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DeepMind launches AlphaGenome to predict how DNA variants affect gene regulation

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Source: Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind introduced AlphaGenome, a model that predicts how single variants in long human DNA sequences affect a wide range of gene-regulating processes, and made it available in preview through an API for non-commercial research. The work was published in Nature in January 2026.

Why it matters

Geneticists studying rare disease and cancer gained an API to score the regulatory effect of DNA variants, later extended into a precomputed atlas.

When
25 Jun 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0184
Who
Google DeepMind
Topics
Biology

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Google DeepMind. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Google DeepMind

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: Led toDeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas scoring all 9bn single-letter human DNA changes

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WTA-N-2025-0184: “DeepMind launches AlphaGenome to predict how DNA variants affect gene regulation.” wheresthe.ai, 25 Jun 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/gb-deepmind-alphagenome-2025-06/ (source: Google DeepMind).

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