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Alena Aspidova

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Research Focus:software / tool· 1 Approach:transformer / foundation model· 1 Research Focus:variant calling· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Artem ShadskiyiD· 1 shared Mikhail BurtseviD· 1 shared Veniamin FishmaniD· 1 shared Yuri KuratoviD· 1 shared

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintApr 23, 2026

Back to BERT in 2026: ModernGENA as a Strong, Efficient Baseline for DNA Foundation Models

Alena Aspidova, Yuri Kuratov, Artem Shadskiy…·Veniamin Fishman

This paper adapts a modernized BERT-style model to genomic sequence modeling, achieving strong efficiency and performance, and releases it as an open baseline.

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DNA methylationwhole-genome sequencing

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