Hoyin Chu
hoyinchu.bsky.social
Hoyin Chu
@hoyinchu.bsky.social
PhD student at MSKCC Lareau Lab interested in computational protein design for cancer therapies
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Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
August 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Excited to share a new preprint from the lab with @ryandhindsa.bsky.social ! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Led by @sherrynyeo.bsky.social, @erinmayc.bsky.social, and friends, we continue our journey to find viral DNA in our favorite place-- the overlooked and discarded reads in existing data! 1/
July 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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We are excited to introduce mRNABench, a comprehensive benchmarking suite that we used to evaluate the representational capabilities of 18 families of nucleotide foundation models on mature mRNA specific tasks.

Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Code: github.com/morrislab/mR...

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mRNABench: A curated benchmark for mature mRNA property and function prediction
Messenger RNA (mRNA) is central in gene expression, and its half-life, localization, and translation efficiency drive phenotypic diversity in eukaryotic cells. While supervised learning has widely bee...
doi.org
July 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Congratulations to the newest Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellows, five exceptional early-career scientists who are using state-of-the-art computational tools to bring cancer biology into high resolution!
June 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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AFESM: a metagenomic guide through the protein structure universe! We clustered 821M structures (AFDB&ESMatlas) into 5.12M groups; revealing biome-specific groups, only 1 new fold even after AlphaFold2 re-prediction & many novel domain combos. 🧵
🌐 afesm.foldseek.com
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Trying a slightly new model (for us at least) of #openscience. With @ronanchaligne.bsky.social and @karolisk.bsky.social, we pitted 10x Genomics Chromium GEM-X against Illumina PIPseq V head-to-head to understand these two platforms for single-cell genomics. Some thoughts off the bleeding edge: /1
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March 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Feeling invigorated after hearing from patients and their families while riding with @cycleforsurvival.bsky.social. I am SO grateful to work with this talented and motivating team at @mskcancercenter.bsky.social! Thank you to everyone who participated in and donated to this outstanding cause!
March 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Chai-1, the open source AF3 clone, is now available with an Apache 2 license github.com/chaidiscover...
November 27, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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A weekend project from a while back -- this little package (with no dependencies) allows you to interact with pymol remotely.

I use it a lot for my protein design workflows together with @biotite.bsky.social.

Just `pip install pymol-remote`
November 25, 2024 at 2:50 PM