Dariya Sydykova, PhD

Data scientist

Biography

Hello, I’m a data scientist and a former computational biologist in the Wilke lab. For my PhD, I studied models of molecular evolution, and I developed various computational pipelines. In my spare time, I like to play around with data, make various data visualisations, and attempt to make generative art. This website contains my coding projects, blog posts, and publications.

Interests

Data science
Machine learning
Data viz
All things Tidyverse
Open-source software development

Education

PhD from Cell and Molecular Biology Program, 2019

The University of Texas at Austin
Graduate Portfolio Program in Applied Statistical Modeling, 2019

The University of Texas at Austin
BS in Computational Biology, 2014

The University of Texas at Austin

Recent Posts

Making ROC curves with the tidyverse

This past Monday, Claus Wilke and I announced our package tidyroc. Very excited to announce my first R package! @ClausWilke and I are …

Mar 12, 2019 8 min read

Projects

Generative art

Images generated with the generativeart R package

ROC and precision-recall curve animations

A collection of animations that demonstrate behaviour of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and precision-recall curves.

Recent Publications

Theory of measurement for site-specific evolutionary rates in amino-acid sequences

We developed a theory of measurement for site-specific evolutionary rates

DK Sydykova, CO Wilke

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Measuring evolutionary rates of proteins in a structural context

We describe how to measure a protein’s site-wise evolutionary rates and how to compare them with its structural features

DK Sydykova, BR Jack, SJ Spielman, CO Wilke

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Calculating site-specific evolutionary rates at the amino-acid or codon level yields similar rate estimates

A comparison of codon and amino-acid models of molecular evolution

DK Sydykova, CO Wilke

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