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The team releasing DNABERT-2 did not write this model card for this model so this model card has been written by the MultiMolecule team.

Model Details

DNABERT-2 is a bert-style model pre-trained on a large corpus of multi-species genome sequences in a self-supervised fashion. This means that the model was trained on the raw nucleotides of DNA sequences only, with an automatic process to generate inputs and labels from those texts. Please refer to the Training Details section for more information on the training process.

Model Specification

Num Layers	Hidden Size	Num Heads	Intermediate Size	Num Parameters (M)	FLOPs (G)	MACs (G)	Max Num Tokens
12	768	12	3072	117.07	125.83	62.92	512

Usage

The model file depends on the multimolecule library. You can install it using pip:

pip install multimolecule

Direct Use

Masked Language Modeling

You can use this model directly with a pipeline for masked language modeling:

python

import multimolecule  # you must import multimolecule to register models
from transformers import pipeline

predictor = pipeline("fill-mask", model="multimolecule/dnabert2")
output = predictor("ATCG<mask>TGCA")

Downstream Use

Extract Features

Here is how to use this model to get the features of a given sequence in PyTorch:

python

from multimolecule import DnaBert2Model
from transformers import AutoTokenizer


tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("multimolecule/dnabert2")
model = DnaBert2Model.from_pretrained("multimolecule/dnabert2")

text = "ATCGATCGATCGATCG"
input = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")

output = model(**input)

Sequence Classification / Regression

[!NOTE] This model is not fine-tuned for any specific task. You will need to fine-tune the model on a downstream task to use it for sequence classification or regression.

Here is how to use this model as backbone to fine-tune for a sequence-level task in PyTorch:

python

import torch
from multimolecule import DnaBert2ForSequencePrediction
from transformers import AutoTokenizer


tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("multimolecule/dnabert2")
model = DnaBert2ForSequencePrediction.from_pretrained("multimolecule/dnabert2")

text = "ATCGATCGATCGATCG"
input = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")
label = torch.tensor([1])

output = model(**input, labels=label)

Token Classification / Regression

[!NOTE] This model is not fine-tuned for any specific task. You will need to fine-tune the model on a downstream task to use it for token classification or regression.

Here is how to use this model as backbone to fine-tune for a nucleotide-level task in PyTorch:

python

import torch
from multimolecule import DnaBert2ForTokenPrediction
from transformers import AutoTokenizer


tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("multimolecule/dnabert2")
model = DnaBert2ForTokenPrediction.from_pretrained("multimolecule/dnabert2")

text = "ATCGATCGATCGATCG"
input = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")
label = torch.randint(2, (len(text), ))

output = model(**input, labels=label)

Contact Classification / Regression

[!NOTE] This model is not fine-tuned for any specific task. You will need to fine-tune the model on a downstream task to use it for contact classification or regression.

Here is how to use this model as backbone to fine-tune for a contact-level task in PyTorch:

python

import torch
from multimolecule import DnaBert2ForContactPrediction
from transformers import AutoTokenizer


tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("multimolecule/dnabert2")
model = DnaBert2ForContactPrediction.from_pretrained("multimolecule/dnabert2")

text = "ATCGATCGATCGATCG"
input = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt")
label = torch.randint(2, (len(text), len(text)))

output = model(**input, labels=label)

Training Details

DNABERT-2 used Masked Language Modeling (MLM) as the pre-training objective: taking a sequence, the model randomly masks 15% of the tokens in the input then runs the entire masked sentence through the model and has to predict the masked tokens. This is comparable to the Cloze task in language modeling.

Training Data

The DNABERT-2 model was pre-trained on multi-species genome sequences from GenBank. The dataset encompasses genomes from 135 species, spread across 6 categories. In total, the dataset includes 32.49 billion nucleotide bases, nearly 12 times the volume of the human genome dataset. All sequences with N are excluded, retaining only sequences that consist of A, T, C, and G.

DNABERT-2 uses Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) tokenization with a vocabulary size of 4096. This replaces the k-mer tokenization used in the original DNABERT, providing improved computational and sample efficiency.

Training Procedure

Preprocessing

DNABERT-2 used masked language modeling (MLM) as the pre-training objective. The masking procedure is similar to the one used in BERT:

Mask rate: 15%
Replacement: <mask> for 80% of masked tokens
Replacement: random token for 10% of masked tokens
Replacement: unchanged token for 10% of masked tokens

Pre-training

The model was trained on 8 NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti GPUs.

Batch size: 4,096
Steps: 500,000
Optimizer: AdamW(β1=0.9, β2=0.98, ε=1e-6)
Learning rate: 5e-4
Learning rate warm-up: 30,000 steps
Learning rate scheduler: Linear
Minimum learning rate: 0
Weight decay: 1e-5

Citation

bibtex

@inproceedings{zhou2024dnabert,
  title={{DNABERT}-2: Efficient Foundation Model and Benchmark For Multi-Species Genomes},
  author={Zhihan Zhou and Yanrong Ji and Weijian Li and Pratik Dutta and Ramana V Davuluri and Han Liu},
  booktitle={The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations},
  year={2024},
  url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=oMLQB4EZE1}
}

[!NOTE] The artifacts distributed in this repository are part of the MultiMolecule project. If MultiMolecule supports your research, please cite the MultiMolecule project as follows:

bibtex

@software{chen_2024_12638419,
  author    = {Chen, Zhiyuan and Zhu, Sophia Y.},
  title     = {MultiMolecule},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.12638419},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12638419},
  year      = 2024,
  month     = may,
  day       = 4
}

Contact

Please use GitHub issues of MultiMolecule for any questions or comments on the model card.

Please contact the authors of the DNABERT-2 paper for questions or comments on the paper/model.

License

This model implementation is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License.

For additional terms and clarifications, please refer to our License FAQ.

SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later

multimolecule/dnabert2

DNABERT-2

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Model Details

Model Specification

Links

Usage

Direct Use

Masked Language Modeling

Downstream Use

Extract Features

Sequence Classification / Regression

Token Classification / Regression

Contact Classification / Regression

Training Details

Training Data

Training Procedure

Preprocessing

Pre-training

Citation

Contact

License

multimolecule/
dnabert2