A PhD student trying to solve biological questions using bioinformatics

Joined November 2021
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AI is advancing so rapidly now. Lately, I’ve been wondering where the value lies for those working in bioinformatics. I feel that the biggest problem with AI right now is that it lacks a scientific taste. This is the one area where humans currently outperform AI.
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There are two types of scientists: one type has a ladder, so they use the same ladder to pick fruit from different trees; the other type tries to build a taller ladder to reach the fruit higher up.
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”
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BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
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Say hello to GPT-4o, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time: openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4… Text and image input rolling out today in API and ChatGPT with voice and video in the coming weeks.
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Common statistical tests are linear models (or: how to teach stats) lindeloev.github.io/tests-as… via @jonaslindeloev

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An R package for simple but efficient rowwise jobs courtiol.github.io/lay/

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#EESAIBio Meet the Editors 📰☕🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 🔹Gemma K. Alderton @ScienceMagazine 🔹George Caputa @Nature 🔹Rituparna Chakrabarti @iScience_CP 🔹Qian Cheng @NatureComms 🔹Mike Fletcher @NatureGenet 🔹Sara Osman @NatureSMB 🔹Maria Polychronidou @MolSystBiol 🔹Arunima Singh @naturemethods
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🏆 Winner 2/4 of the medac research award: The team revealed a gut microbiome surprise! 🦠💡 Certain bacteria, even lactic acid ones, act as indicators for potential pathogenic Candida yeasts. #MedacResearch 👉 Full publication here: doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-3…!
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Docking method:
Today in partnership with @GoogleDeepMind we're sharing progress on the next generation of #AlphaFold Our new model greatly expands coverage of structure prediction beyond proteins to other biomolecular classes. Here's how it could advance drug design: bit.ly/45Qt4yT 🧵
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