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Record W4417017350 · doi:10.5376/cmb.2025.15.0014

Pretrained Language Models for Biological Sequence Understanding

2025· article· W4417017350 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueComputational Molecular Biology · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMachine Learning in Bioinformatics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInterpretabilitySequence (biology)Field (mathematics)Biological dataBiological databaseFunction (biology)Computational modelLanguage model

Abstract

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Pre-trained language models (PLMS) are increasingly becoming innovative tools in life sciences, capable of autonomously learning rich representations from massive amounts of biological sequence data. They capture complex patterns and long-term dependencies in DNA, RNA and protein sequences through self-supervised training, effectively compensating for the limitations of traditional bioinformatics methods. This paper reviews the progress of PLM in the field of biological sequence understanding, covering the model principles and their applications in protein function prediction, gene expression regulation, and structural modeling, etc. It focuses on discussing the case of using the ESM-2 model to predict the impact of protein stability mutations and its comparison with traditional methods. Finally, this paper analyzes the challenges such as data sparsity, model interpretability and computational cost, and looks forward to the development prospects of the deep integration of artificial intelligence and molecular biological science. These advancements indicate that pre-trained models are leading a transformation in the research paradigm of biological sequences.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.908
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.352
Teacher spread0.309 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it