Barney Hill
@_barneyhill
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making biology go faster @ https://t.co/mdvYrV4EXn
oxford & london
Joined March 2013
Ever get lost searching through genetic literature? We've built a new interface for bioRxiv+medRxiv to directly browse preprint findings on the genome! (1/N)
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RT @dmmiller597: Come and join me, @_judewells, @_barneyhill, @jakublala and others in London on July 31st to hear some great flash talks o….
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Recent advancements in computation are transforming the biomolecular sciences - from fine simulations of molecular structure and drug discovery, to…
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i’m at phoenix court london 6PM 31st July to talk about how we’re accelerating preclinical rare disease gene therapies - do pop by!.
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Recent advancements in computation are transforming the biomolecular sciences - from fine simulations of molecular structure and drug discovery, to…
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RT @jakublala: 🚨 Excited to share the first major project of my PhD: BAGEL, a modular, model-agnostic, fully customizable Python framework….
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most cracked hackathon i've been to in a while cheers @WTreyde!.
💻🧪CompMotifs: Hack the Sciences ( is wrapped!. 70+ hackers, 12 projects, £1.5k worth of prizes, 5 great speakers (incl. @PetarV_93!) and epic ideas. Powered by @ARIA_research and friends. 👉and
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RT @astheeggeggs: Come join us! We have an exciting PhD opportunity in statistical genetics at the University of Oxford. More info here: ht….
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RT @experilearning: Since moving to London two weeks ago I have easily met more people than in the past year living in Oxford. I'm not the….
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o3 just described genomic language models as a probability‑based map of “where evolution lets you edit and where it screams”. err what 😭.
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oligonucleotides 🫡.
How long does it take for a new drug (with a new mode-of-action) to get FDA-approved?. From the first-in-human study to approval, roughly 5 to 10 years:
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all the best biologists i know are creative. we made an exhibition about that.
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RT @SGRodriques: Monday was my last day as a group leader at the Francis Crick Institute. I got my job at the Crick in 2020, almost exactl….
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this must be why my training run crashed at 2am last night.
The most energetic neutrino ever observed just smashed into the Mediterranean and left a signal that was picked up by the K3Mnet neutrino telescope 2400m under the sea. At the moment we don't really know where this neutrino came from, nor should it really be there. 🧵1/10
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live in london and have an idea to bring people together? apply for a london micro grant!.
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This project was made by the new Scientific Interface & Tooling Lab ( at Oxford. We will be releasing new interfaces and tools to improve scientific productivity with an initial focus on biology research. Try genorxiv:
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Next we provided the variant mentions and paper context to gpt-4o-mini and requested structured output summarising the scientific finding. Finally we mapped all variants to the latest genome build and plotted them on our custom genome browser.
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To begin we downloaded 7TB's of bioRxiv+medRxiv preprints and extracted mentions of genetic variant ID's or positions. Documented in "How to download bioRxiv on a budget":
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This project started after I was trawling through Google Scholar to review a gene when I realised I had missed relevant upstream findings which hadn't been linked to the gene. I wondered if there could be a better interface to explore genetic literature?.
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