AI Fuels Major Breakthroughs in Scientific Research: Revealing 160,000 New RNA Viruses, Opening a New Era in Virology Research

Recently, a research achievement by a joint team from Sun Yat-sen University and Alibaba Cloud attracted widespread attention in the scientific community, published in the prestigious international journal 'Cell'. This groundbreaking study utilized advanced cloud computing and artificial intelligence technology to successfully discover over 160,000 entirely new RNA viruses, significantly expanding our understanding of the viral world. The deep learning algorithm developed by the research team, LucaProt, played a key role in this exploration. This powerful AI tool performed in-depth analysis on 10,487 RNA sequencing data sets worldwide.