Google DeepMind partners with Chan Zuckerberg Initiative on multimodal biology datasets
pushmeet · x · 2026-10-08
Pushmeet Kohli of Google DeepMind announced a partnership with CZI's Virtual Biology Initiative to build the large-scale multimodal experimental datasets needed for predictive biology models.
- The bet: progress in predictive biology is bottlenecked by high-quality open experimental data, echoing how AlphaFold relied on the Protein Data Bank.
- The effort spans scales from DNA and proteins to living cells and whole-body health.
- Participating institutions include Allen Institute, Broad Institute, Gladstone Institutes, and Human Cell Atlas.
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