Transformer Identifies Cancer Driver Mutations
FranSupek · x · 2026-07-16
A bioRxiv preprint introduces a Transformer model that models mutation risk at base-pair resolution, aiming to identify hotspot cancer driver mutations in non-coding regions.
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