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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

GeneCAD: Plant Genome Annotation with a DNA Foundation Model.

Zong-Yan Liu, Ana Berthel, Eric Czech, Michelle Stitzer, Sheng-Kai Hsu, Matt Pennell, Edward S Buckler, Jingjing Zhai

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8 authors.

Zong-Yan LiuSection of Plant Breeding and Genetics, School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA 14853.ORCID 0000-0002-9039-7843
Ana BerthelInstitute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA 14853.ORCID 0000-0001-6849-982X
Eric CzechOpen Athena AI Foundation, New York, NY, USA 10001.ORCID 0000-0002-4254-4255
Michelle StitzerInstitute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA 14853.ORCID 0000-0003-4140-3765
Sheng-Kai HsuInstitute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA 14853.ORCID 0000-0002-6942-7163
Matt PennellDepartment of Computational Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA 14853.
Edward S BucklerSection of Plant Breeding and Genetics, School of Integrative Plant Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA 14853.ORCID 0000-0002-3100-371X
Jingjing ZhaiInstitute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY USA 14853.ORCID 0000-0002-1535-3103

Funding

Leveraging phylogenetic approaches to investigate the evolution of geneexpressionR35GM151348 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Matthew Wesley Pennell · 2023 to 2026
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM151348
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate genome annotation remains a bottleneck in plants, where polyploidy and repeat-rich sequence confound homology- and RNA-based pipelines. We introduce GeneCAD, a sequence-only method that predicts complete plant gene models directly from DNA. GeneCAD couples representations from a plant DNA foundation model, PlantCAD2, with a lightweight ModernBERT encoder and a chromosome-wide conditional random field that enforces splice-phase and feature order, and applies a protein language-model screen to suppress repeat-driven open reading frames. To limit label noise, we rank and filter public annotations using a sequence-based masked-motif score and fine-tune on five phylogenetically diverse, high-quality references. Across five held out angiosperms, including the allotetraploid

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