BOTANIC-1 plant DNA foundation models beat all tested baselines, weights open-sourced
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-11
- A research team introduced BOTANIC-1, a family of plant DNA foundation models that outperform every model they tested on their benchmark
- DL researcher Anshul Kundaje, after a quick skim, called it serious progress: strong data curation, rigorous benchmarks, and interpretability work
- Weights and paper are publicly released
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