Foundation Models Meet Biology: The Transformer Revolution in Life Sciences
Welcome back to Agentic Omics: When AI Reads the Book of Life. In our first post, we mapped the complex, multi-layered territory of modern biological data. We saw that while fields like metabolomics are still wrangling with extreme chemical complexity, disciplines defined by sequences—genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics—are experiencing a massive influx of AI-ready data. But data alone isn’t enough. The true catalyst of the current biological AI revolution is a specific architectural breakthrough originally designed to translate English to French: the Transformer. ...