Brian Hie

@brianhie.bsky.social

AI for biology | Stanford and Arc Institute

Milot’s venture into establishing his own lab is incredibly excitinge. I highly recommend to join Milot on his mission to advance molecular biology through open-source bioinformatics.

Milot Mirdita@milot.bsky.social · 7mo ago

My time in @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's group is ending, but I’m staying in Korea to build a lab at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine. If you or someone you know is interested in molecular machine learning and open-source bioinformatics, please reach out. I am hiring! mirdita.org

Having often dealt with the frustration of binder-limited projects, we sought a more accessible source for nanobodies than yeast display or llama. Here we introduce Germinal, computationally designing antibody-like binders with such a hit rate that only tens need to be screened for each target.

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Many of the most complex and useful functions in biology emerge at the scale of whole genomes. Today, we share our preprint “Generative design of novel bacteriophages with genome language models”, where we validate the first, functional AI-generated genomes 🧵

We trained a genomic language model on all observed evolution, which we are calling Evo 2. The model achieves an unprecedented breadth in capabilities, enabling prediction and design tasks from molecular to genome scale and across all three domains of life.

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Excited to have the first project of my PhD out!! By leveraging genomic language model Evo’s ability to learn relationships across genes (i.e., "know a gene by the company it keeps"), we show that we can use prompt-engineering to generate highly divergent proteins with retained functionality. 🧵1/N

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