NMD-VCell Virtual Cell Evidence Engine See what is known, what is uncertain, and what to test next Module: Perturbation Lab · evidence-to-experiment workflow NMD = neuromuscular disorders

Current limit: the site can compare existing evidence, but no candidate has yet been independently repeated in a DMD muscle model.

Research evidence only 21 observed HepG2 perturbations 0 independent DMD replications Boundary & release
Observed HepG2 perturbations with limited external myogenic context No validated DMD perturbation prediction v1.0.0-database-resource Frozen 25 Jul 2026 Schema 1.1 Model ridge-safe-v2.3 Benchmark repeated-fold-v2.2 Build EA-20260730-29 DOI pending Open evidence boundary →

Disease trajectory

Separate the trajectory we measured from the disease trajectory still missing.

A real human-myogenic time course is available. Longitudinal DMD aging and perturbation-conditioned fate are not.

Measured

GSE52529 · unperturbed reference

Human myogenic differentiation

Primary human skeletal myoblasts sampled across four physical times. This describes normal differentiation context, not DMD progression.

0 hStarting myoblasts69 cells
24 hEarly transition74 cells
48 hIntermediate differentiation79 cells
72 hLater reference state49 cells
Measured reference programMyogenic / contractile
0 h-0.29
24 h-0
48 h0.11
72 h0.23

Descriptive mean z-score across the frozen program panel; not a perturbation response.

Measured reference programCell cycle / proliferation
0 h0.56
24 h-0.21
48 h-0.28
72 h-0.03

Descriptive mean z-score across the frozen program panel; not a perturbation response.

Measured reference programMetabolic / secretory
0 h-0.24
24 h0.05
48 h0.04
72 h0.19

Descriptive mean z-score across the frozen program panel; not a perturbation response.

Not measured

Future DMD trajectory

Age, disease stage and treatment-conditioned fate

No released dataset currently follows the same DMD cellular system longitudinally across age or intervention.

Early regenerative stateNot assessed longitudinally
Persistent inflammatory stateNot assessed longitudinally
Fibrotic progressionNot assessed longitudinally
Late tissue replacementNot assessed longitudinally

What this means: the site can display a measured differentiation reference, but it cannot yet simulate a 5-, 10- or 20-year-old DMD cellular state.

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