Presentation: Can Biological Foundation Models Match Experiments in Predicting Interventions?
Location: Palo Alto, California
Date: October 5, 2026
Presenter: Brendan Frey, Founder and CIO at Deep Genomics
Brendan discusses how Deep Genomics has been able to set up the learning problem to learn causal relationships that can accurately predict the effects of interventions, as well as some discussions about observational vs interventional data, relationships between modelling approaches like BigRNA/Borzoi/AlphaGenome, State and Scooby, and what this tells us about how biological AI should be evaluated.