Hacker News with Generative AI: Genomics

OpenSNP Shutting Down (tzovar.as)
As this blog post is being published, we are sending out emails to all openSNP users with some news: OpenSNP will be turned off – and with that also delete all the data stored on it – on April 30, 2025.

Shutdowns, Genomics, Data Privacy

9 points by fbn79 3 days ago | 0 comments

Genomic study: our capacity for language emerged at least 135k years ago (phys.org)
It is a deep question, from deep in our history: when did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic evidence suggests our unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago. Subsequently, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago.

Genomics, Language, Evolution, History, Science

113 points by wglb 17 days ago | 90 comments

Genomics Is Not Language – LLMs Won't Work (medium.com)
Genomics and language are often compared for their structural similarities.

Genomics, Artificial Intelligence, Science

5 points by epistasis 92 days ago | 1 comments

Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes (biorxiv.org)
Here, we describe the “Obelisks,” a previously unrecognised class of viroid-like elements that we first identified in human gut metatranscriptomic data.

Microbiology, Genomics, Human Microbiome, Biology, Science

5 points by seslaire 100 days ago | 0 comments

Nucleotide Transformer: building robust foundation models for human genomics (nature.com)
The prediction of molecular phenotypes from DNA sequences remains a longstanding challenge in genomics, often driven by limited annotated data and the inability to transfer learnings between tasks.

Genomics, Machine Learning, Biomedicine, Foundation Models

57 points by bookofjoe 122 days ago | 9 comments

1 Genomic Test Can Diagnose Nearly Any Infection (ucsf.edu)
A genomic test developed at UC San Francisco to rapidly detect almost any kind of pathogen – virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite – has proved successful after a decade of use.

Genomics, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Healthcare, Research

11 points by geox 140 days ago | 1 comments

Yesterday, I plugged this guy into my laptop and sequenced a genome in 24 hours (reddit.com)
In the 90s, Human Genome Project cost billions of dollars and took over 10 years. Yesterday, I plugged this guy into my laptop and sequenced a genome in 24 hours.

Genomics, Science, Technology, Biohacking

41 points by taubek 160 days ago | 8 comments

'Post genomic era' reveals nothing less than a new biology (geneticliteracyproject.org)
The transformative advances of the post-genomic decades are revealing nothing less than a new biology: an extraordinary and fresh picture of how life works.

Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Science, Research

13 points by bookofjoe 190 days ago | 8 comments

The most ancient human genome yet has been sequenced – and it's a Denisovan's (science.org)

Ancient DNA, Genomics, Paleontology, Human Evolution, Denisovan

16 points by bookofjoe 265 days ago | 2 comments

Complete X and Y Chromosome Sequences of Living Great Ape Species Determined (sciencedaily.com)

Genetics, Biology, Genomics, Great Apes, Science

10 points by joyboyyy 308 days ago | 0 comments

Launch HN: Volta Labs (YC W19) – Easier sample prep for genomics (ycombinator.com)

Genomics, Startups, BioTech, Y Combinator

57 points by perceptron 350 days ago | 29 comments