Papers by Weicai Long
PhageBench: Can LLMs Understand Raw Bacteriophage Genomes? (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | phage genome annotation is a critical component of microbial ecosystems and antibiotics. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate phage genome understanding by mirroring workflow of bioinformatics experts. |
| Outcome: | The benchmark outperforms baseline models in phage contig identification and host prediction. |
GenomeQA: Benchmarking General Large Language Models for Genome Sequence Understanding (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing benchmarks focus on specialized DNA models trained for sequence prediction or evaluate biological knowledge using text-only questions. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate general-purpose LLMs on sequence-based genome inference tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark outperforms baseline models on sequence-based genome inference tasks. |