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ArticleCell reports methods2026

GenART: Reading the genome's language with adaptive "words".

Kehan Chen, Ping Han, Zhe Lin, Shang Gao, Xinyu Yang, Xiangxiang Zeng, Yeyun Gong, Zhiliang Ji, Chen Lin

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Kehan ChenSchool of Informatics, National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361000, China.
Ping HanSchool of Informatics, National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361000, China.
Zhe LinState Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361000, China.
Shang GaoZhongguancun Academy, Beijing 100094, China.
Xinyu YangCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
Xiangxiang ZengCollege of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China.
Yeyun GongMicrosoft Research Asia, Microsoft, Beijing 100080, China.
Zhiliang JiState Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361000, China.
Chen LinSchool of Informatics, National Institute for Data Science in Health and Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361000, China; Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing 100094, China. Electronic address: cheyenne.lin@foxmail.com.

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Tokenization is both a prerequisite and a central challenge for genomic language models, due to the inherent difficulty of delineating meaningful segments within continuous DNA sequences. We present GenART, a genomic language model framework that dynamically segments DNA into variable-length words directly from raw sequences without manual annotation. Its key adaptive tokenization module infers biologically meaningful boundaries from multi-scale contextual signals during pretraining. GenART demonstrates competitive performance across diverse tasks, outperforming leading approaches. Word boundaries derived from unsupervised tokenization show strong correspondence with base-resolution regulatory signals, such as DNA methylation, and with multi-nucleotide functional elements annotated in GENCODE v.49. These findings highlight adaptive tokenization as a powerful strategy for building interpretable and biologically responsive genomic language models.

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Computational BiologyGenomeGenomicsHumansadaptive tokenizationautomated genome annotationCP: computational biologyCP: geneticsDNA sequence modelinggenomic language model

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