| ▲ | AlphaGenome maps 9B DNA variants(spectrum.ieee.org) |
| 61 points by ltononro 3 days ago | 6 comments |
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| ▲ | epistasis 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Prior post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611251 |
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| ▲ | tusimi 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| google PR machine on relatively low-impact science goin pretty hard |
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| ▲ | ltononro 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Do you really think that tho?
I mean, it is the only one doing something other than all-in LLM BenchMaxxing lmao :D | | |
| ▲ | mbreese 24 minutes ago | parent [-] | | 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). |
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| ▲ | samuell 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Now do the combinations of them. |
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