🚀 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃-𝟏𝟗 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 (#𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐬) It all started with one good chat with @GonzaParra_ , Sayane Shome et al., that planted an idea to explore: 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦

🧬 Frestly Pruned & published #JournalArticle! 🔍 💻 👩‍🔬 🧠 Did you know that some layers in large genomic language models might be doing….. almost nothing? We show how pruning large genomic language models—like #DNABERT-2 can cut training time in half without sacrificing

David Baker, the 2024 #NobelPrize laureate in chemistry, has achieved the seemingly impossible feat of building entirely new kinds of proteins. In recent years, one incredible protein creation after the other has emerged from Baker’s laboratory. They range from new nanomaterials

A 2-billion-year-old rock just revived an old alien theory. Fresh findings from NASA and Japan’s space agency reveal that asteroid Bennu—a carbon-rich relic from the solar system’s infancy—contains key ingredients of life: 14 of the 20 amino acids used by Earth’s organisms, plus

As part of the organizing committee of ECCB2026, here is an📣! Do you wish to share your expertise, your tools, methods, and insights in a tutorial or workshop at the European Computational Biology Conference (#ECCB2026)? Then make sure to submit by 📅 5 January 2026. 1/3

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Will you be attending America's 3rd Computational Biology Symposium from December 11 to 13 in St. Petersburg, Florida?  🔗 If you're hoping to attend and looking for accommodation information, click here: https://t.co/i3wBnEiuFF

Reading Manning's Chapter on Political Theories of Higher Educational Organizations and couldn't help but think of this phdcomic #VTOrgTheory

A legend is gone. Discovered Type II restriction enzymes (70s), sequenced the first bacterial genome (90s) and synthesised the first bacterial genome (00s).

📣Calling all educators and experts! #ISMB2026 is accepting tutorial proposals for hands-on sessions that build skills and spark learning across the #bioinformatics and #computationalbiology community. Learn more: https://t.co/X9fw2o9dlL

After the Louvre heist, artworks decided to defend themselves.

Are these the happiest PhD students? https://t.co/vVlHDq8Fn8 "PhD candidates are treated as employees rather than as students, with a salary, social-security benefits and a good work–life balance, making the position feel more stable and professional than it does elsewhere."

Interesting work that we conducted from the @iscbsc to estimate the impact of the COVID19 pandemics on early career researchers in computational biology! Thanks for leading this effort @propicee and to the entire team! https://t.co/uHpt6wwZ25

🚀 Decoding the Language of Life with Large Language Models (#LLMs) Thrilled to share the latest research from my lab, output of doctoral work from @meghegde97 is now published in @BBI_Sage with @jcnebel 🎉. Congratulations @meghegde97 👏. 🧬 “Language Modelling Techniques

BREAKING NEWS The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

With only 350 olfactory receptors, how can humans distinguish among 10,000 or more smells, some of which are nearly identical? Medicine laureate Linda Buck found the answer. Learn more: https://t.co/QzpjdP2wwS

Thanks to @propicee and @meghegde97 for the invitation. Super excited and stoked to share some latest work from Yennamalli Lab with everyone!!! I made a new set of slides for this event!!!