We just launched Part 2 of the Metabolic Disease ML Competition with the Schmidt Center. Obesity affects 890 million people. The next breakthrough won't come from a single lab. It will come from thousands of ML engineers working in parallel on real biological data.

Part 1 focused on single-gene knockouts. Part 2 raises the stakes: double perturbations. Predict how human fat cells respond when two genes are knocked out simultaneously via CRISPR. The combinatorial complexity makes this a fundamentally harder ML problem.