Gaurav Moghe

Sweet potatoes are a superfood rich with vitamins, minerals and fiber. They’re also a great source for high-value phytochemicals, such as carotenoids and anthocyanins. These chemicals impart various combinations of white, orange and purple to the crop’s flesh and skin, contributing to their popularity. Sweet potatoes are primarily grown in southern states — North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi — that offer ideal growing conditions, infrastructure and established markets.

Abstract Motivation: Thousands of genomes are publicly available, however, most genes in those genomes have poorly defined functions. This is partly due to a gap between previously published, experimentally-characterized protein activities and activities deposited in databases. This activity deposition is bottlenecked by the time-consuming biocuration process. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) presents an opportunity to speed up text-mining of protein activities for biocuration.

Growing up in a middle-class family, I would ferry to school in an autorickshaw. Ramesh bhaiya, our auto-wallah, would arrive at 7 in the morning, and in the afternoon, he would wait under the shadow of a bushy fig tree for us to pick before dropping us safely to our homes. I kept thinking about the dry, dreary life that Ramesh bhaiya led.