Helix-mRNA: A Hybrid Foundation Model For Full Sequence mRNA Therapeutics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13785v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:51:41 GMT
• Title: Helix-mRNA: A Hybrid Foundation Model For Full Sequence mRNA Therapeutics
• Authors: Matthew Wood, Mathieu Klop, Maxime Allard,
• Abstract summary: mRNA-based vaccines have become a major focus in the pharmaceutical industry. optimizing mRNA sequences for those properties remains a complex challenge. We present Helix-mRNA, a structured state-space-based and attention hybrid model to address these challenges.
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• Abstract: mRNA-based vaccines have become a major focus in the pharmaceutical industry. The coding sequence as well as the Untranslated Regions (UTRs) of an mRNA can strongly influence translation efficiency, stability, degradation, and other factors that collectively determine a vaccine's effectiveness. However, optimizing mRNA sequences for those properties remains a complex challenge. Existing deep learning models often focus solely on coding region optimization, overlooking the UTRs. We present Helix-mRNA, a structured state-space-based and attention hybrid model to address these challenges. In addition to a first pre-training, a second pre-training stage allows us to specialise the model with high-quality data. We employ single nucleotide tokenization of mRNA sequences with codon separation, ensuring prior biological and structural information from the original mRNA sequence is not lost. Our model, Helix-mRNA, outperforms existing methods in analysing both UTRs and coding region properties. It can process sequences 6x longer than current approaches while using only 10% of the parameters of existing foundation models. Its predictive capabilities extend to all mRNA regions. We open-source the model (https://github.com/helicalAI/helical) and model weights (https://huggingface.co/helical-ai/helix-mRNA).

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