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ArticlePloS one2025

ReadSeeker: A DNABERT based de-novo read-level gene predictor.

Ben Wulf, Piotr Wojciech Dabrowski

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Article in PloS one, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ben WulfCenter for Bio-Medical Image and Information Processing (CBMI), HTW University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1646-5529
Piotr Wojciech DabrowskiCenter for Bio-Medical Image and Information Processing (CBMI), HTW University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4893-805X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

ReadSeeker, a newly fine-tuned, DNABERT-based model, differentiates NGS short reads into protein-coding (CDS) and non-protein-coding (non-CDS) categories without requiring known reference sequences. For model training, extensive datasets encompassing viral, bacterial, and mammalian sequences where used. Training involved generating approximately 3 million synthetic reads from annotated genomic elements. Performance evaluation on real-world datasets, including human, viral, and bacterial samples, revealed ReadSeeker's high accuracy, exceeding 94%, with ROC-AUC scores above 98% in most cases.

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Computational BiologyHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingSequence Analysis, DNASoftwareAlgorithmsAnimalsGenomicsHumans

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PMID41231910
PMCPMC12614542

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