficult to extract informative quantitative measures that can inform patient outcomes. BiGraph is a method that automatically finds patterns of cell interactions in the tumor microenvironment that characterize different groups of patients with distinct outcomes, leading to prognostic biomarkers. BiGraph builds a graph at the population (macro) level that associates patients by studying their similarity according to the composition of their tumor microenvironments. In turn, each microenvironment is characterized by specific patterns of cell interactions, which are modeled by a cellular (micro) level graph. The work by Wang et al. highlights the power of interpretable data-driven methods in uncovering biologically meaningful features using breast cancer as a case study, while applicable to other diseases more broadly. Image credits: Z. Wang and J. Sulam.
March 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Text in image reads: Cell Press | Forums on Sustainability Land health: Preventing zoonoses spillover Wednesday, March 5, 2025 8:00 a.m. ET | 2 p.m. CET Register now Image: a colorful sphere with protrusions is draw in a way that can evoke either a virus or a planet with trees
February 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Our February issue is now live!

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This issue includes new research on gene fusion detection, AI model interpretability trade-offs, renewable energy potential assessments, & more. Plus, in an editorial, we share some thoughts from the journal on the EU AI Act.
On the cover: This image shows a multicolored wave pattern, resembling longitudinal wave patterns or Weibull and other distributions, evoking the presence of data and knowledge everywhere. Image credit: Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images.
February 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Patterns is calling now for submissions on open-source software projects and tools that have, or will have, a significant impact on modern data science.

Accepted papers will be eligible for a 50% discount on the journal’s article processing charge (APC).

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February 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Call for papers: Patterns is inviting submission of compelling and original research papers that advance the understanding and development of multimodal AI, or associated applications
Submissions deadline: April 30, 2025
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January 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Deadline approaching! Patterns is calling for exciting papers that apply innovative data science methods to challenges in urban sustainability. Submit your paper or presubmission enquiry by Jan 15th to be considered for inclusion in a possible special collection.

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January 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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In our first bluesky post, we are excited to share our first issue of 2025!
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This issue includes a timely Opinion piece from @envirodgi.bsky.social explaining why they are working to archive environmental data hosted on US gov't sites.
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Journal cover image: Geometry in art involves the precise arrangement of shapes, lines, and angles to create visually appealing compositions. Here, the artist employed six rotating and overlapping circles, blending them to evoke a sense of dynamic movement while incorporating beautiful gradients that added depth and visual richness to the artwork. Image credit: Naola Leconte.
January 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM