Anne Thessen

Environment-Aware DNA Language Model for Stress-Responsive Genomic Prioritization in Maize

This paper introduces an environment-aware DNA language model to prioritize genomic regions associated with stress response in maize using stress-specific prompts and transformer-based modeling.

Post-GWAS Prioritization of Genome-Phenome Associations in Sorghum

This study develops SSPA to prioritize SNPs associated with canopy height and growth rate in sorghum using GWAS and feature engineering.

The Ontology of Biological Attributes (OBA) - Computational Traits for the Life Sciences

This paper introduces OBA, a formalized ontology for biological attributes to facilitate data integration across phenotypic, genetic, and environmental data.

Synthesizer: Expediting synthesis studies from context-free data with natural language processing

Synthesizer uses NLP to automatically merge data annotations from diverse studies, demonstrating accuracy in medical and ecological datasets.