Alissa Hummer
alissahummer.com
Alissa Hummer
@alissahummer.com
Schmidt Science Fellow | Postdoc @ Stanford | Prev. DPhil @ Oxford || ML for Biomolecular Modeling & Design
Immensely grateful to the Schmidt Science Fellowship, my mentors, and all the wonderful & inspiring people I have worked with over the past years.
October 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Huge thanks to my co-authors @cschneider.bsky.social, Lewis Chinery, Charlotte Deane @opig.stats.ox.ac.uk!
August 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
More information about the paper: bsky.app/profile/alis...
Our work exploring the ability of and requirements for ML to predict the effects of mutations on antibody-antigen binding affinity (ΔΔG) is out now in @natcomputsci.nature.com!
Out now! @alissahummer.com @opig.stats.ox.ac.uk
and colleagues present Graphinity, a method to predict change in antibody-antigen binding affinity (∆∆G). Also featuring synthetic datasets of ~1 million FoldX-generated and >20,000 Rosetta Flex ddG-generated ∆∆G values!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
August 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
And thank you to my co-authors @cschneider.bsky.social, Lewis Chinery, and Charlotte Deane – @opig.stats.ox.ac.uk!
July 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Thank you very much to the reviewers and editors who made this work stronger!
July 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Graphinity code and synthetic datasets are publicly available at the following links.
GitHub: github.com/oxpig/Graphi...
Zenodo (code): doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Zenodo (data): doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
OPIG (data): opig.stats.ox.ac.uk/data/downloa...
GitHub - oxpig/Graphinity: Graphinity: Equivariant Graph Neural Network Architecture for Predicting Change in Antibody-Antigen Binding Affinity
Graphinity: Equivariant Graph Neural Network Architecture for Predicting Change in Antibody-Antigen Binding Affinity - oxpig/Graphinity
github.com
July 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Since the release of our preprint, we have made key updates including:

📊 Generation of a second synthetic dataset using Rosetta Flex ddG (20,829 ΔΔG values)
🕸️ Evaluation of additional ML architectures (incl. FLAML, CNN, Rotamer Density Estimate, Equiformer)
July 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Antibody-antigen binding affinity lies at the heart of therapeutic antibody development.

We show that orders of magnitude more data will be needed to unlock generalizable ΔΔG prediction. Our findings provide a lower bound on data requirements to inform future method development & data collection.
July 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Thank you so much, Nick!
April 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
If you’re interested in building the data & ML to create molecular-resolution Virtual Cell Models, I would love to chat 🧫💻
April 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
And thank you to the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social program for encouraging and supporting disciplinary pivots to enable greater impact for our science!
April 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A huge thank you to all my mentors & lab-mates who have shaped my scientific journey and supported my pivots so far!

Special thanks to Charlotte Deane & @opig.stats.ox.ac.uk, @deboramarks.bsky.social, Madan Babu, @pstansfeld.bsky.social, @rdaslab.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM