Artificial intelligence is now better than humans at identifying many patterns, but evolutionary relationships have always been difficult for it. A team from the Bioinformatics Department at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, working under Professor Axel Mosig has trained a neuronal network to tackle this issue. The AI can relate any data from different species in an evolutionary relationship and identify which characteristics have developed in what manner throughout the course of evolution. “Our approach lets artificial intelligence look at data through the lense of evolution, in a way,” explains Vivian Brandenburg, lead author of the report published in Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal on August 22, 2025.