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Posted by utiiiD 20 hours ago

AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA(blog.google)
https://deepmind.google/blog/alphagenome-atlas-a-predictive-...

https://deepmind.google.com/science/alphagenome/atlas

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formvoltron 16 hours ago|
could this be used with a nebula genomic sequence to find pathogenic sequences?
jFmDRz73 19 hours ago||
This Google blog post is a distilled version of a Deep Mind blog post:

https://deepmind.google/blog/alphagenome-atlas-a-predictive-...

They are only announcing a cache. The origin for the cache is not discussed.

In particular, the question of whether to trust the predictions is not addressed. For that, I think the citation is from January:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10014-0

RGamma 13 hours ago||
Appreciate the load-bearing info.
Danoch 18 hours ago||
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jheriko 16 hours ago||
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dakolli 16 hours ago||
hmm gate keeping the database to elitist institutions and private businesses, I'm excited for the future!
shevy-java 17 hours ago||
All controlled by an adCompany.

That is outright scary. Science is being slurped up here.

dotinvictim 18 hours ago||
unleash gemini 4 stop saving dario
orliesaurus 19 hours ago||
the Google DeepMind PR team can't catch a break, shame it makes no sense to me - if someone's in the field maybe they could explain to the rest of us if this is a big deal, just a PR move, or nah?
dgellow 19 hours ago||
Just wait a few months, if it is a big deal that will likely be obvious by then
orliesaurus 19 hours ago||
i like this way of thinking ;)
dgellow 17 hours ago||
Does lots of good to my anxiety level :)
dyauspitr 19 hours ago||
What are you even talking about? What do you mean catch a break? They’ve made massive contributions over the last decade.
DroneBetter 18 hours ago||
I think orliesaurus meant the PR team is unable to rest because the rest of Deepmind is so prolific and keep coming out with new things for them to announce
orliesaurus 17 hours ago|||
This is exactly what I meant!
dyauspitr 18 hours ago|||
I don’t think so. The tone of the comment seems derogatory.
orliesaurus 17 hours ago||
No, it's exactly what @dronebetter said
mertcikla 20 hours ago||
not my field so I can't judge how useful it is but assuming this data can be used for drug discovery and their ToS limiting to non-commercial use only. Does DeepMind plan on selling this data to pharmaceutical companies?
dekhn 19 hours ago||
Individual SNP predictions are not useful for drug discovery. Pharma might license this, but mainly out of fear of missing out.
abirch 19 hours ago|||
Probably. I know Google has partnerships with Pharma: https://www.merck.com/news/merck-and-google-cloud-partner-to...
throwaway27727 8 hours ago||
This is just typical enterprise "use AI" infrastructure, not hyper specialized drug research.
falcor84 20 hours ago|||
My understanding is that they already are, via Isomorphic Labs
bpodgursky 19 hours ago|||
It's a bigger deal for diagnostics than for drug development.
PunchTornado 19 hours ago||
Hopefully. Tired, as a shareholder, to see the giveaways that deepmind is doing.
jakkos 18 hours ago|||
Yeah, screw enabling life changing medical research, won't someone please think of the investors' financial returns??
PunchTornado 17 hours ago||
You can do both. Release it, but ask for money.
boston_clone 19 hours ago|||
Astroturfing, eh? This is verbatim the same comment as another user in this thread. Strange...
incognito124 19 hours ago||
PunchTornado was first, fr2029 was second
fr2029 19 hours ago||
i made no such comment. reported for harassment.
idiotsecant 18 hours ago|||
so you just happen to be posting in a thread where some random user said you made a comment but you made no comments whatsoever
Larrikin 18 hours ago|||
You deleted the verbatim comment after it was pointed out. One was in thread and one was a stand alone comment. I was curious which was the throwaway so clicked into both profiles
fr2029 10 hours ago||
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WarmWash 19 hours ago|
Google doing work to uncover the pandoras box of genetics? How long before they shove this under the rug...