Cell-context specificity is why DNA LMs struggle with non-coding variants
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-18
- Non-coding variants often have highly cell-context-specific effects.
- DNA language models that are not conditioned on cell context struggle with non-coding variants for this reason.
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