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Xavi Soler Sanchis

@solersanchisx.bsky.social
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PhD candidate - Probabilistic Machine Learning at @CRG.eu with @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social and @MafaldaFigDias xaviersoler8.github.io

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Ezequiel Galpern @eag91.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧬 What do deep-learning models for proteins actually learn? Our new review looks at how model predictions relate to fitness, folding stability and function. With @cwjpugh.bsky.social, Mafalda Dias & @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social 🔗 chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
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From sequences and structures to fitness, folding and function: challenges in the age of AI | ChemRxiv
Deep-learning models have transformed our ability to predict the phenotypic effects of sequence perturbations. Protein language models (pLMs) score the evolutionary propensity of any amino-acid substi...
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Ben Lehner @benlehner.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Conservation and divergence in the allosteric architectures of five human protein kinases. Excited to share our new preprint by @carlafolgado.bsky.social @tonibeltran.bsky.social @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @crg.eu @ibv-csic.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Conservation and divergence in the allosteric architectures of five human protein kinases
Protein kinases are central to biological regulation, dysregulated in many diseases, and the targets of a hundred clinically-approved drugs. Structural conservation of kinase active sites makes the de...
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Ezequiel Galpern @eag91.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
🚨 Paid MSc research opportunity at CRG Barcelona! With Mafalda Dias and @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social, we’re hosting a 4-month MSc project: 🧬 “Folding versus function: disentangling the molecular mechanisms of missense variants in gene-trait associations” More info 👇 www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
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Xavi Soler Sanchis @solersanchisx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
1/ New preprint from the lab! Really proud of contributing to such a fun collaborative project disentangling folding stability from functional constraints.
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Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG) @crg.eu · 15/06/2026
Mafalda Dias es finalista del premio Vanguardia de la Ciencia. Su línea de investigación está ayudando agilizar el diagnóstico de enfermedades raras, ofreciendo una evidencia adicional para médicos que ya tienen sospechas sobre ciertos genes implicados según los síntomas. ¡Vota ahora!
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“Diagnosticamos enfermedades raras analizando millones de años de evolución”
Vota a las finalistas del premio Vanguardia de la Ciencia
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Jonathan Frazer @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Applications are open for the @crg_eu PhD Programme! 20 fully funded positions — including one in our group through the Evolutionary Medical Genomics ITN. Join us to develop deep generative models of cross-species data to tackle open questions in disease genetics. www.crg.eu/en/content/t...
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Charlie Pugh @cwjpugh.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
New preprint in collaboration with @paulinanunezv.bsky.social supervised by @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social and Mafalda Dias – we propose a simple approach to improving zero-shot variant effect prediction in pre-existing protein and genome language models: 🧶 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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From Likelihood to Fitness: Improving Variant Effect Prediction in Protein and Genome Language Models
Generative models trained on natural sequences are increasingly used to predict the effects of genetic variation, enabling progress in therapeutic design, disease risk prediction, and synthetic biolog...
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Jonathan Frazer @jonnyfrazer.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Proud supervisor moment! Next up at #VariantEffect25: Charles Pugh @cwjpugh.bsky.social, PhD student in Mafalda’s and my group, presents: From Likelihood to Fitness: Improving Variant Effect Prediction in Protein and Genome Language Models #AI #ProteinML
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Isabelle Zane @isabellease.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
@cwjpugh.bsky.social at #VariantEffect25
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Kevin K. Yang 楊凱筌 @kevinkaichuang.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Three BioML starter packs now! Pack 1: go.bsky.app/2VWBcCd Pack 2: go.bsky.app/Bw84Hmc Pack 3: go.bsky.app/NAKYUok DM if you want to be included (or nominate people who should be!)
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