{"id":192727,"date":"2026-03-04T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/with-evo-2-ai-can-model-and-design-the-genetic-code-for-all-domains-of-life\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T11:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:15:19","slug":"with-evo-2-ai-can-model-and-design-the-genetic-code-for-all-domains-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/with-evo-2-ai-can-model-and-design-the-genetic-code-for-all-domains-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"With Evo 2, AI can model and design the genetic code for all domains of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1118060\">With Evo 2, AI can model and design the genetic code for all domains of life<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1118060\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1118060<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-04 11:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.eurekalert.org\">www.eurekalert.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evo 2 is a DNA foundation model published by Arc Institute and NVIDIA in the journal Nature, which can identify patterns in gene sequences across organisms from mammals to bacteria.<\/li>\n<li>Trained on data from over 100,000 species, Evo 2 can predict disease-causing mutations in human genes and design new genomes comparable to simple bacteria.<\/li>\n<li>Developed in collaboration with scientists from Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UC San Francisco, Evo 2 is trained on over 9.3 trillion nucleotides from more than 128,000 genomes.<\/li>\n<li>The model code is publicly available on GitHub, integrated into the NVIDIA BioNeMo framework, and includes tools for mechanistic interpretability visualization.<\/li>\n<li>Evo 2 outperforms its predecessor Evo 1 by processing 30 times more data and reasoning over 8 times more nucleotides simultaneously, achieving high accuracy in genetic analysis.<\/li>\n<li>Applications of Evo 2 include predicting Alzheimer&#8217;s risk and identifying genetic causes of various diseases, which may expedite the development of new medicines.<\/li>\n<li>The research team has excluded potential pathogens harmful to humans from Evo 2 to mitigate ethics and safety risks.<\/li>\n<li>The model is envisioned as a foundation for developing more specialized AI tools in genetics, potentially leading to new targeted treatments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Evo 2, AI can model and design the genetic code for all domains of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/mediasvc.eurekalert.org\/Api\/v1\/Multimedia\/fc078ea5-3be4-4920-b7e1-fc3a3df97724\/Rendition\/thumbnail\/Content\/Public","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192727","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\/192727"}],"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=192727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192729,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192727\/revisions\/192729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}