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🚀 Introducing Nucleotide Transformer v3 (NTv3) Today, we are very excited to share our latest foundation model for biology - Nucleotide Transformer v3 (NTv3). NTv3 is @instadeepai new multi-species genomics foundation model, designed for 1 Mb, single-nucleotide-resolution prediction, and for bridging representation learning, sequence-to-function modeling, and generative regulatory design within a single framework 🧬 This work was developed in close collaboration with @AlexanderStark8 , @volokuleshov , and @pkoo562 , and reflects several years of joint effort at the intersection of machine learning and regulatory genomics.
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This is correct. High resolution temporal information will be critical to learn the causal chain of events in gene regulation especially in the presence of pervasive feedback loops & compensation mechanisms. Perturbations alone with arbitrary end points are insufficient.
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Very cool work! I'm wondering if its possible to rapidly over-express individual genes in primary cells combined with real-time measurements using ChronoSeq. This way you can easily disentangle direct effects from indirect effects. @genophoria @Roth_Lab what do you think? biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… (1/n)
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29 Jul 2025
⚡️Thrilled that #VirtualLab is published in @Nature! nature.com/articles/s41586-0… We created a team of AI agents to mirror my Stanford lab🤖. Led by a PI agent, the AI scientists ran their own group meetings and discovered effective binders to new CoVID variants that we validated. The Virtual Lab is open source and can be applied to many problems! github.com/zou-group/virtual… 👏Great job @KyleWSwanson John Pak, Wes Wu, Nash Bulaong @czbiohub @StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI
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Great work from @lucapinello lab on a compact deep learning model that integrates sequence, DNase, H3k27ac (optionally HiC) to predict expression while learning long range effects of enhancers (against CRISPR FlowFISH expts) very well. 1/ biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Seeking a cost-effective, scalable single-cell multiomic sequencing method? 🔍🧬 Meet SUM-seq: ATAC RNA in single nuclei! Check the latest preprint from Noh and @zauggj groups @embl! Huge congrats to @sara_lobmor, @umut_yildiz12, @AnniqueC, @MikaelMarttinen, and all authors! 🎉
Happy to see the SUM-seq preprint out - our approach for scalable droplet-based single-cell ATAC RNA (up to 1M cells, hundreds of samples)! 🧬 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize for Peace has been awarded to Marjorie Taylor Greene “for fostering harmony, unity and friendship between peoples in the USA". Her call for a "national divorce" has been universally received as the obvious solution to disunity in the USA.
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25 Sep 2023
President of @CamUniFemtech and active Bachata dancer 💃 @vlorenzi3 tells us about her fascinating PhD project to create a single-cell map of the developing human reproductive system. ebi.ac.uk/about/news/perspec…
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23 Aug 2023
Become ungovernable

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Submit your posters NOW! 🤩 Register as soon as possible and submit your abstract! We are very excited to have you all present your cool science, discuss it and network with other #PhD students Don't miss the opportunity and submit it before the 25th of August
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15 Aug 2023
scover: Predicting the impact of sequence motifs on gene regulation using single-cell data genomebiology.biomedcentral.…
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13 Aug 2023
💾🧬 Genomic foundation models have recently been a popular line of work in bio-ML. This research is further expansion of the transfer learning paradigm into biology. A few recent methods and thoughts 💾🧬 1) GPN 2) Nucleotide Transformer 3) DNA BERT 2 4) HyenaDNA
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20 Jul 2023
2024 is a special year – it marks 50 years of @embl! 🥳 We've got a fantastic programme lined up for you: embl.org/about/info/course-a… Check out our 2024 EMBL Annual Poster and mark your calendars, because we're already thrilled to see you here for new events like the @EMBO | EMBL Symposium 'AI and biology' and classics such as #EESRNA 👏🏽
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La carne coltivata non è sintetica. È come lo yogurt o la birra. Primo paese al mondo a prendere il Premio ignoranza chimica, e penalizzando la nostra ricerca e economia. Ps: tra l’altro una molecola di vitamina C “sintetica” è identica a una molecola di vitamina C naturale. Studiate cazzo.
Senato, approvato il ddl che ci pone all'avanguardia nel mondo. Primo Paese a vietare commercializzazione, importazione e produzione di cibo sintetico. Altro fondamentale passo nell’unica direzione che il Governo Meloni conosce: l’interesse nazionale. Avanti così, per l’Italia 🇮🇹
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Somehow I’ve recently talked a lot about #imposteur #syndrome & surprised a few people saying I still had it. While making order in old boxes today this note from Nov 2010 came up, written right after Bsc degree. “I don’t know if I’m capable enough for a PhD”. 1/n
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Any p-value smaller than 1/# of atoms in universe is not an actual result - it is a problem with the hypothesis or model
The smallest p-value that I've ever seen reported is 😱 3.6 * 10^-2382 😱 Paper: science.org/doi/10.1126/scie… Sci-hub link: sci-hub.st/10.1126/science.a… If you ever see a smaller p-value, do let me know! I collect them. [1/3]
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🥳REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!🥳 We have put together a lot of exciting topics and speakers for this year’s symposium Register now and stay tuned to learn more about the speakers and some cool activities we have prepared #PhD #EMBL #emblphdsymposium phdsymposium.embl.org/
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13 Jan 2023
The Bücker and Stark labs at the @IMPvienna & @MaxPerutzLabs, @viennabiocenter selected their favourite journal club papers of 2022. It was a very tough choice with many excellent papers - what a year 2022 has been! The top 3 papers in no particular order are (1/5):
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