Goodfire Silico for Life Sciences
What becomes possible
See what your model already knows, and teach it what it's missing.
See what your model actually learned
Trace predictive signal through interpretable features to confirm whether predictions rely on real biological structure or dataset artifacts and spurious correlations.
Unlock new science from your model
Surface biomarkers and mechanistic hypotheses directly from model internals, finding results that do not surface from outputs alone.
Create custom models built on real understanding
Build models you can verify, correct at the feature level, and improve without retraining from scratch.
Our research in life sciences
See what your model already knows, and teach it what it's missing.
Predicting disease-causing genetic variants
In partnership with Mayo Clinic, our approach to interpreting a genomics foundation model achieves state-of-the-art performance, genome-wide coverage, and interpretable-by-design predictions for all 4.2 million variants in ClinVar.
KEY FINDINGS
- State-of-the-art pathogenicity prediction across 839k ClinVar variants
- Genome-wide coverage spanning coding and non-coding regions
- Open source database of interpretable predictions for all 4.2M ClinVar variants
Discovering a novel class of biomarkers for Alzheimer's from a model's internals
An AI model was trained to detect Alzheimer's from blood samples. We opened it up to understand how—and found that DNA fragment length patterns dominate its decision-making. We distilled this insight into a human-interpretable classifier that generalizes to an independent cohort. This was the first major finding in the natural sciences obtained from reverse-engineering a foundation model.
KEY FINDINGS
- Interpretability surfaced fragment length as the dominant predictive signal
- Distilled model behavior into a simple, human-readable classifier
- Validated on an independent cohort, outperforming prior biomarker classes
Seeing inside a frontier genomics model
We decomposed Arc Institute's Evo 2, a frontier genomics model, into interpretable features, revealing how it represents DNA across domains of life and where its predictions reflect real biology versus artifacts. Published in Nature.
KEY FINDINGS
- Decomposed Evo 2's internal representations into interpretable features
- Features span sequence, structure, and function
- Found the tree of life represented as a manifold in the model's internal structures