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AI Model From Google DeepMind Reads Recipe for Life in Our DNA
- On Wednesday, Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaGenome, an AI tool to help unravel the human genome and potentially aid treatments, with the work detailed in a Nature study and earlier blog post.
- Because only around two percent codes for proteins, the human genome contains three billion letters, and the 'dark genome' comprises the remaining 98% of non-coding DNA with many disease-linked variants.
- AlphaGenome operates as a sequence-to-function model that predicts nucleotide changes' effects, analysing up to one million DNA letters and comparing mutated vs non-mutated sequences, trained on public human and mouse cell/tissue datasets.
- Since its launch seven months ago, nearly 3,000 scientists across 160 countries have started using AlphaGenome to study cancer and other diseases, with about 1 million API calls per day via DeepMind's free API.
- Experts praised the advance but warned of limits, with Ben Lehner calling AlphaGenome a 'breakthrough' yet DeepMind noting lower accuracy for long-range regulatory predictions beyond 100,000 letters, while Pushmeet Kohli urged, `We hope researchers will extend it with more data.
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