{"id":227808,"date":"2025-12-25T09:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/the-virtual-cell-will-be-more-like-gwas-than-alphafold"},"modified":"2025-12-25T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T15:03:43","slug":"the-virtual-cell-will-be-more-like-gwas-than-alphafold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/the-virtual-cell-will-be-more-like-gwas-than-alphafold","title":{"rendered":"The Virtual Cell Will Be More Like Gwas Than Alphafold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-virtual-cell-will-be-more-like-gwas-than-alphafold2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There has been significant discussion recently on the concept of the \u201cvirtual cell.\u201d I want to summarize the key concepts regarding what the field wants from a virtual cell and the challenges we face. In particular, the current trajectory reminds me of the evolution of statistical genetics (GWAS) and Mendelian disorders\u2014analogies that I believe point to the most likely path for the field\u2019s development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been significant discussion recently on the concept of the \u201cvirtual cell.\u201d I want to summarize the key concepts regarding what the field wants from a virtual cell and the challenges we face. In particular, the current trajectory reminds me of the evolution of statistical genetics (GWAS) and Mendelian disorders\u2014analogies that I believe point [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}