Hsu: Virtual cell models do not need mechanistic explanations to be useful
Patrick Hsu · Faster Science, Better Drugs · Sep 15, 2025 · at 45:36
Patrick Hsu, co-founder of the Arc Institute, addresses concerns about missing biological data when building AI models for simulation and drug discovery.
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“And I would say similarly with a virtual cell model, it may not tell me literally why, just like a alpha fold doesn't tell me literally why did the protein fold this way and how, but it just told me the end state and it was reasonably accurate. I think that would already be very important.”
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