Neural Distance Embeddings for Biological Sequences
Gabriele Corso, Rex Ying, Michal Pándy, Petar Veličković, Jure Leskovec, Pietro Liò
abs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09740
github: https://github.com/gcorso/NeuroSE
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09740.pdf
https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2021/file/9a1de01f893e0d2551ecbb7ce4dc963e-Paper.pdf
https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/world-news/russia/955813/why-world-leaders-refuse-give-russia-dna
Thought this story was intriguing in relation to genomic #privacy & how the pandemic has potentially amplified worries about it. It was presaged by an opinion piece we did a decade ago
(https://USAToday.com/story/opinion/tory/opinion/2013/06/27/dov-greenbaum-and-mark-gerstein-on-nsa-and-genetics/2465589)
Valved N95 that I like to wear with a surgical mask on top
https://us.vwr.com/stibo/low_res/std.lang.all/67/42/9356742.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nxcex66wgw7goo7/VWR-mask-with-valve.product-89201-510.9356742.jpg?dl=0
Shown at
https://us.vwr.com/store/product/4788523/vwr-n95-disposable-respirators but not currently available
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/05/world/putin-pandemic-mindset.html
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Now Mr. Putin has in-person visitors — including the Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, who met with Mr. Putin for about three hours on Saturday. (Mr. Putin’s residence and the Kremlin are outfitted with disinfectant tunnels that all visitors must pass through.)
Some of the world leaders who have met with Mr. Putin in recent diplomatic overtures were seated 20 feet from him at a behemoth of a table, having refused to submit to Russian P.C.R. tests that would make their DNA available to the Russians. Otherwise, people who meet him face-to-face generally have spent as long as two weeks in quarantine first.
Mr. Putin’s extreme caution reflects not only his age — he is 69, putting him at relatively high risk of severe illness from the coronavirus — but also what critics describe as paranoia honed during his former career as a K.G.B. spy.
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