Stanford's Minerva uses genome language models for biological discovery
BrianHie · x · 2026-09-24
David Li, Gary Brixi and colleagues introduced Minerva, an approach that applies genome language models to biological discovery. Using Minerva, they found that UG27 reverse transcriptase systems encode variable arrays of diverse ncRNAs sharing a common structure, each templating a short DNA hairpin — demonstrating how language models can uncover novel biological patterns in genomic data.
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