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In progress · 2026

Genomic Variant Predictor

A small GPT trained on the human genome: does it recognise disease-causing variants?

  • AI / LLM
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A research project: a language model trained on the GRCh38 reference sequence, whose hidden layers we probe linearly on variants from ClinVar.

Problem

Does a model that never saw clinical labels learn representations that separate benign from pathogenic variants — and does it predict how variants of uncertain significance will later be reclassified?

Solution

Hypotheses written down before results, a frozen dataset described by SHA-256 checksums, sealed test labels with a test guarding against leakage, and a comparison of ClinVar classifications from 2023 and 2026.

model parameters
4.87M
variants in the main set
36,893
automated tests
234

The project is in progress: the data pipeline is complete and frozen, and full training is underway. Results will appear here once the experiment finishes.