Making Life Programmable

Joined March 2026
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Mandrake Bio retweeted
Kudos to the team @BioMandrake who won one of the challenging @adaptyvbio binder competition. Read the description just now, the trajectory form instead of single runs is a killer idea! Great going, Happy to see our very own @Surabhi_CSB being a part of this!!
We don't even design binders!! But we @BioMandrake just won @adaptyvbio × @gembioworkshop's RBX1 design competition - 1 Strong binder out of 322 tested, selected from 12,000 submissions. Couldn't make it to @iclr_conf in Rio. Here's how we did it 👇 open.substack.com/pub/mandra…
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Mandrake Bio retweeted
We don't even design binders!! But we @BioMandrake just won @adaptyvbio × @gembioworkshop's RBX1 design competition - 1 Strong binder out of 322 tested, selected from 12,000 submissions. Couldn't make it to @iclr_conf in Rio. Here's how we did it 👇 open.substack.com/pub/mandra…
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Mandrake Bio retweeted
Our 1st Assay into Protein language models at @BioMandrake is here! PLMs have learned the grammar of evolution. They just haven't learned the physics. We go deeper into some experiments we did to shed light into nuances that Protein designers using these should care about.
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Mandrake Bio retweeted
Spoke at the @iiscbangalore EECS Symposium last week - "Can a Neural Network Fast-Track 4 Billion Years of Evolution?" On why the real bottleneck in gene editing is the enzymes, and the approaches we're taking at @BioMandrake to design ones that nature never made. Thanks to Prof @chirgjain for inviting me!
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Mandrake Bio retweeted
We put out an open ML challenge @BioMandrake asking: can you predict which reverse transcriptases work the best for prime editing? 250 participants from 15 countries signed up Hosting a live webinar to go deeper and take your questions! 📅 March 18 · 9:30 PM IST / 11 AM EST 💰 $1,000 prize · Deadline March 31 Register ↓
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We just launched our first open ML challenge at @BioMandrake The Retroviral Wall - predict which reverse transcriptase enzymes work for prime editing, without memorizing their evolutionary family. $1K prize co-authorship real wet lab validation
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Most ML models just memorize the Retroviral family. The task is to generalize across different RT Families. 57 experimentally tested RTs. 98 biophysical features. ESM-2 embeddings. Predicted 3D structures. Compute credits for promising ideas.
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