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BERT for mRNA: Using Variational Autoencoders to Reduce Dimensionality of Bulk mRNA Data
Background The cornerstone of traditional distance calculation (Hosangadi, 2012), (Thompson et al. 2005) is the multiple sequence...
Grant Wiersum
Dec 28, 20235 min read
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Candy Land is my favorite game of chance
When you hear the words "game of chance" I doubt Candy Land is the first one that comes to mind. Still, that's what it is. The game...
Grant Wiersum
Aug 31, 20233 min read
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Predicting Research Trends From BioRxiv With BERT, and Custom Autoencoder
Introduction Given the volume of literature submitted to preprint servers daily, there is no feasible way for a human researcher to stay...
Grant Wiersum
Jun 13, 20236 min read
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What is a Second Bathroom Worth? Economic Modeling of Apartment Listings Collected from Craigslist
Housing prices remain unique among commonly traded goods and services, in that nearly no geographic competition exists. This feature is...
Grant Wiersum
May 17, 20234 min read
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What the "Age of Alpha-Fold" means for Biochemistry
1 - An Introduction to Computational Structure Determination While artificial intelligence (AI) implementation in pharmaceuticals...
Grant Wiersum
Jun 22, 20224 min read
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Healing Crystals - Building a protein crystal image recognition algorithm to fight COVID-19
Introduction: Why Crystals? No - not the ones that keep Zordon alive... Protein crystals are much smaller and far too delicate to lay on....
Grant Wiersum
Jun 8, 20224 min read
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Dogs of my Neighborhood
Inspired by the Jeffery Lewis song "Dogs of my neighborhood" What can we learn about a neighborhood's character by the dogs who live...
Grant Wiersum
May 31, 20225 min read
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