Yanrong Ji

The paper evaluates and optimizes sequence-based gene regulatory deep learning models using a DREAM Challenge dataset, showing improvements through architectural and training strategy refinements.

This study identifies Nogo-A as an onco-fetal protein that inhibits glioma vascularization and growth through VEGF-Notch-Hippo-metabolic signaling in human and mouse models.

DNABERT is a pre-trained transformer model for DNA sequences that achieves state-of-the-art performance on sequence prediction tasks and enables visualization of nucleotide-level importance across species.