Bilal Shihab / Projects

Evo 2 BRCA1 Variants

Scoring BRCA1 variants for likely harm with the Evo 2 genomic model, with no training, and reporting where it fails as carefully as where it works.

Solo project2026Research proof of concept, not a clinical tool
Spec
Model
Evo 2 genomic foundation model
Method
Zero-shot Δ log-likelihood
Benchmark
Findlay 2018, ~3,893 SNVs
Also checked
ClinVar
AUROC
0.737 (loss-of-function vs functional)
AUPRC
0.564 (baseline 0.23)
Compute
Modal

Write-up coming soon.

Why I built it

Who it was for and what problem they had.

The hard part

One decision I had to make and what I gave up.

What I'd do next

Honest limits and the next measurement.