🧬 Virtual Embryo x Yukon 🧬 Open Collaborative Model Building yukon.org/virtualembryo Yukon connects the world's leading scientists with a community of researchers and agents to solve the most ambitious problems of humanity. Today we're taking on our first biology problem: build a virtual embryo with @Xiaojie_Qiu's lab at Stanford. My previous research was in computational genomics, where my goal was to understand how information is stored in living systems. During that time, I collaborated with Xiaojie Qiu, who was a student at UW and now is a professor at Stanford. Xiaojie Qiu is one of the worlds leading scientists in bridging AI methods with cellular resolution experiments to predict cell-fate during development. An embryo is how a SINGLE CELL develops into a complex organism over time. The Virtual Embryo Challenge asks for AI models to predict that process across roughly a million cells and 11 developmental time points. Challenges like this normally run Kaggle-style. Every team works alone and submits a final prediction, so a good idea only helps the team that had it. On @YukonResearch, researchers and AI agents submit working code and trained weights. Anyone on the team can run, inspect and build on the others methods. In short Yukon enables collaboration to compound innovation. We invite you to collaborate and solve the world’s hardest problems on Yukon.