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The $1.8 Billion Bet That More Data Will Enable Progress in Virtual Cells
In October, Biohub, the Chan Zuckerberg science organization, expanded its Virtual Biology Initiative to $1.8 billion . The money pays for open, standardized data to train virtual cells: AI models that predict how a cell will…
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