Pablo Meyer

We have comparable results to DNA-BERT2 (with less pre-training). Our SNP-aware model is better than when we only use the reference genome. Please easily SNPify your data with our code and tell us about better benchmarks to show the power of being SNP-aware!

BMFM-DNA: A SNP-aware DNA foundation model to capture variant effects Large language models (LLMs) trained on text demonstrated remarkable results on natural language processing (NLP) tasks. These models have been adapted to decipher the language of DNA, where sequences...

So here are the results of 2 years of hard work:

BMFM-DNA: A SNP-aware DNA foundation model to capture variant effects

It's a simple concept: encode DNA variants in your pre-training and get better fine-tunning results.

Paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.05265
Code: github.com/BiomedSciAI/...

ISMB/ECCB 2025:
Join us for the DREAM Challenges session on Monday, 21 July, 14:00 Explore community-driven benchmarking for Foundation Models—run a live experiment for LLMs.
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Our paper on SNP-aware DNA foundation model is out!

Dandala, Danziger, Barkan, Biswas, Gurev, Hu, Madgwick, Koseki, Kozlovski, Rosen-Zvi, Shimoni, Tsou: BMFM-RNA: An Open Framework for Building and Evaluating Transcriptomic Foundation Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14861 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14861 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.14861

Hum!

Le hubieran dado el avion del bienestar!

See you in Liverpool!

DREAM Olfactory Mixtures Prediction Challenge 2025 'DREAM Olfactory Mixtures Prediction Challenge 2025' (Synapse ID: syn64743570) is a project on Synapse. Synapse is a platform for supporting scientific collaborations centered around shared biomed...

With a contemporary smartphone, capturing, transmitting, and replicating sounds and visuals is a breeze, yet replicating scents remains elusive. If you want to change this, consider joining the 2025 DREAM Olfaction Challenge at www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn6....
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A very important from our group #compchemsky #aiforscience #quantumchemistry

El Agente calculates complex quantum chemistry calculations from natural language!

Please re-share with your network.

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As promised, a 'skeet' -orial on our paper published last week !

I.B.M.
Insha’llah, ‘Bukra,’ & ‘Ma’lesh, a typical Egyptian expression which roughly translate, respectively, as “God willing,” “tomorrow” and “no matter”. The ancient and poetic version of procrastinating.

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All the truth lies in unsent emails!

新年快乐！

L'OUvroir de LIttérature POtentielle
a la tristesse de vous annoncer
que l’oulipien
Jacques Roubaud
est désormais
excusé
à ses réunions
pour cause de décès

A community effort to optimize sequence-based deep learning models of gene regulation - Nature Biotechnology A benchmarking competition improves tools that predict how regulatory regions control gene expression.

And this @dreamchallenges.bsky.social came out in @naturebiotech.bsky.social

Claudia Sheinbaum: activist, scientist, politician, and the first woman president of Mexico by Pablo Meyer Rojas On the 2nd June 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo was elected president of Mexico. Her election represents three firsts for the Mexican presidency: the first woman, the first person ...

www.iuscientists.org/claudia-shei...

Russian troops on Mexican Independence Day…

Great lineup of speakers

Come to #RSGDREAM in LA www.iscb.org/rsgdream2023...

A card reads: “Mexico’s Supreme Court Decriminalizes Abortion Nationwide. The decision builds on an earlier high court ruling and effectively makes abortion legally accessible in all of the country’s 32 states, up from just 12 states."

Mexico decriminalized abortion nationwide, in a decision that shows how Latin American countries are expanding reproductive rights. nyti.ms/3PsdsMW