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Alan Murphy

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Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Koo lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Deep Learning for genomics

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Žiga Avsec @avsecz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Excited to launch our AlphaGenome API goo.gle/3ZPUeFX along with the preprint goo.gle/45AkUyc describing and evaluating our latest DNA sequence model powering the API. Looking forward to seeing how scientists use it! @googledeepmind
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Jacob Schreiber @jmschreiber91.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Just released tangermeme v0.5.0! tangermeme implements "everything-but-the-model" for genomic ML Essentially, train your model your way using your code-base (or load someone else's model), and tangermeme handles the discovery + design with it. Try it out with `pip install tangermeme`.
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kjaganatha.bsky.social @kjaganatha.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We're thrilled to introduce PromoterAI — a tool for accurately identifying promoter variants that impact gene expression. 🧵 (1/)
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Jacob Schreiber @jmschreiber91.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our preprint on designing and editing cis-regulatory elements using Ledidi is out! Ledidi turns *any* ML model (or set of models) into a designer of edits to DNA sequences that induce desired characteristics. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... GitHub: github.com/jmschrei/led...
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Programmatic design and editing of cis-regulatory elements
The development of modern genome editing tools has enabled researchers to make such edits with high precision but has left unsolved the problem of designing these edits. As a solution, we propose Ledi...
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Peter Koo @pkoo562.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
[SAVE THE DATE] MLCB 2025 is happening Sept 10-11 at the NY Genome Center in NYC! Attend the premier conference at the intersection of ML & Bio, share your research and make lasting connections! Submission deadline: June 1 More details: mlcb.github.io Help spread the word—please RT! #MLCB2025
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Vikram Agarwal @vagar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Super excited to announce our latest flagship model Borzoi: major props to Johannes & David Kelley et al for advancing it. It's been a long journey from our prior Enformer model into this one. A few innovations: i) longer DNA context, ii) adaptation to predict RNA-seq abundance and splice isoforms,
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Predicting RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence as a unifying model of gene regulation - Nature Genetics
Borzoi adapts the Enformer sequence-to-expression model to directly predict RNA-seq coverage, enabling the in-silico analysis of variant effects across multiple layers of gene regulation.
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Peter Koo @pkoo562.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I'm hiring: 1. Research associate (wet-lab w/ phd) to generate mpra perturbation data 2. ML postdoc to build multimodal generative AI for DNA (eg diffusion and LLMs) 3. Bioinformatician (any level) to process and harmonize functional genomics data to train foundation models DM me if interested!
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Sarah Marzi @sj-marzi.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Just in time for the holidays, we are thrilled to give you the latest preprint from our lab: Unique nigral and cortical pathways implicated by epigenomic and transcriptional analyses in a rotenone rat model of Parkinson's disease doi.org/10.1101/2024...
Figure 1 from the preprint, showing a schematic of the rat rotenone exposure experiments and the assays H3K27ac ChIP-seq and RNA-seq. It also shows the top altered genes from the ChIP-seq analysis in the substantia nigra and cortex in volcano plots.
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Alan Murphy @al-murphy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
In a big life update, I successfully defended my PhD thesis - massive thanks to my PI Nathan and assessors @steinaerts.bsky.social @proftomellis.bsky.social . Thrilled to share that I will be joining @pkoo562.bsky.social at CSHL in the new year for a post-doc improving genomic deep learning models!
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Peter Koo @pkoo562.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 The Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is looking for a Research Technician to join our team. If you’re passionate about genomics, AI, and experimental science, we want to hear from you. Help us spread the word! jobrxiv.org/job/cold-spr...
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Research Technician - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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Sarah Marzi @sj-marzi.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
So excited that our work on predicting gene expression from histone modifications using deep learning is out in NAR today. Brilliant to work with lead author @al-murphy.bsky.social and collaborators Aydan Askarova, @borislenhard.bsky.social and Nathan Skene 🧬⭐️🙏 academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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Predicting gene expression from histone marks using chromatin deep learning models depends on histone mark function, regulatory distance and cellular states
Abstract. To understand the complex relationship between histone mark activity and gene expression, recent advances have used in silico predictions based o
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Austin Wang @austintwang.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
(1/10) Excited to announce our latest work! @arpita-s.bsky.social, @amanpatel100.bsky.social , and I will be presenting DART-Eval, a rigorous suite of evals for DNA Language Models on transcriptional regulatory DNA at #NeurIPS2024. Check it out! arxiv.org/abs/2412.05430
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DART-Eval: A Comprehensive DNA Language Model Evaluation Benchmark on Regulatory DNA
Recent advances in self-supervised models for natural language, vision, and protein sequences have inspired the development of large genomic DNA language models (DNALMs). These models aim to learn gen...
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Jacob Schreiber @jmschreiber91.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My goal is to understand the regulatory role of every nucleotide in the genome, and how this changes across every cell in the human body. If you are interested in doing a Ph.D. with me at UMass Chan Medical (Genomics and Comp Bio Department), see the links below. Deadline is Dec 1st.
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Alan Murphy @al-murphy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Delighted to share our work to develop a genomic DNN, Enformer Celltyping, to accurately predict epigenetic signals in previously unseen cell types has now been published doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Predicting cell type-specific epigenomic profiles accounting for distal genetic effects - Nature Communications
Enformer Celltyping is a genomic deep learning model that predicts epigenetic signals in unseen cell types using distal DNA interactions and chromatin accessibility data. Here, authors show it general...
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Marek Rei @marekrei.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Extending pretrained LM-inspired architectures for genome modeling and releasing a tool for predicting epigenetic signals while being cell type-agnostic. Happy to be a co-author on this excellent paper by @Al_Murphy_ , now in Nature Communications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Predicting cell type-specific epigenomic profiles accounting for distal genetic effects - Nature Communications
Enformer Celltyping is a genomic deep learning model that predicts epigenetic signals in unseen cell types using distal DNA interactions and chromatin accessibility data. Here, authors show it general...
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Peter Koo @pkoo562.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Jessica Zhou (@zrcjessica) is a talented postdoc now on the job market looking for ML/data science industry positions in the NY area! If you have an open position reach out! Please Repost to spread the word! 🙏🏻
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Peter Koo @pkoo562.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
🧬 Genomic DNNs can be trained to learn a lot of different aspects of gene regulation, but they're not perfect and we don't know which predictions are reliable and which ones aren't. We introduce DEGU: Uncertainty-aware Genomic Deep Learning with Knowledge Distillation. 1/n
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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Perspective on recent developments and challenges in regulatory and systems genomics arxiv.org/abs/2411.04363 Great perspective piece from an all-star author list on the current state of regulatory genomics and the challenges ahead.
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Perspective on recent developments and challenges in regulatory and systems genomics
Predicting how genetic variation affects phenotypic outcomes at the organismal, cellular, and molecular levels requires deciphering the cis-regulatory code, the sequence rules by which non-coding regi...
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