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B Mann

George Washington UniversityORCID 0000-0003-0694-7353Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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BioinformaticsMolecular Biology and EvolutionPeer-reviewedJun 23, 2026

seqLens: optimizing language models for genomic predictions

Mahdi Baghbanzadeh, B Mann, Keith A. Crandall, Ali Rahnavard

This study develops seqLens, a genomic language model family, and evaluates its performance on phenotypic predictions using diverse pretraining datasets and tokenization strategies.

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