BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprint
VarDCL: A Multimodal PLM-Enhanced Framework for Missense Variant Effect Prediction via Self-distilled Contrastive Learning
Huiling Zhang, Ganzhang Zheng, Ziqi Xu…·Yanjie Wei
VarDCL predicts pathogenic missense variants by integrating multimodal protein language model embeddings and self-distilled contrastive learning, achieving high performance on clinical variants.
DOI 10.64898/2026.03.13.711612