# GenBank Projects at AI Tinkerers

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) primary open-access repository for annotated genetic sequences and biological metadata.

Managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), GenBank serves as the definitive global clearinghouse for DNA and RNA data. It functions as a core component of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC): sharing daily updates with partners in Japan (DDBJ) and Europe (ENA). The database currently archives over 250 million sequences (ranging from viral genomes to complex human loci) and provides essential tools like BLAST for sequence alignment. Researchers rely on its standardized accession numbers to cite and verify genetic findings in peer-reviewed literature.

- Official technology site: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Contrasting Language Omics Pretraining](https://lausanne.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ZjMIQM_LY9M)

CLOP is an adaptation of OpenAI's CLIP but for Omics - in this demo, genomics. The model is trained on fasta, bed and gff files (representing genomes of different species and their annotations) to learn meaningful representations for further retrieval, classification and generation purposes. The model embeds DNA sequences according to species and biotype (e.g. exon, long non coding RNA, pseudogene, etc.)

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Lausanne June 2025 Meetup — 2025-06-16 — Lausanne
- Public talk page: https://lausanne.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_ZjMIQM_LY9M

## Related Technologies

- [DDBJ](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/ddbj) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/ddbj.md)) — 1 public demo
- [ENA](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/ena) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/ena.md)) — 1 public demo
- [Ensembl](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/ensembl) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/ensembl.md)) — 1 public demo
- [Github Pages](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/github-pages) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/github-pages.md)) — 3 public demos
- [IGV](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/igv) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/igv.md)) — 1 public demo
- [JBrowse](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/jbrowse) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/jbrowse.md)) — 1 public demo
- [ONNX](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/onnx) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/onnx.md)) — 83 public demos
- [PyTorch](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/pytorch) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/pytorch.md)) — 273 public demos
- [RefSeq](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/refseq) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/refseq.md)) — 1 public demo
- [t-SNE](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/t-sne) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/t-sne.md)) — 1 public demo
- [UCSC Genome Browser](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/ucsc-genome-browser) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/ucsc-genome-browser.md)) — 1 public demo
- [UMAP](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/umap) ([Markdown](https://aitinkerers.org/technologies/umap.md)) — 5 public demos