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Arc Institute
The Arc Institute is a well-funded nonprofit research institute building 'virtual cell' AI models and the datasets to train them.
Founded 2021 with Stanford, UCSF and Berkeley affiliations. Home of the Evo and Evo 2 genome language models, the State perturbation-response model, the Arc Virtual Cell Atlas, and the Virtual Cell Challenge (2025). Its scale of perturbation data collection is unusual for an academic institute.
Location
Palo Alto, CA, US
Type
research institute
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
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OnCo score
#383 · 16 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 16 from 8 linked objects) · ranking
- Virtual Cell Atlas
- Evo genome models
- State perturbation model
- Virtual Cell Challenge