--- description: Valence Labs, powered by Recursion, is an AI research engine accelerating Recursion’s mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives. title: Valence Labs image: https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Website-preview_ver-2-scaled.png --- # Predict. Explain. Discover. Valence Labs is Recursion’s AI research engine. Leveraging the full power of Recursion’s platform, data, and computing infrastructure, we develop new ways to predict, explain, and ultimately decode biology. [Learn more](#our-research) ![Background gradient object](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/themes/valencelabs/src/images/top_right.png) ![Background gradient object](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/themes/valencelabs/src/images/top_left.png) ![Background gradient object](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/themes/valencelabs/src/images/bottom_right.png) ![Background gradient object](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/themes/valencelabs/src/images/bottom_left.png) ## Our focus Predict ### Building on more than a decade of experience in perturbative biology at Recursion—from scaled phenomics and transcriptomics datasets to multimodal foundation models—we are modeling the functional response of cells to perturbation at unprecedented scale. Explain ### Perturbations rewire cellular function by altering molecular interactions—binding, signaling, dynamics, and more. By combining interventional data with novel methods for predicting and simulating molecular interactions at scale, we are generating casual explanations for how molecular interventions shape cellular function. Discover ### Using lab-in-the-loop engines of biological discovery, we bridge functional readouts with mechanistic understanding to generate, test, and refine novel therapeutic hypotheses to accelerate and improve drug discovery outcomes. ## **Powered by**   [![](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/recursion-1.svg)](https://www.recursion.com/)A unique set of industry-leading ingredients ### Unprecedented Data Generation Recursion’s OS houses automated biology and chemistry labs capable of generating enormous interventional datasets, today spanning > 60 petabytes of data across phenomics, transcriptomics, and other modalities. ### Massive Computing Power Using Recursion’s BioHive, the pharmaceutical industry’s leading supercomputer, we have the ability to run training and inference workflows at industry-leading scale. ### World-Class Talent With a mission-driven, interdisciplinary team, equally fluent in computer science and biology, we have the right people in place to realize our ambitious goal of decoding biology to radically improve lives. ![Background gradient object](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/themes/valencelabs/src/images/whitepaper_top_right.svg) ![Background gradient object](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/themes/valencelabs/src/images/whitepaper_top_left.svg) ![Background gradient object](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/themes/valencelabs/src/images/whitepaper_bottom_right.svg) ## Our perspective A vision for virtual cells—mechanistic models of cellular function that guide the discovery of novel therapeutics. [Read the Perspective](https://www.valencelabs.com/publications/virtual-cells-predict-explain-discover/) ![](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Frame-2087325941.png) ## Virtual Cells: Predict, Explain, Discover [![recursion logo](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/recursion-1.svg)](https://www.recursion.com/) #### Abstract The objective of drug discovery is to accurately infer the effects of treatments on patients. Drug discovery would therefore be greatly improved if there existed computational models that accurately predicted the response of patients to interventions, since this would allow practitioners to safely and economically test and optimize a wide range of therapeutic hypotheses before ever starting a human clinical trial. Even a more “modest” model that could accurately predict the functional response of a wide variety of cells to genetic and chemical interventions would be of tremendous value in designing effective and safe therapeutics more likely to produce positive outcomes in the clinic. Creating such virtual cells has long been a goal of the computational research community that even today remains an ambition due to the daunting scale and complexity of the biomolecular interactions mediating cellular function. Nevertheless, a confluence of technological advances suggest that there has never been a better time to attempt to build virtual cells. In this perspective, we describe Valence Labs’s vision for virtual cells as a transformative platform to indus drug discovery. We set the context for our vision by reviewing historical progress, and outline their integration within a larger framework of agentic systems that continuously refine our mechanistic understanding of human physiology. We highlight recent advances in machine learning, computational power, and data generation that now enable robust simulation of cellular functional responses, and we outline key modeling considerations, evaluation benchmarks, and a roadmap for future research. ![Background object](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/themes/valencelabs/src/images/highlight_pattern.svg) ## Featured highlights [Stay informed](#footer) ![](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TxPert.png) Blog May 22nd, 2025 [TxPert: Predicting Cellular Responses to Unseen Genetic Perturbations](https://www.valencelabs.com/txpert-predicting-cellular-responses-to-unseen-genetic-perturbations/) We introduce TxPert: a state-of-the-art model that leverages multiple biological knowledge networks to accurately predict transcriptional responses under OOD scenarios. [Read more](https://www.valencelabs.com/txpert-predicting-cellular-responses-to-unseen-genetic-perturbations/) ![](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/VCPP-blog-thumb-1.jpg) Blog May 20th, 2025 [Advancing Drug Discovery Outcomes with Virtual Cells at Recursion](https://www.valencelabs.com/advancing-drug-discovery-outcomes-with-virtual-cells-at-recursion/) Predict, Explain, Discover: The Pillars of the Virtual Cell Our view of the virtual cell rests on three interconnected capabilities: [Read more](https://www.valencelabs.com/advancing-drug-discovery-outcomes-with-virtual-cells-at-recursion/) ![](https://www.valencelabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/dae727f570c380d9b76db764cb0eee2a.png) Blog November 26th, 2024 [Introducing OpenQDC – The Open-Source Hub of ML-Ready Quantum Datasets](https://www.valencelabs.com/introducing-openqdc-the-open-source-hub-of-ml-ready-quantum-datasets/) We curated and consolidated 40+ quantum mechanics (QM) datasets, covering 1.5 billion geometries across 70 atom species and 250+ QM… [Read more](https://www.valencelabs.com/introducing-openqdc-the-open-source-hub-of-ml-ready-quantum-datasets/) ```json {"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.valencelabs.com\/","url":"https:\/\/www.valencelabs.com\/","name":"Valence Labs | Recursion’s AI Research Engine","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.valencelabs.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-04-09T08:41:30+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-22T19:19:59+00:00","description":"Valence Labs, powered by Recursion, is an AI research engine accelerating Recursion’s mission of decoding biology to radically improve lives.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.valencelabs.com\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.valencelabs.com\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.valencelabs.com\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.valencelabs.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.valencelabs.com\/","name":"Valence Labs","description":"Recursion’s AI Research Engine","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.valencelabs.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]} ```