Assessment of LLMs on basic bioinformatics tasks requiring multi-step reasoning and code writing
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- 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag749
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- 2026-10
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- Bioinformatics
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- Oxford University Press (OUP)
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@article{allodium:10.1093/bioinformatics/btag749,
title = {Assessment of LLMs on basic bioinformatics tasks requiring multi-step reasoning and code writing},
author = {Varsha Rajesh and Maceo Blumberg and Shreya Jain and Geoffrey H Siwo},
year = {2026},
journal = {Bioinformatics},
doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btag749},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag749}
}RIS
TY - JOUR TI - Assessment of LLMs on basic bioinformatics tasks requiring multi-step reasoning and code writing AU - Varsha Rajesh AU - Maceo Blumberg AU - Shreya Jain AU - Geoffrey H Siwo PY - 2026 JO - Bioinformatics DO - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag749 UR - https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag749 ER -
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Rajesh, V., Blumberg, M., Jain, S., & Siwo, G. H. (2026). Assessment of LLMs on basic bioinformatics tasks requiring multi-step reasoning and code writing. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag749
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