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Rachel Seongeun Kim

@eunbelivable.bsky.social
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🧬Bioinformatician in Steinegger lab, SNU, Korea 🤍Interested in protein structure and software development 🤺Live double life as a fencer

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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BFVD v3 contains 5.8M viral protein structures, 16× more than v2; 75% high quality, filling a major gap in AFDB coverage. It fully covers 72.6% of reference proteomes and spans 72.7% of ICTV species. Great work by @eunbelivable.bsky.social et al. 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com
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Rachel Seongeun Kim @eunbelivable.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Large-scale interface analysis can be achieved in the era of AI-driven protein complex prediction🔓
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Dongwook Kim @dongwookkim.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
AmpliPhy is now reviewed and published in @bioinfoadv.bsky.social! AmpliPhy improves your gene trees by adding homologs with a single command, based on the observations from a quantitative benchmark design. More details in quoted 🧵 📄 doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag222 💾 github.com/DessimozLab/ampliphy
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AmpliPhy improves gene trees by adding homologous sequences without affecting alignments
AbstractMotivation. In phylogenomics, gene tree reconstruction depends on multiple sequence alignment and tree inference, and ongoing work continues to imp
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Yo Akiyama @yoakiyama.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Excited to share our now published paper @cp-cell.bsky.social highlighting advances in modeling the evolution of protein-protein interactions with MSA Pairformer. Big thanks to Zhidian Zhang, Olivia Tang, @eunbelivable.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social and @sokrypton.org!
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Expanding the scope of protein language modeling to protein-protein interactions with MSA Pairformer
Protein language models have excelled at modeling individual proteins, but extending these capabilities to protein complexes remains a major challenge. MSA Pairformer, a parameter-efficient protein la...
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Rachel Seongeun Kim @eunbelivable.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Folddisco is now published!! Try out searching specific substructures (e.g. motif, pocket, interface) of your interest🪩
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Nature Biotechnology @natbiotech.nature.com · 05/06/2026
Structural motif search across the protein universe with Folddisco - @martinsteinegger.bsky.social go.nature.com/4g8lCb0
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Structural motif search across the protein universe with Folddisco - Nature Biotechnology
Folddisco enables protein structural motif search in million scale databases.
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Jaebeom Kim @jbeom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Metabuli & Metabuli App v1.2 improve novel species classification with higher precision and recall. New light mode is 1.8× faster and requires 50% less storage while keeping precision. New RefSeq, GTDB, HRGM, and HROM databases added. 💾 github.com/steineggerla... 📄 doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.13.711249
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jingiyeo.bsky.social @jingiyeo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
45 novel protein folds in the updated AFESM (AFDB + ESMatlas) manuscript: • 12 high-confidence folds in AFESM • 33 by ColabFold-repredicting 2.3M low-quality domains We show AFDB captures most domains already and ESMfold struggles with novelty 🌏 afesm.foldseek.com 📄 biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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AFESM Clusters
Foldseek clustered 820M AlphaFold DB + ESMatlas structures
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Anton Bushuiev @anton-bushuiev.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
ProteinTTT is now easy to run on Hugging Face Spaces and Google Colab. We’ll also be presenting the paper at ICLR 2026 🇧🇷 🤗 Hugging Face Space: huggingface.co/spaces/pimen... ⚙️ Google Colab: colab.research.google.com/drive/1l_h7c... 🧵👇
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Rachel Seongeun Kim @eunbelivable.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Now AFDB allows exploration of viral structures🦠
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social. 📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason 💾 github.com/steineggerla...
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Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason
Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...
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Milot Mirdita @milot.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
My time in @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's group is ending, but I’m staying in Korea to build a lab at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine. If you or someone you know is interested in molecular machine learning and open-source bioinformatics, please reach out. I am hiring! mirdita.org
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Mirdita Lab - Laboratory for Computational Biology & Molecular Machine Learning
Mirdita Lab builds scalable bioinformatics methods.
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George Bouras @gbouras13.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Phold's manuscript is now available @narjournal.bsky.social thanks to @susiegriggo.bsky.social @npbhavya.bsky.social @vijinim.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @eunbelivable.bsky.social & others not on bsky #phagesky academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
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Protein structure-informed bacteriophage genome annotation with Phold
Abstract. Bacteriophage (phage) genome annotation is essential for understanding their functional potential and suitability for use as therapeutic agents.
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Anton Bushuiev @anton-bushuiev.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We train machine learning models on millions of proteins. But when it comes to making predictions, do we need them to understand all proteins at once? Often, we need an accurate model for the specific protein we are studying or designing. We address this with ProteinTTT arxiv.org/abs/2411.02109 1/🧵
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Jaebeom Kim @jbeom.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Easy and interactive taxonomic profiling with Metabuli App. It integrates database curation, read QC, taxonomic profiling, and visualization right on your desktop. No command line, server, or internet required. Now published in Bioinformatics! 🧵1/5 doi.org/10.1093/bioi... github.com/steineggerla...
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Rachel Seongeun Kim @eunbelivable.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Finally we got an end-to-end structural annotation tool for phages!
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George Bouras @gbouras13.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Stoked to finally have a preprint out for Phold, our tool that uses protein structural information to enhance phage genome annotation #phagesky 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Protein Structure Informed Bacteriophage Genome Annotation with Phold
Bacteriophage (phage) genome annotation is essential for understanding their functional potential and suitability for use as therapeutic agents. Here we introduce Phold, an annotation framework utilis...
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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Protein Structure Informed Bacteriophage Genome Annotation with Phold www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Folddisco webserver result view update: - Added description texts for AFDB - Integrated TaxoView taxonomy visualization & filter by @sunjaelee.bsky.social - Inter-residue distance clustering by DBSCAN to explore motif diversity. 🌐 search.foldseek.com/folddisco 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Today at 2 PM at 3DSIG #ISMBECCB2025, @nbordin.bsky.social presents our joint work on metagenomic-scale clustering and novel domain discovery in predicted structures! 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Also check out poster: B-50 lolalign Sensitive structural alignments by Lasse B-123 BFVD by Rachel
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Metagenomic-scale analysis of the predicted protein structure universe
Protein structure prediction breakthroughs, notably AlphaFold2 and ESMfold, have led to an unprecedented influx of computationally derived structures. The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database now prov...
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Chan Yeong Kim @chanyeong-kim.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Our new preprint is out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... In this study, we present the largest systematic analysis of microbiome structure and function, integrating 85K uniformly processed metagenomes from diverse habitats worldwide. @podlesny.bsky.social @jonas-bio.bsky.social @borklab.bsky.social
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Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats
Microbes are ubiquitous on Earth, forming microbiomes that sustain macroscopic life and biogeochemical cycles. Microbial dispersion, driven by natural processes and human activities, interconnects mic...
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Rachel Seongeun Kim @eunbelivable.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
This time I didn't forget about the stickers. See you soon!
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Jason Nomburg @jnoms.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Are you a trainee interested in giving a flash talk at the Computational Structural Virology symposium? Abstracts are due in three days, on July 10!
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Folddisco finds similar (dis)continuous 3D motifs in large protein structure databases. Its efficient index enables fast uncharacterized active site annotation, protein conformational state analysis and PPI interface comparison. 1/9🧶🧬 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/folddisco
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Jason Nomburg @jnoms.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hello everyone! I am pleased to share information on the first ever Computational Structural Virology Symposium, conducted August 4th on zoom and highlighting work in this emerging field. You can register for this event here: forms.gle/CNiqskMwQEuV.... Please re-post!
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InterPro @interprodb.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🦠🧬Exciting news! BFVD predicted viral protein structures are now available in @InterProDB! For the first time, explore InterPro functional annotations directly on 3D structures of viral proteins not covered by AlphaFold DB. This bridges a critical gap in structural virology research.
CATH-Gene3D annotation visualised on BFVD structure prediction of UniProt A0A075FDU7
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Dongwook Kim @dongwookkim.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Unicore is now published on GBE 🚀 Unicore rapidly identifies structural single-copy core genes from input species proteomes for phylogenetic analysis. Powered by Foldseek and ProstT5, Unicore enables linear-scale structure-based phylogeny of any given set of taxa. 🧵1/n 📃 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf109
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We've updated our AFESM website to now include biome filtering, allowing exploration of protein structures adapted to specific environments. 🌐 afesm.foldseek.com Read more about the work in the skeetorial 🦋 bsky.app/profile/mart... or our preprint 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Open Targets @opentargets.org · 06/05/2025
An atlas predicting protein interactions in 11 human tissues created by @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social's team at @imsb-eth.bsky.social will help uncover cell-type specific functions, elucidate disease mechanisms, and choose safer targets for drug discovery 🧬🖥️ blog.opentargets.org/an-atlas-of-...
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An atlas of tissue-specific protein-protein associations helps to prioritise targets for drug discovery
Pedro Beltrao’s team at ETH Zürich, created the first atlas of protein interactions in 11 human tissues. Mapping which proteins interact in which tissues will help uncover the specific functions of di...
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Rachel Seongeun Kim @eunbelivable.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I cannot say anything what F stands for. I'm thrilled to present BFVD at RdRp summit, finally found right place. Thank you for organizers for inviting to this awesome meeting and city. I would appreciate any feedback and feel free to discuss in-person or cia message. Explore BFVD🧭
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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Guess who is invited as the keynote speaker for the session on "Data Mining & Metadata Analysis"??? It is Rayan Chikhi!!! He will introduce us to Logan. You can read the preprint here: tinyurl.com/vx4cykr7 Registrations are still open for #RdRpSummit2025!
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RdRp Summit @rdrpsummit.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Introducing our invited speaker for the session on 'Viral Dark Matter' we have Rachel Seongeun Kim from the Seoul National University!!!! The registrations for on-site & remote participation are still open! More info: RdRp.io #RdRpSummit2025
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
AFESM: a metagenomic guide through the protein structure universe! We clustered 821M structures (AFDB&ESMatlas) into 5.12M groups; revealing biome-specific groups, only 1 new fold even after AlphaFold2 re-prediction & many novel domain combos. 🧵 🌐 afesm.foldseek.com 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Rachel Seongeun Kim @eunbelivable.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
My poster "BFVD" is on 2nd day of RECOMB😁
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
@eunbelivable.bsky.social presented our viral protein structure database BFVD, including the new V2 update with improved predictions using 12 recycles for higher quality structures. Check out the paper and data here: 📄 academic.oup.com/nar/article/... 🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com #RECOMB2025
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InterPro @interprodb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
📢InterPro release 105.0 is live! ✨Update to Pfam 37.3, PROSITE patterns 2025_01 PROSITE profiles 2025_01 and HAMAP 2025_01 ✨342 new entries ✨Addition of InterPro-N annotations ✨Addition of BFVD structure predictions from @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's lab Have a look: ebi.ac.uk/interpro/htt... 💻🧪🆕
InterPro 105.0
24th April 2025Databases updates
Pfam 37.3
PROSITE patterns 2025_01
PROSITE profiles 2025_01
HAMAP 2025_01New entries
342 new entries with:
318 Pfam 
40 NCBIfam
12 Prosite profiles
6 PANTHER 
5 CDDNew features 
InterPro-N annotations
BFVD structure predictions
Simplified structure pages
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Rachel Seongeun Kim @eunbelivable.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD) version 2 improves 31% of predictions through 12 ColabFold recycles. PAEs and MSAs now also available for download and in the webserver. 🌐https://bfvd.foldseek.com 💾https://bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev/ 1/3
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Jaebeom Kim @jbeom.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Metabuli App preprint is out! 💻Taxonomic classification & interactive visualization—right on your laptop 🛠️Create new databases or update existing ones with new sequences. 🧵1/5 github.com/steineggerla... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.10.642298v1
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ChimeraX @chimerax.ucsf.edu · 06/03/2025
ChimeraX can run Foldseek to find similar structures, such as distantly related homologs, and analyze the results, for example, mapping all ligands onto your query structure. Here are ligands mapped onto Nipah virus G protein. www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/dat...
Nipah virus G protein with 16813 ligands (mostly waters) mapped from similar structures.
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Joe Grove @grovearmada.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
🎁 Early Xmas present from your friends at the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research @cvrinfo.bsky.social We're thrilled to unwrap Viro3D - a comprehensive database of virus protein structures: >85,000 predicted structures from 4,400 human & animal viruses! 🦠 viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
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Viro3D
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Spyros Lytras @spyroslytras.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Were you looking for a protein structure database of all animal viruses with: - taxonomy, - protein and - genome coordinate annotations to browse over the holidays? (I know I was!) Viro3D is here!! #viro3d viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk
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recombseq.bsky.social @recombseq.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
🚨 Call for Papers: RECOMB-seq 2025 🚨 🗓️ Dates: April 24-25, 2025 📍 Location: Seoul, South Korea Key deadlines: 🔹 Abstract registration: Jan 24, 2025 🔹 Submission: Jan 31, 2025 More details: recomb-seq.github.io/papers/
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Call for Papers
RECOMB-seq is the RECOMB Satellite Conference on Biological Sequence Analysis
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Milot Mirdita @milot.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
One more freshly baked BFVD website feature: Download the Multiple Sequence Alignments used to predict the structures or visualize MSA conservation directly in the webserver. 🖥️ bfvd.foldseek.com 🧬🧶
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Our Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD) is now published NAR! It contains protein structure predictions of major viral clades, enhanced by petabase-scale homology search and it's explorable on the web. 🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com 💾 bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev 📄 academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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