Open models, bioinformatics pipelines, protein and DNA workloads, and applied AI for life sciences.
João Correia, Telmo Felgueira, Tiago Gonçalves, Bojan Jakimovski, Jim Burtoft, Louise Ping · August 18, 2026
A native PyTorch benchmark showing EvolutionaryScale ESMC-300M running on AWS Trainium2: 490.8 variants per second on a single trn2.3xlarge — approximately 42.4 million protein variants scored per day at approximately $1.26 per million, 60% below H100 in this fixed-shape D2Deep benchmark.
Andres Florian, Daniel Sabogal · July 9, 2026
If you work anywhere near data-heavy science — genomics, metagenomics, proteomics — you’ve probably hit the same wall: building reliable, reproducible data pipelines is hard. Nextflow is an open-source workflow engine…
Jelena Pejovic, Jorge Moura Sampaio · July 8, 2026
Modern computational drug discovery depends on complex workflows that connect AI models, structural biology tools, databases, and quality-control steps into reproducible pipelines. While many organizations have access…
Julián F. Fernández, Andres Florian, Daniel Sabogal · June 30, 2026
What to know before you scale cofolding jobs from five structures to ten thousand.
Bojan Jakimovski, Loka Applied Research · May 21, 2026
A practical benchmark showing Hugging Face Bio Carbon running on AWS Trainium2 with NxD Inference, covering what worked, what we measured, and why it matters for bio and HCLS teams moving open models into production.
Bojan Jakimovski · May 21, 2026
Hugging Face Bio’s Carbon release is interesting for two reasons at once. First, it is a biology model. Second, it is not an infrastructure outlier. Many genomic models come with custom architectures, specialized…
Bojan Jakimovski, Petar Kalinovski · February 23, 2026
If you work in regulated domains (Healthcare, Life Sciences, Finance) you routinely hit constraints that break the default “just call a hosted API” approach:
Bojan Jakimovski, Petar Kalinovski · February 23, 2026
An ablation-driven study of GRPO-style reinforcement learning with LoRA on Trinity Mini for biomedical relation extraction, covering the training choices that materially changed performance.
Sara Oquendo · January 5, 2026
Solving the Challenges of Traditional Pipelines
Jelena Pejovic, José Ribón, Andrés Sacre, Federico Rueda, Nicolás Franco, Javier Dominguez, Juliana Silva · June 28, 2025
Loka’s participation in the recent nf-core hackathon in Medellín, Colombia, culminated in the successful development of MITNANEX, a pipeline designed to extract and assemble mitochondrial genomes, identify and annotate…