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Learning the Language of the Microbiome with Transformers
Neythen J. Treloar, Saif Ur-Rehman, Jenny Yang
The paper introduces Atlas, a microbiome dataset, and Waypoint, a series of transformer-based models, showing improvements in downstream tasks through pretraining.
DOI 10.64898/2026.05.02.722381