There can be plenty of prior art; however, AI can democratize that knowledge. There are many things it's helped me accomplish which are trivial to people who are far more knowledgeable than me.
I am not sure what specifically you mean by "AI" here but it's a bit naive (no offence) to think the field is so dumb that it haven't been looking at "AI" for a few years already. See https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.02.560464v1 for instance
nostos/limbus, genoox, engenome, congenica are a few companies/products that I have heard about and have been around for years (the last one was defunct from what I heard last however).
I thought that the author had used AI to vibe code the software to help him look through the genomic data
"Like all of the others, this WGS came back non-diagnostic. Unlike the others, my heartbreak had passed the point of hopelessness and I was ready to do something. I contacted every lab we had worked with and requested access to all genomics files. I was going to figure this out myself.
"After a few days, my initial results shocked me. The prototype I built not only accomplished my original goal of confirming that Warren seemed healthy (spoiler: everything is fine), but it found the genetic mutation that took our first son Owen’s life. How could something I built so quickly outperform the top sequencing lab in the country?"
