Liam's Blog

Predicting variant effects with variational autoencoders. Machine learning for clinical decisions, improving pandemic preparedness by predicting antibody escape.

Predicting protein function using deep generative models. Latent variable models, reconstruction, variational autoencoders (VAEs), Bayesian inference, evidence lower bound (ELBO).

Protein design by hallucination. DeepDream, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), KL divergence, gradient optimization, scaffolding functional sites, SARS-CoV-2 receptor traps.

Learning protein representations. Transfer learning, protein language models, contextual embeddings, Transformers, masked language modeling, BERT, UniRep, ESM, attention analysis.

Predicting protein structure and function. Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAs), the protein folding problem, the Potts model, Direct Coupling Analysis (DCA), EVCouplings.