Australia’s CSIRO develops machine learning tool that spots emerging COVID-19 variants

Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia’s national science agency, have developed a machine learning tool to quickly identify emerging dangerous COVID-19 variants.

WHAT IT DOES

CSIRO did not mention how they developed the AI tool called VariantSpark but it was used to analyse around 10,000 COVID-19 samples in a new

, whose findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal…