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STAR-GO: Improving Protein Function Prediction by Learning to Hierarchically Integrate Ontology-Informed Semantic Embeddings

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Mehmet Efe Akça, Gökçe Uludoğan, Arzucan Özgür and İnci M. Baytaş

34th Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2026)

Date: July 2026

Location: Washington, D.C., USA

Abstract

STAR-GO is a Transformer-based framework that jointly models the semantic and structural characteristics of Gene Ontology terms for zero-shot protein function prediction. The paper was selected for an ISMB 2026 session highlighting notable recently published research.

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Protein Function Prediction Gene Ontology Zero-Shot Learning Transformers Bioinformatics

Presented by Gökçe Uludoğan in an ISMB 2026 session highlighting notable recently published research.