The Atlantic

A Virtual Cell Is a ‘Holy Grail’ of Science. It’s Getting Closer.

The human cell is a miserable thing to study. Tens of trillions of them exist in the body, forming an enormous and intricate network that governs every disease and metabolic process. Each cell in that ...
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Why AI Companies Are Racing to Build a Virtual Human Cell

A human cell is a Rube Goldberg machine like no other, full of biological chain reactions that make the difference between life and death. Understanding these delicate relationships and how they go ...
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Ginkgo Datapoints launches the Virtual Cell Pharmacology Initiative to build a community-driven data standard for AI drug discovery

BOSTON — Nov. 20, 2025 — Ginkgo Bioworks (NYSE: DNA) today announced the launch of the Virtual Cell Pharmacology Initiative (VCPI) through Ginkgo Datapoints. This open-source platform is designed to ...
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Arc Institute Launches Virtual Cell Challenge to Accelerate AI Model Development

Yusuf Roohani, PhD, machine learning group lead at the Arc Institute, is among a team of researchers training artificial intelligence (AI) models with transcriptome data to predict how cell gene ...
Business Wire

Tahoe Therapeutics, Arc Institute, and Biohub Partner to Generate the Largest Perturbation Dataset for Virtual Cell Models

120M+ cells and 225,000 perturbation interactions will accelerate virtual cell model development in a first-of-its-kind partnership and will be released open source as part of a shared commitment to ...
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Ginkgo Datapoints Launches Virtual Cell Initiative for AI Drug Discovery

Ginkgo Bioworks has announced the launch of the Virtual Cell Pharmacology Initiative (VCPI) through Ginkgo Datapoints. This open-source platform is designed to build a standardized framework for ...