A gibbous moon hangs over a lonely mountain trail in the Italian Alps, above the village of Malles Venosta, whose lights dot the valley below. Benjamin Wiesmair stands next to a moth trap as tall as he is, his face, bushy beard, and hair bun lit by its purple glow. He’s wearing a headlamp, a dusty and battered smartwatch, cargo shorts, and a blue zip sweater with the sleeves pulled up. Countless moths beat frenetically around the trap’s white, diaphanous panels, which are swaying with gho...| IEEE Spectrum
Just over a week ago the long-awaited AlphaFold2 (AF2) method paper and associated code finally came out, putting to rest questions that I and many others raised about public disclosure of AF2. Already, the code is being pushed in all sorts of interesting ways, and three days ago the companion paper and database were published, where … Continue reading →| Some Thoughts on a Mysterious Universe
But it may well be semi-supervised. For some time now I have thought that building a latent representation of protein sequence space is a really good idea, both because we have far more sequences than any form of labelled data, and because, once built, such a representation can inform a broad range of downstream tasks. … Continue reading →| Some Thoughts on a Mysterious Universe
The Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) is pleased to announce the launch of the Center for Precision Health (CPH), a collaboration that will harness the power of genomic, biomarker, and health data to transform patient care and population health.| North Carolina Research Campus
