DeepChem Minutes
India/Asia/Pacific Call
Date: May 12th, 2022
Attendees: Bharath, Ashish,
Summary:
Bharath has been busy this last week and has only worked on a couple of student calls.
Ashish explored cell profiler tutorial and docs and is now looking for an alternative tool that can be invoked more programmatically.
Americas/Europe/Africa/Middle East
Date: May 12th, 2022
Attendees: Bharath, Jose
Summary:
Bharath gave the same update as at the previous call.
Jose has been working on the code for pytorch normalizing flows. Jose has also been looking at the deepbio repos.
Stanley has been looking at new transformer architectures and how they might be applied on the deepbio end.
DeepChem Bioinformatics Call
Date: May 16th, 2022
Attendees: Prashant, Saurav, Paulina, Stanley, Arun, Ashish
Summary:
Prashant Kumar: basics of ML
Stanley: get a basic comparison system that David could help us develop and guide us to interesting properties. Shared bacterial bioinformatics resource: https://www.patricbrc.org/
Saurav maheshkar: RITA: a Study on Scaling Up Generative Protein Sequence Models
Paulina: read more about BERT, meeting with Galen this week for scVI-tools. Meeting with Stanley for follow up on David’s presentation.
Stanley - Shared about patric.
Saurav shared about RITA - a family of autoregressive protein models
Paulina had put up her draft PR on adding citation to tutorial. Arun suggested to wait for Bharath’s review.
Ashish explored Recursion’s dataset last week and shared his thoughts on it.
Prashanth was mostly busy this week with semester and shared that he is looking forward to contribute to deepbio over the summer.
Arun suggested that we should start building deepbio repo - adding necessary utils for data handling and model building. Here, Stanley mentioned that adding utilities like hyperparameter tuning to deepbio will be useful. Stanley also suggested to adding utilities large datasets via batch processing techniques.
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