Evo 2 (Arc Institute, NVIDIA)
A DNA language model trained on 9.3 trillion bases that can flag cancer-causing BRCA1 variants without being told about them.
Evo 2 (2025; 7B and 40B parameters, 1M-token context) predicts variant effects zero-shot, including BRCA1 pathogenicity, and generates genomic sequences; open weights.
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Flagged finding · Neural network
How it works
StripedHyena long-context sequence model over nucleotides.
Strengths
- Zero-shot variant effect
- Open
Limitations
- Human regulatory prediction weaker than specialised models
Since
2025
Latest papers
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