Arc Institute’s Post

Pre-registration for the 2026 Virtual Cell Challenge opens today. Start building your team and say hello in our Discord. The full competition launches August 20. https://lnkd.in/dx82kttF This year we’re setting a more difficult task than 2025. Competitors will predict, on a zero-shot basis, how multiple cell lines respond to specified gene knockdowns. Predictions will be scored against new experimental perturbation data we’ve created from those cell lines. Inspired by CASP, the goal of the Challenge is to advance the virtual cell modeling field and create common, community-wide benchmarks for these tools. Thanks to NVIDIA/NVIDIA Healthcare, 10x Genomics, and Ultima Genomics for sponsoring once again. We can’t wait to see who signs up.