EPIC: An open community challenge for sequence-based prediction of transcription initiation in five non-model metazoans
Ilya E. Vorontsov, Nikita Gryzunov, Bayley R. McDonald, Vasily Kamenets, Timur Salimgareev, Ivan Kozin, Ashley Mae Conard, Dmitry Penzar, Ivo Große, Vsevolod J. Makeev, Philipp Bücher, Ivan V. Kulakovskiy, Sen Liu
EPIC challenges teams to predict transcription initiation from DNA sequence in non-model metazoans, aiming to assess generalizability beyond human and model species.
bioRxiv · Sep 24, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics