AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants

(spectrum.ieee.org)

69 points | by ltononro 2 days ago

3 comments

  • epistasis 5 hours ago
  • tusimi 6 hours ago
    google PR machine on relatively low-impact science goin pretty hard
    • ltononro 4 hours ago
      Do you really think that tho? I mean, it is the only one doing something other than all-in LLM BenchMaxxing lmao :D
      • mbreese 2 hours ago
        This current project is effectively a cache database for an earlier tool. The earlier project is where the main impact is - predicting the functional effect of a variant in the human genome.

        For this updated project, they effectively ran the earlier tool for all possible variants in the genome (3 billion bases in the genome * 3 single nucleotide variants = 9 billion). It’s a very useful project for people like me, but the major advance was already done (admittedly by the DeepMind team).

  • samuell 5 hours ago
    Now do the combinations of them.