🧬 NTv3 — Foundation Models for Long-Range Genomics

This Space is the companion hub for NTv3 checkpoints on the Hugging Face Hub. It provides PyTorch notebooks and minimal examples for inference, sequence-to-function prediction (functional tracks), genome annotation, fine-tuning, model interpretation and sequence generation.

📖 About NTv3

NTv3 is a multi-species genomic foundation model family that unifies representation learning, functional-track prediction, genome annotation, and controllable sequence generation within a single U-Net-style backbone. It models up to 1 Mb of DNA at single-base resolution, using a conv–Transformer–deconv architecture that efficiently captures both local motifs and long-range regulatory dependencies. NTv3 is first pretrained on ~9T base pairs from the OpenGenome2 corpus spanning >128k species using masked language modeling, and then post-trained with a joint objective on ~16k functional tracks and annotation labels across 24 animal and plant species, enabling state-of-the-art cross-species functional prediction and base-resolution genome annotation.

Beyond prediction, NTv3 can be fine-tuned into a controllable generative model via masked-diffusion language modeling, allowing targeted design of regulatory sequences (for example, enhancers with specified activity and promoter selectivity) that have been validated experimentally.

📓 Notebooks

Notebooks live in ./notebooks/:

• 🚀 00_quickstart_inference.ipynb — load a checkpoint + run inference
• 📊 01_tracks_prediction.ipynb — sequence → functional tracks (+ plotting)
• 🏷️ 02_genome_annotation_segmentation.ipynb — sequence → annotation
• 🎯 03_finetune_head.ipynb — fine-tune on bigwig tracks
• 🔍 04_model_interpretation.ipynb — interpretation of post-trained model
• 🧪 05_sequence_generation.ipynb — fine-tune NTv3 to generate enhancer sequences

📦 Install

pip install torch transformers accelerate safetensors huggingface_hub numpy

🤖 Load a pre-trained model

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForMaskedLM

repo = "InstaDeepAI/NTv3_650M_pre"
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(repo, trust_remote_code=True)
model = AutoModelForMaskedLM.from_pretrained(repo, trust_remote_code=True)

batch = tok(["ATCGNATCG", "ACGT"], add_special_tokens=False, padding=True, pad_to_multiple_of=128, return_tensors="pt")
out = model(**batch, output_hidden_states=True, output_attentions=True)

print(out.logits.shape)       # (B, L, V = 11)
print(len(out.hidden_states)) # convs + transformers + deconvs
print(len(out.attentions))    # equals transformer layers = 12

💻 Pipelines

Here is a quick example of how to use the post-trained NTv3 650M model on a human genomic window.

from transformers import AutoConfig

model_name = "InstaDeepAI/NTv3_100M"

# Load track prediction pipeline
cfg = AutoConfig.from_pretrained(model_name, trust_remote_code=True, force_download=True)
pipe = cfg.load_tracks_pipeline(model_name, device="auto")  # or "cpu"/"cuda"/"mps"

# Run track prediction
out = pipe(
    {
        "chrom": "chr19",
        "start": 6_700_000,
        "end": 6_831_072,
        "species": "human"
    }
)

print(out.bigwig_tracks_logits.shape)   # functional track predictions
print(out.bed_tracks_logits.shape)      # genome annotation predictions
print(out.mlm_logits.shape)             # MLM logits: (B, L, V = 11)

🤖 Checkpoints

📦 Pre-trained: InstaDeepAI/NTv3_8M_pre, InstaDeepAI/NTv3_100M_pre, InstaDeepAI/NTv3_650M_pre

🎯 Post-trained: InstaDeepAI/NTv3_100M, InstaDeepAI/NTv3_650M

🔗 Links

• 📄 Paper: (add link)
• 💻 JAX research code (GitHub): https://github.com/instadeepai/nucleotide-transformer
• 🏆 NTv3 benchmark leaderboard: (add link)

📝 Citation

@article{ntv3,
  title   = {A foundational model for joint sequence-function multi-species modeling at scale for long-range genomic prediction},
  author  = {…},
  journal = {…},
  year    = {…}
}

📜 License

Code & notebooks in this Space: (choose and add, e.g., Apache-2.0)

Model weights: see the license specified in each model repository