Eric Xing outlines the fundamentals of building a steerable virtual cell
HongyiWang10 · x · 2026-09-18
CMU professor Eric Xing highlights his Cell paper with Le Song, which tackles the fundamentals of building a fully steerable, multi-modal, multi-scale, dynamic, and stateful virtual cell:
- How to define such a virtual cell
- Model architecture and computational algorithms
- What meaningful evaluation and qualification should look like
The open-access paper is a collaboration between GenBio AI, MBZUAI, and CMU.
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