Biohub launches $500M Virtual Biology Initiative to build predictive models of human cells
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Summary
Biohub has announced the Virtual Biology Initiative, a $500 million, five-year global effort to develop technologies and multi-modal datasets for building predictive models of life. The initiative allocates $100 million to coordinate worldwide data-generation efforts and $400 million for large-scale data generation and next-generation biological measurement, imaging, and engineering technologies. The goal is to create predictive models of the human cell through open-data collaboration.
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Biohub is committing $500 million to anchor the effort: $100 million to help nucleate a coordinated, worldwide data-generation effort beyond what any individual institution could undertake alone, and $400 million to generate data at scale and develop next-generation technologies for measuring, imaging, and engineering biology.
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