Reposted by Jeff WintersingerStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 21/05/2025Nature Reviews Methods Primers: Uniform manifold approximation and projection (UMAP) www.nature.com/articles/s43... 🧬🖥️🧪 read free: rdcu.be/d0YZT 0196
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Can we rename it to the Wayne Gretzky Border Crossing? 331
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerVikram Agarwal @vagar.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Published in today's issue! OPEN ACCESS article, FREE massive dataset, FREE code, FREE pre-trained AI/ML model. #OpenScience was a mountain of work to make this happen: check it out if you haven't already 😉nature.comMassively parallel characterization of transcriptional regulatory elements - NatureLentivirus-based reporter assays for 680,000 regulatory sequences from three cell lines coupled to machine-learning models lead to insights into the grammar of cis-regulatory elements. 0187
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Can't wait to see Bradford get destroyed in the next election. 000
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Can we look at ways to make the road network profitable? How about turning every road into a toll road for drivers? 010
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/10/20231. Imagine we land a space probe on one of Jupiters’ moons, take up a sample of material, and find it is full of organic molecules. How can we tell whether those molecules are just randomly assembled goo or the outcome of some evolutionary process taking place there? 🧪 20419169
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerRobert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Hey #BikeTO! @cycletoronto.bsky.social has launched a campaign shaming Stantec Consulting Ltd for being retained to do work associated with Doug Ford's bike lane removal efforts. Please sign & spread the word. #TOpoli #ONpoli #VoteFordOut www.cycleto.ca/shame_on_you...cycleto.caShame on you, Stantec 12912
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerAnshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I wanted to write briefly about a very pleasant experience we recently had coordinating and collaborating closely on competing publications with 2 other teams. 1/ 211523
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 07/01/2025As someone who has been working extensively with PyTorch Ledidi: this effort is noticed and very much appreciated. I hope to have the ability eventually to contribute improvements back to the community. 110
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerEwan Birney @ewanbirney.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Some thoughts about what I am looking forward this year from my vantage point of computational molecular biology. One mega-trend for me; we will definitely see more AI methods of all sorts emerge. 16525
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 31/12/2024This looks like a wonderful gift to start 2025 off right 🤗 220
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 18/12/2024If we could put cycling in a pill, it would be the blockbuster drug to end all blockbuster drugs. (I'm also surprised that the mortality improvements for pedestrians seem much smaller than for cyclists.) 020
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 18/12/2024A Scottish study of 83k individuals over 17 years found commuting by bike halves the risk of early death: bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/.... The one outlier hazard ratio for people on bikes casts a harsh light on the Ford government's quest to destroy safe infrastructure in Toronto. #BikeTO 4152
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerJudith Kribelbauer @jk-swietek.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Finally out! We present EXTRA-seq, a new EXTended Reporter Assay to quantify endogenous enhancer-promoter communication at kb scale! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A 🧵about what it can do: #SynBio #DeepLearning #GeneRegulationbiorxiv.orgEXTRA-seq: a genome-integrated extended massively parallel reporter assay to quantify enhancer-promoter communicationPrecise control of gene expression is essential for cellular function, but the mechanisms by which enhancers communicate with promoters to coordinate this process are not fully understood. While seque... 58334
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerAustin 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/2412.05430arxiv.orgDART-Eval: A Comprehensive DNA Language Model Evaluation Benchmark on Regulatory DNARecent 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... 17027
Reposted by Jeff Wintersingerednl🇪🇺 @ee1.nl · 07/12/2024What's gayer than spandex? #bicycling #PattieGonia 58715
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerThe Biking Lawyer LLP @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social · 03/12/2024So excited for this! The fight will be waged on all fronts. Support @cycletoronto: www.cycleto.ca/donate?utm_c... 013022
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerRobert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 04/12/2024In response to last Monday's passing of Bill 212, @joelharden.bsky.social launched a new petition to repeal the legislation and "immediately stop the government’s attack against life-saving active transportation infrastructure." #BikeTO #ottbike #TOpoli #ONpoli www.joelhardenmpp.ca/stay_in_your...joelhardenmpp.caPremier Ford: Stay In Your LaneMPP / Député, Ottawa Centre 16226
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024This is going into my list of "word usage that will earn you five lashings," to be deployed when I found my own venture. Already on the list are "learnings" and "overindex." 130
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024This led me to github.com/atongen/yolo, which seems magical. I expect my colleagues to be deeply appreciative when I integrate this into my workflow.github.comGitHub - atongen/yolo: A git aliasA git alias. Contribute to atongen/yolo development by creating an account on GitHub. 100
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Thank you for hosting! Caroline's talk is super cool. 010
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Yes -- I think this is just a temporary issue caused by their server infrastructure being overloaded. The developers have done an impressive job of scaling up with the massive influx of new users, so this will probably be resolved soon. 210
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Dougie set back Ontario by ten years. Impressive that we have managed to keep re-electing our own Mini Trump. 010
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Following the 2013 floods that destroyed parts of that system, I had to move the first few km of that trip to suburban roads. A couple months later, while riding that part, a driver hit me intentionally with his truck. I've been radicalized ever since. 100
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 29/11/2024I grew up in Calgary. I became passionate about cycling when I started commuting to U of C on a Raleigh Record I got for $15 on Craiglist. It was a 58 km round trip with only 500 m not on the pathway system, and significantly faster than Calgary Transit. 120
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 27/11/2024The rhetoric around "we're destroying cycling infrastructure so you can get home to your family faster" is a wonderful reminder that people on bikes don't have families, and that your life stops mattering as soon as you get on a bike. 0100
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerJohn Doench @johndoench.bsky.social · 26/11/2024A pair of graphs I think about a lot. On the topic of pooled CRISPR screens, the left is "replicate correlation" when simply examining the abundance of guide RNAs, i.e. log-normalized read counts. On the right is taking those same data and subtracting from a common starting point, i.e. pDNA. 54214
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Since it is inefficient to attempt to educate every reviewer individually, I am yeeting into your feed this clear paper from Gelman, Hill, and Yajima on how Bayesians can do even better than correcting for multiple comparisons. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478arxiv.orgWhy we (usually) don't have to worry about multiple comparisonsApplied researchers often find themselves making statistical inferences in settings that would seem to require multiple comparisons adjustments. We challenge the Type I error paradigm that underlies t... 1730166
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerFrançois Fleuret @francois.fleuret.org · 26/11/2024My deep learning course at the University of Geneva is available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts. Full of examples in PyTorch. fleuret.org/dlc/ And my "Little Book of Deep Learning" is available as a phone-formatted pdf (nearing 700k downloads!) fleuret.org/lbdl/ 461252247
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I lost four teeth in that incident, had to go through four surgeries over the five years subsequent to resolve the damage, and will be dealing with the dental complications for the rest of my life, including today's root canal. The timing for the reading is wonderfully ironic. 160
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 25/11/2024I'm writing this from my dentist's office, where I'm getting a root canal necessary because of the driver ten years ago who intentionally used his vehicle as a weapon against me when I had the temerity to be cycling on a road without a bike lane, necessitating we share the road. 161
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Here's hoping Council finds some way to resist Ford's whims. As someone who grew up in a very conservative Alberta, I can't believe how unprincipled, capricious, and corrupt Ford and his cronies are. Conservatism is dead. 130
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Can't wait until Dougie rips this out and turns it into a new 400-series highway. 140
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/11/2024A person on a bicycle is by far the most energy-efficient among animals and machines per distance traveled relative to body weight. The bicycle is magic. www.jstor.org/stable/24923... 26977861690
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 24/11/2024I don't understand why Santa had to close down all of University for his little parade today. He should just take the side streets. #biketo 0404
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Our premier in Ontario is planning this for January right before the next provincial election. Our premier in Alberta did this 20 years ago. Standard conservative playbook: dismantle the government, bribe people with their own money, win popular acclaim. 020
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerInigo Martincorena @imartincorena.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Resharing here a recent X post. In this preprint, we introduce an improved version of NanoSeq, a duplex sequencing protocol with <5 errors per billion bp in single DNA molecules, and use it to study the somatic mutation landscape of oral epithelium in >1000 people. 1/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...medrxiv.orgSomatic mutation and selection at epidemiological scaleAs we age, many tissues become colonised by microscopic clones carrying somatic driver mutations ([1][1]–[10][2]. Some of these clones represent a first step towards cancer whereas others may contribu... 28838
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 20/11/2024The more years pass with a Ford-led government, the more it seems that their agenda is decided solely by what choices will be most harmful to Toronto. 1103
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerDavid Shaywitz @dshaywitz.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Such an interesting read from @math-rachel.bsky.social who has a remarkable gift for making complex topics (like AI ∩ immunology) accessible as well as engaging -> rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024-0... #biosky #medskyrachel.fast.aiRachel Thomas, PhD - AI’s Quest to Predict T Cell Binding– The Holy Grail of Immunologyan AI researcher going back to school for immunology 2103
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Wow! I had no idea that Colonel Sanders lived close to Toronto for his final years. I'm honoured ☺️🐔☺️ That gives me one more fun fact to tell visitors, right after I show them the insulin exhibit in the MaRS entrance. 040
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerKieran Campbell @kieranrcampbell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I found so many great papers from posts on the other place, will try to pay it back here 🖥️🧬 1/? Benchmarking machine learning methods for synthetic lethality prediction in cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comBenchmarking machine learning methods for synthetic lethality prediction in cancer - Nature CommunicationsA comprehensive benchmarking of existing synthetic lethality (SL) prediction methods is lacking. Here, the authors compare 12 recently developed machine learning methods for SL prediction, assess thei... 0253
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerPeter 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 1339
Reposted by Jeff WintersingerAnshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 16/11/2024arena3-chapter1-transformer-interp.streamlit.app Great interactive tutorial on several current interpretation approaches for transformers. A must read. Other great tutorials on ML fundamentals, model eval, reinforcement learning as well www.arena.education #machinelearning #AIarena3-chapter1-transformer-interp.streamlit.app 1395
Jeff Wintersinger @jwintersinger.bsky.social · 15/11/2024I work in small pharma and can confirm. It's time to unleash the beast. 010