The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA
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A new AI model called Evo can read and write DNA sequences like a language, potentially accelerating biological design. Trained on 300 billion base pairs from 2.7 million genomes, Evo can predict how DNA changes affect function and generate new sequences, including an entire bacterial genome. The model could lead to better biological tools for medicine and environmental applications within 5-10 years.
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