ScienceMinerva introduced for biological discovery using genome language models
Minerva’s creators say it reveals interactions in non-coding DNA, pointing to hundreds of potential new 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 report finding that UG27 reverse transcriptase systems encode variable arrays of diverse non-coding RNAs with a shared structure, each serving as a template for a short DNA hairpin. The team also says Minerva can find and study elements invisible to traditional methods at orders of magnitude greater scale than before.
Minerva introduced for biological discovery using genome language models
Minerva’s creators say it reveals interactions in non-coding DNA, pointing to hundreds of potential new RNAs and repetitive elements per bacterial genome.
