The formula for Evo’s success is basic in principle. The model is large, bestowed with 7 billion variables, known in computer science as parameters, and trained on loads of data. Its objective is ...

Using DNA to predict school grades: Polygenic scores. Over the past two decades, researchers have developed a new method for using DNA to predict how well someone might do in school.

A new model offers a possible solution to the scientific question of why neutral sequences, sometimes referred to as 'junk DNA', are not eliminated from the genome of living creatures in nature ...