AlphaGenome author pushes back: variant prioritization gains are real contributions
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-09-18
Responding to criticism, the author notes the original AlphaGenome paper already showed it beats Borzoi and other sequence-to-function models on several variant benchmarks, and defends that adding AG scores to an ensemble predictor is a worthwhile contribution if it improves variant prioritization.
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