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LitGene

LitGene is an AI model from University of New Mexico, first covered on 16 October 2026. It is available as open weights you can download and run (licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International).

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Who makes LitGene?
LitGene is made by University of New Mexico.
When was LitGene released?
The first report of LitGene's release that Digest AI covered was published on 16 October 2026. LitGene transformer integrates text and ontology to improve gene representations →
Are LitGene's weights open?
Yes. LitGene is released as open weights that can be downloaded and run, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Where is LitGene available?
LitGene is available as open weights that can be downloaded and run. litgene.cs.unm.edu ↗

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  1. Research new

    LitGene transformer integrates text and ontology to improve gene representations

    Researchers introduced LitGene, an interpretable transformer that blends unstructured biomedical literature with Gene Ontology annotations using contrastive learning. The model, released as open‑source code with a…

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    Nature Machine Learning