Colm Ryan
colmr.bsky.social
Colm Ryan
@colmr.bsky.social
Systems biology | Bioinformatics | Cancer | Genetic interactions
https://cancerdata.ucd.ie/
(he / him)
Enjoying 'Why Machines Learn' by Anil Ananthaswamy, including this anecdote highlighting that there's always more that *could* be in a PhD but that you have to draw a line somewhere. Guyon here is Isabelle Guyon, who was later key to the development of SVMs (especially the kernel trick)
January 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Replacing my still functioning 2017 Mac because it's no longer compatible with our two factor authentication software (preventing me logging on to any work related system). This really doesn't seem optimal.
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Pairs with these sorts of regulatory relationships are enriched in synthetic lethality – when one gene gets deleted, cells become dependent on the other for survival – suggesting these relationships can identify new therapeutic targets. The cartoon below illustrates the proposed model.
May 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Congrats to Anjan Venkatesh, who passed his viva @ucddublin.bsky.social this morning. Thanks to extern @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social, intern Denis Shields and chair Dimitris Chatzopoulos. cc @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdcs.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We will be hosting the International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB) in Dublin this year – 5-9th October icsb2025.com/registration/ #ICSB2025
January 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
this table evaluates the methods on an actual combinatorial screen where we have data on both the identified SL pairs and the set of screened pairs (real negatives instead of random sampling!). in this case, all methods perform significantly worse than the analyses presented elsewhere in the paper.
January 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM