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Max Stetina

@maxstetina.bsky.social
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MSc Biochem from UCT Prague | incoming DPhil student at University of Oxford | bioinformatics & protein design

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Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 17/09/2026
Introducing highly experimental localfold.org Building on @martinsteinegger.bsky.social af2 webgpu port, @milot.bsky.social optimizations & jax ports of af3-like models by @marielle.bsky.social, Choonghwan Lee, Julia Buhmann. WARNING: runs directly on your 💻, may drain 🪫 & eat data📱 & overheat 🔥💻
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Run AlphaFold2 locally in your browser via WebGPU, no installation needed, it's just a static webpage using your own GPU or CPU. Short proteins run in seconds. Larger ones are still slow: a 291-aa protein takes ~7 minutes on my M4 Pro. ❗It's just a PoC. 🌐 martin-steinegger.github.io/alphafold2-w...
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Nature @nature.com · 05/08/2026
Nature research paper: Miniaturizing and modifying natural proteins with Raygun go.nature.com/4w2usM2
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Miniaturizing and modifying natural proteins with Raygun - Nature
Probabilistic sequence encoding from language model embeddings within a generative AI framework enables protein miniaturization, modification and augmentation while maintaining native architecture and functional integrity.
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BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
From @maxstetina.bsky.social & colleagues in #OUP 's #DATABASE journal | The Asparaginase Database: a comprehensive resource and classification of L-asparaginases | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #OpenScience #Phylogeny | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/database/art...
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The Asparaginase Database: a comprehensive resource and classification of l-asparaginases
Abstract. l-Asparaginases have been essential anticancer biopharmaceuticals for nearly half a century, particularly in the treatment of acute lymphoblastic
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Max Stetina @maxstetina.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Asparaginases have been used to treat cancers for decades, yet the enzyme used most commonly today comes from E. coli. Efficient, but not without drawbacks. Is there a better one out there? To help answer that, we built a classification and database: asparaginasedb.com, published in OUP's Database.
Front page of The Asparaginase Database showing the logo, search bar, BLAST tool, and description reading: The Asparaginase Database is a resource for asparaginase sequences, structures, and biochemical annotations organized by a phylogenetically driven classification. Beneath, three ribbon structures, one per class.
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Roberto Chica Lab @chicalab.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Excited to share our latest with @birtehoecker.bsky.social: CANVAS, a de novo enzyme design strategy that builds active sites by adding tailored lids to minimal TIM barrels. Several designs reached kcat values of 13–26 s⁻¹, on par with the median natural enzyme. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Customizing the structure of minimal TIM barrels to craft efficient de novo enzymes - Nature Chemical Biology
The TIM barrel is nature’s most versatile enzyme fold, yet de novo variants lack functional active sites. Minimal de novo TIM barrels have now been converted into enzymes by designing structural lids ...
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Phage-encoded single-guide RNAs subvert CRISPR-Cas9 immunity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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IOCB Prague @iocbprague.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🦠 Researchers from IOCB (Eva Kudová) and @vschtpraha.bsky.social (Jitka Viktorová) have identified new androstane-based steroid derivatives that can significantly improve the effectiveness of existing antibiotics against resistant #Staphylococcus. 🧵 #IOCB #IOCBPrague #research #neurosteroids
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Max Stetina @maxstetina.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
RFD-VIM If you work with RFdiffusion(1) and ProteinMPNN workflows, you might find my PyMOL extension useful for selecting residues in 3D to freeze in designs. I prefer adjusting settings interactively on the structure instead of typing contigs. It can also generate structures for RMSD calculations.
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