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AI designs first viable bacteriophages from scratch using genome language models

AI designs first viable bacteriophages from scratch using genome language models

Researchers used two frontier genome language models, Evo 1 and Evo 2, to generate whole bacteriophage genomes from scratch. Experimental testing produced 16 viable phages with substantial evolutionary novelty, marking the first successful generative design of functional bacteriophage genomes at whole-genome scale.

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