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In brief AlphaGenome processes up to 1 million base pairs at once, outperforming older models in 46 out of 50 benchmark tests for regulatory and variant prediction. Built with just 450M parameters, its lightweight U-Net transformer decodes the non-coding genome, enabling disease research and personalized medicine. Google’s model is available to researchers via API, signaling a new era of more open and accessible genomics. Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome, which was announced today, isn’t just another entry in the AI-for-science arms race. With API access available for non-commercial research—and extensive documentation and community support hosted on GitHub—it signals that genomics, once confined to specialized labs and paywalled datasets, is moving rapidly toward open science. This is a pretty big deal. Imagine your DNA is like a giant instruction manual for how your body works. For a long time, scientists could only really understand the parts that directly told your body how to build things, like proteins. But most of your DNA—over 90% of it—isn’t like that. It doesn’t build anything directly. People used to call it “junk DNA.” Now we know that “junk” is actually doing something important: it helps control when and where the real instructions are used—kind of like a control panel full of switches and dials. The problem? It’s really hard to read and understand. That’s where AlphaGenome comes in. AlphaGenome is a powerful AI model built by Google DeepMind that can read these confusing parts of DNA better than anything before it. It uses advanced machine learning (like the kind behind image generators or chatbots) to look at huge sections of DNA—up to a million letters long—and figure out which parts are important, how they affect your genes, and even how mutations might lead to disease.  It’s kind of like having a super-smart AI microscope that not…

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