| ▲ | AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome(deepmind.google) | |
| 40 points by fady0 3 hours ago | 4 comments | ||
| ▲ | thelaxiankey a few seconds ago | parent | next [-] | |
this is literally not possible. while I'm excited for these kinds of things, alphafold is already imperfect, and this basically side-steps actual structural predictions. it sounds good, but frankly biology is not there yet. in practice not even alpha fold can tell me if my gfp fusion will work... | ||
| ▲ | BigTTYGothGF an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Meanwhile someone went and did the experiment on the equivalent problem in a virus: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mutate-em-all-and-... | ||
| ▲ | hn1rig3rak 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
the catch with a genome-wide map is the benchmark labels came from conservation, so you can't tell prediction from re-reading the prior. | ||
| ▲ | ChrisArchitect an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611251 | ||