Big Congs to Eric! @ericdsun

We are looking for talented postdocs/visiting students to join our team MIT Dept of BE and Koch Institute at MIT to innovate spatial multi-omics technologies, map clinical samples, and integrate AI/ML models to advance next-generation cancer immunotherapy. Please help to spread!!

🚨 We’re hiring Wellcome Sanger Institute! Join us as a Postdoc or ML Scientist to build generative & foundation models for biology. 🧬 Spatial + single-cell omics 🧠 Diffusion, transformers, multimodal data 💊 Drug discovery via Open Targets Apply: Postdocs in computational biology

We're still hiring! Please help share and reach out if you have any questions.

🧬 Excited to open-source Biomni! With just a few lines of code, you can now automate biomedical research with AI agent! We are releasing Biomni A1 (agent) + E1 (env) with 150 specialized tools, 59 databases, and 105 software. E1 is our first attempt at curating the bio-agent

Welcome to Liverpool!

🎉 Congratulations to the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center fellows whose research is being highlighted at #ICML2025 in Vancouver! Be sure to check out their work. 🔗More information: linkedin.com/posts/ewsccent… Broad Institute #SchmidtCenter #ML

The CZI Science workshop on AI Modeling Benchmarking and Evaluation for Biology (virtualcellmodels.cziscience.com/micro-pub/benc…) was well organized with representation from academic, industry, and independent groups. This is a useful summary even though it can't capture all the discussion and ideas.

Excited to be at #ISMBECCB2025! I'll be presenting at RegSys on "Learning the Regulatory Genome by Destruction and Creation" (Thursday 3:15PM in Room 11BC). I'm looking forward to connecting with both new and old friends throughout the conference! 🧬 #CRISPR #Genomics #Diffusion

🎉 Big week at ISMB/ECCB 2025! Congrats to #GENETICS Senior Editor Hongyu Zhao, named an ISCB Fellow for his contributions to computational biology! 👏 And don’t miss #G3Journal Editor in Chief Lauren McIntyre’s “Meet the Editor” session—OUP booth, tomorrow, July 22, 10–11am!

Incredibly honored and grateful to receive the Overton Prize at #ISMBECCB2025♥️ Many thanks to ISCB and my amazing students, collaborators and mentors!🙏

James Collins Lab researchers have discovered broad-spectrum antiviral compounds through the use of a novel optogenetic screen, symbolized in this image by a beam of light piercing a virus. ow.ly/rYfY50WwGwO Cell MIT IMES

We have the totally new GLM-4.5 with very good performance on ARC (agent, reasoning, and coding). Simply one day, it already become no.1 at openrouter.ai 's trending for coding. Welcome to try. A free provider will be available very soon!

Deep-learning-based gene perturbation effect prediction does not yet outperform simple linear baselines nature.com/articles/s4159… 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/const-ae/linea… #Rstats

✅ Published in nature today, the paper describing the initial whole-genome sequencing analysis of 500,000 UK Biobank participants. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Biomni open source version 0.0.5 is now released! 🎉 Since our last release, we’ve seen amazing contributions from the community: 📊 New Data Sources - OpenFDA and Monarch databases added, panhumanpy for cell type annotation, DepMap data for CRISPR screens and cancer cell lines

I've written the full story of Attention Sinks — a technical deep-dive into how the mechanism was developed and how our research ended up being used in OpenAI's new OSS models. For those interested in the details: hanlab.mit.edu/blog/streaming…

spVelo is now in Genome Biology! link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

PepMLM is out in Nature Biotechnology! 🎭Want a short binder for any target? Just input its sequence + desired binder length → PepMLM unmasks it. Simple? No way? The results speak for themselves. 👇 📜: nature.com/articles/s4158… 💻: github.com/programmablebi… 🤗: huggingface.co/ChatterjeeLab/…

What does it mean for an AI to reason? In our upcoming #WiAIR podcast (Aug 27), we chat with Sophia Simeng Han (PhD student at Yale University, intern at Meta FAIR) about LLM reasoning, human reasoning chains, cognitive science insights, and what makes AI outputs trustworthy.