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AI for genomics: Accurate proteome-wide missense variant effect prediction with AlphaMissense

June 26, 2025
12:00 (Montreal Time)
Clare Bycroft Deepmind
Dr. Clare Bycroft is a research scientist at Google DeepMind with a background in statistical and human genetics. She has a particular focus on ensuring the utility of AI models for variant effect prediction in real-world settings. Previously, Clare worked with a biotech (Genomics PLC) using human genetics data to propose new therapeutic targets, and during her DPhil (Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics) curated the first tranche of the UK Biobank genotyping data set, now routinely used by many thousands of researchers world-wide.

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