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Žiga Avsec

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Genomics initiative lead at @GoogleDeepMind. Models from our team: Enformer, AlphaMissense, and AlphaGenome.

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tomwardio.bsky.social @tomwardio.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Our AlphaGenome paper and models are out today! 🧬 I'm really excited to see how people use the model and build on top of it in their biology research🔬 Huge congratulations to the entire team!👏 Read the full paper and access the model: 📄 Paper: goo.gle/4bXlV6y 💻 Code: goo.gle/4k1xrzI
nature alphagenome front cover
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Žiga Avsec @avsecz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
AlphaGenome is out in @nature.com today along with model weights! 🧬 📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepm... Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We discussed the story behind the model, paper & API in the following roundtable: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 26/06/2025
The first draft of the human genome turns 25 today! 🎂 On 26 June 2000, the UK & US announced the first full map of the 3 billion DNA base pairs that make us human. 🌍 A milestone for humanity, powered by global collaboration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnWA... #HumanGenome #ScienceHistory 🖥️🧬
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The Human Genome Project at 20 - interview with Ewan Birney
YouTube video by European Bioinformatics Institute - EMBL-EBI
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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This a really exciting leap forward for genomic sequence to activity gene regulation models. It is a genuine improvement over pretty much all SOTA models spanning a wide range of regulatory, transcriptional and post-transcriptional processes. 1/
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Žiga Avsec @avsecz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Excited to launch our AlphaGenome API goo.gle/3ZPUeFX along with the preprint goo.gle/45AkUyc describing and evaluating our latest DNA sequence model powering the API. Looking forward to seeing how scientists use it! @googledeepmind
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VIB.AI @vibai.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Fantastic start of the #VIBAIsymposium this morning with a welcome by our scientific director @steinaerts.bsky.social and talks by Julien Gagneur and @avsecz.bsky.social
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Žiga Avsec @avsecz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello world! Refreshing to see my feed full of science again:)
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