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Alex Hawkins-Hooker

University College London
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Cited by 241

[HTML][HTML] Generating functional protein variants with variational autoencoders

A Hawkins-Hooker, F Depardieu, S Baur… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The vast expansion of protein sequence databases provides an opportunity for new protein
design approaches which seek to learn the sequence-function relationship directly from …

[HTML][HTML] Getting personal with epigenetics: towards individual-specific epigenomic imputation with machine learning

A Hawkins-Hooker, G Visonà, T Narendra… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Epigenetic modifications are dynamic mechanisms involved in the regulation of gene
expression. Unlike the DNA sequence, epigenetic patterns vary not only between individuals, but …

Chainsaw: protein domain segmentation with fully convolutional neural networks

J Wells, A Hawkins-Hooker, N Bordin, I Sillitoe, B Paige… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Protein domains are fundamental units of protein structure and play a pivotal role in
understanding folding, function, evolution, and design. The advent of accurate structure prediction …

Integration of multiple epigenomic marks improves prediction of variant impact in saturation mutagenesis reporter assay

…, AN Adhikari, S Dong, A HawkinsHooker… - Human …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The integrative analysis of high‐throughput reporter assays, machine learning, and profiles
of epigenomic chromatin state in a broad array of cells and tissues has the potential to …

Moment matching denoising gibbs sampling

M Zhang, A Hawkins-Hooker… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Energy-Based Models (EBMs) offer a versatile framework for modelling complex data
distributions. However, training and sampling from EBMs continue to pose significant challenges. …

[PDF][PDF] MSA-conditioned generative protein language models for fitness landscape modelling and design

A Hawkins-Hooker, DT Jones, B Paige - Machine Learning for Structural …, 2021 - mlsb.io
Recently a number of works have demonstrated successful applications of a fully data-driven
approach to protein design, based on learning generative models of the distribution of a …

[HTML][HTML] The ENCODE Imputation Challenge: a critical assessment of methods for cross-cell type imputation of epigenomic profiles

…, Y Guan, CC Chang, JC Chang, A Hawkins-Hooker… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
A promising alternative to comprehensively performing genomics experiments is to, instead,
perform a subset of experiments and use computational methods to impute the remainder. …

Getting Personal with Epigenetics: Towards Machine-Learning-Assisted Precision Epigenomics

A Hawkins-Hooker, G Visonà, T Narendra… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Epigenetic modifications are dynamic control mechanisms involved in the regulation of gene
expression. Unlike the DNA sequence itself, they vary not only between individuals but also …

[PDF][PDF] Using domain-domain interactions to probe the limitations of MSA pairing strategies

A Hawkins-Hooker, DT Jones, B Paige - Machine Learning for Structural …, 2022 - mlsb.io
State-of-the-art methods for the prediction of the structures of interacting protein complexes
rely on the construction of paired multiple sequence alignments, whose rows contain …

Projection layers improve deep learning models of regulatory DNA function

A Hawkins-Hooker, H Kenlay, J Reid - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
With the increasing application of deep learning methods to the modelling of regulatory DNA
sequences has come an interest in exploring what types of architecture are best suited to …