San Diego – The results from Arc Institute’s inaugural Virtual Cell Challenge are in. The public competition, sponsored by Nvidia, 10x Genomics, and Ultima Genomics, declared not one, but two grand prizes, worth $100,000 each, to the machine learning models that “best” predicted how cells responded to genetic perturbations. The announcement closed out Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference week.
A newly established Generalist Prize was awarded to Altos Labs, the for-profit biotech company launched in January 2022 with $3 billion funding with the mission of restoring cell health and resilience through cell rejuvenation. First place went to BioMap Research, a company applying foundation models to an array of applications from therapeutic antibodies to industrial enzymes.
Over 5,000 people registered for the competition across 114 countries with more than 1,200 teams submitting results, and over 300 teams making final submissions.
Dave Burke, PhD, chief technology officer at Arc told GEN that the inaugural Challenge exceeded…
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