Starting today, participants will shape the future of cellular biology through predictive modeling in the #VirtualCellChallenge, hosted by @arcinstitute. Proud to sponsor this collective effort that will help solve biology’s biggest questions.
Learn more: virtualcellchallenge.org
The 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge has begun! Submissions and the leaderboard are now open.
This year's task: multi-context generalization and zero-shot prediction. Models will need to predict perturbation responses in cellular contexts with no Challenge-specific training data.
