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To address this critical need, we developed PLAID (Pathway Level Average Intensity Detection), an ultrafast and memory optimized single sample gene set enrichment algorithm that utilizes sparse matrix computation. PLAID delivers highly accurate gene set scoring and surpasses the performance of current methods in single-cell and bulk transcriptomics, and proteomics data. PLAID uniquely integrates the most widely used gene set scoring algorithms, enabling researchers to apply multiple methods for cross-validation with outstanding runtime efficiency and minimal memory requirement.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Availability and implementation<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>PLAID is implemented in the R language for statistical computing. 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