Hugging Face Announces AI Model to ‘Chat’ With DNA - CNET
A new AI model can connect DNA to human language, enabling scientists to interact with genetic code in new ways. Hugging Face announced the Carbon-X model on Thursday as the latest and most powerful in the company’s Carbon family, a group of AI models built to analyze DNA.
“Carbon-X allows researchers to ‘chat with DNA’ for the first time: They can provide a sequence and ask questions about it in natural language,” Hugging Face research scientist Lewis Tunstall told CNET via email.
The word “chat” doesn’t mean talking to your genome but rather using an AI as a conversational interface, allowing users to paste in a DNA sequence, ask a question in plain English and receive back an interpretation, prediction or explanation — like a chatbot for DNA analysis.
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