LOAM: A family of genomic language models trained on long-read soil metagenomes
Quentin R. V. Ferry, Maurice Frank, Julia Jehn, Matthias Schaks, Bruno R. Steinkraus, Timothy Rajakumar
LOAM is a family of genomic language models trained on long-read soil metagenomes, showing competitive performance despite a small training corpus and highlighting the importance of model scale and training data composition.
bioRxiv · Oct 2, 2026 · PreprintGenomics