In this episode, Jacob Schreiber interviews David Kelley aboutmachine learning models that can yield insight into the consequences ofmutations on the genome. They begin their discussion by talking about Calico Labs, and then delve into a series of papers that David haswritten about using models, named Basset and Basenji, that connect genome sequence to functional activity and so can be used to quantify the effect ofany mutation.

Links:

• Calico Labs
• Basset: Learning the regulatory code of the accessible genome with deep convolutional neural networks (David R. Kelley, Jasper Snoek, and John Rinn)
• Sequential regulatory activity prediction across chromosomes with convolutional neural networks (David R. Kelley, Yakir A. Reshef, Maxwell Bileschi, David Belanger, Cory Y. McLean, and Jaspar Snoek)
• Cross-species regulatory sequence activity prediction (David R. Kelley)
• Basenji GitHub Repo

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