THE VIRTUAL CELL WILL BE MORE LIKE GWAS THAN ALPHAFOLD

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A virtual cell is a model that lets researchers model diseases and treatments. Tied with the push for virtual cells are efforts to build a foundational model, similar to AlphaFold. Researchers will need to create their own datasets to answer specific questions to be successful in the field. This will require models that have the ability to explicitly identify, isolate, and subtract confounding noise.