AustriaA research team has used artificial intelligence to create a bacteriophage, a virus that infects bacteria, using genome-language models called Evo 1 and Evo 2. This development aims to advance research into treating antibiotic-resistant pathogens. The study was published in the journal Science and highlights how AI can generate complete and functional genomes by learning evolutionary patterns in DNA sequences. Unlike previous efforts, this research successfully tested the ability of these models to create fully operational viral genomes, focusing on bacteriophages due to their small size and experimental tractability.
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