Life sciences

Genomics and genetics

AI milestones in genomics and genetics, part of life sciences.

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AlphaMissense scores every possible missense variant in the human proteome

Google DeepMind published AlphaMissense in Science on 19 September 2023, an adaptation of AlphaFold that scores how likely a single amino acid change is to cause disease. It classified 89 per cent of all 71 million possible missense variants, against roughly 0.1 per cent confirmed by laboratory or clinical work.