virtual cell

“I think like you want to kind of build up these models hierarchically so You give them a lot of data about specific proteins, and they can model specific proteins in the cells, and then you can model different cell behavior, and then eventually you get, you ki…”

“I think with, you know, kind of the current generation of models that are being called virtual cells, they are good representations of the underlying data, but, you know, they have a very limited ability to predict what will happen when you make a novel interv…”

“We think that in the beginning phase of data collection, as Bo said, I think we're just in the early days of virtual cell building, context and diversity and richness of the data matters. It's not just the total number of cells or total number of sequencing re…”

“In the other domains, such as clinical model prediction, such as virtual cell, we are nowhere near the same kind of massive data that are high quality, and I think it's mainly a data limitation issue.”

“There are three main AI platforms that we're building here. The first one is Protein Design, work that spun out of our co-founder Dr. David Baker's group from UW. A lot of the current generation of protein designers are here in the company. So there, the think…”

“What's happening for this field is that we are lacking a concrete definition of virtual cells and people almost equate foundation model With virtual cell, but in my view, virtual cell is probably a much broader concept than just foundation models.”

“Eventually we kind of, we can replace all the cellular experiments by simply running simulations on computer without even running the actual Experiments.”

“Largely speaking, that was a failed attempt in the sense that the biology is just way too complicated to write in a few predefined set of differential equations.”