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Kevin Drew

@ksdrew.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in Biological Sciences focused on macromolecular assemblies.

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Kevin Drew @ksdrew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We are excited that our work describing DirectContacts2, a wiring diagram of human physical protein interactions, is published in @natcomms.nature.com . www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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DirectContacts2: a wiring diagram of human physical protein interactions - Nature Communications
Knowledge of the physical interactions of proteins provides mechanistic understanding of their function. Here, the authors develop a machine learning classifier through the integration of 25,000 prote...
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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Team science preprint, exploring the capabilities and limitations of Alphafold3 across different application areas, including protein-RNA, protein-lipid, ubiquitination,TCR and antibody recognition with @ninjani.bsky.social @labvanni.bsky.social @dgfeller.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Capabilities, specificity gaps and training-data dependence of AlphaFold3 across diverse application areas
Structure prediction models have moved from single proteins to assemblies that include diverse biomolecules and their modifications. AlphaFold3 (AF3) and related models extended structural modelling v...
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Caitie McCafferty @computingcaitie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Happy to finally share that I will be starting my independent group at the @fmiscience.bsky.social in Feb 2027 in a vibrant new environment. We will use integrative in situ structural cell biology methods to investigate ciliary structure and dynamics in several model (and non-model 👀) systems!!
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Rosetta Commons @rosettacommons.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Welcome to our 2026 REU trainees! They spent the week at John Hopkins University completing an introductory bootcamp focused on machine learning and Rosetta software and tools. We can’t wait to see what they accomplish over the summer at their host labs throughout the US and Europe. zurl.co/LhlOI
Group photo of REU trainees on a brick pathway next to trees.Group photo of REU trainees jumping while standing in a line on a brick pathway next to trees.
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Yehlin Cho @yehlincho.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🚀 Excited to share our new work: Absolute Stability Predictor! 📊: forms.gle/4ZnXZSnTBvay... Built the MGnify Stability Dataset (1.8M+ measurements) and developed stability prediction models, together with @grocklin.bsky.social @KotaroTsuboyama, @sokrypton.org and teams.
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Gabriel Rocklin @grocklin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Happy to share this in its published form! More than any project I've worked on, this was a huge team effort, so thank you so much to that team! Especially @ajrferrari.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Large-scale discovery, analysis and design of protein energy landscapes - Nature
An analysis of 5,778 domains 28–64 amino acids in length reveals hidden variation in conformational fluctuations, even between sequences sharing the same fold and global folding stability.
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Riddhiman Garge @riddhiman.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
1/ Thrilled to share our latest: an exciting collaboration across the @jshendure.bsky.social, @leastarita.bsky.social, @nobuhamazaki.bsky.social and @dschweppe.bsky.social labs! 🧵 below- #SystemsBiology #SCBEM #MultiOmics #Gastruloids www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The proteomic landscape and temporal dynamics of human and mouse gastruloid development - Nature Cell Biology
Garge et al. use experimentally matched mass spectrometry and RNA-sequencing to quantify proteins, phosphosites and transcripts across four key stages of human and mouse gastruloid development.
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Devin Schweppe @dschweppe.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Excited to see @riddhiman.bsky.social's gastruloid multiomics paper out now at Nature Cell Bio! Riddhiman used proteomics, phosphoproteomics, and RNAseq to profile stem-cell-derived embryo models to identify protein, complex, and signaling regulators of development. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The proteomic landscape and temporal dynamics of human and mouse gastruloid development - Nature Cell Biology
Garge et al. use experimentally matched mass spectrometry and RNA-sequencing to quantify proteins, phosphosites and transcripts across four key stages of human and mouse gastruloid development.
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Caitie McCafferty @computingcaitie.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I am excited to share our most recent work collaborating with @centriolelab.bsky.social and @stearnslab.bsky.social to look at the ciliary base of mammalian multiciliated cells w/ cryo-ET, XL/MS, and U-ExM www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ed Huttlin @edhuttlin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
To better understand the ubiquitin-proteasome system, Suzanne Elsasser, Dan Finley, and the Human Proteostasis Consortium have systematically surveyed its components: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... I would encourage you to check out this valuable resource! @harvardcellbio.bsky.social
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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We have started a project trying to predic the interactions/structures of all yeast protein pairs using an AlphaFold pooling approach. We are making the current dataset open and we welcome collaborations. www.evocellnet.com/2026/03/mapp...
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Mapping the yeast atructural interactome with AlphaFold3: an open call for collaboration
We are excited to announce the early-stage release of our S. cerevisiae  structural interactome mapping project. Using AlphaFold3 (AF3), w...
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Clay Kosonocky @kosonocky.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The results are finally in! 🏆💻🧬 I'm thrilled to announce that the manuscript for the Bits to Binders protein design competition is out on bioRxiv! Here's a summary of our findings, including some simple criteria that nearly *double* success rates when applied as a filter 🧵
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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Proteome-wide AlphaFold pool party N&V by @ksdrew.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1... (I almost added a party GIF, almost :)
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Proteome-wide AlphaFold pool party - Molecular Systems Biology
Molecular Systems Biology - An outstanding challenge in molecular biology is the production of a complete and accurate set of protein interactions for a given organism. Todor et al, introduce a...
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ComplexPortal @complexportal.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🔎 Exploring predicted complexes in the Complex Portal Beyond curated entries, the portal also includes computationally predicted protein complexes. Quick tour: tinyurl.com/2wph5wua Includes: 🧬 hu.MAP 3.0 🎵 MuSIC 🧪 QSProteome
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Jeffrey J. Gray @jeffreyjgray.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Final stretch to apply for undergraduate summer internships in the Rosetta Commons! Come design proteins, develop AI and physics-based methods to model biomolecules, and impact health, materials, and sustainability! Application deadline is Sunday Feb 1. rosettacommons.org/education/reu/
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Rosetta Commons Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) AI for Biomolecular Structure Prediction and Design Interns in this geographically-distributed REU program participate in research using…
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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
New lab preprint - Common and rare variant studies for the same trait identify different genes and here Diederik Laman Trip developed a protein network AI enconding to investigate if traits studied by different approaches converge on the same molecular pathways www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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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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Alice Ting @aliceyting.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Video introduction to our new “Conformational Biasing” method for computational design of mutations that bias proteins towards desired conformational states CB part starts at 14:55 Thanks to Peter Cavanagh and Andrew Xue – amazing graduate students who co-led this work
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Alice Ting Rosettacon keynote 2025
YouTube video by Alice Ting
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Alice Ting @aliceyting.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Link to paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Computational design of conformation-biasing mutations to alter protein functions
Conformational biasing (CB) is a rapid and streamlined computational method that uses contrastive scoring by inverse folding models to predict protein variants biased toward desired conformational sta...
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Roland Dunbrack 🏳️‍🌈 @rolanddunbrack.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This appeared today: www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/...
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Mapping proteins, one side chain at a time
Roland Dunbrack Jr. will receive the ASBMB DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences at the ASBMB Annual Meeting, March 7–10, just outside of Washington, D.C.
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Jeremy Reiter @reitergroup.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Modern biology research is biased towards investigating genes that are widely conserved and present in humans. What about genes that ARE widely conserved but NOT present in humans? Can genes missing from humans tell us something about what makes our biology different from that of other animals? 1/8
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James Fraser @fraserlab.com · 29/12/2025
I'm really excited to break up the holiday relaxation time with a new preprint that benchmarks AlphaFold3 (AF3)/“co-folding” methods with 2 new stringent performance tests. Thread below - but first some links: A longer take: fraserlab.com/2025/12/29/k... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Know when to co-fold'em
This is the official web page for the James Fraser Lab at UCSF.
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Gaurav Bhardwaj @gauravbhardwaj.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
RFpeptides made it to the cover of Nature Chemical Biology December issue! Credit to Stephen Rettie for leading the work and making this very cool graphic!
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Riddhiman Garge @riddhiman.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Very happy to share our latest led by the relentless @shawnfayer.bsky.social! We developed multiplexed assays to measure variant effects across diverse genetic and cell contexts in stem cell and differentiated cells. 🧵 👇
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Gabriel Rocklin @grocklin.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
New preprint! We measured temperature- and pH-induced aggregation for over 18,000 natural and de novo designed protein domains!
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Ryan Gray @slewzeus.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Congratulations to the newly minted Dr. Brittney Voigt! After defending a fantastic thesis spanning work in my lab and the @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social lab.
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Ernst Schmid @ernstschmid.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Thrilled to share that the final piece of my PhD work is now on bioRxiv! biorxiv.org/content/10.1... With support from @nvidia and the @NSF, we used AlphaFold to screen 1.6M+ protein pairs, revealing thousands of potential novel PPIs. All data can be viewed at predictomes.org/hp
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Proteome-wide in silico screening for human protein-protein interactions
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) drive virtually all biological processes, yet most PPIs have not been identified and even more remain structurally unresolved. We developed a two-step computational...
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Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois Chicago @uicbios.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Last week, the research of Rui Gao and lab was published by @Science.org and featured on the issue's cover! Dr. Rui Gao is an Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences and Chemistry. science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Chemistry at the University of Illinois Chicago @uic-chemistry.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The Gao lab at #UIC reports a breakthrough in volumetric fluorescence imaging, featured on the cover of Science Magazine! Their new technique, VIPS (Volumetric Imaging via Photochemical Sectioning), enables reconstruction of 3D images of whole tissues with unprecedented detail.
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Rupinder Kaur, PhD @kaurr.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
#Wolbachia has puzzled scientists with its power to rewire insect reproduction. What if I tell you that we found one of the keys Wolbachia use to rewire its host AND a small molecule inhibitor uses this key to mimic what this microbe has mastered for millions of years. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Beyond Wolbachia—Can a small molecule control insect reproduction?
Kaur et al. demonstrate reduced histone acetylation as a key mechanism underpinning Wolbachia’s paternal-effect embryonic lethality trait in Drosophila melanogaster. Recapitulation of this trait by in...
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Arne Elofsson @handle.invalid · 29/09/2025
Congrats Qian www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Caitie McCafferty @computingcaitie.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I am excited to share our new preprint on the CAGE complex, a mysterious hollow protein complex that I first saw years ago while surveying Tetrahymena ciliary lysate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #cilia #protistsonsky 🧬🧪
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Stephanie Wankowicz @stephanieaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Structural bioinformatics is incredibly powerful on its own or when paired with theory or experiment. One of the PDB's superpowers isn’t from one structure, but comparing many to uncover folds, binding sites, and subtle conformational shifts. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
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10 Rules for a Structural Bioinformatic Analysis
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is one of the richest open‑source repositories in biology, housing over 277,000 macromolecular structural models alongside much of the experimental data that underpins thes...
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Kevin Drew @ksdrew.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Excited for you to join us!
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Clay Kosonocky @kosonocky.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🚨The Bits to Binders Competition has concluded!🧬 One year ago we gathered scientists from around the world to design and submit protein binders that cause immune cells to target and eliminate CD20+ tumors Spoiler: They work!
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Martin Pacesa @martinpacesa.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Yo Akiyama @yoakiyama.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Excited to share work with Zhidian Zhang, @milot.bsky.social, @martinsteinegger.bsky.social, and @sokrypton.org biorxiv.org/content/10.1... TLDR: We introduce MSA Pairformer, a 111M parameter protein language model that challenges the scaling paradigm in self-supervised protein language modeling🧵
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Scaling down protein language modeling with MSA Pairformer
Recent efforts in protein language modeling have focused on scaling single-sequence models and their training data, requiring vast compute resources that limit accessibility. Although models that use ...
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Kevin Drew @ksdrew.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We are excited to share our preprint describing DirectContacts2! Here we develop a machine learning model to discriminate between direct and indirect protein interactions. We use our model to construct a highly accurate wiring diagram of the human cell. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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DirectContacts2: A network of direct physical protein interactions derived from high-throughput mass spectrometry experiments
Cellular function is driven by the activity proteins in stable complexes. Protein complex assembly depends on the direct physical association of component proteins. Advances in macromolecular structur...
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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
‼️🚨Preprint alert! 🚨‼️ Excited to have some of my first works as a postdoc, and first corresponding author (!!), on biorxiv! This was a fun side quest of a project marrying a few things I deeply love, development, cilia, and hormones in the pituitary! Happy reading! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Primary cilia and BBS4 are required for postnatal pituitary development
Primary cilia orchestrate several signaling pathways, and their disruption results in pleiotropic disorders called ciliopathies. Bardet Beidl syndrome (BBS), one such ciliopathy, provides insights int...
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬 www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Frank Noe @franknoe.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
BioEmu now published in @science.org !! What is BioEmu? Check out this video: youtu.be/LStKhWcL0VE?...
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Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning
Following the sequence and structure revolutions, predicting functionally relevant protein structure changes at scale remains an outstanding challenge. We introduce BioEmu, a deep learning system that...
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John Wallingford @jbwallingford.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Cilia Alert! So excited to finally have this paper on the CPLANE complex out in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that RSG1 is a human ciliopathy protein and links CPLANE to the transition zone. 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The human ciliopathy protein RSG1 links the CPLANE complex to transition zone architecture - Nature Communications
The CPLANE complex is essential for ciliogenesis, and mutations to all but one subunit have been associated with ciliopathies. Here they identify three familial mutations in the final subunit, RSG1, t...
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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 30/06/2025
Much appreciated support from biotech execs and investors 🙏 www.statnews.com/2025/06/27/b...
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Proposed cuts could have ‘catastrophic effect,’ 110 biomedical, health sciences industry leaders tell Congress
Proposed cuts will have “a catastrophic effect on the advancement of biomedical and biotechnology capabilities in the United States,” more than 100 leaders of biomedical/health sciences companies tell...
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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
New lab preprint - Delora Baptista tested AlphaFold 2 and 3 for the prediction of structures of host-pathogen interactions and then applied these to study convergence of binding and molecular mimicry in host-pathogen vs. host-host interactions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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AlphaFold models of host-pathogen interactions elucidate the prevalence and structural modes of molecular mimicry
Pathogens exploit host cellular machinery through protein-protein interactions (PPIs), often using molecular mimicry to hijack host cellular processes. While there have been thousands of host-pathogen...
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Yash Shukla @yashshukla.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
How do tiny worm embryos decide which cells become muscle, nerve, or gut - all without reading any new DNA? 🤔 Our new Cell Reports paper explores this fascinating question using C. elegans embryos. cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(25)00549-2 🧵 Thread below 👇
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Landscape and regulation of mRNA translation in the early C. elegans embryo
Using ribosome profiling, Shukla et al. characterize dynamic translational regulation of maternal mRNAs during the first four cell cycles of C. elegans development. Their findings demonstrate how post...
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BioMassSpec @realbiomassspec.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
hu.MAP3.0: atlas of human protein complexes by integration of >25,000 proteomic experiments #MolSystBiol #MassSpec www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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hu.MAP3.0: atlas of human protein complexes by integration of >25,000 proteomic experiments | Molecular Systems Biology
imageimagehu.MAP3.0 integrates mass spectrometry experiments to identify human protein complexes. Using this resource, this study characterizes covariation of complexes, identifies mutually exclusive ...
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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Our work on deriving protein-protein (functional) associations across different human tissues from proteomics data is now published. There is quite a lot in this paper, so I will just touch on a few highlights: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A tissue-specific atlas of protein–protein associations enables prioritization of candidate disease genes - Nature Biotechnology
Protein–protein interactions specific to 11 individual tissues are presented in a comprehensive resource.
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Kevin Drew @ksdrew.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Very excited that our work describing hu.MAP3.0 is published in @molsystbiol.org. Here we use machine learning to integrate >25k mass spectrometry experiments to place ~70% of human proteins into 15k protein complexes. www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
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hu.MAP3.0: atlas of human protein complexes by integration of >25,000 proteomic experiments | Molecular Systems Biology
imageimagehu.MAP3.0 integrates mass spectrometry experiments to identify human protein complexes. Using this resource, this study characterizes covariation of complexes, identifies mutually exclusive ...
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Arne Elofsson @handle.invalid · 16/04/2025
BioRxiV is very slow, so this appeared in Authorea before www.authorea.com/users/436643...
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AlphaFold3 at CASP16
The CASP16 experiment provided the first opportunity to benchmark AlphaFold3. In contrast to AlphaFold2, AlphaFold3 can predict the structure of non-protein molecules, and according to the benchmark p...
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