🔥 Unveiling the Future of Genomics with Genome Language Models (gLMs)! 🔥

Our comprehensive review, "Transformers and genome language models," is finally published in Nature Machine Intelligence! ​

Link: nature.com/articles/s42...

How can generative AI and Robotics help advance drug discovery？

🚀 Excited to introduce LUMI-lab!
A foundation model-driven Self-Driving Lab (SDL) for autonomous ionizable lipid discovery in mRNA delivery 🤖🔍

Agentic AI Meets Medicine!!!

🔬 Excited to announce MedRAX: a groundbreaking Medical Reasoning Agent for Chest X-ray interpretation, now on arXiv!

Paper:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02673

Code: github.com/bowang-lab/M...

🚀 Introducing scGPT-spatial! 🧬🌍
A game-changing spatial-omic foundation model, built on the powerful scGPT framework with MoE (mixture of experts) and continually pretrained on a massive 30 million spatial single-cell profiles!

Our Jan issue is live! nature.com/natmachintell with an article (Yejin Choi et al) and N&V commentary (Molly Crockett) on Delphi, designed to investigate AI moral reasoning. Also read about IntegrateAnyOmics by @bowang87.bsky.social, an unsupervised platform to tackle incomplete multi-omics data.

Our first accepted paper in 2025:

🚀 Introducing MorphoDiff: Our new diffusion-based generative pipeline for high-resolution cellular morphology prediction, guided by perturbation signals, now accepted at ICLR 2025!

Thrilled that ‘Foundation Models for Biology’ has been named one of the top 7 technologies to watch by
@nature.com ! Thanks for highlighting our scGPT work! Also honored to contribute to such a visionary piece. 2025 will be an exciting year for AI & biology!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How to build a virtual cell is the “Holy Grail” of the biology! A great read from The Atlantic @theatlantic.com ! Also thanks for highlighting our scGPT, the model that started the new wave of foundation models in biology!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Our Orthrus, one of the first RNA foundation models, is on #NeurIPS2024 !!

More details can be seen: x.com/bowang87/sta...

Excited to be presenting Orthrus with Ruain Shi and Keren Isaev @karini925.bsky.social today! We will be presenting our spotlight at the workshop on AI for new drug modalities #NeurIPS2024

Come chat about a new approach to mRNA representation learning!

Three UHN research projects have received over $4M through the Ontario Research Fund, part of a $92M investment in Ontario research!

Learn how this funding advances:
▶️#MRI tech
▶️#AI for donor lungs
▶️Muscle & joint #health

Congrats to the awardees!
🔗 www.uhnresearch.ca/news/investi...

AI: The New Virtual Radiologist 🩻 🫁

Researchers at UHN’s Toronto General Hospital Research Institute are using AI to enhance the accuracy and consistency of organ evaluation for lung #transplantation.

Read more ➡️ www.uhnresearch.ca/news/ai-new-...

This is an exciting milestone for our MEDSAM! 🎉 Our paper "Segment Anything in Medical Images" has surpassed 1,000 citations!

This is amazing article! Thanks
@erictopol.bsky.social
for highlighting two of our new foundation models for DNA methylation!

thanks @haoyin.bsky.social 🙏🙏

Large language of life models: foundation models for longevity and aging!
Our lab has been involved in two groundbreaking DNA methylation foundation models: CpGPT and MethylGPT! These “Large Language of Life” models (@erictopol.bsky.social) mark a new era in aging prediction and disease analysis.

CpGPT: a Foundation Model for DNA Methylation
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

MethylGPT: a foundation model for the DNA methylome
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exciting self supervised models trained on massive cross-platform methylation data by @bowang87.bsky.social lab. 1/

Thanks @anshulkundaje.bsky.social ! Look forward to connecting with folks in AI & genomics at bsky!