🧫 JCVI-syn3A · Minimal cell
🦠 E. coli · Min oscillation
🧬 Platform

The Differentiable
Virtual Cell

JCVI-syn3A rebuilt in a GPU. Forward = simulate life · Backward = design it.
Private · R&Dⓘ What is this?
🧪 Live Experiment Console
Inject a perturbation → the differentiable cell responds → measure. Every number is our model's real output.
③ Measure — live readout
ATP productiondifferentiable whole-cell model
••• relative
ATP yield
1.94
B
Doubling
117m
A
ori : ter
1.24
A
Validated vs public syn3A: ori:ter 1.24 vs 1.21, doubling 117 vs 105 min — grade A, no fitting.
① Target∂ backward · inverse design
ENO🔒
PGK🔒
NOX🔒
ACKr🔒
The model computes ∂ATP / ∂enzyme by autodiff through the whole cell (FD-verified to 10.6 digits). It ranks the highest-leverage target — a forward-only simulator cannot.
② Inject & run▶ forward · simulate
💊 Inhibit ENO
↺ Reset
Baseline steady state · ATP energy (relative). Pick a target and inject.
Enzyme barrier from quantum (VQE/DFT) energetics → Eyring kcat → whole-cell steady state. No real quantum hardware run (θ is a placeholder); the coupling & sensitivity are FD-verified.
🦠 E. coli — Min system
A self-organizing protein oscillation that tells the cell where to divide — the textbook case where space matters.
Oscillation period
41.7 s
MinD sweeps pole-to-pole; its time-average is minimal at midcell → marks the division plane. Inside the measured 40–120 s range — predicted, not fit (Huang-Meir-Wingreen 2003).
Why it's ours∂ differentiable
We differentiate through the pattern (autodiff vs FD, 7–8 digits) → inverse-design a spatial pattern. Stochastic 4D simulators cannot. Physics gates: grade A.
🔴 Honest: deterministic mean-field (real Min is stochastic, ~4000 molecules) · 1D long-axis · published params · the Min subsystem, not a whole E. coli cell.
VIDRAFT · Differentiable Cell Platform

One differentiable engine —
from a minimal cell to human disease to our own drugs

Every figure below is our model's own output — forward-simulated, gradient-verified, graded against public data where it exists, with honest limits stated. Self-correcting agentic research.
🧫 Minimal cell🦠 Bacteria🧠 Human disease💊 Our drugs🫁 Organ metabolism
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JCVI-syn3A minimal cell
Differentiable whole-cell of the smallest genome (493 genes); it replicates & divides.
ori:ter 1.24  vs 1.21 measuredA
No fitting. Prototype; deterministic, not 4D-stochastic.
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E. coli — Min oscillation
Pole-to-pole protein wave that sets the division site; a differentiable spatial pattern.
period 41.7 s  in 40–120 s rangeA
Published model, not re-fit. Mean-field, not stochastic.
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Human disease — protein aggregation
Differentiable neurodegeneration aggregation cascades (Alzheimer-type), with mechanism-based screening.
validated vs published kinetics A
Parameter-free scaling law reproduced (no fit); mechanism-plausibility, not efficacy.
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Drug mechanism screening
Gradients rank which molecular step a therapy must hit — and flag counterproductive ones — across our disease models.
∂(outcome)/∂(mechanism)  FD-verified
Capability shown on public targets; effects are uncertainty bands, not efficacy. Specific compounds & targets are private.
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Genome-scale human metabolism
Differentiable human liver metabolism on the real Recon3D reconstruction (10,600 reactions); fatty-liver phenotype emerges from mass balance.
8/8 liver checks  · Recon3DA
Constraint-based metabolism, not a whole cell; pinpoints the highest-leverage disease step.
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Universal clock (reproduction)
Reproduced the equant "universal dynamical clock" method; verified on a Kepler orbit.
31,531× more uniform null on ours
Honest null: no gain on our symmetric oscillators. Core reproduced, not the full paper.
🔒 Private R&D preview · research prototype · mechanism-plausibility models, not efficacy or clinical predictions · method patent-pending.
Molecular Legend
Plasma membrane
Circular chromosome · ori/ter
Ribosomes · ATP energy core
Proteins · enzyme sites
Membrane
Chromosome
Ribosomes
Crowding
Auto-rotate
▶ Cell cycle
Cell cycle  Replication
VIDRAFT Virtual Cell Platform · Quantum → Kinetics → Whole-cell
oriC replication origin
ter terminus · ½ genome
ENO enzyme target
VIDRAFT · Virtual Cell Platform

Not a simulation you watch.
A cell you can run backward.

JCVI-syn3A — the smallest genome that builds a living cell — rebuilt inside a GPU as a differentiable model. Run it forward to simulate life; run it backward to compute exactly what to change.
493-gene genome · differentiable end-to-end
ori:ter 1.24 vs 1.21 measured — grade A, no fitting
quantum→cell gradients · 10.6-digit verified
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Mechanistic whole-cell (SOTA)
A precise map. But static — to ask "what if?" you re-run blindly. Not differentiable, no inverse design.
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AI cell models
A compass with no map — data-driven, no real physics. Struggles to beat a linear baseline on perturbations.
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VIDRAFT — map + GPS
Real mechanism you can differentiate: it tells you which knob to turn and re-routes instantly. Forward AND backward.
Enter the cell ▶
Research prototype · differentiable minimal-cell method patent-pending · every figure is our own validated model output.
Assembling minimal cell
493 genes · 543 kbp · placing ribosomes…