Hey there,
I'm Murto Hilali.
Biotech/Economics student @ UWaterloo interested in tech, compbio, proteins, and ML. Building tools for the future of biology.

Projects

How I Found 71 Natural Alternatives to a $200 Million Drug
A step-by-step drug discovery and AI virtual screening project done from my laptop
PepBDB-ML Benchmark: ML vs CNN for Binding-Site Detection
Assembling four different ML/DL models to compare performance on identifying peptide-protein binding sites.

How I Built A Custom Protein-Binding Dataset for Machine Learning
A walkthrough on building an ML-friendly dataset with code, data visualizations, and cited sources.

Hyperjudge: Source-Checking Tool for Doc Validity
A web app that checks the validity of linked sources in documents and webpages.

Predicting the Effect of Mutations on PPIs Using AlphaFold
How I used AlphaFold-Multimer, XGBoost, and 47,000 SLURM jobs to predict PPI outcomes with 91% AUC
VICI: in silico Controls for PPI Variants
An open source command line tool to find P/LP and B/LB controls to test AF-M using PIONEER.
DAMIA: Disease-Associated Missense Interactome Analysis
Pipeline and command line utility for analyzing missense variant protein-protein interfaces in silico.

Idiomics: Handdrawn Idiom Illustrations
A collection of free idiom illustrations for blogs and newsletters.