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by smath 372 days ago
Yes there are protein language models (e.g. [1]), and since DNA encodes proteins, they are effectively DNA language models. Its a hot area of work feeding drug design.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02123-4

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Only a tiny part of DNA encodes proteins, so there is almost no sense in which a protein language model is effectively a DNA language model.