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Aaron Gokaslan

Cornell UniversityORCID 0000-0002-3575-2961Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:deep learning· 2 Assay:DNA methylation· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 2 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Organism:Arabidopsis· 1 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Organism:plant (other)· 1

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PlantCAD2: a DNA foundation model for interpreting genomes across flowering plants

Jingjing Zhai, Aaron Gokaslan, Sheng-Kai Hsu, Szu-Ping Chen, Zong-Yan Liu, Edgar Marroquin, Eric Czech, B. R. Cannon, Ana Berthel, M. Cinta Romay, Matt Pennell, Volodymyr Kuleshov, Edward S. Buckler

PlantCAD2 is a DNA foundation model pre-trained on 65 angiosperm genomes, showing improved performance in evolutionary conservation and chromatin accessible region prediction compared to existing models.

Cell Genomics · Aug 7, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Cross-species modeling of plant genomes at single nucleotide resolution using a pre-trained DNA language model

Jingjing Zhai, Aaron Gokaslan, Yair Schiff, Ana Berthel, Zong-Yan Liu, Wei‐Yun Lai, Zachary R. Miller, Armin Scheben, Michelle C. Stitzer, M. Cinta Romay, Edward S. Buckler, Volodymyr Kuleshov

The paper introduces PlantCaduceus, a DNA language model for plants, showing high transferability across species and improved performance in mutation prediction and variant identification.

bioRxiv · Jun 4, 2024 · PreprintBioinformatics