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Cutting-edge deep-learning based tools for metagenomic research

Eli Levy Karin, Martin Steinegger

National Science Review · 2025

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Summary

Recent years have seen incredible progress in the development of deep-learning (DL) tools for the analysis of biological data, with the most prominent example being AlphaFold2 for accurate protein structure prediction. DL-based tools are especially useful for identifying patterns and connections within sparsely labeled datasets. This makes them essential for the analysis of metagenomic data, which is mostly unannotated and bears little sequence similarity to known genes and proteins. In this review, we chose to present 12 tools which we deem as offering novel capabilities for metagenomic analysis by utilizing interesting DL techniques. This review is thus intended to be a solid starting point for any data scientist looking to apply advanced methods to explore metagenomic datasets. For each

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1093/nsr/nwaf056
Catalogue ID
SNmojyxrcb-z53ude
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