Summary of Revisiting K-mer Profile For Effective and Scalable Genome Representation Learning, by Abdulkadir Celikkanat and Andres R. Masegosa and Thomas D. Nielsen
Revisiting K-mer Profile for Effective and Scalable Genome Representation Learning
by Abdulkadir Celikkanat, Andres R. Masegosa, Thomas D. Nielsen
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Genomics (q-bio.GN)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper revisits k-mer-based representations of genomes, which are essential for genome analysis. Specifically, it focuses on metagenomic binning, where DNA fragments from biological samples need to be clustered based on their microbial compositions. The authors provide a theoretical analysis of k-mer-based representations in representation learning and propose a lightweight and scalable model for performing metagenomic binning at the genome read level. This model relies only on the k-mer compositions of DNA fragments, making it more efficient than recent genome foundation models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about how to better understand DNA sequences. It’s important because we need good ways to analyze the mix of different DNAs in a sample, like from soil or the human gut. The authors are looking at how to use something called k-mer-based representations to do this. They think it can be done more efficiently and effectively than current methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Representation learning
