According to Quanta Magazine, AI systems like AlphaGenome are hitting an unexpected wall. Researchers expected the human genome to be reducible to pure algorithm—a elegant blueprint. Instead, they're finding that DNA's true complexity is physical. How genes fold, pack, and interact in three-dimensional space is something computational models struggle to fully capture. The genome isn't quite the streamlined code biologists imagined.

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