Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilSergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 15/08/2026Adding support for cyclic L/D peptide mixes. 191 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilEmma Slack @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social · 01/07/2026We are recruiting a lab manager for my group in Oxford. This is a lovely team doing great things, and you could be an important part of it! See here: www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/lab-... Please spread the word!path.ox.ac.ukLab Manager - Molecular Immunology - Dunn SchoolLaboratory Manager/Senior Scientist position in the Molecular Mucosal Immunology group at Oxford 11831 0
Reposted by Raphaël Chaleilbmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 16/08/2025This Brit nails it. #Immigration 602097813 0
Raphaël Chaleil @blastwizard.bsky.social · 31/05/2026One of the numerous benefits of brexit, protecting British farmers, by importing chicken from Thailand and not being able to export the finished product to the EU. 000 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilKat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Epistemic collapse is nigh... I wrote about it here: How to survive the AI Slopocalypse www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-su...linkedin.comHow to survive the AI SlopocalypseIt took 50 years for Gutenberg's invention of the printing press to spawn 9 million books. It's been three short years since ChatGPT was launched, and it feels like I've seen that many pieces of AI sl... 133 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilKat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The two golden rules of using AI in content creation: know your shit, and know what's shit. www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-go... Inspired by some particularly egregious recent incidents I experienced, and @naomialderman.bsky.social writing about the importance of discernment when using these tools.linkedin.comThe two golden rules for using AI to generate content: Know your sh1t. And know what's sh1t.It's become quite trendy to rant about the growing amount of poor quality AI-generated content circulating online - I myself have written about the coming AI Slopocalypse and how to survive it. But th... 1115 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilBasecamp Research @basecamp-research.bsky.social · 18/03/2026We’re launching the Trillion Gene Atlas with Anthropic, NVIDIA, PacBio, and UltimaGenomics. 🌍 The Goal: To expand known genomes 100×, sequencing 100M+ species to build foundation models grounded in evolution itself. 🔗 Read more: www.prnewswire.com/news-release... 0114 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilBasecamp Research @basecamp-research.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Introducing EDEN — a 28B-parameter biological foundation model trained on 9.7T nucleotide tokens, including >10B novel genes from >1M species. This evolutionary scale is what makes generalisable biological design possible. Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 045 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilKevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · 13/01/2026EDEN: a family of genomic language models trained on up to 9.7 trillion nucleotides from @basecamp-research.bsky.social's BaseData can design large serine recombinases, bridge recombinases, and antimicrobial peptides. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Happy to have played a small part in this! 0184 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilBasecamp Research @basecamp-research.bsky.social · 06/11/2025How can AI and nature’s hidden code lead to programmable gene therapies? Basecamp Research Co-founder & CEO GlenGowers.bsky.social explores this question at @financialtimes.com Times Live Global Pharma and Biotech Summit (Nov 11–12) with industry leaders. 👉 For full details, visit bit.ly/4pPcJpd 032 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilJoe Greener @jgreener64.bsky.social · 04/07/2025A real shame that the future of CASP is in doubt. There is still a lot of progress to be assessed (complexes, nucleic acids, ligands, ensembles). CASP has also been a pioneer in how to run blind assessments. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgExclusive: Famed protein structure competition nears end as NIH grant money runs outAgency silent on funding renewal for contest that inspired creation of AIs that predicted how proteins would fold 096 0
Raphaël Chaleil @blastwizard.bsky.social · 13/06/2025www.change.org/p/sauvons-le...change.orgSignez la pétitionSauvons le Palais de la découverte 000 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilAlbert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Seen on LinkedIn, a bit on the nose, comparing Machine learning to AI and now GenAI and AgenticAI 0429 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilEmma Slack @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social · 22/02/2025We are recruiting @ox.ac.uk @dunnschool.bsky.social for a joint project between Kevin Foster's group and mine! Cluster hire of two postdocs interested in: 1) Mucosal immunology and oral vaccine development my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... 2) Microbiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please share!my.corehr.com' 08186 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilBad Faerie @bad-faerie.bsky.social · 05/03/2025youtu.be/q32Zz2dBkos If you want to know how Europeans feel listen to Claude Malhuret, He is the leader of the independents in France. This is how they see the US now. That's the full translation. Worth a listenyoutu.beVideo IGGY HOBO translation v1YouTube video by yep it's,me 12611 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilEric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u... 6131231380 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine 11718001634110 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilJoe Greener @jgreener64.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Favourite paper of 2017 "Protein structure determination using metagenome sequence data" by Ovchinnikov et al. (1/4) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgProtein structure determination using metagenome sequence dataCombining metagenome data with protein structure prediction generates models for 614 families with unknown structures. 156 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilTim Stearns @stearnslab.bsky.social · 30/12/2024 Good article on the OpenFold work of @moalquraishi.bsky.social, who poses the interesting question: If we can predict how proteins fold without understanding how they do it, “are we even legitimately doing science anymore, or is it something different?“ magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/did...magazine.hms.harvard.eduDid AI Solve the Protein-Folding Problem?Now that AlphaFold has tackled biology’s greatest challenge, scientists can turn to even bigger questions 24913 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilBasecamp Research @basecamp-research.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Basecamp Research cofounder and CEO Glen Gowers, Ph.D., spoke about AI and drug discovery at the 2024 Forbes Healthcare Summit in New York City. #ForbesHealth trib.al/aVWj2tF Thanks to @forbes.com and @thealexknapp.bsky.social for an amazing summit a thought-provoking event. 054 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilArne Elofsson @handle.invalid · 03/12/2024Conclusions from RNA section at #CASP16, without a template all fail. All small targets had a template. 6246 0
Raphaël Chaleil @blastwizard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024First snow, that's a bit unusual at this time of the year. 000 0
Raphaël Chaleil @blastwizard.bsky.social · 17/11/2024November and the rose in front of the house is still flowering. 010 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilAlex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 12/03/2024New from me: Basecamp Research, which is collecting reference-quality genomes in collaboration with research groups around the world, says its protein folding model significantly out-performs Deepmind's Alphafold2. www.forbes.com/sites/alexkn...forbes.comThis Startup Says It Can Beat Deepmind’s Gamechanging Protein AIBasecamp Research says its software platform can better predict the way proteins behave — not with better algorithms, but with higher-quality data. 043 0
Reposted by Raphaël ChaleilTechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 09/10/2024Basecamp Research taps $60M to build a ‘GPT for biology’tcrn.chBasecamp Research taps $60M to build a ‘GPT for biology’While companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to popularize the idea of people using ordinary language to ask artificial intelligence agents to answer their questions, write their proposals, and draw pictures, a London startup called Basecamp… 193 0
