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Scaling Protein Design and Scaffolding to the Structural Universe with Genie...
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GeneFormer: A Transformer-based Approach for Efficient Gene Data Compression
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Predicting Ligand-specific Protein-ligand Complex Structure with DynamicBind: A Novel Deep Equivariant...
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The Promise and Reality of AI-discovered Drugs: A Look at Early...
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Protein Design Reimagined: ProtMamba’s Alignment-Free, Homology-Aware Modeling
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Accelerating Drug Discovery with QComp’s Innovative QSAR-based Data Completion Framework
In drug discovery, the accurate prediction of chemical activities is paramount. The conventional forms of QSAR that were initially developed and widely used are...
The False Positive Problem in Drug Discovery: Can ChemFH Be the...
In the drug discovery process, high-throughput screening quickly evaluates a wide range of chemical compounds to find hit compounds for certain biological targets. False-positive...
Can Deep Learning Methods Tackle Practical Protein-Ligand Docking Challenges? Introducing PoseBench
Scientists from the University of Missouri, Columbia introduced PoseBench, the first exhaustive benchmark for practical protein-ligand docking, enabling rigorous evaluation of deep learning docking...
ProteinDPO: A Novel Technique for Aligning Generative Protein Models with Experimental...
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StarFunc: Revolutionizing Protein Function Prediction Leveraging Template-based and Deep Learning Approaches
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Decoding Protein Function with ProteinCLIP: How Natural Language Enhances Protein Language...
Language models have made a new era of biological sequence modeling possible. However, it is still difficult to extract significant sequence-level embeddings from these...
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Exploring the World of Transcriptomics: Techniques, Algorithms, and Tools
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Towards Standardization and Scalability: How Nextflow and nf-core are Empowering Bioinformatics...
FAIR bioinformatics research relies heavily on standardized analysis pipelines. Point-and-click pipeline programs like Galaxy have gradually given way to command-line programs like Nextflow and...
Revolutionizing Antibody Structure-based Design with AntiFold: A Breakthrough in Inverse Folding...
Scientists from the University of Oxford along with the Technical University of Denmark have introduced AntiFold: a specialized model for antibody design that will...
Revolutionizing Biotechnology with Predictive Tools: A New Era of Discovery
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Unlocking New Possibilities in Drug Design: DrugLLM’s Novel Approach to Few-Shot...
The languages of biology and chemistry are difficult for language processing and computer vision systems to grasp, notwithstanding their advances in language processing. Although...
Unleashing the Power of Foundation Models for Cancer Imaging Biomarker Discovery
Despite the immense hurdles posed by cancer, technological developments, particularly in medical imaging and biomarker identification, provide a ray of hope. Foundation models have...
Unveiling the Future of Transcriptomics: CELLama – A Foundation Model Revolutionizing...
Comprehensive data atlases have been made possible by the data-driven nature of biomedical research thanks to large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) and spatial transcriptomics...
Faster, More Accurate Spatial Omics: How BANKSY Streamlines Data Analysis
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Turning the Tide Against Antibiotic Resistance: Protein-BERT’s Accurate and Interpretable Predictions
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Unraveling the Mysteries of Molecular Dynamics: MDverse Sheds Light on Dark...
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The Ultimate Molecular Explorer: AlphaFold 3, DeepMind’s AI Marvel to Unravel...
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Deciphering the Future with Decipher: A Computational Pipeline for Single-cell Profile-based...
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A New Era of AI in Medicine: Google’s Med-Gemini Sets New Standards
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REvoLd: Accelerating Drug Discovery Through Evolutionary Algorithm-Driven Ultra-Large Library Screening in...
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Multi-omics Data Analysis Made Easy with ExpOmics: A Comprehensive Web Platform...
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DeepGene: Revolutionizing Genomics with Pan-genome Graph Transformer-based Foundation Model
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AI-Assisted Gene Editing: CRISPR-GPT, the Future of Efficient CRISPR Experiment Design
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From Genome to Function: AI Predicts Gene Regulation in Newly Sequenced...
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Revolutionizing Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction with ProLLM’s Chain-of-Thought Enhanced LLM
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ETH Zurich Chemists Unveil DRAGONFLY: New AI Approach for Rapid Drug...
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SpatialData: A Universal Framework for Handling Spatial Omics Analysis
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Cracking the RNA Inverse Folding Puzzle with RiboDiffusion’s Generative Diffusion Approach
Molecular biology scientists have been captivated by the complex way RNA folds. A recent study by Beihang and Nanjing University researchers in China introduces...
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Decoding the Regulatory Landscape with LINGER: A New Era in Gene...
Despite the difficulties presented by the current methods depending solely on gene expression data, RNA sequencing data has been incorporated into Gene regulatory networks...
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