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RIBOSPAN model advances long-context RNA analysis and design

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Researchers have introduced RIBOSPAN, a 1.61-billion-parameter bidirectional foundation model designed for long-context RNA modeling. This model natively supports context lengths up to 10,240 nucleotides, enabling high-resolution analysis of complete RNA transcripts. RIBOSPAN demonstrates state-of-the-art performance in learning RNA representations and achieves top results in predicting biological properties and modeling mutation-fitness, particularly for longer RNA sequences. Additionally, a diffusion framework built on RIBOSPAN's backbone facilitates mRNA generation and redesign, including protein-preserving codon optimization. AI

IMPACT Establishes a new foundation for long-context RNA modeling, potentially accelerating biological discovery and mRNA design.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper detailing a novel foundation model for RNA analysis. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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RIBOSPAN model advances long-context RNA analysis and design

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Ziyuan Wang, Bohao Tang, Fei Zhang, Shuo Han, Pengfei Liu ·

    RIBOSPAN: A Long-Context RNA Foundation Model for Versatile RNA Modeling

    arXiv:2608.22849v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Full-length RNAs, particularly messenger RNAs, often exceed the context lengths used to pretrain existing RNA foundation models, limiting complete-transcript modeling at single-nucleotide resolution. We present RIBOSPAN, a 1.61-…

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