H.i. 👋 Welcome!
Founded by Nate Harms, PhD in March, 2024 as a blog…
Harms informatics (H.i.) is an independently-owned scientific consulting firm operating at the intersection of computational chemistry, data engineering, and applications in AI. We work with our clients to identify their unique chemistry needs and deliver custom-made AI solutions using modern software developing principles.
Our mission is to accelerate breakthroughs in chemistry by building robust AI solutions.
How will H.i.
accomplish this?
Through independent research and collaborative partnerships, H.i. hopes to use our skills to help democratize machine learning (ML) for chemical property prediction.
By sharing data, models, and best practices with the broader scientific community, we will enable others to learn more, move faster, and discovery incredible things.
What are our specialities?
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Developing chemical data pipelines is our bread-and-butter. When designing a pipeline, Nate is an expert in gathe requirements, designing solutions, and delivering repeatable and reusable data pipelines for chemistry.
Related projects:
Enko’s DEL enumeration pipeline: Translates DNA barcodes into chemical building blocks, applies reaction schemes to building blocks, in order, to generate fully enumerated DEL instances.
Valo Health’s GOSTAR curation pipeline: Queries Valo’s version of the GOSTAR small molecule database for relevant assay data describing protein inhibition and ADME assays. Corrects, harmonizes, and refines assay data using configurable string- and substructure-filters to generate curated datasets and labeled training sets.
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About the owner,
Nate Harms
Nate comes with 10+ years of experience in scientific software engineering for processing and modeling chemical data. Nate obtained his bachelors in Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University and his doctorate in Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University.
Nate began coding during his junior year of undergrad during an internship with HP Inc. At HP, he used learned Python and created a rudimentary database of inks. Although Nate’s undergraduate thesis was primarily wet lab research, Nate’s experience at HP motivated him to refine his coding skills in grad school. Under Professor Richard West, he became skilled at Python and developed software to perform automated transition state theory calculations for elementary reactions common in combustion. He has attended workshops on best practices for software carpentry and data science, and presented first-hand research at AIChE, ACS, and many other regional conferences.
Following graduate school, Nate entered the biotech industry at a startup called ZebiAI. Since then, he has worked at multiple biotech companies to construct chemical data pipelines for tasks ranging from data curation, to library enumeration, to ML modeling. Professionally, he considers himself something like an “Applied AI Engineer”, but ultimately, he is a dynamic scientist who uses machine learning to execute on cheminformatic projects.
Over the years, Nate has acquired deep knowledge on many domains of chemistry. Namely…
Combustion modeling
Reaction mechanism generation and pathway analysis; QM geometry optimization; thermodynamic and kinetic property calculation
DNA-encoded library informatics
Hit identification; in vivo confirmation; Physical-Chemical property optimization; cross-species safety and toxicity consideration
Agrochemical Discovery
Hit identification; in vivo confirmation; Physical-Chemical property optimization; cross-species safety and toxicity consideration
Small Molecule
Drug Discovery
Hit identification; hit to lead & lead optimization; ADME profiling; MLOps and Performance tracking
Although Nate has expertise in multiple domains of chemistry, he always enjoys learning something new! He’s confident when he knows something, but he’s also quick to admit if something is confusing. His natural curiosity pushes him to ask questions so he can throughly understand why something is the way it is. He also loves collaboration and is a team player — at the end of the day, he wants to help others and to make an impact.
If you have a project, and you think Nate would be a good fit for it, reach out!