DeepMind's AVI score merges AlphaMissense and AlphaGenome to rank variant impact
pushmeet · x · 2026-09-08
Part 2/5 of DeepMind's AlphaGenome Atlas announcement thread: to navigate the scale of 9 billion variants, the team introduced the AVI (AlphaGenome Variant Impact) score, combining AlphaMissense and AlphaGenome into a single metric that helps researchers quickly prioritize high-impact variants and unravel disease mechanisms.
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