Summary
The atlas covers all 9 billion possible single-letter changes in the human genome and is backed by a petabyte-scale dataset. Google DeepMind is making an academic web portal available for exploring variant effects and disease-relevant regulatory regions.
Why it matters
This moves foundation-model methods from sequence prediction towards systematic interpretation of genetic variants, with potential consequences for drug discovery and rare-disease research.
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