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ArticleQuantitative biology (Beijing, China)2024

Foundation models for bioinformatics.

Ziyu Chen, Lin Wei, Ge Gao

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Article in Quantitative biology (Beijing, China), 2024. 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Foundation models in bioinformatics.National science review · 2025
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  9. Foundation models for bioinformatics.Quantitative biology (Beijing, China) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ziyu ChenState Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research School of Life Sciences Biomedical Pioneering Innovative Center (BIOPIC) & Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG) Center for Bioinformatics (CBI) Peking University Beijing China.
Lin WeiState Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research School of Life Sciences Biomedical Pioneering Innovative Center (BIOPIC) & Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG) Center for Bioinformatics (CBI) Peking University Beijing China.
Ge GaoState Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research School of Life Sciences Biomedical Pioneering Innovative Center (BIOPIC) & Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Genomics (ICG) Center for Bioinformatics (CBI) Peking University Beijing China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transformer-based foundation models such as ChatGPTs have revolutionized our daily life and affected many fields including bioinformatics. In this perspective, we first discuss about the direct application of textual foundation models on bioinformatics tasks, focusing on how to make the most out of canonical large language models and mitigate their inherent flaws. Meanwhile, we go through the transformer-based, bioinformatics-tailored foundation models for both sequence and non-sequence data. In particular, we envision the further development directions as well as challenges for bioinformatics foundation models.

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ChatGPTfoundation modelslarge language modelstransformer

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PMID41674873
PMCPMC12806143

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