Notes

DAY 1

• TCGA is a major source of multimodal data 

• Evo2 is back ...

• check the speaker web page: https://www.uhnresearch.ca/researcher/bo-wang , focus on BioReason: https://bowang-lab.github.io/BioReason ; connectio with Gene Ontology ...

• GO-GPT where GO tokens are based on ESM2 embeddings --> prediction machines ...

• COMPASS: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.01.25326820v2.full.pdf ... predicting outcomes 

DAY 2

• Day 2 starting with a presentation on foundation models specfically for target desiese by Valentina Boeva. There is a strong argument to have deployment structured in two components - the foundation model and the multi modality of available data.

• Training separate models for each modality/disease instead of going straight for multimodality (really?)...

• ...