Gowri Nayar

Stanford University

Associate Professor(heuristic)

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies · Molecular Biology

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Publications28

Citations141

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2 total · 2 active

NIH #5F31LM014646-02

Exploring Understudied Proteins to Predict Novel Pathways and Associations to Disease

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Amount: $43K
Period: 2024-09-30 → 2026-09-29
PIs: 1
Est. capacity / PI: ~0 students

NIH #1F31LM014646-01

Exploring Understudied Proteins to Predict Novel Pathways and Associations to Disease

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Amount: $49K
Period: 2024-09-30 → 2026-09-29
PIs: 1
Est. capacity / PI: ~0 students

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New paper: Paying attention to attention: High attention sites as indicators of protein family and function in language models (PLoS Computational Biology)2025-09-12
New preprint: Exposing the Molecular Reaction Blind Spots of LLMs with PathwayQA2025-08-15
New NIH award: $43K — Exploring Understudied Proteins to Predict Novel Pathways and Associations to Disease2024-09-30
New NIH award: $49K — Exploring Understudied Proteins to Predict Novel Pathways and Associations to Disease2024-09-30

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Publications as of 2026-07-01
Grants as of 2026-06-30

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Paying attention to attention: High attention sites as indicators of protein family and function in language models
PLoS Computational Biology · 2025-09-12 · 4 citations
Exposing the Molecular Reaction Blind Spots of LLMs with PathwayQAPreprint
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-08-15
Pool PaRTI: a PageRank-based pooling method for identifying critical residues and enhancing protein sequence representations
Bioinformatics · 2025-05-31 · 5 citations
Paying Attention to Attention: High Attention Sites as Indicators of Protein Family and Function in Language ModelsPreprint
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024-12-17 · 2 citations
Pool PaRTI: A PageRank-Based Pooling Method for Identifying Critical Residues and Enhancing Protein Sequence RepresentationsPreprint
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024-10-05 · 5 citations
Longitudinal modeling of multimorbidity trajectories using large language modelsPreprint
medRxiv · 2024-10-03

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