Our 🧬 language model GROVER has now been published in @NatMachIntell. GROVER is a foundation model on the human genome to understand how such models learn grammatical structure in 🧬 and fine-tune it for more specific genomics questions. https://t.co/vP1WPgWNRF a 🧵 1/11

Are you interested in combing machine learning and 🧬 language models with multi-omics data to study somatic genome evolution? We have several open postdoc positions and look forward to hearing from you! https://t.co/hfgQSVoU2o... 🧬🖥️

Are you interested in combing machine learning and 🧬 language models with multi-omics data to study somatic genome evolution? We have several open postdoc positions and look forward to hearing from you! https://t.co/hfgQSVoU2o... 🧬🖥️

There seems to be some overdue momentum to move to bluer skies. You can find me over there under @apoetsch.bsky.social 👋 (the algorithm didn't like this post before, so here it is again, but with a picture and some algorithm-candy: Immigrants rock! 💪🏻)

There seems to be some overdue momentum to move to bluer skies. You can find me over there under @apoetsch.bsky.social 👋

There’s a new Master in the house! Congratulations, Pablo! Excellent job 🥂

The book to read today (or yesterday)

One position is on genotype - phenotype relationships in glioma development using single-cell multiome data and machine learning.

One position is on 3D genome architecture in leukaemia using DNA language models.

One position is on using and developing DNA language models in the context of gene regulation in leukaemia and genomics-based personalised medicine.

Are you interested in how 🧬 works in the context of cancer and leukaemia development? We have several open postdoc positions. Interested? Please just get in touch. (I have not found the time to formally advertise them, yet)

PhD and Postdoc positions available! Interested in how our immune system evolves with a growing tumour, and how we can use that to fight cancer? Love data analysis? Applications now being accepted in the Machado Lab ( https://t.co/2oEckDqh4i) at the University of Cambridge.

If I were a postdoc again….

I am happy to announce that as of today I will be Acting Chair for Genomics 🧬 @BIOTEC_TUD @tudresden_de. I feel very honoured for the opportunity! It is a temporary appointment that brings me one step further. Also, I guess, I sound more important now 🪑.

And I cannot even complain, because I did not manage to organise to vote. 🇦🇹, what are you doing? 😢

Immigrants rock! 💪🏻

What follows is a little experiment with the Twitter algorithm.

In our most recent paper published in @BMC_series #BMCBioinformatics, we looked further into what 🧬language models learn and proposed a fine-tuning task to evaluate foundation models https://t.co/NYlRhpTgIG a 🧵 1/8

Big shoutout to the authors @SanabriaMeli and @JonasHirsch3! Well done! 🥳 (@SanabriaMeli also wrote this tweetorial, but the thanks is from me 😉)

By the way, we use the next-kmer task to choose the best vocabulary for GROVER  https://t.co/vP1WPgWg27 🧵 8/8

In conclusion, next-kmer prediction requires learning of context beyond token identity. We can use it as a measure to evaluate 🧬 LLMs that will be used to discover new genome biology that goes beyond motifs and sequence content 7/8