GPN-Star: evolution-aware genome model hits SOTA, published in Nature
EricTopol · x · 2026-09-09
UC Berkeley researchers published GPN-Star in Nature: a phylogeny-aware genomic language model that explicitly uses whole-genome alignments and species trees to model evolution. Trained across vertebrate, mammal and primate timescales, it achieves state-of-the-art variant effect prediction in both coding and non-coding regions — outperforming larger NLP-style genomic models and classical evolutionary methods — moving toward predicting the molecular impact of all 9 billion human genome variants.
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