Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas

Posted by utiiiD 1 hour ago

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Comment by jFmDRz73 27 minutes 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

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Comment by leopoldj 28 minutes ago

Videos. [2] is for the scientists to start using AlphaGenome Atlas from AntiGravity.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0aToL5C-bQ

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qw3rDNX0Q

Comment by asxndu 38 minutes ago

I really love Deep Mind, its genuinely focused on using AI to make the world a better place.

Comment by sssilver 33 minutes ago

Be careful when loving shareholder-driven endeavors; they're a single executive decision away from breaking your heart.

Comment by mdp2021 20 minutes ago

It's "shareholder-linked" (probably not "driven"), but yes, upvoted. Nonetheless, even when with grave faults in the path, Google has managed to give us marvellous, paramount free resources (Google Street, Google Museum...), and would have given more (Google Books - if the negotiation had succeeded). I am grateful.

Comment by dgellow 27 minutes ago

No AI company is doing that. There is some benefits but that’s not what any AI for profit will ever focus upon

Comment by heaney-555 16 minutes ago

DeepMind objectively is doing that. The world is not so black and white as "evil profit-hungry corporations will never do anything good".

Comment by dgellow 13 minutes ago

I preemptively acknowledged that in my comment…

Comment by MahiroHirakawa 6 minutes ago

Cool. But is this actually advanced biology, or just making predictions about biology more accurate? Those aren't the same thing.

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Comment by mertcikla 1 hour 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?

Comment by abirch 42 minutes ago

Probably. I know Google has partnerships with Pharma: https://www.merck.com/news/merck-and-google-cloud-partner-to...

Comment by dekhn 50 minutes ago

Individual SNP predictions are not useful for drug discovery. Pharma might license this, but mainly out of fear of missing out.

Comment by falcor84 1 hour ago

My understanding is that they already are, via Isomorphic Labs

Comment by bpodgursky 39 minutes ago

It's a bigger deal for diagnostics than for drug development.

Comment by PunchTornado 1 hour ago

Hopefully. Tired, as a shareholder, to see the giveaways that deepmind is doing.

Comment by boston_clone 37 minutes ago

Astroturfing, eh? This is verbatim the same comment as another user in this thread. Strange...

Comment by incognito124 31 minutes ago

PunchTornado was first, fr2029 was second

Comment by fr2029 21 minutes ago

i made no such comment. reported for harassment.

Comment by orliesaurus 26 minutes 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?

Comment by dgellow 23 minutes ago

Just wait a few months, if it is a big deal that will likely be obvious by then

Comment by orliesaurus 19 minutes ago

i like this way of thinking ;)

Comment by dyauspitr 14 minutes ago

What are you even talking about? What do you mean catch a break? They’ve made massive contributions over the last decades.

Comment by WarmWash 29 minutes ago

Google doing work to uncover the pandoras box of genetics? How long before they shove this under the rug...

Comment by parasxos 1 hour ago

An atlas of the human genome from the company whose other atlas still routes me into a lake.