Introducing Quine: An AI research system designed for the complexity of biology

At a glance

• Quine (opens in new tab) is a research effort to create a multimodal world model of biology and an interactive harness connecting models, scientific tools, literature, and researchers.
• In collaboration with researchers at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, we have used this system to prioritize compounds predicted to drive therapeutic tumor-state shifts and validated several top-ranked candidates across multiple wet-lab assays.
• The Quine Fellows program (opens in new tab) will give a cohort of scientists access to the system and an opportunity to accelerate their own research and provide scientific feedback.
• Quine is experimental research technology intended only for research, not clinical or medical use, and its outputs may be incomplete or inaccurate and require review by qualified researchers and appropriate scientific and experimental validation. As the technology matures, we expect to expand access through products like Microsoft Discovery (opens in new tab).

For more than two decades, Microsoft Research has worked at the intersection of computation and biology. Our research has spanned immunology, virology, genomics, biomedical imaging, cell biology, and protein engineering. That work has produced foundational methods, new science, and technology that reached the clinic, from rare and infectious disease diagnosis to cancer biomarker detection.