AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants

(spectrum.ieee.org)

73 points by ltononro2 days ago

3 comments

  • epistasis6 hours ago
    Prior post: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49611251">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=49611251</a>
  • tusimi7 hours ago
    google PR machine on relatively low-impact science goin pretty hard
    • ltononro6 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
      • moregrist11 minutes ago
        There are a lot of companies and academic institutions working on genomics. Most don’t do self promotion at the scale that Google does. And most aren’t on the HN radar.
      • mbreese3 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.<p>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).
  • samuell6 hours ago
    Now do the combinations of them.