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Xiaoli Z. Fern

Oregon State University

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MicrobiologyPLoS Computational BiologyPeer-reviewedMay 7, 2025

Learning a deep language model for microbiomes: the power of large scale unlabeled microbiome data

Quintin Pope, Rohan Varma, Christine A. Tataru…·Xiaoli Z. Fern

This paper trains a self-supervised microbial language model on human gut microbiome data to improve prediction of IBD and diet patterns, showing better performance than baseline methods.

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