Thanks #MITS2025 for inviting me to speak about our deep learning-based search for variants under positive selection in the human genome; more to come! @pardissabeti.bsky.social @stevereilly.bsky.social

Arya Rao in the search for adaptive traits #MITS25

Out now in @jama.com — our piece on how to train future docs to thrive in the age of AI! With Marc Succi and Bernard Chang @harvardmed.bsky.social

🧬 Meet Lyra, a new paradigm for accessible, powerful modeling of biological sequences. Lyra is a lightweight SSM achieving SOTA performance across DNA, RNA, and protein tasks—yet up to 120,000x smaller than foundation models (ESM, Evo). Bonus: you can train it on your Mac.
arxiv.org/abs/2503.16351