Archive - Inside Valence

From Crystals to Drugs: What Drug Discovery Can Learn From Materials Science as Revealed at ICLR’s AI4Mat 2026

tl;dr: ICLR’s AI4Mat 2026 revealed that the tools built to simulate materials science are the same tools that could simulate biology.

May 12 • Cristian Gabellini

Grounding Perturbation Prediction in Biological Knowledge

Decoding Transcriptomics Responses with TxPert

May 4 • Ihab

April 2026

Virtual Cell @ ICLR: A Sea of Silos

Reflections from ICLR 2026

Apr 30 • Ihab and Jessica

Towards Reasoning in Virtual Cells

Bridging predict and discover with autonomous mechanistic explanations

Apr 16 • Yunhui Jang, Lu Zhu, and Emmanuel

Building the Virtual Protein

Escaping the Molecular Dynamics Bottleneck

Apr 14 • Cristian Gabellini and Francesco Di Giovanni

Virtual Cells for Microscopy Assays

Overcoming the physical constraints of the lab

Apr 1 • Jason Hartford, Emmanuel, and Therence

March 2026

The Virtual Cell Comeback

An introduction to simulating biology

Mar 24 • Cas, Emmanuel, and Therence

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