From reading to writing the genome: AI and the future of regulatory genomics

Nucleic Acid Insights 2026; 3(9), 613–617

DOI: 10.18609/nai.2026.080

Published: 27 October
Interview
Simone Riva

“Expertise matters more now, not less.”

Jokūbas Leikauskas, Commissioning Editor, Nucleic Acid Insights , speaks with Simone Riva, Senior Computational and Machine Learning Scientist in Genomics, University of Oxford, about how AI is reshaping regulatory genomics, from foundation models and generative sequence design to the challenges of data, generalization, and validation, and what these advances could mean for nucleic acid therapeutics.