The language of genes

2002/11/01 by David B. Searls · 1 voice · 4 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies #Fractal and DNA sequence analysis #Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

paper · doi:10.1038/nature01255

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Citations

• Formal language theory and DNA: An analysis of the generative capacity of specific recombinant behaviors
• The Fractal Geometry of Nature

Cited by

• Quantum algorithms for equational reasoning
• Cell Type Identification from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data via Semi-supervised Learning
• Evaluation of Coding Schemes for Transformer-based Gene Sequence Modeling
• A word recurrence based algorithm to extract genomic dictionaries

Discussions

• Q1: Novel idea? Clearly, a DNA language model is not novel. We can track papers from 90's like doi.org/10.1038/natu... or doi.org/10.1093/nar/... There are even earlier ideas such as this 1984 doi.or [bsky, 1 points, 1 comments]