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Cameron Roots

@croots.me.bsky.social

Interdisciplinary biologist (evolution, synthetic biology, computational biology, related science policy). croots.me/r/orcid Blogs at croots.me Find me on Mastodon at croots.me/r/ma Views my own

26 Followers  |  33 Following  |  5 Posts  |  Joined: 16.12.2024  |  1.469

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I'm scraping the job boards of employers since I'm in between positions. I have issues with boards like LinkedIn and have been making something better. Right now I'm scraping most USA R1 universities and a few select private companies. I'm writing my own scripts with 'nodriver'.

05.08.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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New toy: a 16gb #RPI 5 with an M.2 hat. I'm waiting for a 2 hour (and growing!) web scraping job every morning and this little fella will do it for me before I wake up.

05.08.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Engineering of CRISPR-Cas PAM recognition using deep learning of vast evolutionary data CRISPR-Cas enzymes must recognize a protospacer-adjacent motif (PAM) to edit a genomic site, significantly limiting the range of targetable sequences in a genome. Machine learning-based protein engine...

Cool preprint from @thisismadani.bsky.social and team at Profluent on AI-optimized CAS proteins. I could see insights from this being used for many more protein-nucleic acid protein engineering projects. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

09.01.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Fantastic resource. Made great use of their assets durring my defense

17.12.2024 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘‹ Hi Eryn. My current work is on the intersection of evolution and synthetic biology. croots.me/r/orcid

16.12.2024 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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