Researchers at Princeton and the Simons Foundation turned the traditional approach on its head, teaching a machine learning algorithm to look for the genetic relationships that could cause autism.

Machine learning is hard. Algorithms in a particular ... To do this, AutoML-Zero uses what are known as genetic algorithms, which have been around since the 1980s, but have fallen out of use ...

Polygenic risk scores, or PRS, reflect a person's genetic susceptibility to a particular disease ... which people are now questioning. With AI and machine learning algorithms, you have to be really ...

In a paper appearing in Bioinformatics, researchers combined machine-learning with a genetic algorithm to overcome the limitations of existing methods. The team, including Trisevgeni Rapakoulia of the ...