DNABERT-2 vs Nucleotide Transformer
DNABERT-2: Efficient multi-species genome foundation model. Nucleotide Transformer: DNA foundation models pretrained on 3,200+ human and 850 species genomes.
Facts below come from each project's own website, repository and paper. We don't publish benchmark claims here; see the papers for evaluations. Shared tags: dna-lm.
| Field | DNABERT-2 | Nucleotide Transformer |
|---|---|---|
| Input length / context | — | Up to 1 Mb (v3) |
| Resolution | — | Single base |
| Species | Multi-species | 3,200+ human + 850 species |
| Tasks | Genome understanding (GUE benchmark) | Embeddings, functional tracks, annotation |
| License | Apache-2.0 | CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 |
| Pricing | Open source | Open source (non-commercial) |
| Released | 2023-06-26 | 2023-01-15 |
| Paper | Link | Link |
| GitHub | GitHub | GitHub |
| GitHub stars | 516 | 926 |
| Interface | Package | Package, Colab |
License and commercial use
| Field | DNABERT-2 | Nucleotide Transformer |
|---|---|---|
| Code license | Apache-2.0 | CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 |
| Weights license | — | — |
| Commercial use | Permissive (commercial OK) | Non-commercial |
| Answer | Yes. The recorded license is permissive, so closed-source commercial use is allowed if you keep the notices. Details | No. The recorded terms do not allow commercial use without a separate license from the owner. Details |
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