🧬 AlphaGenome: Predicting Variant Effects on Gene Regulation

Send us Fan Mail see the accompanying substack episode We've been reading our genetic code wrong this whole time. For decades, scientists focused on the 2% of our DNA that codes for proteins—the obvious stuff, the genes that make the building blocks of life. We treated the other 98% like genetic junk mail, regulatory noise that didn't really matter. We called it "junk DNA" with the casual dismissiveness of people who think they understand something because they can label it. Turns out, that 9...