ReviewCell systems2024
On knowing a gene: A distributional hypothesis of gene function.
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- A sequence-based classifier distinguishes phenotype-associated genes from other gene models in plants.Genome research · 2026Article
- Emergence and evolution of protein-coding de novo genes.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
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- Biology-driven insights into the power of single-cell foundation models.Genome biology · 2025Article
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- Signals in the Cells: Multimodal and Contextualized Machine Learning Foundations for Therapeutics.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Comprehensive structure-function analysis reveals gain- and loss-of-function mechanisms impacting oncogenic KRAS activity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Selecting genes for analysis using historically contingent progress: from RNA changes to protein-protein interactions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
As words can have multiple meanings that depend on sentence context, genes can have various functions that depend on the surrounding biological system. This pleiotropic nature of gene function is limited by ontologies, which annotate gene functions without considering biological contexts. We contend that the gene function problem in genetics may be informed by recent technological leaps in natural language processing, in which representations of word semantics can be automatically learned from diverse language contexts. In contrast to efforts to model semantics as "is-a" relationships in the 1990s, modern distributional semantics represents words as vectors in a learned semantic space and fuels current advances in transformer-based models such as large language models and generative pre-trained transformers. A similar shift in thinking of gene functions as distributions over cellular contexts may enable a similar breakthrough in data-driven learning from large biological datasets to inform gene function.
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