Comment by John7878781
16 hours ago
Yep. Sequence-to-function models are still very limited. AlphaGenome Atlas, despite the flashy branding, is unlikely to provide significant benefit to researchers.
16 hours ago
Yep. Sequence-to-function models are still very limited. AlphaGenome Atlas, despite the flashy branding, is unlikely to provide significant benefit to researchers.
And it makes a lot of sense why they are limited. DNA is not an instruction set. It's more like a heavily encrypted dataset where the encryption key is the totality of physics and biology. The interactions with the physical world that result in the end product of life are enormously (it would seem hopelessly) complex.
For a machine intelligence to turn DNA sequences into organisim phenotype prediction requires modelling all that in latent space.
I imagine that is going to take a monumental amount of example data
May be that's the reason for the alpha naming. We are waiting for a stable release (just kidding).