AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants (spectrum.ieee.org)
73 points by ltononro 3 days ago
epistasis 6 hours ago
Prior post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611251
tusimi 7 hours ago
google PR machine on relatively low-impact science goin pretty hard
ltononro 6 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
moregrist 25 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.
mbreese 4 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 6 hours ago
Now do the combinations of them.
ltononro 6 hours ago
boom