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Delighted to announce this exciting course by Víctor de Lorenzo -wonderful opportunity for our Indian students to get a solid introduction to #synbio, from one of its pioneers! International folks can join online🙂! Only looking at limited in-person regns—so apply soon! IBSE

Bioinformatics tweeps! 👋 For an Introduction to Bioinformatics course, I would like to highlight (1) women who made history in #bioinformatics #molecularevolution #genomesciences #compbiology etc (2) gender ratio trends in these fields Would highly appreciate tips or resources!

Our review is published in a special themed issue of the Journal of IISc: "Big Data for a Small World: A Review on Databases and Resources for Studying #Microbiomes" Thanks to Venkat from NASA JPL for editing the issue, and my co-authors! rdcu.be/c9aUS

Super excited to share a new project in the lab Emory University! We will be computationally studying the pediatric oral #microbiome in persistent #HPV infections. We are looking for (ML-able) #postdoc(s), so please reach out and apply: tinyurl.com/HPVmicrobiome

LAST CALL FOR OUR PSB PRECISION MEDICINE SESSION! January 3-7, 2024 at the Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island of Hawaii. Paper submissions are due August 1, 2023 and no extensions will be granted psb.stanford.edu/callfor/papers…

Functional profiling of the sequence stockpile: a review and assessment of in silico prediction tools biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

We just finished evaluating function prediction methods. "Prediction" as in really novel proteins, not those that look like our training data. Turns out no method is great. Something to strive for with future developments?biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I could write a volume, but will make just a few points. You can follow Prof. Amitabha Bandyopadhy for other views. 1. The funds crunch is not just at IITH, but at all IITs. The crunch is not only in R&D funds, but also in operating budgets. Universities are in much worse shape. 1/n

Wrap!! Day-2 Applications of machine learning techniques in biology using Weka has successfully come to end. It was great pleasure to interact with enthusiastic minds.

AlphaFold has given us millions of protein structure predictions, but analysing these can be tricky due to computational limitations. Foldseek Cluster is a new algorithm that can perform structural comparisons of every #AlphaFoldDB protein prediction. ebi.ac.uk/about/news/res…

We are growing our already significant footprint in Theory and Modeling of Living Systems livingtheory.emory.edu. The group is anchored in Physics and Biology, with additional faculty in other departments. This year we are hiring a theorist in Biology apply.interfolio.com/131940

A new outlook on protein function! Also -- sequence and structure are complementary (not exchangeable) according to this SNN. Yannick Mahlich, Chengsheng Zhu, M. Clara De Paolis Kaluza, Pavan K Velaga, @HenriChung, Predrag Radivojac Iddo Friedberg 💔𐤅‎𐤉𐤃‎‎𐤏‎ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar…

A hero calling out the obsessive Jew hatred behind the “Free Palestine” rioters around the world and the ugly bigots tearing down posters of kidnapped children. 👏

Move over mitochondria, a new organelle called the nitroplast is here. In a new Science study, researchers report that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga. Learn more ⬇️ 📄: scim.ag/6BE #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/6BF

Did some analysis of variant impact predictors. We really haven't improved much since the early 2000's. 😕 The bright side is that the unsupervised learners don't need experimental data. With Amarda Shehu, rpkaran, and Anowarul Kabir cshperspectives.cshlp.org/content/early/…

We have recently seen a surge in vector databases in this era of generative AI. The idea behind vector databases is to index the data with vectors that relate to that data. Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) is one of the most efficient ways to build indexes for vector

Awesome new work by @HenriChung (and Iddo Friedberg 💔𐤅‎𐤉𐤃‎‎𐤏‎ & I)! We show that a #metagenome can be parsed to identify molecular pathways emergent in a #microbiome. All collaboration should be acknowledged - especially if its the "little guys" that run our world! academic.oup.com/nargab/article…

FFmpeg makes extensive use of hand-written assembly code for huge (10-50x) speed increases and so we are providing assembly lessons to teach a new generation of assembly language programmers. Learn more here: github.com/FFmpeg/asm-les…

Our in silico multiscale modeling pipeline to build experimentally-consistent 3D models of eukaryotic genomes is out in Nucleic Acids Res. Our models show that DNA sequence-guided nucleosome organization defines chromatin accessibility & transcription regulation. academic.oup.com/nar/article/53…