Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome 2, shifting genomics AI from bulk tissue to single cell type resolution

Google DeepMind has released AlphaGenome 2, a genomics model that predicts how DNA variants affect specific human cell types and finds nearly twice as many relevant gene changes as its predecessor. Trained on more than 107 million individual cell profiles from 68 tissues in humans and mice, it takes a cell's biological state as an extra input instead of predicting broadly across many tissues at once.