Publications by authors named "R Dustin Schaeffer"

A key challenge in neuroscience is understanding how neurons in hundreds of interconnected brain regions integrate sensory inputs with previous expectations to initiate movements and make decisions. It is difficult to meet this challenge if different laboratories apply different analyses to different recordings in different regions during different behaviours. Here we report a comprehensive set of recordings from 621,733 neurons recorded with 699 Neuropixels probes across 139 mice in 12 laboratories.

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The neural representations of prior information about the state of the world are poorly understood. Here, to investigate them, we examined brain-wide Neuropixels recordings and widefield calcium imaging collected by the International Brain Laboratory. Mice were trained to indicate the location of a visual grating stimulus, which appeared on the left or right with a prior probability alternating between 0.

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The assessment of monomer targets in the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction Round 16 (CASP16) underscores that the problem of single-domain protein fold prediction is nearly solved-no target folds were incorrectly predicted across all Evaluation Units. However, challenges remain in accurately modeling truncated sequences, irregular secondary structures, and interaction-induced conformational changes. The release of AlphaFold3 (AF3) during CASP16, and its effective integration by many groups, demonstrated its superiority over AlphaFold2 (AF2), particularly in confidence estimation and model selection.

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Galleria mellonella is becoming increasingly used as a model organism for studying human pathogen infection disease. Therefore, all factors affecting the level of immune response of G. mellonella should be evaluated.

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Proteins carry out essential cellular functions - signaling, metabolism, transport - through the specific interaction of small molecules and drugs within their three-dimensional structural domains. Protein domains are conserved folding units that, when combined, drive evolutionary progress. The Evolutionary Classification Of protein Domains (ECOD) places domains into a hierarchy explicitly built around distant evolutionary relationships, enabling the detection of remote homologs across the proteomes.

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