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Leveraging Natural Language Processing to Unravel the Mystery of Life: A Review of NLP Approaches in Genomics, Transcriptomics, and Proteomics

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arXiv:2506. 02212v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Natural Language Processing (NLP) has transformed various fields beyond linguistics by applying techniques originally developed for human language to the analysis of biological sequences.

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