Author

Daphne Demekas

University of ArizonaORCID 0000-0003-4974-9242Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

Biology Disciplines

Click to filter author papers

Bioinformatics· 1

Signature Assays, Organisms & Methods

Click to filter · or open tag

Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Approach:contrastive learning· 1 Assay:protein sequence· 1

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel R. OlsoniD· 1 shared Jack W. RoddyiD· 1 shared Ken Youens‐ClarkiD· 1 shared Thomas H. ColliganiD· 1 shared Travis J. WheeleriD· 1 shared

Activity by Year

2025-2025 · peak 1/yr

Co-Author Collaboration Network

5 top collaborators · 10 mutual co-author links

Click any collaborator node to inspect or filter shared papers

Focal author (center)Selected co-authorORCID co-authorUnlinked name

Curved chords = mutual co-authorship

1 shared paperBioinformatics

Daniel R. OlsonORCID

Mutual co-authors in cluster

Author profile →

1 paper

Recent·Most cited

BioinformaticsBioinformaticsPeer-reviewedJul 1, 2025

NEAR: Neural Embeddings for Amino acid Relationships

Daniel R. Olson, Thomas H. Colligan, Daphne Demekas…·Travis J. Wheeler

NEAR improves homology detection speed and accuracy by using neural embeddings trained with contrastive learning, outperforming existing methods as a pre-filter for protein sequence annotation.

2 citations

protein sequencecontrastive learning

𝕏 PostBluesky