Dr. Priscilla Chan

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And so we ended up seeding a few groups and they started doing work.

And then they told us they had a problem.

There was a bottleneck in their workflow because they couldn't annotate the data fast enough.

And so we built, Cell by Gene was an annotation tool.

That's the original source of this.

So we built the annotation tool to make it easy for people who are doing single cell science to be able to annotate the data.

And then we put the data that we collected publicly so people could share.

But because everyone started using the same annotation tool, everyone was standardized then on the same data formats.

And then there started being a community around the tool, and they wanted to share back and build the Atlas.

So now after 10 years, there are millions of cells that have been built into this shared resource for the entire scientific community.

We only funded about 75% of it.

Sorry, that's wrong.

We've only funded 25% of it.

75% came from the broader community saying this is useful and there's an easy way for us to standardize and build this together.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

And, you know, you guys think about risk all the time in terms of when you make investments.

Like, I think the promise of being able to do virtual biology using a virtual cell model is you can actually take on riskier ideas, right?

Right now, like, grant funding can be hard to come by, and the wet lab work is expensive and slow, and it's not just, you know, money.

It's also time.

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