Stanford's Anshul Kundaje: omics atlases matter only with predictive AI models
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-10-05
Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje debated the value of omics atlases on X, responding to @GeneticsMike7's claim that the hundreds of existing atlases mostly haven't produced essential knowledge. Kundaje argued the atlases alone don't yield knowledge, but paired with well-designed predictive models and interpretation tools they reveal substantial gene-regulation biology; they also help learn generalizable representations from vast observational data, which must then be tuned on focused experiments targeting specific biological questions.
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