publications

2025

  1. biorxiv
    Generating functional and multistate proteins with a multimodal diffusion transformer
    Bowen Jing, Anna Sappington,  Mihir Bafna, Ravi Shah, Adrina Tang, Rohith Krishna, Adam Klivans, Daniel J Diaz, and Bonnie Berger
    bioRxiv Sep 2025
  2. arxiv
    Learning residue level protein dynamics with multiscale Gaussians
    Mihir BafnaBowen Jing, and Bonnie Berger
    arxiv Sep 2025
  3. PNAS
    Sparse autoencoders uncover biologically interpretable features in protein language model representations
    Onkar GujralMihir BafnaEric Alm, and Bonnie Berger
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Sep 2025
  4. biorxiv
    DANGO: Predicting Higher-Order Genetic Interactions
    Ruochi ZhangMihir BafnaJianzhu Ma, and Jian Ma
    biorxiv Jan 2025

2023

  1. MLSB
    DiffRNAFold: Generating RNA Tertiary Structures with Latent Space Diffusion
    Mihir Bafna, Vikranth Keerthipati, Subhash Kanaparthi, and Ruochi Zhang
    NeurIPS Workshop on Machine Learning for Structural Biology Dec 2023
  2. ISMB
    CLARIFY: Cell-cell interaction and gene regulatory network refinement from spatially resolved transcriptomics
    Mihir BafnaHechen Li, and Xiuwei Zhang
    ISMB and Bioinformatics Jun 2023

2022

  1. NSUR
    Benchmarking and Refining Cell-Cell Interactions with Spatial Transcriptomics and Deep Learning
    Mihir Bafna, and Xiuwei Zhang
    St. Jude National Symposium for Undergraduate Research Oct 2022
  2. ACM-BCB
    DeepViFi: Detecting Oncoviral Infections in Cancer Genomes Using Transformers
    Utkrisht Rajkumar, Sara Javadzadeh,  Mihir Bafna, Dongxia Wu, Rose Yu, Jingbo Shang, and Vineet Bafna
    Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics Oct 2022

2021

  1. Patent
    Computer-implemented methods for quantitation of features of interest in whole slide imaging
    Nam Nguyen, Lorena Mora-Blanco, Kristen Turner, Julie Weise, Jason Christiansen, and Mihir Bafna
    Provisional patent. PCT/US2021/022308 Mar 2021