Michele Invernizzi @invemichele.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Sampling IDPs is tough, but can be worth the effort! OPES multithermal made it a little easier for us, hopefully you'll find it useful as well 093
Reposted by Michele InvernizziKresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Third preprint of the year is from @julianstreit.bsky.social who, with our collaborators at Peptone, show that multithermal On-the-fly Probability Enhanced Sampling (OPES) enables efficient generation of atomistic ensembles for disordered peptides and proteins 🍝 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1265
Reposted by Michele InvernizziKresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 20/10/2025We (@sobuelow.bsky.social) developed AF-CALVADOS to integrate AlphaFold and CALVADOS to simulate flexible multidomain proteins at scale See preprint for: — Ensembles of >12000 full-length human proteins — Analysis of IDRs in >1500 TFs 📜 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 💾 github.com/KULL-Centre/... 19439
Michele Invernizzi @invemichele.bsky.social · 09/05/2025We have a job opening at Peptone.io for an ML researcher. Come help us find new ways to understand and drug intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs), it's a very interesting and important problem! Link in the reply ↓ 1177
Michele Invernizzi @invemichele.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Very interesting and powerful method! www.nature.com/articles/s43...nature.comEverything everywhere all at once: a probability-based enhanced sampling approach to rare events - Nature Computational ScienceA single semi-automatic enhanced sampling method for rare events, based on machine-learned committor functions, allows simultaneous sampling of reactive events, calculation of free energy and understa... 030
Reposted by Michele InvernizziAndrew White 🐦⬛ @andrew.diffuse.one · 01/05/2025The plan at FutureHouse has been to build scientific agents for discoveries. We’ve spent the last year researching the best way to make agents. We’ve made a ton of progress and now we’ve engineered them to be used at scale, by anyone. Free and on API. 1133
Reposted by Michele InvernizziPaul Robustelli @paulrobustelli.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Presenting one of my favorite manuscripts I've ever worked on: "Characterizing structural and kinetic ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins using writhe" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... by Tommy Sisk, with a generative modeling component done in collaboration with @smnlssn.bsky.social 24010
Reposted by Michele InvernizziDiego del Alamo @delalamo.xyz · 27/04/2025"De novo prediction of protein structural dynamics" I'll be presenting an overview of the field tomorrow at a workshop. Link to a PDF copy of the presentation: delalamo.xyz/assets/post_...delalamo.xyz 56917
Reposted by Michele InvernizziMagnus Petersen @omorfiamorphism.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Presenting our work on minimum energy path generation between two states for physical systems at the FPI Workshop at @ICLR tomorrow! Scaling up to solvated BPTI and observing the same conformational changes as long reference MD with six orders fewer force field evals! Drop by! 1102
Reposted by Michele InvernizziRiccardo Capelli @riccardocapelli.bsky.social · 23/04/2025New preprint on arXiv! We propose a new technique to compute kinetic rates using multiple independent non-equilibrium (ratchet&pawl MD) simulations! We focused here on ligand unbinding kinetics, but this method can be applied to any situation where a reaction coordinate can be defined!arxiv.orgKinetic rates calculation via non-equilibrium dynamicsThis study introduces a novel computational approach based on ratchet-and-pawl molecular dynamics (rMD) for accurately estimating ligand dissociation kinetics in protein-ligand complexes. By integrati... 241
Reposted by Michele InvernizziKresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025AlphaFold is amazing but gives you static structures 🧊 In a fantastic teamwork, @mcagiada.bsky.social and @emilthomasen.bsky.social developed AF2χ to generate conformational ensembles representing side-chain dynamics using AF2 💃 Code: github.com/KULL-Centre/... Colab: github.com/matteo-cagia... 320663
Reposted by Michele InvernizziAlexis Verger 🧬🧫🧪 @alexis-verger.cpesr.fr · 07/04/2025BoltzDesign1: Inverting All-Atom Structure Prediction Model for Generalized Biomolecular Binder Design by @yehlincho.bsky.social @martinpacesa.bsky.social @sokrypton.org 🧶🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 15216
Reposted by Michele InvernizziGräter lab @graeterlab.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Wondering how to predict protein flexibility in a sec? No time to run MD simulations but want to go beyond pLDDT? Check out BBFlow arxiv.org/html/2503.05... Useful in particular for de novo designs. Led by Nico Wolf & Leif Seute, w Seva, Simon, and Jan. @mpip-mainz.mpg.de @hitsters.bsky.social 0399
Reposted by Michele InvernizziGabriel Rocklin @grocklin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Small proteins can be more complex than they look! We know proteins fluctuate between different conformations- but by how much? How does it vary from protein to protein? Can highly stable domains have low stability segments? @ajrferrari.bsky.social experimentally tested >5,000 domains to find out! 48736
Reposted by Michele InvernizziGina El Nesr @ginaelnesr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Protein function often depends on protein dynamics. To design proteins that function like natural ones, how do we predict their dynamics? @hkws.bsky.social and I are thrilled to share the first big, experimental datasets on protein dynamics and our new model: Dyna-1! 🧵 610538
Reposted by Michele InvernizziKresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Straight to the reading list: Training a machine learning model based on residues with missing NMR assignments as a proxy for protein motion 1244
Reposted by Michele InvernizziGiovanniMaria Piccini @giovannimpiccini.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Very excited for my first BSKY post. We present a new method, Loxodynamics, for exploring chemical and catalytic reaction space! 094
Reposted by Michele InvernizziKresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Our review on machine learning methods to study sequence–ensemble–function relationships in disordered proteins is now out in COSB authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... Led by @sobuelow.bsky.social and Giulio Tesei 09027
Reposted by Michele InvernizziPLUMED @plumed.org · 04/03/2025The paper describing our community effort to collect and organize #plumed tutorials has been published in the Journal of Chemical Physics, as part of the Michele Parrinello Festschrift! doi.org/10.1063/5.02...doi.orgPLUMED Tutorials: A collaborative, community-driven learning ecosystemIn computational physics, chemistry, and biology, the implementation of new techniques in shared and open-source software lowers barriers to entry and promotes 03010
Reposted by Michele InvernizziJohn Chodera @jchodera.bsky.social · 19/02/2025As a peek toward where we're headed: Right now, CADD scientists are forced to use the same model week after week, even if new experimental data says the model is inaccurate. If we can fine- models, we can exploit that data to systematically improve our predictions week by week! 031
Reposted by Michele InvernizziFrank Noe @franknoe.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The BioEmu-1 model and inference code are now public under MIT license!!! Please go ahead, play with it and let us know if there are issues. github.com/microsoft/bi...github.comGitHub - microsoft/bioemu: Inference code for scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learningInference code for scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning - microsoft/bioemu 210339
Reposted by Michele InvernizziGrant Rotskoff @grant.rotskoff.cc · 23/12/2024I am hiring a postdoctoral scholar with a start date summer or fall 2025. Projects will be focused on thermodynamically consistent generative models, broadly defined. If you’re interested, please send a CV and one paragraph about why you think you’d be a good fit to rotskoff@stanford.edu 04721
Reposted by Michele InvernizziKresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 21/12/2024It’s been 20 years today since my first paper on intrinsically disordered proteins Mapping Long-Range Interactions in α-Synuclein using Spin-Label NMR and Ensemble Molecular Dynamics Simulations doi.org/10.1021/ja04... and I thought I would tell the somewhat random path that led to this paper. 1/ndoi.orgMapping Long-Range Interactions in α-Synuclein using Spin-Label NMR and Ensemble Molecular Dynamics SimulationsThe intrinsically disordered protein α-synuclein plays a key role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD). We show here that the native state of α-synuclein consists of a broad distribution of... 3768
Reposted by Michele InvernizziVaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 12/12/2024With today's report outlining risks on mirror life www.science.org/doi/full/10.... many have asked: Could mirror life survive in the wild? Yes. While mirror life in the wild could have some significant disadvantages (like finding food it can digest), they do not appear to be insurmountable: 🧵science.orgConfronting risks of mirror lifeBroad discussion is needed to chart a path forward. 710762
Reposted by Michele InvernizziPietro Novelli @pienovelli.bsky.social · 12/12/2024In his book “The Nature of Statistical Learning” V. Vapnik wrote: “When solving a given problem, try to avoid a more general problem as an intermediate step” 183
Michele Invernizzi @invemichele.bsky.social · 11/12/2024See you at #NeurIPS2024, where we are presenting the latest Peptone.io paper @workshopmlsb.bsky.social www.mlsb.io/papers_2024/... 030
Reposted by Michele InvernizziBussi Lab @bussilab.org · 06/12/2024📢 New #preprint describing our community effort to share #plumed tutorials arxiv.org/abs/2412.03595 ! Explore the tutorials at www.plumed-tutorials.orgarxiv.orgPLUMED Tutorials: a collaborative, community-driven learning ecosystemIn computational physics, chemistry, and biology, the implementation of new techniques in a shared and open source software lowers barriers to entry and promotes rapid scientific progress. However, ef... 26024
Reposted by Michele InvernizziFrank Noe @franknoe.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Now something that is extremely hard to sample with all-atom MD: a big intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) like Complexin II. Different answers depending on MD forcefield. BioEmu - not traind on IDPs - looks reasonable, agrees with experimental evidence and is super fast. 251
Reposted by Michele InvernizziFrank Noe @franknoe.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Super excited to preprint our work on developing a Biomolecular Emulator (BioEmu): Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning from @msftresearch.bsky.social ch AI for Science. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 21441147
Reposted by Michele InvernizziMax Bonomi @bonomimax.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Do you want to work at the interface of molecular simulations, structural biology experiments and #AI? Come to Paris for a PhD at @pasteur.fr 1 PhD position is available in our lab funded by ERC_Research. Please repost!! #compchem #compbio Info 👇 research.pasteur.fr/b/15Hrresearch.pasteur.frOne PhD thesis in integrative structural biology | Research - Institut Pasteur 15340
Michele Invernizzi @invemichele.bsky.social · 06/12/2024I am going to read this in detail, congratulation to @franknoe.bsky.social and the team! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.org 150
Reposted by Michele InvernizziKresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Your talk in Copenhagen reminded me of some work we did where we showed that if you combine a FF and long-range (coevol) contacts you can determine an accurate structure of CsgA (Tian, JACS, 2015), but that if you switch off the FF then you only get the topology right, ... 1122
Reposted by Michele InvernizziErik Thiede @erikhthiede.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Something that's come up in a few conversations and I think is underappreciated: the X-ray / cryo-EM structures you download from the PDB are average structures, but not *typical* structures: very few proteins in your sample actually look like that. 3244
Reposted by Michele InvernizziBussi Lab @bussilab.org · 25/11/2024New #openreview from our group at disq.us/p/3145xzw! @bussigio.bsky.social and Ivan Gilardoni reviewed a #preprint by @paulrobustelli.bsky.social on the determination of conformational ensembles for intrinsically disordered proteins, combining molecular dynamics simulations and experimental datadisq.us 0133