ALL ATOM VIRTUAL CELL

Summary from the TLDR newsletter

An AI virtual cell that can re-create and simulate the behavior of molecules, cells, and tissues across diverse states would require an enormous amount of data to train, and it still might not be very predictive. Many groups have been trying to make predictive models of cell morphology and gene expression under chemical perturbation for years, but while the models are good, they haven't fundamentally changed how biology is done. A simulation of an entire human cell, atom by atom, running for 24 hours with molecular dynamics would take an estimated 2 x 10^38 FLOPs and 200 TW of electricity. It may be possible for humans to create one in 2074.