With killer R libraries like circlize, ggbio, and karyoploteR... I am clueless why I've ever tried to plot genomic data in Python. I am now supercharged. Fear my publication quality renderings from now on.

VT BSE IN THE NEWS 📰 Zhiwu "Drew" Wang, BSE assistant professor, and his research to create bioplastics from food waste diverted to landfills was mentioned in over 2⃣5⃣ news articles! Read the full VTX article that's causing all the buzz: vtx.vt.edu/articles/2023/…

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The Carey Lab Virginia Tech is recruiting 2 PhD students in freshwater ecology (phytoplankton, biogeochemistry & more!) to start in Jan or Aug 2024- come join us! Learn more about the positions here: carey.biol.vt.edu/?page_id=90 & please RT! GLEON Ecological Forecasting Initiative ASLO Opportunities

Fully funded MSc or PhD Position available to conduct studies on pre- and post-harvest produce safety in the Murphy Lab at the School of Food Science, Washington State University 🇺🇸.wsu.edu They are currently accepting students (M.S. and Ph.D.) with a commitment

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Noah Beerman as our new CEO and industry veteran Mark J. Alles as Chairman of our Board of Directors. With their deep experience and unique vision, we are ready to pioneer a new era of miniprotein therapeutics businesswire.com/news/home/2023…

The Theory Behind Neural Networks and Why They Are So Affective Neural networks, the machine algorithm behind every Gen AI model have been extraordinarily effective at multiple tasks because they are universal approximators. The Universal Approximation Theorem (UAT) is a

How big are the cells? Microorganisms in perspective

Opening an email with "Decision" in the subject line

"Assessing the performance of protein regression models" has been updated A pretty comprehensive study of different encoding and regression schemes for protein sequence-based tasks biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

SMARTLivingMaterials Lab is 2 years old! Celebrating the beginning of the academic year and receiving the first funding for the next 4 years! Exciting times ahead! #newPI VT BSE

"ProteinFlow: a Python Library to Pre-Process Protein Structure Data for Deep Learning Applications" Allows PDB/Sabdab data to be downloaded and processed with a single line of code biorxiv.org/content/10.110… github.com/adaptyvbio/Pro…

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I am recruiting PhD students for Fall '24! Please apply to Cornell CS if you are interested in ML, data science, health, or inequality. Feel free to retweet! We are based in NYC - here's the view from our island campus (taken during Pride - note the rainbow lights!)

Schools are #NotATarget. Hospitals are #NotATarget. Children are #NotATarget. Civilians are #NotATarget. Humanitarians are #NotATarget.

Today was an interesting day in Washington DC… 🤯🤯🤯

Not enough people know about bioicons.com Open source vector graphics. Free alternatives to BioRender.

Rocket science is hard. Designing systems capable of launching materials—including humans—into orbit and then smoothly landing back on terrestrial ground is one of the greatest feats of engineering we’ve achieved. But surviving in space will be even harder. In his brilliant

One of the cool aspects of receiving a The Nobel Prize is the tradition of donating an item to the Nobel Prize Museum. Displayed here is a 3D-printed replica of the copy machine where The Drew Weissman Lab and Katalin Kariko first met and began their collaboration. Also, the familiar micropipette!

Our cup runneth over 🥹 Institute for Protein Design