TERRA: A Tissue World Model Trained on 112M Cells
mo_lotfollahi · x · 2026-08-11
Researchers introduced TERRA, a foundation model designed to create universal representations for human tissues, akin to ViT for images or ESM for proteins.
- Data Scale: Pretrained on 112 million cells, utilizing spatial transcriptomics (mostly Xenium 5000-plex) and public data.
- Scope: Built on one of the largest human spatial transcriptomics corpora to date, spanning 20 tissues across development, health, and 26 disease conditions, with two-thirds newly generated in-house.
- Capabilities: Aims to map tissue biology, predict perturbations, and uncover disease mechanisms across organs.
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