BioBytes: Against A Turbulent Corporate Backdrop, Illumina Touts New AI Gene Analysis Tool

Welcome to In Vivo’s new AI-focused blog, BioBytes, providing news and insight on the growing role of artificial intelligence in biopharma. In this post, Illumina’s new large language model-based gene analysis tool could help drive uptake of its products.

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Against the backdrop of internal shakeups and regulatory drama, Illumina, Inc. has released a large language model-based algorithm that the company says can identify potentially pathogenic genetic variants with “unprecedented accuracy.” The tool may help the company grow from 7% market penetration in 2022 to its projected 14% penetration in 2027.

“We see this driving greater adoption of sequencing and multi-omic studies across a number of applications including drug target and...

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