Computational biologists urge reconstructing key biological axes in latent space
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-10-10
Computational biologists Anshul Kundaje and Fabian Theis discuss AI for biology: rather than working in noisy observed expression space, reconstruction should happen in latent space, focusing on axes of variation that matter — ideally interpretable and biologically grounded.
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