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Nicholas Larus-Stone

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Nicholas Larus-Stone

@nlarusstone

AI for science @benchling

Joined November 2011

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Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
May 14, 2025
We started @sphinx_bio to empower scientists, and today I'm excited to announce that we'll be continuing that mission as part of @benchling! There’s never been a better time to build AI tools to help scientists and there's no better place to build those tools than Benchling.
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Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Dec 23, 2021
Interested in building software in biotech? I'm starting a new Slack community for people interested in discussing problems/solutions in this space. DM me for an invite #biotech #bioinformatics #cheminformatics #software
Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Apr 10, 2024
🎉 We made a graphing tool for biological data. And it's free for academics! 📊🧬 Make publication-quality figures in under a minute. No more fiddling with Excel, Prism, ggplot, and PowerPoint. Here's using @sphinx_bio for graphing qPCR data.
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Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Aug 25, 2024
Biotech is hard
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Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Sep 12, 2023
🎉 Introducing the @sphinx_bio Folding Playground: A one-stop solution for comparing protein folding models like AlphaFold2, ESMFold, OmegaFold, and more! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Try it yourself here: app.sphinxbio.com/playground Check out our blog post here: sphinxbio.com/post/folding-p…
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Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Sep 10, 2022
No one who has been in the biotech space for a while thinks ML solves drug discovery… Rather it’s a useful tool (as are databases and workflow orchestrators). So, critique the hype of “AI” companies all you want, but those tools are here to stay
Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Apr 23, 2022
The state of software sales in biotech is abysmal. If you’re afraid that I won’t like your product when demoing it, then why should I spend many $100k on it?
Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Feb 17, 2024
What biotech/techbio company has the best “closed loop” ML system where they actually learn from data generated in their lab?
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Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Dec 7, 2022
Nothing is harder than telling what a biotech *actually* does purely from its website
Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Oct 5, 2023
You either die an AI service provider or you live long enough to become a biotech with an internal pipeline
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Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Oct 10, 2024
Tired of wasting hours on data analysis instead of actual science? Scientists, we feel your pain. We’re releasing Metis, an intelligent scientific assistant that helps you go from data to publication-quality figures in under a minute. And it’s free for academics! The best part?
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Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Sep 7, 2023
🧬🛠 Introducing @sphinx_bio: Empowering Scientists to Make Better Decisions, Faster 🛠🧬 "What is #techbio apart from an anagram of #biotech?" Read on below or see the full post here: sphinxbio.com/post/introduci… I’m excited to share more about our vision for Sphinx. 👩‍🔬👨‍💻
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Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Sep 14, 2022
The first billion dollar, single person company will be in biotech
Nicholas Larus-Stone
@nlarusstone
Sep 26, 2023
Most interesting takeaway by far from this interview is that they're interested in small molecules (maybe better docking/MD?). Other experts in the AI/bio space seem to think proteins + phenotypic discovery are much more tractable problems
Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis talks about his vision for Isomorphic and AI’s future in biotech
From endpoints.news
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