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New AI Model Reads DNA Sequences to Reconstruct Ancestry<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-05-05 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s talk about the language we are made of. Your DNA is basically a four-letter alphabet made up of A, T, C, and G. Researchers at the University of Oregon found a way to use artificial intelligence to read these genetic codes. It works a lot like how a chatbot reads text.<\/p>\n

Reading DNA With AI<\/h3>\n

\"DNA\"Photo: Alcato\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Andrew Kern and his lab looked to AI to make sense of mutations in DNA. They took an older machine learning architecture, GPT-2, and trained it on simulations of genetic evolution across different species like bacteria, rodents, mosquitoes, and primates.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t repeat evolution, so one of the key workflows we have is developing simulations,\u201d said Kevin Korfmann, lead author of the study. \u201cThe simulations mimic evolutionary processes, and then we use the outcomes as training data for our deep learning models.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tool looks at mutations in the genetic code to trace genes back to their last common ancestor.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdvances in generative AI and the architectures behind them are potentially useful to a number of fields outside a chatbot,\u201d said Andrew Kern, an Evergreen professor of biology.<\/p>\n

In tests, the AI model performed just as well as classical statistical methods. While traditional math-based methods can take hours or even days to decode a single mosquito chromosome, the new tool does it in minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompared to classical inferential approaches, the AI tool doesn\u2019t have to reason about every mutation individually,\u201d Korfmann added. \u201cIt just reads the patterns because all of the expensive statistical work was done up front, during training, which sidesteps the bottleneck.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never really know what\u2019s going to work when you\u2019re essentially borrowing techniques from a totally different world and applying them to a new problem,\u201d Kern said. \u201cBut this was a case where things worked really well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Impacts on Disease Control<\/h3>\n

This kind of tool can help scientists figure out when species developed certain traits or…<\/p>\n

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