: one haploid set of chromosomes with the genes they contain
broadly
: the genetic material of an organism compare proteome
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And perhaps more to the point, the genome might not submit to the kind of straightforward input-output approach that such AI models ultimately assume.
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Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
The paper treads similar ground as previous research, which has noted large language models’ ability to search genomes for genes that have been sequenced after a patient was first seen in a hospital.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 18 June 2026
The genomes also revealed a unique superantigen, or a microbial toxin that can increase an infection’s severity and activate extreme immune responses — one that appears to have predominantly affected children between the ages of 7 ½ and 11 years old.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
That was partly because the software that assembled the genome from individual fragments of genome sequence was made to treat bacterial sequence as contamination.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 16 June 2026
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Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 18 June 2026
The paper treads similar ground as previous research, which has noted large language models’ ability to search genomes for genes that have been sequenced after a patient was first seen in a hospital.
—Jared Perlo, NBC news, 18 June 2026
The genomes also revealed a unique superantigen, or a microbial toxin that can increase an infection’s severity and activate extreme immune responses — one that appears to have predominantly affected children between the ages of 7 ½ and 11 years old.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 17 June 2026
That was partly because the software that assembled the genome from individual fragments of genome sequence was made to treat bacterial sequence as contamination.
—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 16 June 2026
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“Genome.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/genome. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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genome
noun
ge·nome
ˈjē-ˌnōm 
: one haploid set of chromosomes with the genes they contain
broadly
: the genetic material of an organism
The idea behind sequencing an organism's genome—decoding, letter by letter, the message contained in every last one of its genes—is that it would tell us a lot about how the organism works. —Lori Oliwenstein, Discover
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