Minerva paper details: ncRNA arrays template short DNA hairpins
BrianHie · x · 2026-09-23
Brian Hie amplified team member David Li's thread introducing Minerva, their genome language model approach for biological discovery.
- Key finding: UG27 reverse-transcriptase systems encode variable arrays of diverse ncRNAs with a shared structure, each templating a short DNA hairpin
- Work with Garyk Brixi, revealing a new class of reverse-transcriptase mechanisms
A repost of the same research covered elsewhere in this batch; details live in the original paper thread.
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