<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="true"><li>DeepMind has launched AlphaGenome, an AI model to predict how single DNA variants impact gene regulation in the human genome's non-coding regions, offering high-resolution predictions on molecular processes across 1 million DNA base pairs.</li><li>AlphaGenome outperforms existing models in sequence prediction benchmarks and variant-effect tasks, providing insights into gene function, mutation impacts, and disease mechanisms.</li><li>The architecture of AlphaGenome combines convolutional layers, transformer models, and final layers to analyze non-coding regions, improving understanding of genomic tasks.</li><li>Although AlphaGenome excels in many areas, it still faces challenges in predicting distant DNA interactions and hasn't been validated for personal genome interpretation or clinical use.</li></ul>

DeepMind Launches AlphaGenome to Predict How DNA Variants Affect Gene Regulation

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