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SUN, 25 OCT · 77 ITEMS
"Carbon-A: single model annotates genomes across eukaryotic diversity" — bioRxiv (Genomics) · Science & Medicine
Carbon-A is a 1.2-billion-parameter that can annotate protein-coding genes across the entire tree of life, from fungi to plants to animals, using a single checkpoint. On 42 benchmark genomes it achieves the highest overall nucleotide-, exon-, and gene-level F1 scores among evaluated models, replacing the traditional practice of training separate annotation pipelines for each species.
The claim is direct from a bioRxiv preprint (primary source), which is a leading preprint server for genomics. The model's architecture, parameter count, and benchmark results are reported in the paper, so the claim is solid as a research announcement, though it has not yet undergone formal peer review.
The preprint was published on October 22, 2026, so this is genuinely new material.