Google Is Giving Away AI That Can Build Your Genome Sequence
Google Is Giving Away AI That Can Build Your Genome Sequence
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 8, 201711m 43s
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Show Notes
Today, a teaspoon of spit and a hundred bucks is all you need to get a snapshot of your DNA. But getting the full picture—all 3 billion base pairs of your genome—requires a much more laborious process. One that, even with the aid of sophisticated statistics, scientists still struggle over. It’s exactly the kind of problem that makes sense to outsource to artificial intelligence.
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