Lorenzo Pantolini
@lorenzopantolini.bsky.social
Postdoc at Biozentrum, University of Basel. Applying AI to structural biology, specializing in pLMs and remote homology detection.
Fresh from bioRxiv our latest work introducing The Embedded Alphabet (TEA), a powerful new representation for protein sequences obtained by discretising ESM2 embeddings into 20 characters.
Pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Rewriting protein alphabets with language models
Detecting remote homology with speed and sensitivity is crucial for tasks like function annotation and structure prediction. We introduce a novel approach using contrastive learning to convert protein...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Fresh from bioRxiv our latest work introducing The Embedded Alphabet (TEA), a powerful new representation for protein sequences obtained by discretising ESM2 embeddings into 20 characters.
Pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Reposted by Lorenzo Pantolini
It is a great privilege and honor to be elected as new President of the SNSF Research Council. I’m very much looking forward to serving the Swiss scientific community in this new role in the coming years.
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Torsten Schwede appointed as new President of the SNSF Research Council from 2025
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
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December 8, 2023 at 12:20 PM
It is a great privilege and honor to be elected as new President of the SNSF Research Council. I’m very much looking forward to serving the Swiss scientific community in this new role in the coming years.
snf.ch/en/xgVKfkp88...
snf.ch/en/xgVKfkp88...