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Kieran Didi

@kdidi.bsky.social
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🧪 Research Scientist @nvidia and PhD student @Oxford staring at proteins all-day 🧑‍💻 Website/Blog: kdidi.netlify.app 🤖 GitHub: github.com/kierandidi 📚 Prev. Cambridge/Heidelberg

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Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our wet-lab validation campaign for Proteina-Complexa is now on bioRxiv! It includes some new exciting experimental results, from large protein structures (fully codesigned!) to functional carbohydrate binders. biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread with some of the additions 🧵1/n
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Latent generative search unlocks de novo design of untapped biomolecular interactions at scale
De novo protein design has advanced rapidly, yet designing binders to polar, solvent-exposed epitopes and small, flexible ligands remains challenging. Such hydrated surfaces and flexible molecules, in...
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Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Fast MSAs are coming to nucleic acids! Riboseek has been super helpful for some of my own work, very excited to see what people do with this cool new tool! Amazing collaboration as always with @milot.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social and co, led by @sukhwanpark.bsky.social!
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Scott Soderling @scottsoderling.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
My lab was lucky to be able to help test Proteina-Complexa binders experimentally. We were blown away by the results. Congrats to our colleagues at NVIDIA!
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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Efficient protein structure prediction fromcompact computers to datacenters withOpenFold-TRT www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
📢 We’re launching Proteina-Complexa — and after the Jensen keynote mention, we definitely had to post this thread now ;) Atomistic binder design with generative pretraining + test-time compute, plus large-scale wet-lab validation. Project page: research.nvidia.com/labs/genair/... 🧵 1/n
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Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Too many REPA / RAE / representation alignment papers lately? I was lost too, so I wrote a blog post that organizes the space into phases and zooms in on what actually matters for general/molecular ML. Curious what folks think - link below! 🔗 Blog: kdidi.netlify.app/blog/ml/2025...
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The unification of representation learning and generative modelling
A deep dive into the convergence of discriminative and generative AI, covering 4 phases of evolution from REPA to RAE and beyond.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 18/09/2025
GPU-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedup for homology retrieval, protein structure prediction with ColabFold, and protein structure search with Foldseek. @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @machine.learning.bio www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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GPU-accelerated homology search with MMseqs2 - Nature Methods
Graphics processing unit-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedups for homology retrieval from metagenomic databases, query-centered multiple sequence alignment generation for structure predictio...
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
MMseqs2-GPU sets new standards in single query search speed, allows near instant search of big databases, scales to multiple GPUs and is fast beyond VRAM. It enables ColabFold MSA generation in seconds and sub-second Foldseek search against AFDB50. 1/n 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💿 mmseqs.com
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GPU-accelerated homology search with MMseqs2 - Nature Methods
Graphics processing unit-accelerated MMseqs2 offers tremendous speedups for homology retrieval from metagenomic databases, query-centered multiple sequence alignment generation for structure predictio...
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Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
AtomWorks is out! Building upon @biotite_python, we built a toolkit for all things biomolecules and trained RF3 with it. All open-source, test it via `pip install atomworks`! AtomWorks: github.com/RosettaCommo... RF3: github.com/RosettaCommo... Paper: tinyurl.com/y2w4z65b 1/6
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Chaitanya K. Joshi @chaitjo.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
RosettaFold 3 is here! 🧬🚀 AtomWorks (the foundational data pipeline powering it) is perhaps the really most exciting part of this release! Congratulations @simonmathis.bsky.social and team!!! ❤️ bioRxiv preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Nate Corley @ncorley.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
(1/7) Training biomolecular foundation models shouldn't be so hard. And open-source structure prediction is important. So today we're releasing two software packages: AtomWorks and RosettaFold3 (RF3) [www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…...)
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Accelerating Biomolecular Modeling with AtomWorks and RF3
Deep learning methods trained on protein structure databases have revolutionized biomolecular structure prediction, but developing and training new models remains a considerable challenge. To facilita...
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Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Very excited about our latest all-atom generative model proteina, check out the project page (research.nvidia.com/labs/genair/...) and stay tuned for the code release soon!
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La-Proteina: Atomistic Protein Generation via Partially Latent Flow Matching
La-Proteina: Atomistic Protein Generation via Partially Latent Flow Matching
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Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Excited to present my first paper officially as a PhD student now as an ICLR Oral this week! Super fun work with the GenAIR team at NVIDIA. Talk: Fr 10:54 - 11:06 (Oral Session 3B, Garnet 213-215) Poster: Fr 15:00-17:30 (Hall 3 + Hall 2B #5) Come by the poster/reach out to chat
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Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Such a fun project to work on with a stellar team! Stay tuned for other things to come here, and see you all in Singapore!
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Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Yet another story of issues with benchmarks and evaluations in ML4bio + a much stronger and fair benchmark #bioMLeval
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Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Have a look at our shiny new benchmark for motif-scaffolding in computational protein design! New (and harder) tasks, including a reproducible evaluation pipeline
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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This! Also well put in this editorial in PLOS Comp Biol: Putting benchmarks in their rightful place: The heart of computational biology doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Screenshot from paper that says:
"Developing good and comprehensive benchmarks, in which the performance metrics of each tool reflect its real-world utility, requires a significant effort. For highly competitive and established fields, such as protein structure predictions, community experiments evaluating the methods have been held periodically to provide blinded assessments of prediction performance. These blinded assessments are perhaps the gold standard on how benchmarks should be run. However, in most areas of computational biology, no such regular blinded contests are available. Instead, many tool developers end up generating their own benchmarks, which they publish alongside a newly developed tool to show its improved performance. The downside of this approach is that, if a new approach is developed in parallel to assembly of the benchmark on which it is evaluated, there is a strong selection bias encouraging the authors to report tool development approaches performing well against the benchmark compared to previous tools. This reporting bias makes most benchmarks that accompany newly developed tools questionable. Even if the authors are aware of this problem and take conscious steps to separate benchmark, evaluation method, and method development, subconscious bias may persist and affect the final outcome."
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Arne Schneuing @rne.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Our paper on computational design of chemically induced protein interactions is out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social. Big thanks to all co-authors, especially Anthony Marchand, Stephen Buckley and Bruno Correia! t.co/vtYlhi8aQm
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Michael Bronstein @mmbronstein.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
After two years, our paper on generative models for structure-based drug design is finally out in @natcomputsci.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Structure-based drug design with equivariant diffusion models - Nature Computational Science
This work applies diffusion models to conditional molecule generation and shows how they can be used to tackle various structure-based drug design problems
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Rory Byrne @rory.bio · 03/12/2024
Thanks Jascha 🫶 We’re working hard to create sustainable funding mechanisms for open source scientific tooling - understanding the challenge landscape is a key first step!
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Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Love PyMOL Remote, one of these tools that does one thing and does it well!
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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
This should go chiral
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Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
MSAs go brrr with MMseqs2-GPU! Super fun project, happy to work with and learn from a stellar team of engineers and scientists. Try it out and stay tuned! 📄 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💾 Code: mmseqs.com 🗞️ Blog: developer.nvidia.com/blog/boost-a...
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GitHub - soedinglab/MMseqs2: MMseqs2: ultra fast and sensitive search and clustering suite
MMseqs2: ultra fast and sensitive search and clustering suite - soedinglab/MMseqs2
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