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Editor And Guide Design

CrisprFusion: A feature fusion model with multi-type input features for sgRNA activity prediction. ★10 · Computational biology and chemistry
An interpretable deep learning framework uncovers features governing CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing efficiency. ★10 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
Deep learning-guided engineering of SpuFz1 and rational miniaturization of ωRNA enables efficient genome editing. ★10 · Nature communications
Epigenetic editing approaches maturity: AI-driven precision design, delivery innovation, and the road to clinical translation. ★9 · Clinical epigenetics
Minimizing Off-Target Effects of CRISPR-Cas9 With Optimized sgRNA: Evaluation of Efficiency and Specificity in the Tumor Protein 53 (TP53) Region. ★8 · Biotechnology and bioengineering
Discovery and Engineering of a Rat Endogenous Retrovirus Reverse Transcriptase for Efficient Prime Editing. ★8 · Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
A cross-strain CRISPRi sgRNA library for Streptococcus agalactiae. ★7 · Microbiology resource announcements

Regulatory And Expression Design

Unconditional de novo generation and functional validation of synthetic promoters with a diffusion model. ★9 · Synthetic and systems biotechnology
Deep learning unlocks sequence-divergent synthetic promoters to empower Streptomyces natural product engineering. ★8 · Metabolic engineering
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements ★8
M6AFormer Prioritizes Unannotated Functional m6A Candidate Sites in the Human m6A Epitranscriptome ★8
A deep learning model captures position-specific preferences of plant regulatory sequences and suggests genes under complex regulation. ★7 · Plant physiology
Deep learning uncovers conserved regulatory logic and element dosage underlying stable gene expression in grasses. ★7 · Molecular plant
GAMETE maps the genetic architecture of chromatin accessibility in rice pollen at single-nucleus resolution ★7
Interactome Specialization Predicts Genome-Wide Binding-Site Degeneracy in Drosophila melanogaster Transcription Factors ★7
Capturing the dynamics of STAT6 macrophage polarization using bioluminescence temporal signatures ★6
MKMC enables reference-free transcriptomic analysis using k-mer representations ★6
Deep learning of functional perturbations from condensate morphology ★6

Protein And Sequence Models

Interpreting embeddings from genome and protein language models. ★9 · Biotechnology advances
Safeguarding open-weight genomic foundation models through weight locking ★9
PKProbDesign: RNA inverse folding including pseudoknots by optimizing thermodynamic folding probability ★9
ProtAug: An Empirical Investigation of pLM-Guided Data Augmentation for Protein Sequence Prediction Tasks ★9
High-throughput machine learning-aided antibody discovery for cell surface antigens ★9
Structure-guided computational design and mechanistic understanding of the p95HER2-targeting NAZ-mAb antibody and its variants ★9
Evaluating the cross-species transferability and scaling of sequence-to-function predictions in AlphaGenome ★9
Benchmarking AI-Driven PTIm-mAb Across Eleven FDA-Approved Bispecific Antibodies: A Cross-Tool Validation Study ★9
Causal intervention validation of gene regulatory signals in scGPT. ★8 · Journal of biomedical informatics
Causal circuit tracing reveals distinct computational architectures in single-cell foundation models: inhibitory dominance, biological coherence, and cross-model convergence. ★8 · Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
MAERM: Predicting Enzyme-Reaction Matching Relationships with a Mixed-Attention Model ★8
ProtPen combines sequence- and structure-based approaches to facilitate protein function predictions on a proteome-wide scale ★8
Semantic fragment representations for coordinate-free analysis of genomics data ★7

Target And Variant Discovery

BulkFormer: A large-scale foundation model for bulk transcriptomes ★9
Kernelized approach enables explainable gene prioritizations for complex traits ★9
Transformer models of mutation risk at base-pair resolution identify non-coding hotspot cancer driver mutations ★9
Deciphering protein mutation-phenotype linkages from CRISPR-based tiling mutagenesis screens ★9
AI-guided CRISPR screening reveals therapeutic targets in psoriasis. ★8 · Nature communications
Integrative transcriptomic and CRISPR dependency analysis identifies hepatoblastoma-specific essential genes and actionable vulnerabilities. ★8 · Cancer genetics
Agentic Artificial Intelligence-Driven Explainable Deep Learning for Deciphering Noncoding Pathogenic Mechanisms of Delirium Through Genomic Big Data Integration. ★8 · Big data
Current challenges in GWAS integration and fine-mapping for variant interpretation ★8
Pangenome-based human genome analysis improves trait association and genomic prediction ★8
MARiO: predicting cancer variant pathogenicity by integrating in silico evaluation and patient-level mutational contexts ★8
Integrative machine learning and CRISPR/Cas9 analysis reveals the role of APOE in lipid metabolism-associated kidney fibrosis. ★7 · Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.)
Hybrid Computational Modeling with Multi-Level Validation Identifies TK1-VIM as a Robust Therapeutic Pair in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer. ★7 · International journal of molecular sciences
Digital decoding tissue microenvironment heterogeneity from spatial proteomics through graph-enhanced transfer learning ★7
Missense mutations in MKRN3 and central precocious puberty: a mutational approach to understanding protein function. ★6 · Current opinion in pediatrics
AGPI: An AI-Powered Genomic Pathogen Intelligence Platform for Integrated Classification, Visualization, and Therapeutic Targeting ★6

Vector And Capsid Design

Machine-guided design for bioengineering gene therapy vectors: Where are we and what lies ahead? ★8 · Biotechnology advances
Real-time holographic monitoring of insect cell morphology during baculovirus coinfection for adeno-associated virus vector production using machine learning-based classification models. ★8 · New biotechnology

Delivery And Formulation

New approach methodologies (NAMs) for preclinical and translational evaluation of mRNA-lipid nanoparticle (LNP) therapeutics. ★7 · Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society