Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome Atlas

(blog.google)

152 points | by utiiiD 1 hour ago

14 comments

  • gavinray 1 minute ago
    Anyone know if you can use an indel VCF file with this?
  • bonsai_spool 3 minutes ago
    This may not be anything new but it makes using several Google/DeepMind resources a lot less painful.

    I'm comfortable programming but others who also do mol bio may be less so or may not recognize when Claude is going off the rails.

  • jFmDRz73 41 minutes ago
    This Google blog post is a distilled version of a Deep Mind blog post:

    https://deepmind.google/blog/alphagenome-atlas-a-predictive-...

    They are only announcing a cache. The origin for the cache is not discussed.

    In particular, the question of whether to trust the predictions is not addressed. For that, I think the citation is from January:

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10014-0

  • leopoldj 41 minutes ago
    Videos. [2] is for the scientists to start using AlphaGenome Atlas from AntiGravity.

    1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0aToL5C-bQ

    2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qw3rDNX0Q

  • asxndu 52 minutes ago
    I really love Deep Mind, its genuinely focused on using AI to make the world a better place.
    • sssilver 47 minutes ago
      Be careful when loving shareholder-driven endeavors; they're a single executive decision away from breaking your heart.
      • panarky 8 minutes ago
        Be careful when loving government/philanthropy/ngo-driven endeavors; they're a single executive decision away from breaking your heart.
      • mdp2021 33 minutes ago
        It's "shareholder-linked" (probably not "driven"), but yes, upvoted. Nonetheless, even when with grave faults in the path, Google has managed to give us marvellous, paramount free resources (Google Street, Google Museum...), and would have given more (Google Books - if the negotiation had succeeded). I am grateful.
    • dgellow 41 minutes ago
      No AI company is doing that. There is some benefits but that’s not what any AI for profit will ever focus upon
      • heaney-555 30 minutes ago
        DeepMind objectively is doing that. The world is not so black and white as "evil profit-hungry corporations will never do anything good".
        • dgellow 27 minutes ago
          I preemptively acknowledged that in my comment…
  • MahiroHirakawa 19 minutes ago
    Cool. But is this actually advanced biology, or just making predictions about biology more accurate? Those aren't the same thing.
  • dotinvictim 10 minutes ago
    unleash gemini 4 stop saving dario
  • mertcikla 1 hour ago
    not my field so I can't judge how useful it is but assuming this data can be used for drug discovery and their ToS limiting to non-commercial use only. Does DeepMind plan on selling this data to pharmaceutical companies?
    • abirch 56 minutes ago
      Probably. I know Google has partnerships with Pharma: https://www.merck.com/news/merck-and-google-cloud-partner-to...
    • dekhn 1 hour ago
      Individual SNP predictions are not useful for drug discovery. Pharma might license this, but mainly out of fear of missing out.
    • falcor84 1 hour ago
      My understanding is that they already are, via Isomorphic Labs
    • bpodgursky 52 minutes ago
      It's a bigger deal for diagnostics than for drug development.
    • PunchTornado 1 hour ago
      Hopefully. Tired, as a shareholder, to see the giveaways that deepmind is doing.
      • jakkos 9 minutes ago
        Yeah, screw enabling life changing medical research, won't someone please think of the investors' financial returns??
      • boston_clone 51 minutes ago
        Astroturfing, eh? This is verbatim the same comment as another user in this thread. Strange...
        • incognito124 45 minutes ago
          PunchTornado was first, fr2029 was second
          • fr2029 35 minutes ago
            i made no such comment. reported for harassment.
            • idiotsecant 4 minutes ago
              so you just happen to be posting in a thread where some random user said you made a comment but you made no comments whatsoever
  • orliesaurus 40 minutes ago
    the Google DeepMind PR team can't catch a break, shame it makes no sense to me - if someone's in the field maybe they could explain to the rest of us if this is a big deal, just a PR move, or nah?
    • dgellow 37 minutes ago
      Just wait a few months, if it is a big deal that will likely be obvious by then
      • orliesaurus 33 minutes ago
        i like this way of thinking ;)
    • dyauspitr 27 minutes ago
      What are you even talking about? What do you mean catch a break? They’ve made massive contributions over the last decades.
      • DroneBetter 8 minutes ago
        I think orliesaurus meant the PR team is unable to rest because the rest of Deepmind is so prolific and keep coming out with new things for them to announce
  • parasxos 1 hour ago
    An atlas of the human genome from the company whose other atlas still routes me into a lake.
  • WarmWash 43 minutes ago
    Google doing work to uncover the pandoras box of genetics? How long before they shove this under the rug...