DeepMind's AlphaFold sibling targets genetic disease
Google DeepMind just unveiled AlphaMissense, an AI model that predicts whether human DNA misspellings are harmless or likely to cause disease. Trained by fine-tuning AlphaFold, it classified 71 million missense mutations to help doctors diagnose rare genetic conditions faster. DeepMind made the predictions freely available, though it held back the full model weights citing biosecurity risks.