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Ankit Sinha

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Mass spectrometrist and cancer biologist researching atherosclerosis through the lens of proteomics. Likes and requotes are messages I bookmark for future investigation. YYZ/MUC. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦inπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ

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Interpretable machine learning leverages proteomics to improve cardiovascular disease risk prediction and biomarker identification The UK Biobank is a large-scale prospective study designed to investigate the impact of biological and environmental factors on human health. It enrolled ~500,000 participants aged 40–69 years old between 2006 and 2010 in England, Scotland, and Wales. In this...

Interpretable machine learning leverages proteomics to improve cardiovascular disease risk prediction and biomarker identification
->Nature | #MachineLearning #Disease #Health | More info from EcoSearch

19.05.2025 15:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Deep Visual Proteomics maps proteotoxicity in a genetic liver disease - Nature High-resolution spatial proteomics were used to map molecular events during hepatocyte stress in pseudotime across all fibrosis stages, recapitulating known disease progression markers and revealing e...

Our paper is out in Nature today! We use Deep Visual Proteomics (DVP) to dissect Ξ±1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) in human liver at single-cell resolution.
Let us take a tour through proteotoxic stress in intact human tissue β€” one hepatocyte at a time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

16.04.2025 15:15 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Preprint alert ‼️

Excited to share our work investigating liver zonation in human health and disease with our advanced single-cell Deep Visual Peoteomics framework!

14.04.2025 12:34 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Engineering synthetic phosphorylation signaling networks in human cells Protein phosphorylation signaling networks have a central role in how cells sense and respond to their environment. We engineered artificial phosphorylation networks in which reversible enzymatic phos...

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT🚨: In a paper out now in
@science.org we describe a way to build synthetic phosphorylation circuits with customizable sense-and-response functions in human cells. Check it out at science.org/doi/10.1126/....

07.01.2025 08:23 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Digital sovereignty – Huber Group @ EMBL The US is now a mafia-style extortionist you want to stay away from

It's time for individuals and organizations in Europe and other democratic countries to move mission- or life-critical IT services and infrastructure outside the reach of the US government; noting that US tech companies have already largely subordinated themselves.

www.huber.embl.de/group/posts/...

08.03.2025 09:15 πŸ‘ 78 πŸ” 32 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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RNA-binding proteins and glycoRNAs form domains on the cell surface for cell-penetrating peptide entry Mammalian cells present RNA-binding proteins on the cell surface that form clustered domains containing glycoRNAs.

What an outstanding study! This majorly expands our understanding by showing that glycosylated RBPs are not only present but also organized into specialized clusters. New avenues for cellular communication and therapeutic delivery strategies! Many congratulations @raflynn5.bsky.social and team.

28.02.2025 07:39 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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RNA-binding proteins and glycoRNAs form domains on the cell surface for cell-penetrating peptide entry Mammalian cells present RNA-binding proteins on the cell surface that form clustered domains containing glycoRNAs.

Mindblowing new study by @raflynn5.bsky.social @bostonchildrens.bsky.social, cell surface RNA-binding proteins form nanoclusters with #glycoRNA and mediate cell-penetrating peptide entry into cells πŸ‘

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

27.02.2025 23:58 πŸ‘ 111 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Plasma proteome variation and its genetic determinants in children and adolescents - Nature Genetics This mass spectrometry-based proteomic study profiles the plasma proteome in 2,147 children and adolescents and reveals its association with age, sex, puberty, body mass index and genetics.

Out today in Nature Genetics: Using MS-based proteomics, we mapped 1,200+ plasma proteins in 2,100+ children, showing how genetics & development shape blood protein levels during childhood.
nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02089-2
#PediatricProteomics #pQTL
First author @liliniu.bsky.social explains ⬇️

19.02.2025 10:44 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

You are absolutely on the spot, always with minimum thickness of the fcap. As per the Oxford study. All the plaques we used have histologies available. Unfortunately we didn't have the time resources to profiles all the plaque tissues at MUC biobank. I'll email you tonight :)

17.02.2025 18:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Luke! @erwinschoof.bsky.social talked highly about you. If possible, may we have a zoom call? It would be good to build some synergies/exhabges between our projects, and get an independent, unbiased perspective on it! :)

17.02.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I appreciate the detailed reply. I agree & experimentally observed that convergence to the 1st moment (i.e. mean) leads to underestimating 2nd+ moments. Also, MICE was a little better at preserving the higher moments. I used the matrix norm of the covariance matrix to measure the imputation artefact

14.02.2025 00:12 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My favorite books, 2024

28.12.2024 18:31 πŸ‘ 522 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 4

This is a very informative article. Reducing 37 imputation methods into 5 major groups helps grasp their diversity. May I ask how Neighbor/Regression and NN-based approaches deal with heteroskedasticity in quantitative data (ex. MS-proteomics)? How would it compare in MICE approaches? Thank you!

13.02.2025 03:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Our draft of proteomes of clinically advanced, #atherosclerosis carotid plaques. We used #proteomics to distinguish between stable and vulnerable plaques. Thanks to the members of @mannlab.bsky.social and Maegdefessel (TUM clinic) labs, as well as the #Cardiology & Surgery departments (TUM clinic).

13.02.2025 03:32 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸš€ Robust and high sensitivity #proteomics: Our Nature protocol demystifies #PASEF workflows and provides ready-to-use dia-PASEF & synchro-PASEF methods. Find out how to achieve 7,000 protein groups or 29,000 phosphosites in 21min. Let's explore! #TeamMassSpec #Bruker doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/🧡

20.01.2025 20:48 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1
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Data-driven hypothesis weighting increases detection power in genome-scale multiple testing - Nature Methods For multiple hypothesis testing in genomics and other large-scale data analyses, the independent hypothesis weighting (IHW) approach uses data-driven P-value weight assignment to improve power while c...

My general approach to biostats is that the stats problems we just discovered were solved by WH 10 years ago :)

www.nature.com/articles/nme...

13.02.2025 02:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Data-driven hypothesis weighting increases detection power in genome-scale multiple testing - Nature Methods For multiple hypothesis testing in genomics and other large-scale data analyses, the independent hypothesis weighting (IHW) approach uses data-driven P-value weight assignment to improve power while c...

Yes, and entirely common. Wolfgang Huber's Independent hypothesis weighting approach is great for adjusting p-vals, and accommodates heteroscedasticity present in proteomics data. Briefly, you adjust p-vals based on bins defined by some covariates (ex. protein median).

13.02.2025 02:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The fox is in the henhouse.

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Our mipDVP workflow integrates 22-marker imaging with Deep Visual Proteomics to spatially map cell-type proteomes in hot/cold tumors, revealing distinct immune landscapes, macrophage barriers, T cell adaptations to hypoxia & tumor heterogeneity. Online in Molecular Cell.
doi.org/10.1016/j.mo...

14.01.2025 16:23 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Looking for rapid, deep & reproducible proteomics? Follow our @Nature protocol to get 7k proteins & 29k phosphosites in just 21 min! Complete #PASEF workflow using optimal dia-PASEF, synchro-PASEF & py_diAID. From method development to analysis. #TeamMassSpec @patiskowronek.bsky.social explains πŸ‘‡

22.01.2025 11:40 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Deep visual proteomics reveals DNA replication stress as a hallmark of signet ring cell carcinoma npj Precision Oncology - Deep visual proteomics reveals DNA replication stress as a hallmark of signet ring cell carcinoma

Our Deep Visual Proteomics workflow maps protein networks in bladder, prostate, seminal vesicle & lymph node Signet Ring Cell Carcinoma, revealing DNA damage response alterations & immune signatures that could guide therapy choice. Out now in NPJ Precision Oncology! rdcu.be/d8KyK

06.02.2025 08:06 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mike's Sage is outstanding. When I first used it, I thought it had errored out. Turns out it was done.

10.02.2025 01:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A universal spectrum annotator for complex peptidoforms in mass spectrometry-based proteomics www.biorxiv.org/cont...

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#proteomics #prot-preprint

26.01.2025 10:40 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I would frame it another way. Science is a method to answer questions. We have drifted away from asking questions, or at least from asking good, focused questions, framing testable hypotheses and then testing with good experiments. Big datasets can be very useful, but we need good questions.

09.02.2025 17:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For a good positive start, just a reminder that Claire Patterson was one of the greatest mass spectrometrist. It is very possible that most of us are alive because of him, and his will and determination to fight uphill. #proteomics #teamMassSpec

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