Broad In­sti­tute opens new $300M cen­ter to an­swer 1 ques­tion: What's pos­si­ble when you ap­ply ma­chine learn­ing to bi­ol­o­gy?

In the midst of what di­rec­tor Todd Gol­ub called two rev­o­lu­tions — one bi­o­log­i­cal one and one com­pu­ta­tion­al — the Broad In­sti­tute is launch­ing a new cen­ter fund­ed by a for­mer Google chief to ex­plore the in­ter­sec­tion of ma­chine learn­ing and biotech­nol­o­gy.

The Broad on Thurs­day un­veiled the Er­ic and Wendy Schmidt Cen­ter, com­plete with a $150 mil­lion en­dow­ment from the Schmidts and a few Big Phar­ma part­ners in the wings. In ad­di­tion to the Schmidts’ con­tri­bu­tion, the Broad Foun­da­tion is throw­ing in an­oth­er $150 mil­lion.

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