Paper
Are Current AI Virtual Cell Models Useful for Scientific Discovery?
Bereket · 2026 · biorxiv
10.64898/2026.04.23.719015Find this paper
Abstract
AI models are increasingly developed to predict the effect of perturbations on gene expression, but current benchmarks fail to reliably measure model performance. Here, we argue that new benchmarks that directly measure the value of model predictions for specific scientific discovery outcomes are needed to address this gap. We present PerturbHD, an evaluation framework for AI-enabled hit discovery, to demonstrate the benefits our proposed approach.
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