Žiga Avsec
avsecz.bsky.social
Žiga Avsec
@avsecz.bsky.social
Genomics initiative lead at @GoogleDeepMind.

Models from our team: Enformer, AlphaMissense, and AlphaGenome.
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Our AlphaGenome paper and models are out today! 🧬

I'm really excited to see how people use the model and build on top of it in their biology research🔬

Huge congratulations to the entire team!👏

Read the full paper and access the model:

📄 Paper: goo.gle/4bXlV6y
💻 Code: goo.gle/4k1xrzI
January 28, 2026 at 10:22 PM
AlphaGenome is out in @nature.com today along with model weights! 🧬

📄 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

💻 Weights: github.com/google-deepm...

Getting here wasn’t a straight path. We discussed the story behind the model, paper & API in the following roundtable: youtu.be/V8lhUqKqzUc
January 28, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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The first draft of the human genome turns 25 today! 🎂

On 26 June 2000, the UK & US announced the first full map of the 3 billion DNA base pairs that make us human.

🌍 A milestone for humanity, powered by global collaboration.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnWA...

#HumanGenome #ScienceHistory 🖥️🧬
The Human Genome Project at 20 - interview with Ewan Birney
YouTube video by European Bioinformatics Institute - EMBL-EBI
www.youtube.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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This a really exciting leap forward for genomic sequence to activity gene regulation models. It is a genuine improvement over pretty much all SOTA models spanning a wide range of regulatory, transcriptional and post-transcriptional processes. 1/
Excited to launch our AlphaGenome API goo.gle/3ZPUeFX along with the preprint goo.gle/45AkUyc describing and evaluating our latest DNA sequence model powering the API. Looking forward to seeing how scientists use it! @googledeepmind
June 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Excited to launch our AlphaGenome API goo.gle/3ZPUeFX along with the preprint goo.gle/45AkUyc describing and evaluating our latest DNA sequence model powering the API. Looking forward to seeing how scientists use it! @googledeepmind
June 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Fantastic start of the #VIBAIsymposium this morning with a welcome by our scientific director @steinaerts.bsky.social and talks by Julien Gagneur and @avsecz.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Hello world! Refreshing to see my feed full of science again:)
November 15, 2024 at 9:20 PM