A socratic dialogue over the utility of DNA language models (Part 1 of 2)

3.7k words, 17 minute reading time

Misc A socratic dialogue over the utility of DNA language models (Part 1 of 2) 3.7k words, 17 minute reading time Abhishaike Mahajan Feb 20, 2025 97 9 15 Share Introduction The dialogue Part 1 is focused on variant pathogenicity prediction using these models. Part 2 is focused on genome generation using these models. I am aware that DNA language models are useful for things other than those two (like protein fitness), but variant prediction and genome generation are the two bits that I find most interesting. Introduction I think I, alongside many other people in this field, live in this seemin

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