{"id":123930,"date":"2026-09-11T14:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=123930"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T09:06:52","slug":"alphagenome-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/alphagenome-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"AlphaGenome Atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>AlphaGenome Atlas Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Google has unveiled the AlphaGenome Atlas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About AlphaGenome Atlas<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>extensive, high-resolution digital directory<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> designed to predict how <\/span><b>genetic alterations impact molecular biology.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an AI-powered <\/span><b>interactive resource,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mapping the predicted <\/span><b>impact of all 9 billion DNA variants.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>works in a regular web browser,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> without any coding required, and is free for academic researchers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Capacity:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a <\/span><b>1 petabyte (PB)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> dataset containing every single possible nucleotide variant alongside an <\/span><b>AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is available to researchers around the world, <\/span><b>with coding and non-coding variations available.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It provides <\/span><b>several powerful, interconnected resources<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, allowing researchers to link variants directly to the functional DNA sequences they disrupt.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Key Technical Features<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Molecular effect predictions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Atlas contains thousands of molecular effect predictions for each variant, across multiple important aspects of gene regulation, spanning hundreds of human and mouse cell types and tissues.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>AVI score<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: A single number describing the impact for each genetic variant.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>AVI feature attributions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Each AVI score is also <\/span><b>linked to distinct biological features<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> driving it, such as the aspects of gene regulation predicted by AlphaGenome or the protein impact score from AlphaMissense.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>DNA sequence motifs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: A comprehensive collection of over <\/span><b>2,500 recurrent DNA sequences<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 the &#8220;words&#8221; of the genome \u2014 and their locations.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/technology\/tech-news\/google-launches-alphagenome-atlas-a-map-of-human-dna-what-ceo-sundar-pichai-and-google-deepmind-chief-scientist-demis-hassabis-said\/articleshow\/133934974.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AlphaGenome Atlas is an AI-powered interactive resource, mapping the predicted impact of all 9 billion DNA variants. 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