Ginkgo Datapoints announced the Virtual Cell Pharmacology Initiative (VCPI), an open‑source effort to create standardized virtual cell models for drug discovery. The platform will center on a reference engineered cell line (V‑Ref293) and aims to test at least 100,000 compounds and generate over 12 billion data points, combining high‑throughput RNA profiling and shared wet‑lab methods. Ginkgo is offering free profiling to contributors and will release master cell banks in 2026, positioning VCPI as a community standard to improve AI model training for pharmacology. The initiative addresses reproducibility and data quality gaps that have hampered predictive virtual‑cell efforts.