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Generative AI Tool Marks a Milestone in Biology - Evo 2 can predict the form and function of proteins in the DNA of all domains of life (hai.stanford.edu)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

With how complex the process from DNA to protein is, this looks pretty awesome?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Ehh, its not actually a big jump, and its oversold here. It's useful as an alternative to hand-designing genes, but its just a summarization tool for the gene sequences we've already annotated -- and a ballpark of 10-20% of those annotations are wrong, as it's actually very hard to annotate genes' functions correctly. I would be wary of trusting that this will work outside the most-studied protein families.