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Chris Oostenbrink @mms-boku.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This week, we hosted the Austrian Computational Bioscience Days @bokuvienna.bsky.social, with hands-on tutorials on the Haddock software by @amjjbonvin.bsky.social himself! A great joint event by EGI, BOKU University and WeNMR! indico.egi.eu/event/6940/ #compchem 🧪

Alexandre Bonvin in front of a seminar room, pointing at a screen with a powerpoint slide introducing the Haddock software: an integrative modelling platform.

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BioExcel CoE @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🎗️ Final reminder! This Sunday 31st May is the deadline: 💰 Early-bird registration 🗣️ Oral presentation abstract submission ➡️ bioexcel.eu/hzr0 #ComputerSimulation #conference #community

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Chris Oostenbrink @mms-boku.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Excited to announce the Austrian Computational Bioscience Days @bokuvienna.bsky.social, with the always great @amjjbonvin.bsky.social ! Join us June 30 and July 1 at BOKU University in Vienna indico.egi.eu/event/6940/ #compchem 🧪

Advertisement picture with an areal view of Vienna. Austrian Computational Bioscience Day: Tools, Workflows & Hands-On Training, June 30 - July 1, 2026

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Rémi Fronzes @fronzeslab.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Still possible to register for the 14th Young Scientists' Symposium! 📅 4-5 June 2026 @iecb.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social Fantastic lineup of keynote speakers. @marionjasnin.bsky.social @amjjbonvin.bsky.social @olallalab.bsky.social

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Torsten Schwede @torstenschwede.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

When to submit targets: NOW - July 10, 2026. How to submit targets: predictioncenter.org/casp17/callF...

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Call for Targets - CASP17

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Torsten Schwede @torstenschwede.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Is #AI hitting a plateau in structure prediction? Help us find out at CASP17! 🧪🧬 Calling for Targets: Immune Complexes, protein - ligand complexes, RNA/DNA, conformational ensembles, membrane proteins, viral origins, and large complexes. The Rule of Thumb: If AF3 can’t model it, we want it.

The Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) experiment is calling for prediction targets: Immune Complexes, Organic Ligand-Protein Complexes, Nucleic Acids and Complexes, Conformational Ensembles, Difficult Protein Structures and Complexes.
Rule of Thumb: If AlphaFold3 can generate a high-quality model, it is likely not a CASP-grade challenge. If it struggles, we want it.

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John Steele @jfcsteele.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

It's hard to describe how valuable CASP is to the structural biology & structure prediction field. The ever increasing number of prediction algorithms means independent assessment of their accuracy is vital. Please contribute interesting/tricky structural data if you can!

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Alexandre Bonvin @amjjbonvin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

While in Taipei at Academia Sinica for the #ISGC2026 symposium on grid and cloud computing, and giving a @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social #GANANA #HADDOCK workshop our HADDOCK portal passed the cap of 80000 registered users! Live stats at wenmr.science.uu.nl

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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 16/03/2026

You asked, we listened. Millions of AI-predicted protein complex structures are now available in the #AlphaFold Database. This spans homodimers from 20 of the most studied species, including humans, as well as the World Health Organization’s priority pathogens list. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

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Alexandre Bonvin @amjjbonvin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Got to visit Fugaku at Rikken today for the #acmasianschool2026_Japan - this how 7.6 million CPU cores look like 😀 and much quieter than our small cluster room!

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CIISB Instruct-CZ @ciisbinstructcz.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In memory of Prof. Vladimír Sklenář, CEITEC MU awards the Vladimír Sklenář Scholarship. 🎓 CZK 100,000 for PhD students in the Czech & Slovak Republics working with NMR spectroscopy, supporting academic and career development. 📅 Deadline: Feb 28, 2026 Sponsored by Měřicí technika Morava.

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BioExcel CoE @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Interested in best practices for creating and maintaining reproducible workflows for biomolecular simulations? Join us for our #webinar 🗓️ 17 February 2026, 15:00 CET ✍️ bioexcel.eu/7c2s #molecularsimulations #workflows #FAIR #SoftwareEngineering @coderefinery.org

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EMBL-EBI Training @training.ebi.embl.org · 29/01/2026

During 'Data science for life scientists' you will get hands-on training on: – APIs and Python – Data preprocessing and visualisation – Core machine learning methods – Deep learning approaches – Large language models Applications are open until 1 March 2026: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... 🧬🖥️📊

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BioExcel CoE @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The deadline for applications to our Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations 2026 is fast approaching ❗️ 🧑‍🎓Learn from the code developers, build your network and present your work Submit your application by this Sunday 1st February ➡️ bioexcel.eu/4ooy #training

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CAPRI @capridock.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We are happy to announce CAPRI Round 62, featuring a total of nine antigen/antibody targets. Registration opens tomorrow, Jan 23rd. The targets will be offered in two prediction periods, with prediction of the first five targets starting Feb 16th, and of the last four targets starting Mar 16th.

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attecscfi.bsky.social @attecscfi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Do you know how to use computational chemistry tools to solve scientific problems? Consider this School to get an intensive crash course on MD, QC and automation on @csc.fi supercomputers topped with lot of interaction with lecturers and participants!

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BioExcel CoE @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

⭐️ Registration and Abstract submission is open for the "3rd BioExcel Conference on Advances in Biomolecular Simulations" 🗓️ 27 - 30 September 2026 📍 Brno, Czechia ℹ️ More info: bioexcel.eu/hzr0 #molecularsimulation #moleculardynamics #AI #compchem #drugdesign #molecule #computing #conference

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Edward Marcotte @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Very sad to hear about the passing of Peer Bork, one of true giants of computational biology www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

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In remembrance of Peer Bork | EMBL

EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.

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BioExcel CoE @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

If you are an early-stage career scientist 🧑‍🔬 using biomolecular simulations the BioExcel Summer School is for you! Running since 2018 it always receives outstanding reviews Apply here ➡️ bioexcel.eu/4ooy Deadline for applications: 1st February! #training #molecularsimulations #community

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Are you interested in integrative structural biology, but feel a bit lost? Don't worry, we have you covered with our FEBS Advanced Course, Lost in Integration Vol. 2 — probing biomolecules with AI and experiments probingbiomolecules2026.febsevents.org network.febs.org/posts/integr...

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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

DeepRank-Ab: a dedicated scoring function for antibody-antigen complexes based on geometric deep learning www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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BioExcel CoE @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Join us for our next #webinar where we will provide an overview of the #GROMACS Tutorials Suite We will cover different methods and installation of all the necessary software requirements 🗓️ 2 December 2025, 15:00 CET ✍️ bioexcel.eu/4m5m #moleculardynamics #freeenergy #enhancedsampling

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Friedrich Förster @fridof.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Very happy that NWO supports this major upgrade of our national EM infrastructure. It is great that this initiative got broad support all over NL, and it will EMPower fantastic science - looking forward to that! www.uu.nl/en/news/33-m...

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33 million euro investment for national electron microscope facility EMPower

A major new national facility for electron microscopy, called EMPower, has been awarded to a consortium of Dutch universities and medical centers. EMPower aims to pave the way for major discoveries im...

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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Looks like OpenFold3 has been formally released in a public "preview". Not quite on parity with AlphaFold3 on a few benchmarks shown, in particular for antibody interactions. All info on the github link. I am sure we will hear more about this from the developers github.com/aqlaboratory...

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GitHub - aqlaboratory/openfold-3: OpenFold3: A fully open source biomolecular structure prediction model based on AlphaFold3

OpenFold3: A fully open source biomolecular structure prediction model based on AlphaFold3 - aqlaboratory/openfold-3

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

AbTune: Layer-wise selective fine-tuning of protein language models for antibodies www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Alexandre Bonvin @amjjbonvin.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GRIDS & CLOUDS (ISG) 2026 15-20 March 2026, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan CALL FOR ABSTRACT There will also be a #HADDOCK @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social workshop in the context of the EU-INDIA GANANA project.

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CAPRI @capridock.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

A new CAPRI round is coming up with 4 antibody-antigen targets! The registration opens next Monday (Sept. 22nd). Check it out at www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/complex...

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The European Bioinformatics Institute < EMBL-EBI

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BioExcel CoE @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

5️⃣ Featuring the fifth of our showcase projects Our automated pipeline, built on BioBBs, uses #AlphaFold, MD simulations, and virtual screening to output a list of ligand poses ➡️ bioexcel.eu/1c1j #DrugDiscovery #Workflows #CADD #VirtualScreening

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BioExcel CoE @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

4️⃣ Featuring the fourth of our showcase projects Upgrading GROMACS to handle billion-atom systems and enhancing I/O performance and precision, making the first-ever whole-cell simulation possible ➡️ bioexcel.eu/uw67 #MolecularDynamics #GROMACS #ComputationalBiology

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BioExcel CoE @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

2⃣ Featuring the second of our showcase projects Through a combination of AlphaFold2 and other tools we are bypassing the limits of traditional MD simulations ➡️ bioexcel.eu/dvy3 #Proteins #MolecularDynamics #GROMACS #AlphaFold2

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Torsten Schwede @torstenschwede.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Critical benchmarking of structure prediction methods has been crucial for measuring progress and detecting breakthroughs. But how will the future look like? Join the discussion at our workshop in Basel on September 8 - just before the [BC]2 conference. @sib.swiss @biozentrum.unibas.ch ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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pussyfullawasps 🗡️ joa (they) @pussyfullawasps.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

this seems like a very good idea actually

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I recently heard about a teacher who instead of trying to circumvent students using ai, which is impossible, she made assignments by going "ask ChatGPT to write a report on this subject, and then research how and why it's wrong".
Not only did the students discover that chatGPT is extremely wrong a lot of the time, it also lead them to realize that they should not use it as a primary source.

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Alexandre Bonvin @amjjbonvin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

A small reminder to all structural biologists around working on biomolecular complexes: please consider sharing your complexes as targets for CAPRI - AI has not solved all structure prediction problems and there are still challenges! See www.capri-docking.org/contribute/

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CAPRI Docking

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Bioinformatics Advances @bioinfoadv.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

💻 Code and input data are openly available with documentation and examples to support reproducible antibody modelling and docking workflows:

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GitHub - haddocking/alphaflow-antibodies

Contribute to haddocking/alphaflow-antibodies development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Bioinformatics Advances @bioinfoadv.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

🧬 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "Improved prediction of antibody and their complexes with clustered generative modelling ensembles" Full article available: doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf161 Authors include: @xiaotong-xu.bsky.social, @amjjbonvin.bsky.social

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Alexandre Bonvin @amjjbonvin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The result of a master student project by Miguel Sanchez-Marin supervised by Marco Giulini - well done both!

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cojocarulab.bsky.social @cojocarulab.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Very honored to feature on the @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social Newsletter as one of the ambassadors of the month together with Anela Ivanova for co-organizing the Bioexcel Balkan Workshop in May in Sofia. BioExcel links a very friendly and impactful community. bioexcel.eu/about/govern...

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Featured Ambassador: Vlad Cojocaru

About Vlad Cojocaru was born in Arad, a city located at the western border of Romania and is a leading scientist in the field of computational biochemistry. His scientific career started when he met T...

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Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🎶 Science meets creativity with TuberKiller! Yaëlle Wormser, PhD student featured in the My PhD at the Institut Pasteur series, raps her tuberculosis research. Discover how music and science collide to make research unforgettable! 👏 🎧 TuberKiller is also available on Spotify! @pasteur.fr

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When science meets creativity: TuberKiller | My PhD at the Institut Pasteur

YouTube video by Institut Pasteur EDUCATION

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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

TuberKiller 🤩 🧫🦠❄️🔬 #scicomm

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BioExcel CoE @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

👏 Congratulations to the Summer School 2025 poster prize winners! 🏆 Zuzana Janáčková 🏆 Jan van Elteren 🏆 Gesa Laura Freimann Join us for a special edition webinar where they will present their work 🗓️ 23 September 2025, 15:00 CET

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BioExcel CoE @bioexcelcoe.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Today was the last day of our Summer School on Biomolecular Simulations 2025 ☀ 🏖 Finishing off with an introduction to QM/MM by Emiliano Ippoliti and a 'careers session' for all participants Thank you to everyone for a great event 👋

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