Publications
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Pre-Prints Permalink
- GPU-accelerated homology search with MMseqs2 Felix Kallenborn*, Alejandro Chacon*, Christian Hundt, Hassan Sirelkhatim, Kieran Didi, Sooyoung Cha, Christian Dallago, Milot Mirdita, Bertil Schmidt, Martin Steinegger, bioRxiv, 04/2025
- MotifBench: A standardized protein design benchmark for motif-scaffolding problems Zhuoqi Zheng, Bo Zhang, Kieran Didi, Kevin K. Yang, Jason Yim, Joseph L. Watson, Hai-Feng Chen, Brian L. Trippe, arxiv, 02/2025
- BioNeMo Framework: a modular, high-performance library for AI model development in drug discovery Peter St. John et al, arxiv, 11/2024
- BioModelsML: Building a FAIR and reproducible collection of machine learning models in life sciences and medicine for easy reuse Divyang Deep Tiwari, Nils Hoffmann, Kieran Didi, Sumukh Deshpande, Sucheta Ghosh, Tung V. N. Nguyen, Karthik Raman, Henning Hermjakob, Rahuman S Malik Sheriff, biorxviv, 05/2023
Science Journals Permalink
- Structure-based Drug Design with Equivariant Diffusion Models Arne Schneuing*, Yuanqi Du*, Charles Harris*, Kieran Didi, Arian Jamasb, Ilia Igashov, weitao Du, Tom Blundell, Pietro Liò, Carla Gomes, Max Welling, Michael Bronstein, Bruno Correia, Nature Computational Science, 12/2024
- MISATO: machine learning dataset of protein–ligand complexes for structure-based drug discovery Till Siebenmorgen*, Filipe Menezes*, Sabrina Benassou, Erinc Merdivan, Kieran Didi, André Santos Dias Mourão, Radosław Kitel, Pietro Liò, Stefan Kesselheim, Marie Piraud, Fabian J. Theis, Michael Sattler & Grzegorz M. Popowicz, Nature Computational Science, 05/2024
- Synsor: a tool for alignment-free detection of engineered DNA sequences Aidan P Tay, Kieran Didi, Anuradha Wickramarachchi, Denis Bauer, Laurence Wilson and Maciej Maselko, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 04/2024
- AbNatiV: VQ-VAE-based assessment of antibody and nanobody nativeness for hit selection, humanisation, and engineering Aubin Ramon, Montader Ali, Misha Atkinson, Alessio Saturnino, Kieran Didi, Cristina Visentin, Stefano Ricagno, Xing Xu, Matthew Greenig, Pietro Sormanni, Nature Machine Intelligence, 04/2023
- Biomolecular condensate phase diagrams with a combinatorial microdroplet platform William E. Arter*, Runzhang Qi*, Nadia A. Erkamp*, Georg Krainer*, Kieran Didi, Timothy J. Welsh, Julia Acker, Jonathan Nixon-Abell, Seema Qamar, Jordina Guillén-Boixet, Titus M. Franzmann, David Kuster, Anthony A. Hyman, Alexander Borodavka, Peter St George-Hyslop, Simon Alberti & Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Nature Communications, 12/2022
ML Conferences (Main Track) Permalink
- Compositional Flows for 3D Molecule and Synthesis Pathway Co-design, Tony Shen*, Seonghwan Seo*, Ross Irwin, Kieran Didi, Simon Olsson, Woo Youn Kim, Martin Ester, ICML 2025
- Proteina: Scaling Flow-based Protein Structure Generative Models, Tomas Geffner*, Kieran Didi*, Zuobai Zhang*, Danny Reidenbach, Zhonglin Cao, Jason Yim, Mario Geiger, Christian Dallago, Emine Kucukbenli, Arash Vahdat, Karsten Kreis, ICLR 2025 (oral presentation)
- DEFT: Efficient Finetuning of Conditional Diffusion Models by Learning the Generalised h-transform, Alexander Denker*, Francisco Vargas*, Shreyas Padhy*, Kieran Didi*, Simon Mathis*, Vincent Dutordoir, Riccardo Barbano, Emile Mathieu, Urszula Julia Komorowska, Pietro Lio, NeurIPS 2024
- Dynamics-Informed Protein Design with Structure Conditioning, Urszula Julia Komorowska*, Simon V Mathis*, Kieran Didi, Francisco Vargas, Pietro Lio, Mateja Jamnik , ICLR 2024
- Evaluating Representation Learning on the Protein Structure Universe, Arian Rokkum Jamasb*, Alex Morehead*, Zuobai Zhang*, Chaitanya Joshi*, Kieran Didi, Simon Mathis, Charles Harris, Jian Tang, Jianlin Cheng, Pietro Liò, Tom Blundell, ICLR 2024
ML Conferences (Workshop Track) Permalink
- RNA-FrameFlow: Flow Matching for de novo 3D RNA Backbone Design, Rishabh Anand*, Chaitanya K. Joshi*, Alex Morehead, Arian R. Jamasb, Charles Harris, Simon V. Mathis, Kieran Didi, Bryan Hooi, Pietro Liò, ICML SPIGM 2024 (Oral Presentation), 07/2024
- A framework for conditional diffusion modelling with applications in motif scaffolding for protein design, Kieran Didi, Francisco Varga, Simon Mathis, Vincent Dutordoir, Emile Mathieu, Urszula Julia Komorowska, Pietro Lio, NeurIPS AI4D3 2023 (Oral Presentation), 11/2023
- Benchmarking Generated Poses: How Rational is Structure-based Drug Design with Generative Models?, Charles Harris, Kieran Didi, Arian Jamasb, Chaitanya Joshi, Simon Mathis, Pietro Lio, Tom Blundell, NeurIPS MLSB 2023 (Oral Presentation), 11/2023
- Modelling biology in novel ways - an AI-first course in Structural Bioinformatics, Kieran Didi, Charles Harris, Pietro Liò, Rainer Beck, NeurIPS AI4Science 2023, 10/2023
- Flexible Small-Molecule Design and Optimization with Equivariant Diffusion Models, Charles Harris, Kieran Didi, Arne Schneuing, Yuanqi Du, Arian Jamasb, Michael Bronstein, Bruno Correia, Pietro Liò, Tom Blundell, ICLR MLDD 2023, 03/2023
Book Chapters Permalink
- Generative Models in Bioinformatics, Mitchell J O’Brien, Letitia MF Sng, Priya Ramarao-Milne, Kieran Didi, Denis C Bauer, Encyclopedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 01/2023
Conference Presentations Permalink
- Why equivariance is (not) so popular in Life and Material Science (invited talk), ICML ML4LMS 2024, 07/2024
- Conditioning generative models for proteins, images and more (oral presentation), AI and Biology Conference, EMBL Heidelberg (Germany), 03/2024
- Where do we stand in protein and ligand design? (oral presentation), Computational Structural Biology Conference, EMBL Heidelberg (Germany), 12/2023
- Conditional Diffusion Models for Protein Design via Doob’s h-transform (poster), MoML Conference, MIT (US), 11/2023
- Reality Check - Evaluating Generative Models for Protein and Ligand Design (poster), Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium, Broad Institute (US), 10/2023
- Accessible AMR-detection tools for clinicians via cloud-based bioinformatics (oral presentation), Clinical Informatics Symposium, Melbourne (Australia), 12/2022
- sINSIDER: a cloud-native modular platform for kmer-based genomic analysis (oral presentation), ABACBS Conference, Melbourne (Australia), 11/2022
- Moving bioinformatics to the cloud (keynote presentation), eSCAMPS Symposium, Cambridge (UK), 09/2022
- Detecting DNA integration via HPC bioinformatics pipeline (poster),R&I Conference, Sydney (Australia), 08/2022
Reviewing Permalink
ICML CompBio 2023, NeurIPS AI4Science 2023, NeurIPS GenBio 2023, MoML@MIT 2023, ICLR GEM 2024
Teaching Permalink
- Deep Learning in Structure-Based Drug Design, tutorial, Spring School Structure-based Computer-aided Drug Design, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB), 06/2024
- SDEs and Diffusion Processes, lecture, Cambridge University (MPhil Advanced Computer Science), 01/2024
- Structural Bioinformatics, lecture, Heidelberg University (BSc Biochemistry), 10/2023
- Graph Modelling with Applications to Structural Biology, presentation, CCAIM AI and Machine Learning Summer School, 09/2023
- Advanced Python for Scientists, lecture, Heidelberg University, 06/2023
- Algorithms II, supervising course on data structures and graph algorithms, Cambridge University, 03-05/2023
- Algorithms I, Cambridge University, 01-03/2023
- MLOps with PyTorch Lightning and W&B, workshop, ML Forum CSIRO Australia, 01/2023
- Python for Scientists, lecture, Heidelberg University, 11/2022
- Python Best Practices, workshop (co-host), Scientific Software Center Heidelberg, 11/2022
- Deep Learning with PyTorch, Lunch Time Python workshop, Scientific Software Center Heidelberg, 10/2022
- Python for Biochemists, lecture, Heidelberg University, 03/2022
