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Divya Arora

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Approach:benchmark study· 1 Approach:contrastive learning· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Organism:E. coli· 1 Assay:long-read sequencing· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1

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Human Attitudes Toward Insects and Spiders: Exploring the Paradoxes of Ecological Value and Discomfort

Divya Arora, Sunil Dutt Shukla

The paper surveys human attitudes toward insects and spiders, finding education influences tolerance and identifying three key dimensions of public perception.

bioRxiv · Jul 31, 2025 · PreprintScientific Communication & Education

A contextualised protein language model reveals the functional syntax of bacterial evolution

Maciej Wiatrak, David C. Abelson, Roman Mikhaylenko, Ramon Viñas Torné, Maria Ntemourtsidou, Adam M. Dinan, Divya Arora, Samuel Horsfield, John A. Lees, Maria Brbić, Aaron Weimann, R. Andres Floto

Trained on over 1.3 million bacterial genomes represented as ordered protein sequences, the transformer foundation model Bacformer predicts protein interactions, operons, essentiality, and phenotypes while generating trait-conditioned synthetic proteomes.

bioRxiv · Jul 20, 2025 · PreprintMicrobiology✦ In-depth digest