Scientists have developed Evo 2, a powerful AI model that can analyze and generate DNA sequences across all domains of life.

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Trained on genomic data spanning the tree of life, Evo 2 reveals how artificial intelligence can ...

Deep learning methods such as multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been applied to predict the complex traits in animal and plant breeding. However, it remains ...

In the face of climate change, apple breeding programs need innovative ways to select cultivars that can thrive under diverse conditions. A recent study demonstrates how integrating genomic data with ...

Late in 2025, we covered the development of an AI system called Evo that was trained on massive numbers of bacterial genomes. So many that, when prompted with sequences from a cluster of related genes ...

A genome-wide AI model prioritizes three genetic variants linked to postoperative sepsis and outlines how preoperative ...

Objective Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) remain the leading cause of mortality globally, necessitating early risk identification to improve prevention and management strategies. Traditional risk ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia associated with increased risk of stroke, heart failure and mortality. Advances in genomic research have revealed a complex genetic architecture ...

Large amounts of data ("big data") offer enormous potential for improving the accuracy of genome-wide predictions in plant breeding. Encouraged by successful results with wheat hybrids, researchers at ...

AI protein function prediction uses machine learning models trained on sequence and structural data to infer protein roles at ...