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Google DeepMind@GoogleDeepMind · Sep 8, 2026

We’re launching AlphaGenome Atlas: an AI-powered searchable database mapping the predicted impact of all 9 billion…

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DeepMind launched AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1-petabyte AI-powered database mapping the predicted effects of all 9 billion possible DNA mutations. The tool provides researchers with intuitive search capabilities and impact scoring to understand how genetic variants disrupt molecular mechanisms, and is freely accessible to the global scientific community.

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    We’re launching AlphaGenome Atlas: an AI-powered searchable database mapping the predicted impact of all 9 billion possible single-letter DNA changes. Here’s how it could help researchers better understand our biology 🧵

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    AlphaGenome Atlas is over 30 times larger than the AlphaFold Database. It gives scientists an intuitive way to explore this vast 1-petabyte dataset - unifying interconnected resources so researchers can link genetic variants directly to the molecular mechanisms they disrupt.

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    Atlas includes the AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score, which combines AlphaGenome, AlphaMissense and other features to: 1️⃣ Rank mutations from low to high-impact 2️⃣ Reveal how they cause damage - like breaking gene switches or RNA splicing instructions.

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    We believe foundational biology tools should be accessible to everyone. AlphaGenome Atlas resources are available to the global scientific community via the Atlas website, our AlphaGenome API, as a skill in Google Antigravity, and coming to @GoogleCloud soon → goo.gle/4heuCvn