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ArticleNature methods2026

Highly accurate ab initio gene annotation with ANNEVO.

Pengyu Zhang, Tun Xu, Songbo Wang, Xiaofei Yang, Peisen Sun, Peng Jia, Jiadong Lin, Bo Wang, Yizhe Zhang, Deyu Meng and 3 more

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Article in Nature methods, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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Pengyu ZhangSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8696-4983
Tun XuSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3194-1834
Songbo WangSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4482-8128
Xiaofei YangMOE Key Laboratory for Intelligent Networks and Networks Security, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5118-7755
Peisen SunSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0796-2133
Peng JiaSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3429-919X
Jiadong LinSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8116-5901
Bo WangSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Yizhe ZhangSchool of Mechanical Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Deyu MengMOE Key Laboratory for Intelligent Networks and Networks Security, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Stephen J BushSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China.
Zemin NingThe Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
Kai YeSchool of Automation Science and Engineering, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China. kaiye@xjtu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2851-6741

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32125009National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 323B2015National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32400509National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32422019 and 62172325National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32430017National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 62302386Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Shaanxi Province Natural Science Foundation) 2024JC-JCQN-28
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate gene annotation is essential for deciphering the mapping from genomic sequences to their functional roles. However, current methods struggle to model complex gene transmission patterns, such as vertical inheritance and horizontal gene transfer. Here we introduce ANNEVO, a mixture of experts-based genomic language model that directly models distal sequence dependencies and joint evolutionary relationships from diverse genomes, enabling precise ab initio gene annotation. Through extensive benchmarking on 566 phylogenetically diverse species, we demonstrate that ANNEVO substantially outperforms existing ab initio methods and achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art annotation pipelines. Furthermore, ANNEVO's independence from external evidence allows it to deliver more complete annotations than reference annotations for a broad range of species while correcting errors within them. These advancements will improve genome sequence interpretation and provide a framework capable of integrating evolutionary insights.

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GenomicsMolecular Sequence AnnotationSoftwareAnimalsEvolution, MolecularModels, GeneticPhylogeny

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