arXiv AI

GenEx: A Graph-Based Representational Paradigm for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Detection via Codon Co-occurrence Networks

GenEx is a new pipeline that transforms raw SARS‑CoV‑2 gene sequences into codon co‑occurrence graphs, extracting over 25 graph features. It introduces two graph generation methods—MSCG and LAPCG—and applies spectral graph analysis via Singular Value Decomposition to improve class separability. Using these techniques, the authors trained 23 machine‑learning models that successfully detected all major SARS‑CoV‑2 variants.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

SeqMaestro: From nucleotide sequences to biological hypotheses through interpretable machine learning

arXiv:2609.14882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nucleotide sequence analysis is central to problems spanning regulatory genomics, evolutionary biology, and phenotype prediction. Classical bioinform...

By Evgeny S. Saveliev, Krzysztof Kacprzyk, Charlotte Capitanchik, Neelanjan Mukherjee, Kate Matlin, Ryan Sheridan, Srinivas Ramachandran, Jernej Ule, David L. Bentley, Mihaela van der Schaar
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

When do cheap embeddings beat protein language models? A theoretically-grounded hashing sketch for biological sequence classification

The paper introduces Murmur2Vec, a lightweight, alignment‑free embedding that uses k‑mer counts hashed with MurmurHash to create a compact representation for biological sequences. It provides a full theoretical analysis, including bias/variance formulas, a Johnson–Lindenstrauss‑style concentration bound, and an excess‑risk bound that clarifies the trade‑off between hash‑table size and classifier performance. Empirically, Murmur2Vec matches or surpasses a fine‑tuned 650M‑parameter ESM‑2 protein language model across several classification tasks, including SARS‑CoV‑2 spike lineage and HIV‑1 Env subtype identification.

By Sarwan Ali, Taslim Murad, Imdadullah Khan, Safi Faizullah
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Interpretable Graph Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Multi-Cancer Classification and Biomarker Identification using Multi-Omics Data

arXiv:2503. 22939v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The integration of heterogeneous multi-omics datasets at a systems level remains a central challenge for developing analytical and computational models in precision cancer diagnostics.

By Fadi Alharbi, Nishant Budhiraja, Aleksandar Vakanski, Boyu Zhang, Murtada K. Elbashir, Harshith Guduru, Mohanad Mohammed
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 1

EvoLen: Evolution-Guided Tokenization for DNA Language Model

EvoLen is a tokenization method for DNA language models that incorporates evolutionary information to prioritize functional sequence patterns such as regulatory motifs. It groups DNA sequences by cross-species evolutionary signals, trains separate BPE tokenizers for each group, merges vocabularies with a rule that favors preserved patterns, and uses length-aware decoding with dynamic programming. Experiments show EvoLen better preserves functional motifs, differentiates genomic contexts, and aligns with evolutionary constraints while matching or surpassing standard BPE on various DNALM benchmarks.

By Nan Huang, Xiaoxiao Zhou, Junxia Cui, Mario Tapia-Pacheco, Tiffany Amariuta, Yang Li, Jingbo Shang
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9

RAGenome: Scaling Retrieval-Based Genomic Language Models to Long Contexts

RAGenome is a retrieval‑based genomic language model that extends pretraining to contexts 100 times longer than existing MSA‑based models, enabling it to capture both cross‑species evolutionary relationships and within‑species long‑range interactions. Trained on whole‑genome alignments from 100 vertebrates, it improves gene‑finding performance from 0.45 to 0.60 while staying competitive on evolutionary tasks such as prioritizing pathogenic variants. The model offers competitive performance at a fraction of the training cost, unifying evolutionary modeling and long‑range capabilities in a single scalable framework.

By Frederikke Isa Marin, Panagiotis Antoniadis, Dionysia Danai Brilli, Andreas Bjerregaard, Rachael DeVries, Yan Li, Ole Winther, Wouter Boomsma