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Nicholas Bhattacharya

PhD, UC Berkeley
Verified email at berkeley.edu
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Evaluating protein transfer learning with TAPE

R Rao, N Bhattacharya, N Thomas… - Advances in neural …, 2019 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Protein modeling is an increasingly popular area of machine learning research. Semi-supervised
learning has emerged as an important paradigm in protein modeling due to the high …

Necrotizing enterocolitis is preceded by increased gut bacterial replication, Klebsiella, and fimbriae-encoding bacteria

MR Olm, N Bhattacharya, A Crits-Christoph… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating intestinal disease that occurs primarily in
premature infants. We performed genome-resolved metagenomic analysis of 1163 fecal …

FLIP: Benchmark tasks in fitness landscape inference for proteins

…, J Mou, KE Johnston, BJ Wittmann, N Bhattacharya… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Machine learning could enable an unprecedented level of control in protein engineering
for therapeutic and industrial applications. Critical to its use in designing proteins with …

Differences in the path to exit the ribosome across the three domains of life

K Dao Duc, SS Batra, N Bhattacharya… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The ribosome exit tunnel is an important structure involved in the regulation of translation and
other essential functions such as protein folding. By comparing 20 recently obtained cryo-…

End-to-end learning of multiple sequence alignments with differentiable Smith–Waterman

S Petti, N Bhattacharya, R Rao, J Dauparas… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) of homologous sequences contain
information on structural and functional constraints and their evolutionary histories. Despite their …

Transporter genes in biosynthetic gene clusters predict metabolite characteristics and siderophore activity

A Crits-Christoph, N Bhattacharya, MR Olm… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) are operonic sets of microbial genes that synthesize
specialized metabolites with diverse functions, including siderophores and antibiotics, which …

Single layers of attention suffice to predict protein contacts

N Bhattacharya, N Thomas, R Rao, J Dauparas… - Biorxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The established approach to unsupervised protein contact prediction estimates co-evolving
positions using undirected graphical models. This approach trains a Potts model on a …

[HTML][HTML] Deep self-supervised learning for biosynthetic gene cluster detection and product classification

C Rios-Martinez, N Bhattacharya… - PLOS Computational …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Natural products are chemical compounds that form the basis of many therapeutics used in
the pharmaceutical industry. In microbes, natural products are synthesized by groups of …

Interpreting potts and transformer protein models through the lens of simplified attention

N Bhattacharya, N Thomas, R Rao… - PACIFIC …, 2021 - World Scientific
The established approach to unsupervised protein contact prediction estimates coevolving
positions using undirected graphical models. This approach trains a Potts model on a …

Randomized gates eliminate bias in sort‐seq assays

…, EA DeBenedictis, B Coventry, N Bhattacharya… - Protein …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sort‐seq assays are a staple of the biological engineering toolkit, allowing researchers to
profile many groups of cells based on any characteristic that can be tied to fluorescence. …