Akshat Nigam

@akshatai.bsky.social

PhD student @Stanford CS. drug discovery; protein modeling & machine learning. BioX Fellow. Founder @Stealth.

💥 Drug discovery software is broken Customers pay big fees for tools that may not work 👉🏽 We started KlyneAI to build tailored tools for your challenges—not generic ones No sugar-coating. If it doesn’t work, we stop—you don’t waste money.Time for an honest, problem-driven approach to drug discovery

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Hot take in drug discovery: The real value of molecular docking lies in ranking for (ultra-large) virtual screening. Structure co-folding models with ligands? Super cool! But unless they prove themselves in screening performance, conventional docking still wins 🤔

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀 KlyneAI is thrilled to join JLABS! We’re pushing the boundaries of biotech innovation and developing cutting-edge tools for drug discovery. Want to collaborate on AI-driven drug discovery? → klyne@klyne.ai #Biotech #DrugDiscovery #AI #JLabs (Yes, the view’s amazing) 🤩

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Excited to share our latest work, published this morning in Nature Biotechnology! 🎉 We developed a hybrid quantum computing-enhanced generative model to design KRAS inhibitors. Check it out here: rdcu.be/d68Fs. Some fascinating insights along the way:

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Excited to share some news this New Year! I’ll be joining @klyneai.bsky.social as CTO soon. We co-founded Klyne to revolutionize biotech with cost-effective, no-licensing-fee software solutions. 🚀 If you're interested in screening, hit optimization, or FEP calculations, reach out: klyne@klyne.ai 😉

In biomolecular simulations, interesting phenomena often unfold slowly, with the viscosity of the surrounding water further hindering conformational sampling. But what if we could simulate water with lower viscosity while preserving the same thermodynamic properties? 👇

🎉 Thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD @Stanford! My thesis, "Machine Learning Approaches for Predicting Biological Function and Molecular Design," explores the intersection of ML, biology, and chemistry. Some Highlights:

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Surprised by how much of the scientific community has moved here—seeing so much more scientific content and a big boost in post quality here! Looking forward to posting more here! 😉