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Bo Wang

@bowang87.bsky.social
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Chief AI Officer @ UHN; Assistant Prof. @ U of Toronto; CIFAR AI Chair @ Vector Institute; AI & Biology

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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🔥 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...
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Transformers and genome language models - Nature Machine Intelligence
Micaela Consens et al. discuss and review the recent rise of transformer-based and large language models in genomics. They also highlight promising directions for genome language models beyond the tra...
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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 🤖🔍
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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...
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🚀 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!
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Nature Machine Intelligence @natmachintell.nature.com · 29/01/2025
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.
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
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!
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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...
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Self-driving laboratories, advanced immunotherapies and five more technologies to watch in 2025
Sustainability and artificial intelligence dominate our seventh annual round-up of exciting innovations.
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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...
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A Virtual Cell Is a ‘Holy Grail’ of Science. It’s Getting Closer.
Large language models may unlock a new and valuable type of research.
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Our Orthrus, one of the first RNA foundation models, is on #NeurIPS2024 !! More details can be seen: x.com/bowang87/sta...
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phil-fradkin.bsky.social @phil-fradkin.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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!
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Research at UHN @uhnresearch.ca · 10/12/2024
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...
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Research at UHN @uhnresearch.ca · 02/12/2024
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-...
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This is an exciting milestone for our MEDSAM! 🎉 Our paper "Segment Anything in Medical Images" has surpassed 1,000 citations!
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
This is amazing article! Thanks @erictopol.bsky.social for highlighting two of our new foundation models for DNA methylation!
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
thanks @haoyin.bsky.social 🙏🙏
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
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.
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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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/
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CpGPT: a Foundation Model for DNA Methylation
DNA methylation is a critical epigenetic modification that regulates gene expression and plays a significant role in development and disease processes. Here, we present the Cytosine-phosphate-Guanine ...
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Bo Wang @bowang87.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Thanks @anshulkundaje.bsky.social ! Look forward to connecting with folks in AI & genomics at bsky!
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