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Ask HN: Could DNA be represented as "an embedding" in an AI model?

3•greenmoonx•1h ago
Where each Array element is a numerical value that corresponds to the order of TCAG chemicals on the crossbar of the helix of a DNA strand?

Has anyone modeled many DNA strands in this way?

If it was done, what kinds of problems could we solve using AI - assuming we could model any known DNA, and predict out generations?

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I guess there are at least a couple options:

1) Model an entire DNA strand as 1 model, with each gene (section of DNA) being a vector. So you'd have, say, a C. elegans model. You could play with that species in an AI sandbox.

2) Model all of DNA (the way we model all of language) to end up with a "DNA AI" that can produce any kind of strand (perhaps inventing genes that don't exist, but could). So here you have a biology sandbox, where you can invent perhaps new creatures, or predict out future states of humans, to test drugs and other things (I guess?)

What do you think, what's possible?

Comments

Nina_antalpha•55m ago
Actually Option 2 is happening. Foundation models like Evo or Genomics-FM treat DNA like language to design new proteins.

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