Virtual Cell Challenge
Also known as: VCC · Virtual Cell Challenge 2026
Public benchmark competition launched by the Arc Institute as a “Turing test” for virtual cells; the 2026 edition benchmarks zero-shot generalisation across cellular contexts (six unseen cell lines). VC0002 VC0058 VC0107
Review pending Version 0.1.0 · status: draft · last expert review: not yet reviewed
Relations
| Subject | Relation | Object | Confidence | Evidence (role) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI virtual cell | benchmarked on | Virtual Cell Challenge | high | VC0002 benchmark VC0058 benchmark The 2026 challenge results are pending in the library. |
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Appears in library items (5)
Items whose title, tags or one-line summary match this entity (derived from the data), plus the items cited as evidence for the description.
- VC0058 Virtual Cell Challenge 2026: Benchmarking zero-shot generalization across cellular contexts. — Arc Virtual Cell Initiative Team, Goodarzi H., Cell, 2026
- VC0107 Virtual Cell Challenge 2026 (zero-shot, 6 unseen cell lines) — Arc Institute, virtualcellchallenge.org, 2026
- VC0106 NeurIPS 2025: Altos Labs wins Generalist Prize at Arc's Virtual Cell Challenge — GEN (Fay Lin), GEN, 2025
- VC0105 Virtual Cell Challenge 2025 Wrap-Up: Winners and Reflections — Arc Institute, Arc news, 2025
- VC0002 Virtual Cell Challenge: Toward a Turing test for the virtual cell. — Roohani YH et al., Cell, 2025
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