Toward a foundation model of causal cell and tissue biology with a Perturbation Cell and Tissue Atlas

JE Rood, A Hupalowska, A Regev - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Comprehensively charting the biologically causal circuits that govern the phenotypic space
of human cells has often been viewed as an insurmountable challenge. However, in the last …

[HTML][HTML] How to build the virtual cell with artificial intelligence: Priorities and opportunities

C Bunne, Y Roohani, Y Rosen, A Gupta, X Zhang… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Cells are essential to understanding health and disease, yet traditional models fall short of
modeling and simulating their function and behavior. Advances in AI and omics offer …

Using machine learning to enhance and accelerate synthetic biology

K Rai, Y Wang, RW O'Connell, AB Patel… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Engineering synthetic regulatory circuits with precise input-output behavior—a central goal
in synthetic biology—remains encumbered by the inherent molecular complexity of cells …

TDC-2: Multimodal foundation for therapeutic science

A Velez-Arce, K Huang, MM Li, X Lin, W Gao, T Fu… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Therapeutics Data Commons (tdcommons. ai) is an open science initiative with
unified datasets, AI models, and benchmarks to support research across therapeutic …

scelmo: Embeddings from language models are good learners for single-cell data analysis

T Liu, T Chen, W Zheng, X Luo, H Zhao - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Various Foundation Models (FMs) have been built based on the pre-training and
fine-tuning framework to analyze single-cell data with different degrees of success. In this …

A genome-wide atlas of human cell morphology

M Ramezani, E Weisbart, J Bauman, A Singh, J Yong… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
A key challenge of the modern genomics era is develo** empirical data-driven
representations of gene function. Here we present the first unbiased morphology-based …

[HTML][HTML] Active learning of enhancers and silencers in the develo** neural retina

RZ Friedman, A Ramu, S Lichtarge, Y Wu, L Tripp… - Cell Systems, 2025 - cell.com
Deep learning is a promising strategy for modeling cis-regulatory elements. However,
models trained on genomic sequences often fail to explain why the same transcription factor …

Learning to refine domain knowledge for biological network inference

P Li, M Wu - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.14436, 2024 - arxiv.org
Perturbation experiments allow biologists to discover causal relationships between
variables of interest, but the sparsity and high dimensionality of these data pose significant …

Simplifying bioinformatics data analysis through conversation

Z Dong, H Zhou, Y Jiang, V Zhong, YY Lu - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The burgeoning field of bioinformatics has been revolutionized by the rapid growth of omics
data, providing insights into various biological processes. However, the complexity of …

Predicting perturbation targets with causal differential networks

M Wu, U Padia, SH Murphy, R Barzilay… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Rationally identifying variables responsible for changes to a biological system can enable
myriad applications in disease understanding and cell engineering. From a causality …