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Brian Merritt

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory;ORCID 0009-0004-7059-9554Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Approach:transformer / foundation model· 1 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 1

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MicrobeRT: A Framework and Suite of Fine-tuned Language Models for Genomic Sequences

Vijay Narayan, Brian Merritt, Sanjeevani Choudhery, Daniel Jimenez, Stanley Ta, Daniel S Berman, Jeremy Ratcliff, Molly E Gallagher

MicrobeRT is a framework of fine-tuned language models for metagenomic analysis, achieving strong performance in taxonomic classification, antibiotic resistance detection, and pathogenicity assessment.

bioRxiv · Nov 4, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics