Martin Lercher

1/8 Just launched: DeepMolecules – a webserver for predicting protein-small molecule interactions using AI, now out in Nucleic Acids Research! academic.oup.com/nar/advance-ar… DeepMolecules.org @HHU_de

Rather than keeping our techniques private, how can the scientific community promote more transparency and open sharing for the kind of prompts that make AI good for creativity and ideation? @emollick on the Night Science Podcast. @nightsciencepod nightscience.buzzsprout.com/1744020/episod…

🔥The "Postdoc Night Science Germany" club will have its first meeting this Friday, May 16 at HHU Düsseldorf. Join us postdocs for a session on how to find the gorilla hiding in your data! I'll lead this together with @MartinJLercher. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1zgbuW…

Today, we are launching the first publicly available AI Scientist, via the FutureHouse Platform. Our AI Scientist agents can perform a wide variety of scientific tasks better than humans. By chaining them together, we've already started to discover new biology really fast. With…

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New Night Science Podcast episode! Martin Schwartz from @Yale talks with us about the importance of stupidity in scientific research, how the ego can obstruct creativity, and how resilience, self-discovery, and the cultivation of "passionate indifference" – are key in science.

🔥New Night Science paper!! Discovery happens when your initial plans fall apart but it requires you to have a particular mindset: it's not extraverted, orderly, neurotic or agreeable that's the most important – discovery requires an OPENNESS to new ideas and unexpected insights.

New Night Science Podcast episode! We talk with Ethan Mollick – bestselling author of “Co-Intelligence” – about the need for scientists to actively experiment with AI tools, share their methods openly, and reconsider scientific workflows in light of rapid AI progress. @emollick

How can we exploit AI's hallucinations to make us more creative by generating new connections and ideas? We talk about it on this week's Night Science Podcast @nightsciencepod

We're about to upload to @biorxivpreprint a preprint on the experimental relocation of RNA Polymerase genes in wich we show the physiological consequences on altering their genomic location. There is a lot to explore in this research theme!

I was waited two years to see this out!! The genomic location of bacterial genes is not random. Congratulation on the authors (@MartinJLercher and Team!). An impresive piece of work! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… A small thread !

Is the genome just a bag of genes? A new paper in @ScienceMagazine now reports that for two thirds of an organisms' genes the position along the chromosome is actually very tightly constrained! Amazing work from my favorite night scientist @MartinJLercher and his team!