NLM DIR Seminar Schedule
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Cell phenotypes in the biomedical literature: a systematic analysis and the NLM CellLink text mining corpus
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July 3, 2025 Matthew Diller
Using Ontologies to Make Knowledge Computable -
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Graph-Aware Interpretable Drug Response Prediction and LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Drug-Target Interaction Prediction -
June 10, 2025 Aleksandra Foerster
Interactions at pre-bonding distances and bond formation for open p-shell atoms: a step toward biomolecular interaction modeling using electrostatics -
June 3, 2025 MG Hirsch
Interactions among subclones and immunity controls melanoma progression -
May 29, 2025 Harutyun Sahakyan
In silico evolution of globular protein folds from random sequences
Scheduled Seminars on Dec. 14, 2021
Speaker
Benjamin Lee
PI/Lab
Time
11 a.m.
Presentation Title
Where is everyone? The strange case of the missing viroids
Location
Zoom
Contact NLMDIRSeminarScheduling@mail.nih.gov with questions about this seminar.
Abstract:
New viruses are being discovered in droves thanks to high throughput sequencing. This is not true of viroids, pure RNA parasites so small that they encode no proteins. The comparative dearth of newly discovered viroids could be due to genuine rarity or it could be that, due to their extremely small size, viroids are lost in the vast quantities of data. By curating a database of all known sequences and developing a purpose-built pipeline for viroid and viroid-like RNA discovery, we show that there is indeed significant diversity of these agents present within metatranscriptomic samples.