5 papers
Towards Autonomous Mechanistic Reasoning in Virtual Cells
Yunhui Jang, Lu Zhu, Jake Fawkes +3
Large language models (LLMs) have recently gained significant attention as a promising approach to accelerate scientific discovery. However, their application in open-ended scienti…
Virtual Cells: Predict, Explain, Discover
Emmanuel Noutahi, Jason Hartford, Prudencio Tossou +12
Drug discovery is fundamentally a process of inferring the effects of treatments on patients, and would therefore benefit immensely from computational models that can reliably simu…
A Cross Modal Knowledge Distillation & Data Augmentation Recipe for Improving Transcriptomics Representations through Morphological Features
Ihab Bendidi, Yassir El Mesbahi, Alisandra K. Denton +4
Understanding cellular responses to stimuli is crucial for biological discovery and drug development. Transcriptomics provides interpretable, gene-level insights, while microscopy…
TxPert: Leveraging Biochemical Relationships for Out-of-Distribution Transcriptomic Perturbation Prediction
Frederik Wenkel, Wilson Tu, Cassandra Masschelein +12
Accurately predicting cellular responses to genetic perturbations is essential for understanding disease mechanisms and designing effective therapies. Yet exhaustively exploring th…
Benchmarking Transcriptomics Foundation Models for Perturbation Analysis : one PCA still rules them all
Ihab Bendidi, Shawn Whitfield, Kian Kenyon-Dean +4
Understanding the relationships among genes, compounds, and their interactions in living organisms remains limited due to technological constraints and the complexity of biological…