Everything about Virtual cell

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Virtual cellA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: How to build the virtual cell with artificial intelligence: Priorities and opportunitiesInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Understanding NutritionThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: The Virtual Cell: a software environment for computational cell biologyCited 330 times
5. Go sideways: Mathematical and theoretical biologyA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: VCellA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Virtual Cell: a software environment for computational cell biology

  Leslie M. Loew, James C. Schaff · 2001 · Trends in Biotechnology · 330 citations

• Quantitative cell biology with the Virtual Cell☆

  Boris M. Slepchenko, James C. Schaff, Ian Macara · 2003 · Trends in Cell Biology · 219 citations

• Virtual Cell modelling and simulation software environment

  I.I. Moraru, J.C. Schaff, B.M. Slepchenko · 2008 · IET Systems Biology · 210 citations

• Virtual Cell Challenge: Toward a Turing test for the virtual cell

  Yusuf H. Roohani, Tony J. Hua, Po-Yuan Tung · 2025 · Cell · 128 citations

• Virtual microfluidics for digital quantification and single-cell sequencing

  Liyi Xu, Ilana L Brito, Eric J Alm · 2016 · Nature Methods · 99 citations

• Extrathymic intestinal T-cell development: virtual reality?

  Leo Lefrançois, Lynn Puddington · 1995 · Immunology Today · 90 citations

• Virtual Cell Beamforming in Cooperative Networks

  Jihwan Kim, Hyang-Won Lee, Song Chong · 2014 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 87 citations

• Virtual Cell: computational tools for modeling in cell biology

  Diana C. Resasco, Fei Gao, Frank Morgan · 2011 · WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine · 79 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• How to build the virtual cell with artificial intelligence: Priorities and opportunities

  Charlotte Bunne, Yusuf Roohani, Yanay Rosen · 2024 · Cell · 499 citations

• Escaping the cell: virtual reality escape rooms in biology education

  Athanasios Christopoulos, Stylianos Mystakidis, Enrique Cachafeiro · 2022 · Behaviour & Information Technology · 80 citations

• Virtual cells in a virtual microenvironment recapitulate early development-like patterns in human pluripotent stem cell colonies

  Himanshu Kaul, Nicolas Werschler, Ross D. Jones · 2023 · Stem Cell Reports · 23 citations

• T-World Virtual Human Cardiomyocyte. I. Development, Validation, and Cell Arrhythmogenesis

  Jakub Tomek, Maxx Holmes, Thomas Bury · 2026 · Circulation Research · 10 citations

• Build the virtual cell with artificial intelligence: a perspective for cancer research

  Tao Yang, Yuan-Yi Wang, Fei Ma · 2025 · Military Medical Research · 9 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Understanding NutritionEleanor Noss Whitney, ELLIE WHITNEY / SHARON RADY ROLFES · 1977
• Human physiologyStuart Ira Fox · 1984
• Neural Information ProcessingTingwen Huang · 2012
• Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
• 5G Radio Access NetworksHrishikesh Venkataraman, Ramona Trestian · 2017
• Skeptics' Guide to the FutureSteven Novella, Jay Novella · 2022
• 📕Architecture and JusticeJonathan Simon, Nicholas Temple · 2013
• Virtual musicWilliam Duckworth · 2005

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🔗 Related topics

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