Maciek Wiatrak
macwiatrak.bsky.social
Maciek Wiatrak
@macwiatrak.bsky.social
PhD student @ Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine (CCAIM). I do 💻 🧬 💊 and love ⛰️.
💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve.

Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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July 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM