2026

• What Does the AI Doctor Value? Auditing Pluralism in the Clinical Ethics of Language Models

  Payal Chandak, Victoria Alkin, David Wu, Maya Dagan, Taposh Dutta Roy, Maria Clara Saad Menezes, Ayush Noori, Nirali Somia, John S Brownstein, Ran Balicer, Rebecca W Brendel, Noa Dagan, Isaac S Kohane, Gabriel A Brat

  arXiv, 2026

• Designing DNA with tunable regulatory activity using discrete diffusion

  Anirban Sarkar, Alejandra Duran, Yiyang Yu, Da-Wei Lin, Yijie Kang, Nirali Somia, Pablo Mantilla, Jessica Zhou, Masayuki Nagai, Ziqi Tang, Kaarina Hanington, Kenneth Chang, Peter K Koo

  bioRxiv, 2026

2025

• Evaluating the representational power of pre-trained DNA language models for regulatory genomics

  Ziqi Tang, Nirali Somia, Yiyang Yu, Peter K Koo

  Genome Biology, 2025

• Understanding DNA Discrete Diffusion for Engineering Regulatory DNA Sequences

  Anirban Sarkar, Yijie Kang, Nirali Somia, Peter K Koo

  ICLR 2025 Workshop on AI for Nucleic Acids, 2025

2024

• The L1CAM SAX-7 is an antagonistic modulator of Erk Signaling

  Melinda Moseley-Alldredge, Caroline Aragón, Marcus Vargus, Divya Alley, Nirali Somia, Lihsia Chen

  bioRxiv, 2024