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ArticleNature communications2025

DNALONGBENCH: a benchmark suite for long-range DNA prediction tasks.

Wenduo Cheng, Zhenqiao Song, Yang Zhang, Shike Wang, Danqing Wang, Muyu Yang, Lei Li, Jian Ma

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Wenduo Cheng *Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Zhenqiao Song *Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-6125-900X
Yang Zhang *Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1483-9195
Shike WangRay and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Danqing WangLanguage Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Muyu YangRay and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Lei LiLanguage Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. leili@cs.cmu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3095-9776
Jian MaRay and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. jianma@cs.cmu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4202-5834

Funding

Multiscale Analyses of 4D Nucleome Structure and Function by Comprehensive Multimodal Data IntegrationUM1HG011593 · NHGRI · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI ALBER, FRANK, BELMONT, ANDREW STEVEN · 2020 to 2024
$10.4M
WashU-Northwestern Genomic Variation and Function Data and Administrative Coordinating CenterU24HG012070 · NHGRI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Ting Wang, Feng Yue · 2021 to 2026
$9.7M
Computational Methods for Next-Generation Comparative GenomicsR01HG007352 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI MA, JIAN · 2014 to 2023
$2.8M
Computational methods for studying single-cell 3D genomeR01HG012303 · NHGRI · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI DUAN, ZHIJUN, MA, JIAN · 2022 to 2025
$2.2M
Spatial omics technologies to map the senescent cell microenvironmentUH3CA268202 · NCI · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI MA, JIAN, NERETTI, NICOLA · 2023 to 2025
$2.2M
Three-dimensional mapping and modeling of combinatorial interactions underlying biomolecular condensates in olfactory neuronsR21DA061481 · NIDA · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GUTTMAN, MITCHELL, LOMVARDAS, STAVROS · 2024 to 2025
$465k
NCI NIH HHS UH3 CA268202NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG007352NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG012303NHGRI NIH HHS U24 HG012070NHGRI NIH HHS UM1 HG011593NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA061481U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01HG007352U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01HG012303
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modeling long-range DNA dependencies is crucial for understanding genome structure and function across diverse biological contexts. However, effectively capturing these dependencies, which may span millions of base pairs in tasks such as three-dimensional (3D) chromatin folding prediction, remains a major challenge. A comprehensive benchmark suite for evaluating tasks that rely on long-range dependencies is notably absent. To address this gap, we introduce DNALONGBENCH, a benchmark dataset covering five key genomics tasks with long-range dependencies up to 1 million base pairs: enhancer-target gene interaction, expression quantitative trait loci, 3D genome organization, regulatory sequence activity, and transcription initiation signals. We assess DNALONGBENCH using five methods: a task-specific expert model, a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based model, and three fine-tuned DNA foundation models - HyenaDNA, Caduceus-Ph, and Caduceus-PS. We envision DNALONGBENCH as a standardized resource to enable comprehensive comparisons and rigorous evaluations of emerging DNA sequence-based deep learning models that account for long-range dependencies.

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Computational BiologyDNAGenomicsSoftwareBenchmarkingChromatinDeep LearningHumansNeural Networks, ComputerQuantitative Trait LociSequence Analysis, DNAChromatinDNA

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PMID41253815
PMCPMC12627797

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