Jacob A. West-Roberts

The paper identifies lanthanide-coordinating 8-bladed beta-propeller enzymes in eukaryotes using bioinformatics and modeling, suggesting lanthanide biology extends beyond bacteria.

Gaia enables context-aware protein sequence search in microbial genomes by integrating sequence, structure, and genomic context information, improving annotation of functionally related genes.

The Open MetaGenomic (OMG) corpus combines 3.1T base pairs and 3.3B protein coding sequences in mixed amino-acid and nucleotide format to pretrain the genomic language model gLM2.

The paper reconstructs genomes of soil-associated Asgard archaea and uses metatranscriptomics to show their role in carbon compound metabolism relevant to methane production in wetlands.

The paper introduces DGEB, a benchmark for evaluating genomic embeddings across diverse sequences and functions, revealing performance limitations in existing models.

The paper identifies giant genes in predatory bacteria, showing they are associated with prey adhesion and cell wall degradation.