BarcodeBERT: Transformers for Biodiversity Analysis

1 code implementation • 4 Nov 2023 • Pablo Millan Arias, Niousha Sadjadi, Monireh Safari, ZeMing Gong, Austin T. Wang, Scott C. Lowe, Joakim Bruslund Haurum, Iuliia Zarubiieva, Dirk Steinke, Lila Kari, Angel X. Chang, Graham W. Taylor

Understanding biodiversity is a global challenge, in which DNA barcodes - short snippets of DNA that cluster by species - play a pivotal role.

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Map of Life: Measuring and Visualizing Species' Relatedness with "Molecular Distance Maps"

no code implementations • 14 Jul 2013 • Lila Kari, Kathleen A. Hill, Abu Sadat Sayem, Nathaniel Bryans, Katelyn Davis, Nikesh S. Dattani

In the resulting "Molecular Distance Map" each point signifies a DNA sequence, and the geometric distance between any two points reflects the degree of relatedness between the corresponding sequences and species.