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David Kelley

@drkbio.bsky.social
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Making sophisticated guesses at how DNA will behave.

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David Kelley @drkbio.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Excited to share our new paper on predicting gene expression in yeast! We introduce "Shorkie," a supervised ML model that builds off a self-supervised foundation to interpret regulatory DNA. Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Predicting dynamic expression patterns in budding yeast with a fungal DNA language model
Predicting gene expression from DNA sequence remains challenging due to complex regulatory codes. We introduce a masked DNA language model pretrained on 165 fungal genomes closely related to budding y...
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David Kelley @drkbio.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The poster abstract deadline for the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social AI in Molecular Biology meeting in Santa Fe is coming up on August 21st, so get your submissions in! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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AI in Molecular Biology | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on AI in Molecular Biology, September 2025, in Santa Fe, with field leaders!
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David Kelley @drkbio.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
We’re excited to share a follow-up Borzoi training run and an analysis of the capabilities that emerged. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Predicting cell type-specific coverage profiles from DNA sequence
Predicting expression profiles from RNA-seq experiments provides a powerful approach for universal sequence-based variant effect prediction, enabling researchers to score variants that affect total ge...
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David Kelley @drkbio.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I'm excited to share work on a research direction my team has been advancing: connecting machine learning derived genetic variant embeddings to downstream tasks in human genetics. This work was led by the amazing Divyanshi Srivastava! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Borzoi-informed fine mapping improves causal variant prioritization in complex trait GWAS
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of trait-associated loci. Prioritizing causal variants within these loci is critical for characterizing trait biology. Statistical fine...
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Han Yuan @hy395.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
1/ DNA sequence models like Borzoi predict gene expression and variant effects across tissues — but how can someone adapt the model to a custom experiment? @drkbio.bsky.social, Johannes Linder and I propose a solution via parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of a Supervised Regulatory Sequence Model
DNA sequence deep learning models accurately predict epigenetic and transcriptional profiles, enabling analysis of gene regulation and genetic variant effects. While large-scale training models like E...
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David Kelley @drkbio.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The short talk and scholarship deadlines for the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social AI in Molecular Biology meeting in September were extended to June 3, so get your last minute submissions in! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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AI in Molecular Biology | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on AI in Molecular Biology, September 2025, in Santa Fe, with field leaders!
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David Kelley @drkbio.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
The short talk and scholarship deadlines for the @keystonesymposia.bsky.social AI in Molecular Biology meeting in September are coming up fast, May 20th. Looking forward to seeing the submissions! www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...
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David Kelley @drkbio.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Working with a great team to organize @keystonesymposia.bsky.social AI in MolecularBiology, this September! We aimed for a wide range of biological topics, and emphasized speakers who blend sophisticated machine learning with compelling biological questions and analysis.
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David Kelley @drkbio.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Regulatory sequence ML has been widely applied to predict substitution SNP effects (to promising results!), but most teams have shied away from indels. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Shift augmentation improves DNA convolutional neural network indel effect predictions
Determining genetic variant effects on molecular phenotypes like gene expression is a task of paramount importance to medical genetics. DNA convolutional neural networks (CNNs) attain state-of-the-art...
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