Remo Rohs
Professor of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, and Computer Science
Studies protein-DNA recognition and DNA shape, using deep learning to predict transcription factor binding.
Remo Rohs's lab at USC works on proteins, drugs & materials, genomics & computational biology and recognition, detection & segmentation. 21 papers since 2023, 3 at top venues, mostly Nucleic Acids Research and Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 4 PhD students and 3 master's students. 23 alumni, most often to Google and AI/ML Engineer at GSK. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 14%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 3
- alumni listed
- 23
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 4 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 6 papers2025 · T1 0
- 8 papers2024 · T1 2
- 3 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Bioinformatics, Nature Communications, Nature Methods
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- dna14 papers
- Proteins, drugs & materials5 papers
- Genomics & computational biology1 paper
- quantitative1 paper
- Recognition, detection & segmentation0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20264 papers
- Journal of Chemical Information and ModelingCircumventing the synthesizability problem in generative molecular design.
- Sci. Adv. 12, eadz5902Quantitative modulation of a spatial enhancer through the biophysical properties of a transcription factor binding site.
- Biophys. J.Readout of intrinsic and induced DNA shape by homeodomain transcription factor complexes.
- NAR Genom. Bioinform. 8, lqag027Sequence-based modeling of low-affinity transcription factor-DNA binding through deep learning.
20256 papers
- Mol. Cell 85, 193-198Artificial intelligence in molecular biology.
- BioinformaticsDNAdesign: feature-aware in silico design of synthetic DNA through mutation.
- Nucleic Acids ResearchDNAproDB: an updated database for the automated and interactive analysis of protein-DNA complexes.
- Nucleic Acids ResearchNovel fold and wing structure of Forkhead transcription factor facilitate DNA binding.
- Scientific ReportsPAM-adjacent DNA flexibility tunes CRISPR-Cas12a off-target binding.
- J. Mol. Biol. 437, 169012RNAproDB: a webserver and interactive database for analyzing protein-RNA interactions.
20248 papers
- Nucleic Acids ResearchDeep DNAshape webserver: prediction and real-time visualization of DNA shape considering extended k-mers.
- Nucleic Acids ResearchDNA sequence and chromatin differentiate sequence-specific transcription factor binding in the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.
- Nature Methods (T1)Geometric deep learning of protein-DNA binding specificity.
- Nature Communications (T1)Predicting DNA structure using a deep learning method.
- Biophys. J. 123, 248-259Probing the role of the protonation state of a minor groove linker histidine in Exd-Hox-DNA binding.
- Nucleic Acids ResearchRNAscape: geometric mapping and customizable visualization of RNA structure.
- Journal of Chemical Information and ModelingStructure-based drug design with a deep hierarchical generative model.
- Biophys. Rev. 16, 297-314Structure-based prediction of protein-nucleic acid binding using graph neural networks.
20233 papers
- Biochemistry 62, 2541-2548CRISPR-Cas9 with truncated 16-nucleotide RNA guides are tuned by target duplex stability beyond the RNA/DNA hybrid.
- Nucleic Acids ResearchDNA binding specificity of all four Saccharomyces cerevisiae forkhead transcription factors.
- PNAS (T1)Physicochemical models of protein-DNA binding with standard and modified base pairs.
Where alumni went23 listed, 43% to industry
Industry 9Academia 12
Most often to
- AI/ML Engineer at GSK
Also to
- USC
- Caltech
- China Agricultural University
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