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Arya Rao

@aryarao.bsky.social

Harvard/MIT MD-PhD student. Passionate about molecular evolution and translational genomics!

Arya Rao @aryarao.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Thanks #MITS2025 for inviting me to speak about our deep learning-based search for variants under positive selection in the human genome; more to come! @pardissabeti.bsky.social @stevereilly.bsky.social

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Craig Anderson @craigandersn.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Arya Rao in the search for adaptive traits #MITS25

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Arya Rao @aryarao.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Out now in @jama.com — our piece on how to train future docs to thrive in the age of AI! With Marc Succi and Bernard Chang @harvardmed.bsky.social

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Sameed Siddiqui @sameedms.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

🧬 Meet Lyra, a new paradigm for accessible, powerful modeling of biological sequences. Lyra is a lightweight SSM achieving SOTA performance across DNA, RNA, and protein tasks—yet up to 120,000x smaller than foundation models (ESM, Evo). Bonus: you can train it on your Mac. arxiv.org/abs/2503.16351

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