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Tag: Viruses

AI Wrote 16 Working Viruses. The Rules Haven’t Caught Up

Researchers generated complete bacteriophage genomes using AI models trained on millions of natural genomes, then synthesised and tested them against E. coli in the laboratory. Representational image.

Genome language models Evo 1 and Evo 2 generated some 700,000 candidate bacteriophage genomes. Researchers built 285 of them. Sixteen came alive and infected E. coli, including strains resistant to the natural template.