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STAR-GO accepted for publication in Bioinformatics

STAR-GO accepted for publication in Bioinformatics

March 19, 2026

Publication Bioinformatics Protein Function

We are delighted to announce that STAR-GO: Improving Protein Function Prediction by Learning to Hierarchically Integrate Ontology-Informed Semantic Embeddings has been accepted for publication in Bioinformatics.

STAR-GO combines the textual definitions and graph structure of Gene Ontology terms to improve protein function prediction, including zero-shot predictions for previously unseen terms.

Congratulations to Mehmet Efe Akca, Gökçe Uludoğan, Arzucan Özgür, and İnci M. Baytaş!

Read the article in Bioinformatics →

View the code and pretrained models on GitHub →