VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Sonia Maria Krissmer
dblp:439/0322
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0004-8158-7305ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bioinformatics and computational biology › single-cell analysis › cell type annotation
cell type classification |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | mmContext: an open framework for multimodal contrastive learning of omics and text data · Bioinform. 2026 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
multi-omics data integration |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | mmContext: an open framework for multimodal contrastive learning of omics and text data · Bioinform. 2026 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › single-cell analysis
single-cell genomics |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | mmContext: an open framework for multimodal contrastive learning of omics and text data · Bioinform. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
text encoder · 1.0sentence transformer · 1.0contrastive learning · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | mmContext: an open framework for multimodal contrastive learning of omics and text dataabstractSUMMARY: Multimodal approaches are increasingly leveraged for integrating omics data with textual biological knowledge. Yet there is still no accessible, standardized framework that enables systematic comparison of omics representations with different text encoders within a unified workflow. We present mmContext, a lightweight and extensible multimodal embedding framework built on top of the open-source Sentence Transformers library. The software allows researchers to train or apply models that jointly embed omics and text data using any numeric representation stored in an AnnData.obsm layer and any text encoder available in Hugging Face. mmContext supports integration of diverse biological text sources and provides pipelines for training, evaluation, and data preparation. We train and evaluate models for a RNA-Seq and text integration task, and demonstrate their utility through zero-shot classification of cell types and diseases across four independent datasets. By releasing all models, datasets, and tutorials openly, mmContext enables reproducible and accessible multimodal learning for omics-text integration. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Pretrained checkpoints and full source code for our custom MMContextEncoder are available on Hugging Face huggingface.co/jo-mengr. The Python package github.com/mengerj/mmcontext provides the model implementation and training and evaluation scripts for custom training. The releases for the publication can be accessed via zenodo: adata_hf_datasets: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19185217 and mmContext: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19185493. Jonatan Menger, Sonia Maria Krissmer, Clemens Kreutz, Harald Binder, Maren Hackenberg |
Bioinform. | 2 |