alt Hacker NewsGoogle DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas
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Videos. [2] is for the scientists to start using AlphaGenome Atlas from AntiGravity.
I really love Deep Mind, its genuinely focused on using AI to make the world a better place.
Cool. But is this actually advanced biology, or just making predictions about biology more accurate? Those aren't the same thing.
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?
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?
Google doing work to uncover the pandoras box of genetics? How long before they shove this under the rug...
An atlas of the human genome from the company whose other atlas still routes me into a lake.
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