Innocent Byiringiro

Scientist 🇷🇼 🇺🇸

[Arc Institute @arcinstitute]

Most genomic AI models use fixed rules to process DNA into chunks, imposing arbitrary boundaries on a sequence with its own biological structure.

@arnavshah0, @victor_ljz, and team developed dnaHNet, a tokenizer-free foundation model that learns its own segmentation from scratch, supervised by @_albertgu, @genophoria, and @BoWang87.

[Alejandro Buendia @abuen_dia]

Thrilled to announce alphagenome-pytorch, an accurate, readable, and careful port of AlphaGenome's architecture and weights to PyTorch. Work with @gtcaa @m_kjellberg @chriswzou @tuxinming as part of the GenomicsxAI initiative between @anshulkundaje and @pkoo562 labs.

[Innocent Byiringiro @InnocentByirin7]

@ATinyGreenCell @benchling Also as a mobile app!

[Jonathan Gootenberg @jgooten]

Precise DNA integration is key for many therapies, but inserting large, scarless sequences remains challenging. What if we could reprogram nature's mobile elements for programmable genome writing?

Today we (+ @omarabudayyeh) debut Stitchr in @Nature

[Tony Kulesa @kulesatony]

New review out today in Nature Biotech on nanopore-based protein sequencing.

Feels... like... something... coming... soon... 👀

[Sam @SamanthaTeta]

If you have the ability to use geospatial technology, you should have used it to track armed groups & advise your bestie MONUSCO on where to neutralize them. At the very least, you could have used it to issue warning calls to stop attacks.

But instead, you chose to use it to peep on displaced people, making sure they stay exactly where you want them—in camps.

Be honest - you want displaced people to remain in place & photogenic because suffering Africans make for great reports, sob stories for fundraising & fed your inexhaustible saviour fetish.

African dignity and peace threaten your entire business model. That’s why you’re here trying to spin people safely returning to their homes as a bad thing.

[Patrick Hsu @pdhsu]

AI provides a universal framework that leverages data and compute at scale to uncover higher-order patterns

Today, @arcinstitute in collaboration with @nvidia releases Evo 2—a fully open source biological foundation model trained on genomes spanning the entire tree of life 🧵

[Javin Oza @ozalabCP]

De novo design of anti-venoms!
https://t.co/UJOXtw1zcn
@UWproteindesign

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the biochemistry of venoms:
https://t.co/ReB1TbZrwH

[Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc @SynBio1]

Every synthetic biologist, every biochemist, when they dream, will sometimes hear a voice calling

A whisper on the wind, as impossible as infinity, as sweet as the ambrosia of the very Gods

"Engineer RuBisCo"

And this paper takes us one step closer
https://t.co/xS0ns6UGlY

[Innocent Byiringiro @InnocentByirin7]

@EgideMurisa Tired of hearing ‘Africa lacks resources’? Look at DeepSeek no one saw their breakthroughs coming. Let’s stop waiting for ‘more’ and start creating with what we . Genius isn’t about what’s missing it’s about maxing out what’s here.

[Innocent Byiringiro @InnocentByirin7]

@AxeWell_ @EgideMurisa @NewTimesRwanda I think Rwanda should focus on self-reliance using available means. We can start with average HPCs like US universities do, supplement grid power with solar/generators, and in most cases leverage pretrained models no need to reinvent the wheel.

[Nature Methods @naturemethods]

Nucleotide Transformer is a series of genomics foundation models of different parameter sizes and training datasets which can be applied to various downstream tasks by fine-tuning. @instadeepai

https://t.co/R31y1UNU6w

[Moritz Ertelt @ErteltMoritz]

New preprint retraining ProteinMPNN on proteins from hyperthermophiles to design thermostable proteins (including first experimental validation). Fun project together with Phillip Schlegel and Max Beining.
https://t.co/07NI3OfXax

[Innocent Byiringiro @InnocentByirin7]

Had a great discussion with students from @AugustanaSD interested in food security and Africa development. So excited about what our collective efforts will do for our continent.
@FutureAgLeaders @ag_shields @IANRGlobal @UNLincoln @waterforfood @RwandaUnl

[Ag-Shields @ag_shields]

It is always a pleasure for us to go out and serve the community we love! Thank you to everyone who showed up! Join us on the next last Saturday of the month. #umuganda
@UNL_CASNR @involvedunl @UNL_OASIS @RwandaUnl @GlobalNebraska @PCMLincoln

[Innocent Byiringiro @InnocentByirin7]

Nematodes are fun to work with. Even more exciting in Dr. Thomas’s lab. @UNL_PlantPath

[UNL Department of Plant Pathology @UNL_PlantPath]

Happy Friday! We decided to shake things up this week and are excited to bring you #FacultyFeatureFriday! This week, learn more about Dr. Tom Powers, including his favorite plant pathogen (spoiler alert: it's a #nematode). Have a great weekend, Huskers!

#UNL #PlantPathology

[Ag-Shields @ag_shields]

We appreciate your time @drjyothi_kumar. Thanks for inspiring us, college students, as we navigate through this journey of college. 👏👏

[University of Nebraska System @u_nebraska]

The University of Nebraska has joined an amicus brief opposing new fed guidance for int'l students. @UofNE_President: "Int'l students contribute enormously to the academic, cultural, social & economic fabric of our campuses & communities."

Full statement: https://t.co/n5G4E37TSC

[Innocent Byiringiro @InnocentByirin7]

@richard_ngoga @Musekere1 @Kadafi_Amos Ase ko utavuga @chris_ntagz iyo ageze muri ka gace yayoboraga.