Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Part of Harvard University

A Harvard research institute borrowing Nature's design principles to engineer materials, diagnostics, and therapeutics for health and sustainability.

Location: Boston, MA, USA

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2 models(2 DNA & Gene, 1 Single-cell, 1 Imaging, 1 Protein)

Models (2)

Generative Distribution Embeddings

Harvard University / MIT / Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital / Mass General Brigham

Released May 23, 2025

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Distribution-level representation learning that embeds whole cell populations, perturbation responses, and sequence sets, not individual data points.

Single-cellImagingDNA & Gene

Variational Synthesis Models

JURA Bio, Inc. / Harvard Medical School / Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering / Columbia University / New York University / Technical University of Denmark

Released September 19, 2024

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Manufacturing-aware generative sequence models whose parameters are DNA synthesis reaction conditions, so designs are made in vitro at petascale.

ProteinDNA & Gene

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