PSB 2026 — Sessions

The five peer-reviewed session tracks of PSB 2026, with all 55 accepted papers. PSB sessions are proposed by community leaders and selected fresh each year, so the track list is a signal in its own right about which subfields the community considers emerging.

Each session publishes an organizer introduction as a paper in the proceedings; those are linked at the top of each page. Every paper PDF is free at psb.stanford.edu under CC BY-NC 4.0.

	Session	Papers	Pages
S1	Precision Medicine — integrating large-scale data and intermediate phenotypes	10	596–751
S2	Biological Molecular Function — methods and benchmarks for biological dark matter	7	417–519
S3	Systems Biology and Network Analysis — multi-omics integration to mechanisms	6	752–848
S4	AI and Machine Learning in Clinical Medicine — bridging or separating model intelligence and human expertise?	27	1–416
S5	Fairness and Bias in Biomedical AI/ML — defining goals and putting them into practice	5	520–595

Where to start. If you read only three papers from PSB 2026: Automated Chest X-ray Report Generation Remains Unsolved (S4) for the evaluation argument, PertSpectra (S2) for perturbation modeling, and Tamura et al.'s sparse-autoencoder work on pathology foundation-model embeddings (S1) for interpretable digital pathology.

Beyond the peer-reviewed tracks: Keynotes and invited talks · Workshops · Themes