Really depends on the context and what you’re trying to do. If you’re trying to come up with an explanatory or causal theory of the relationship between some sequence and thousands of other sequences, then maybe that starts to turn into excessive “data mining.”
If you’re using it more as a form of search (information retrieval), then I think there’s no harm in using it. For example, for ranking relevant embedding vectors.
Apparently it works quite well for finding similar genes (I guess you replace base pairs with integers or something like that). Sometimes you just need a good place to look and then you can confirm things independently.
If you’re using it more as a form of search (information retrieval), then I think there’s no harm in using it. For example, for ranking relevant embedding vectors.
Apparently it works quite well for finding similar genes (I guess you replace base pairs with integers or something like that). Sometimes you just need a good place to look and then you can confirm things independently.