Minerva uses genome language models to explore non-coding DNA
Minerva’s creators say the new method reveals hidden interactions, pointing to hundreds of new putative RNAs and repetitive elements per bacterial genome.
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Minerva’s creators describe it as a discovery method guided by genome language models. They say it reveals hidden interactions in non-coding DNA, pointing to hundreds of new putative RNAs and repetitive elements per bacterial genome. The team claims Minerva lets them find and study elements invisible to traditional methods at orders of magnitude greater scale.
