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AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants
- tusimi 5d agogoogle PR machine on relatively low-impact science goin pretty hard
- ltononro 5d agoDo you really think that tho? I mean, it is the only one doing something other than all-in LLM BenchMaxxing lmao :D
- mbreese 5d agoThis 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).
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- moregrist 5d agoThere 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.
- samuell 5d agoNow do the combinations of them.
- ltononro 5d agoboom
- epistasis 5d agoPrior post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611251
- blck-b 5d ago[dead]