{"id":173615,"date":"2023-10-06T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/researchers-create-a-neural-network-for-genomics-that-explains-how-it-achieves-accurate-predictions"},"modified":"2023-10-06T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T20:24:06","slug":"researchers-create-a-neural-network-for-genomics-that-explains-how-it-achieves-accurate-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/researchers-create-a-neural-network-for-genomics-that-explains-how-it-achieves-accurate-predictions","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create a neural network for genomics that explains how it achieves accurate predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-a-neural-network-for-genomics-that-explains-how-it-achieves-accurate-predictions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of New York University computer scientists has created a neural network that can explain how it reaches its predictions. The work reveals what accounts for the functionality of neural networks\u2014the engines that drive artificial intelligence and machine learning\u2014thereby illuminating a process that has largely been concealed from users.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough centers on a specific usage of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/neural+networks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neural networks<\/a> that has become popular in recent years\u2014tackling challenging biological questions. Among these are examinations of the intricacies of RNA splicing\u2014the focal point of the study\u2014which plays a role in transferring information from DNA to functional RNA and protein products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany neural networks are <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/black+boxes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">black boxes <\/a>\u2014these algorithms cannot explain how they work, raising concerns about their trustworthiness and stifling progress into understanding the underlying biological processes of genome encoding,\u201d says Oded Regev, a computer science professor at NYU\u2019s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the senior author of the paper, which was published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2221165120\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of New York University computer scientists has created a neural network that can explain how it reaches its predictions. The work reveals what accounts for the functionality of neural networks\u2014the engines that drive artificial intelligence and machine learning\u2014thereby illuminating a process that has largely been concealed from users. The breakthrough centers on a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}