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Cameron Roots

@croots.me
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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

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Cameron Roots @croots.me · 20h
Writing a Bacillus population genetics paper without using the word "diversity" difficulty level: impossible. #PhD #Biology #Bioinformatics
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Cameron Roots @croots.me · 11/03/2026
R's inability to decide whether it wants to use ".", "_", or nothing at all as a separator in function names will be the end of me #bioinformatics #datascience #programming
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Cameron Roots @croots.me · 05/08/2025
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.
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Cameron Roots @croots.me · 09/01/2025
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...
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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...
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Cameron Roots @croots.me · 17/12/2024
Fantastic resource. Made great use of their assets durring my defense
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