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Lucas A. Pereira

University of FloridaORCID 0009-0001-7906-0385Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:deep learning· 2 Organism:bacteria (other)· 1 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:human· 1 Research Focus:protein structure prediction· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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Juannan ZhouiD· 2 shared Palash SethiiD· 2 shared Brian M. SchilderiD· 1 shared David LaubiD· 1 shared David M. McCandlishiD· 1 shared Fahimeh RahimiiD· 1 shared John J. DesmaraisiD· 1 shared Justin B. KinneyiD· 1 shared

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Genetic background shapes AI-predicted variant effects

Brian M. Schilder, Zhihan Liu, John J. Desmarais, David Laub, Fahimeh Rahimi, Palash Sethi, Lucas A. Pereira, Mengyi Sun, Justin B. Kinney, David M. McCandlish, Juannan Zhou, Peter K. Koo

This study introduces pVEP, a framework showing how genetic background affects AI predictions of variant effects, revealing variant effects vary across haplotypes.

bioRxiv · Apr 7, 2026 · PreprintGenomics

Bacterial proteome foundation model enhances functional prediction from enzymes to ecological interactions

Palash Sethi, Lucas A. Pereira, Juannan Zhou

BacPT, a proteome foundation model, improves predictions of bacterial enzyme activities, biosynthetic clusters, metabolic traits, and ecological interactions using unsupervised deep learning.

bioRxiv · Mar 23, 2026 · PreprintGenomics