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Agentic Program Search Yields Novel Nucleic Acid Design Algorithms

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Researchers have developed AutoNovo, an agentic program search system that discovers transferable algorithms for designing nucleic acids. This approach aims to overcome the limitations of current in-silico design methods, which often produce sequences that perform poorly when transferred to different predictive models. AutoNovo's discovered designers demonstrated superior performance on DNA-design tasks and significantly better generalization across independent models compared to existing methods. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more robust and generalizable AI-driven design tools for biological molecules.

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Agentic Program Search Yields Novel Nucleic Acid Design Algorithms

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Joel Shor, Subhashini Venugopalan ·

    AutoNovo: Agentic Program Search Discovers Transferable Nucleic Acid Design Algorithms

    arXiv:2610.16232v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In-silico optimization of nucleic acids relies on predictive oracles that imperfectly capture biological function, so sequences optimized against one model may exploit model-specific artifacts and fail to generalize to independent…

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