Discovery of microbial intergenic features with genomic language modeling and multimodal search
Nicolo G. Zulaybar, Matt Tranzillo, Rachel Silverstein, Yunha Hwang, Andre Cornman
The paper identifies microbial intergenic features using a sparse autoencoder and multimodal search, revealing previously uncharacterized regulatory DNA and structured RNA elements.
bioRxiv · Sep 17, 2026 · PreprintMicrobiology