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Google DeepMind's latest AI tool promises a new era for genetics research, but experts warn to take its predictions with caution

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Predicting the biological effects of human genetic mutations

Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas, a free database covering nine billion potential human genetic edits. The web portal gives researchers precomputed impact scores for noncoding DNA variants without requiring heavy local computing. Scientists caution that the model still underestimates certain mutation effects and struggles with distant gene regulatory links.

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Instructors can examine how researchers balance the speed of precomputed variant scores against errors that require slow laboratory experiments to verify.

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