{"id":182370,"date":"2026-01-28T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/googles-alphagenome-wants-to-do-for-dna-what-alphafold-did-for-proteins-research\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T16:45:13","slug":"googles-alphagenome-wants-to-do-for-dna-what-alphafold-did-for-proteins-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/googles-alphagenome-wants-to-do-for-dna-what-alphafold-did-for-proteins-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Google\u2019s AlphaGenome wants to do for DNA what AlphaFold did for proteins | Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chemistryworld.com\/news\/googles-alphagenome-wants-to-do-for-dna-what-alphafold-did-for-proteins\/4022824.article\">Google\u2019s AlphaGenome wants to do for DNA what AlphaFold did for proteins | Research<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chemistryworld.com\/news\/googles-alphagenome-wants-to-do-for-dna-what-alphafold-did-for-proteins\/4022824.article\">https:\/\/www.chemistryworld.com\/news\/googles-alphagenome-wants-to-do-for-dna-what-alphafold-did-for-proteins\/4022824.article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-28 11:28:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.chemistryworld.com\">www.chemistryworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google&#8217;s new deep learning model, AlphaGenome, can predict the impact of small changes in DNA sequences up to one million base pairs, especially focusing on non-coding DNA.<\/li>\n<li>AlphaGenome can handle mutations across whole DNA sequences, making it superior to its predecessor AlphaMissense, which only focused on coding regions.<\/li>\n<li>Trained on data from human and mouse genomes, AlphaGenome can predict gene expression, DNA accessibility, and gene splicing.<\/li>\n<li>The model has matched or outperformed other state-of-the-art models in 25 out of 26 tasks predicting genetic variation effects, including simulated mutations linked to leukaemia.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to enhance fundamental genome knowledge, aid in understanding rare diseases and cancers, and help design new DNA sequences for treating specific conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Though a powerful tool, AlphaGenome has limitations, struggling to predict distant genetic alterations and can only make predictions about human and mouse DNA sequences.<\/li>\n<li>Since its release, it has been used by nearly 3000 scientists in 160 countries, assisting in over many requests daily.<\/li>\n<li>Google DeepMind hopes AlphaGenome will advance our understanding of the genome, disease biology, and lead to new treatments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s AlphaGenome wants to do for DNA what AlphaFold did for proteins | Research https:\/\/www.chemistryworld.com\/news\/googles-alphagenome-wants-to-do-for-dna-what-alphafold-did-for-proteins\/4022824.article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d2cbg94ubxgsnp.cloudfront.net\/Pictures\/1024x536\/1\/2\/9\/545129_00028548copycopy_109063.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182370"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182372,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182370\/revisions\/182372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}