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Identifying these patterns is akin to finding a needle in a haystack. The complexity and sheer volume of genetic data make it a monumental task for humans to analyze manually. Traditional methods struggle to uncover the nuanced relationships between genetic variants and disease risk, especially given the scale of genomic data involved.
The Power of AI and Transformer Models
Enter artificial intelligence, specifically Transformer architectures—that revolutionized natural language processing—and now, they are transforming genomics. Researchers at the Arc Institute posed the question: what if we applied these advanced AI models to DNA sequences? Would it enable us to decode complex genetic patterns more effectively?