Fabian Theis describes a progression in scientific work from mapping biological systems, to predicting them, and now toward steering the next experiment.

“So where before you-- we built these human cell atlases, we had sort of this mapping aspect. Then we talked about the world model prediction problem, right? So from mapping, we went to prediction.”

“But now we can go to actually steering the next experiment, right? And this has always been the scientific method, you know, sort of putting our hypothesis in the loop and then doing something with it.”