pku-embl/metagenomics-skills/caduceus
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Caduceus — bi-directional equivariant long-range DNA language model (Mamba / RC-aware) for long genomic contexts. Use when: (1) Long DNA sequences where transformer gLMs are costly, (2) Reverse-complement equivariant embeddings (Caduceus-PS) or RC-augmented Ph models, (3) Comparing long-range DNA LMs to DNABERT-2 / NT. HF: kuleshov-group/caduceus-*.
Install
npx vskill@latest install pku-embl/metagenomics-skills/caduceusSKILL.md
Caduceus
Upstream: kuleshov-group/caduceus · HF collection: https://huggingface.co/collections/kuleshov-group/caducues-65dcb89b4f54e416ef61c350
Citation
Schiff, Y. et al. Caduceus: Bi-Directional Equivariant Long-Range DNA Sequence Modeling. arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.03234 (2024).
See also docs/references.md.
Analytical thinking
Caduceus targets long-range DNA modeling with bi-directionality and reverse-complement structure (Ph = RC augmentation; PS = RC-equivariant). Typical pretrained length scale ~131k in released HF checkpoints — check the exact seqlen in the model id.
| vs | Prefer Caduceus when | |
|---|---|---|
dnabert2 | Longer contexts / RC-equivariant inductive bias | |
nucleotide-transformer | Mamba-style efficiency on long DNA | |
evo2 | Bidirectional MLM-style use vs AR generation |
How to run
Run as python smoke_caduceus.py fresh_output_dir. Reconfirm and deliberately update the immutable revision when changing checkpoints. Use the ps family only when reverse-complement equivariance is required; record strand pooling, windowing, overlap and aggregation for real sequences. The smoke test only verifies loading and tensor shape, not downstream validity.
Decision tree
Validation, recovery, and provenance
For a real task, require immutable train/validation/test units, leakage checks at homology/genome level, strand/RC policy, context-window audit, baseline models, calibration, subgroup metrics, uncertainty and held-out evaluation. Test RC behavior directly for claims of invariance/equivariance. Do not infer function, taxonomy or phenotype from embedding proximity without task validation.
Use fresh outputs after any sequence/model/code/device change. Record model family (ph/ps), full revision and license, remote-code review, tokenizer/config, software/container/device/precision, input/split checksums, seeds, window/pooling, commands/logs, artifacts and metrics. Never silently truncate long sequences.
Related skills
genome-language-model · dnabert2 · nucleotide-transformer · evo2 · omg · tool-selection
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Source
- SKILL.md in the repositoryCheckingskills/caduceus/SKILL.md
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