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Alexander Gress

@alexandergress.bsky.social
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Fellow of the Kalinina Lab at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS)

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Saarland Informatics Campus @saarland-informatics-campus.de · 25/09/2026
And that's a wrap on the #GermanConferenceonBioinformatics 2026! We were happy to gather the international bioinformatics community at SIC on the 40th anniversary of GCB and the 25th anniversary of the Center for Bioinformatics at @uni-saarland.de. See you next year at @unituebingen.bsky.social! 👋
Photo collage from GCB 2026 at Saarland Informatics Campus. The top row shows FaBi Dissertation Award winner Hufsah Ashraf speaking, a poster session, Stanford University’s Nima Aghaeepour giving a talk, and Fawaz Dabbaghie holding his Poster Award certificate. The center image shows participants during the PhD networking session, while the bottom images show a conference talk and the audience in a lecture hall.
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Alexander Gress @alexandergress.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am delighted to share with you the newest update for our webserver: tools.helmholtz-hips.de/structman - Inclusion of the AlphaFold DB predicted complexes - PDB IDs support - We added some new residue-level features - and more (check out the link)
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StructMAn Web
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German Conference on Bioinformatics #GCB2026 @gcb-bioinformatics.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
🧬🖥️ Call for Posters! Join us in celebrating 40 years of the German Conference on #Bioinformatics (#GCB2026) 🎉 📍 Saarbrücken | 🗓 22–25 Sep 2026 Submit your research & shape the future of Bioinformatics! Deadline Poster: 6 Aug 2026 👉 gcb2026.de
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ok55991.bsky.social @ok55991.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We are excited to announce the Call for Abstracts for the first "Structure of Biological Molecules" Workshop taking place at the 40th German Conference for Bioinformatics (GCB) on September 22, 2026 in Saarbruecken. We depend on your contributions! old-shatterhand.github.io/workshop_sbm...
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Structures of Biological Molecules @ German Conference on Bioinformatics
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Universität des Saarlandes @uni-saarland.de · 16/06/2026
Bioinformatiker Andreas Keller der Saar-Universität erhält neun Millionen Dollar für die internationale Parkinsonforschung. Ziel seiner Forschung ist es, Wirkstoffe zu finden, die bei der Behandlung der Parkinson-Krankheit helfen können. 👉 www.uni-saarland.de/aktuell/bioi... © Oliver Dietze/HIPS
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Bioinformatiker Andreas Keller erhält neun Millionen Dollar für internationale Parkinsonforschung
Professor Andreas Keller und sein Team von der Universität des Saarlandes wurden ausgewählt, dem Kooperationsnetzwerk (CRN) beizutreten. Damit verbunden ist eine Förderung durch die Initiative „Aligni...
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Alexander Gress @alexandergress.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
In the first few days after the update, our users unwillingly uncovered some bugs that slipped through our internal testing schemes. Everything that led to crashes in the last week is fixed now.
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Alexander Gress @alexandergress.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I am delighted to announce our newest update of our tools.helmholtz-hips.de/structman/ webserver. Highlights of the newest update: - Inclusion of the AlphaFold DB collaboration datasets - Addition of MSAs to StructMAn outputs - Addition of predicted complex structures
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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Information Leakage in Enzyme Substrate Prediction www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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ok55991.bsky.social @ok55991.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We are happy to present a piece of analysis that I consider to have a major impact on our understanding of how good variant effect prediction (VEP) tools really are: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6....
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German Conference on Bioinformatics #GCB2026 @gcb-bioinformatics.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
🧬🖥️ Call for Abstracts OPEN! Join us in celebrating 40 years of the German Conference on #Bioinformatics (#GCB2026) 🎉 📍 Saarbrücken | 🗓 22–25 Sep 2026 Submit your research & shape the future of Bioinformatics! Deadlines Workshops: 31 Mar 26 Talks: 3 May 26 Poster: 6 Aug 26 👉 GCB2026.DE
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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
StructGuy: Data leakage free prediction of functional effects of genetic variants. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Jens Zentgraf @rorak.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
We are excited that our paper "Cleanifier: Contamination removal from microbial sequences using spaced seeds of a human pangenome index" is now published at Bioinformatics (doi.org/10.1093/bioi...). You can find it at gitlab (gitlab.com/rahmannlab/c...) or install it via PyPI or Bioconda.
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Cleanifier: Contamination removal from microbial sequences using spaced seeds of a human pangenome index
AbstractMotivation. The first step when working with DNA data of human-derived microbiomes is to remove human contamination for two reasons. First, many co
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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Detection of alternative splicing: deep sequencing or deep learning? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
SingleRust: A High-Performance Toolkit for Single-Cell Data Analysis at Scale www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Matthias Flotho @mflot.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Our preprint is finally out for SingleRust: doi.org/10.1101/2025... Stay tuned: @singlerust.bsky.social, @ianfd.bsky.social github.com/SingleRust
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SingleRust: A High-Performance Toolkit for Single-Cell Data Analysis at Scale
Single-cell RNA sequencing studies increasingly generate datasets exceeding 10 million cells, surpassing the memory capacity of standard analytical tools on typical institutional infrastructure. Here ...
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Roman Joeres @romanjoeres.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
What an exciting week it's been at the #ISMBECCB2025 conference! The Drug Bioinformatics group had a fantastic presence, with six members presenting their latest work across various COSIs. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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What an exciting week it's been at the #ISMBECCB2025 conference in Liverpool! | Roman Joeres
What an exciting week it's been at the #ISMBECCB2025 conference in Liverpool! The Drug Bioinformatics group, led by Olga Kalinina, had a fantastic presence, with six members presenting their latest wo...
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Roman Joeres @romanjoeres.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This week I presented DataSAIL at the #ISMBECCB2025 conference in #Liverpool It has been an amazing chance and experience to meet many people working on information leakage. And getting great ideas to extend it Nicely supervised by & colaborated with @dbblumenthal.bsky.social @ok55991.bsky.social
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Alexander Gress @alexandergress.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I am very excited to share the publication of our tool StructMAn 2.0 in the NAR webserver issue (10.1093/nar/gkaf381). If you want to annotate protein structures to protein sequences or if you are looking for structural evidence for PPIs, consider using: tools.helmholtz-hips.de/structman/
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Roman Joeres @romanjoeres.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
DataSAIL is out in @naturecomms.bsky.social Since the preprint, we have improved the work a lot, thanks to countless reviewers and feedback. You can find it here: nature.com/articles/s41... Thanks, @dbblumenthal.bsky.social and @ok55991.bsky.social, for helping and supervising me on this journey.
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