I do viral bioinformatics for my job. Bioinformatics workflows analyze raw data to assemble sequences, create phylogenetic trees, etc. They can't just design a completely novel RNA sequence (this is not the same as de novo assembly). Scientists can definitely manipulate pre-existing genomes, synthesize the edited genome, and thereby synthesize viruses, but this involves a lot of trial-and-error, tedious wet lab work. Also, the research on making more dangerous viruses through manipulation is extremely controversial and regulated, so its not like there is a wealth of scientific papers/experiments/data that a natural language model could just suck up.
Also, I asked GPT to do some of these things you suggested and it said no. It won't even write a scientific paper.
Also, I asked GPT to do some of these things you suggested and it said no. It won't even write a scientific paper.