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ArticleACS synthetic biology2023

Nucleic Transformer: Classifying DNA Sequences with Self-Attention and Convolutions.

Shujun He, Baizhen Gao, Rushant Sabnis, Qing Sun

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Article in ACS synthetic biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Shujun HeDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77840, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1010-536X
Baizhen GaoDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77840, United States.
Rushant SabnisDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77840, United States.
Qing SunDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77840, United States.

Funding

A deep learning and experiment integrated platform for stable mRNA vaccines developmentR01AI165433 · NIAID · TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION · PI qing sun · 2022 to 2026
$1.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI165433
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Much work has been done to apply machine learning and deep learning to genomics tasks, but these applications usually require extensive domain knowledge, and the resulting models provide very limited interpretability. Here, we present the Nucleic Transformer, a conceptually simple but effective and interpretable model architecture that excels in the classification of DNA sequences. The Nucleic Transformer employs self-attention and convolutions on nucleic acid sequences, leveraging two prominent deep learning strategies commonly used in computer vision and natural language analysis. We demonstrate that the Nucleic Transformer can be trained without much domain knowledge to achieve high performance in

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Cell NucleusChromatinBase SequenceEscherichia coliGenome, ViralChromatinbioinformaticsdeep learninggenomicslanguagenaturalnetworkneuralprocessing

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PMID37916871
PMCPMC10863451

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