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Milot Mirdita

@milot.bsky.social
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Open source #bioinformatics at Sungkyunkwan University 🇰🇷 | former Steinegger Lab @ SNU, Söding Lab @ MPI-NAT | mstdn.science/@milotmirdita

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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AlphaFold Database is expanding into pandemic preparedness. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind, EBI et al. we exhaustively predicted ~1.7 million homo- & heterodimers across 2,812 viral proteomes, resulting in 8,028 high-confidence predictions. 📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass... 🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 24/09/2026
Is the world prepared for a future pandemic? AI-predicted protein complex structures for 2,800 viruses known to infect humans are now openly available in the #AlphaFold Database, which could improve how we respond to emerging infectious disease outbreaks. Learn more: www.embl.org/news/science...
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Kieran Didi @kdidi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Our wet-lab validation campaign for Proteina-Complexa is now on bioRxiv! It includes some new exciting experimental results, from large protein structures (fully codesigned!) to functional carbohydrate binders. biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread with some of the additions 🧵1/n
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Latent generative search unlocks de novo design of untapped biomolecular interactions at scale
De novo protein design has advanced rapidly, yet designing binders to polar, solvent-exposed epitopes and small, flexible ligands remains challenging. Such hydrated surfaces and flexible molecules, in...
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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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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
BFVD v3-UniProt-complete, improved viral protein structure predictions www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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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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Milot Mirdita @milot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ColabFold 1.6.3 is out! 2.5x faster, pip-installable, ipSAE+pDockQ2 scores. Thanks Choonghwan Lee, Marielle Russo, Gyuri Kim 🐍pip install colabfold[alphafold] CF2 Sneak Peak with AF3/Boltz/Protenix/ESMFold2… 🐍pip install "colabfold[alphafold3]@git+https://github.com/sokrypton/ColabFold@af3-preview"
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Sergey Ovchinnikov @sokrypton.org · 14/09/2026
Finally a more intuitaive way to learn pLDDT/pAE? 😎 sokrypton.github.io/protein_figh... (Character idea from @hannes-stark.bsky.social & Alex Waldherr)
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fold Spacer lets you fly through protein structures (Weekend project #2). It’s my first game: I originally set out to build a racer with structures as the tracks, but was a little too crazy. So it became this instead. You can upload your own structures. 🌐 martin-steinegger.github.io/Fold-Spacer/
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Foldseek-Interface enables fast search/clustering of the protein interface universe! We clustered 3.1M PDB dimers into 77,167 groups and found new interfaces keep appearing even as fold discovery plateaus. 🧵 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🔎 search.foldseek.com/interface 🌐 interface.foldseek.com
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Vijini Mallawaarachchi @vijinim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@gbouras13.bsky.social talking about his new protein structure-based bacterial genome annotation tool, Baktfold. 🧫🧬 GitHub: github.com/gbouras13/ba... Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #ISME20
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MDRepo @mdrepo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
mdrepo.org now has its own account (that's me!) Follow the account for updates on content and functionality.
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Dongwook Kim @dongwookkim.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
AI-driven protein structure prediction lets us revisit the question once impossible to tackle at scale: What can we learn from the evolution of protein structures? Our new preprint reviews how to properly assess the quality of structure-based alignments and trees. 🧵1/5 📄 doi.org/10.32942/X2T10D
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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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naturepoker @binomicalabs.org · 08/08/2026
Huh apparently this is a thing. The more you learn 😳 www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/P1...
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UniProt
UniProt is the world's leading high-quality, comprehensive and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information.
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George Bouras @gbouras13.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If you are looking for web-based phage annotation, phage-annotation.org is live. Upload a genome to run Pharokka, Phold and Phynteny sequentially (see our recent protocols paper doi.org/10.1002/cpz1...). If you have feedback, please reach out Thanks to @ardc.edu.au for making this possible!
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Phage Annotation Server -- phage genome annotation
Free automated phage genome annotation -- pharokka, phold and phynteny in one pipeline.
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Riboseek is a fast RNA/DNA search. More sensitive than nhmmer at 250x speed. Structure-aware realignment produces MSAs approaching rMSA quality. Plus 1.7M precomputed RNA MSAs, and an API to search your own 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 💾 github.com/steineggerla... 🌐 search.foldseek.com/riboseek
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Spyros Lytras @spyroslytras.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Come work on exciting AI for biology projects in Paris!! 🇫🇷 Details and application below, deadline sept 1st!
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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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Travis Wheeler @wheelerlab.org · 17/07/2026
Thanks for the advert, @martinsteinegger.bsky.social. If you're reading this and you're sitting on a pile of molecular dynamics simulations, please consider contributing them to MDRepo. This is the path to AI for dynamics (And if you're wondering: yes, there was only 1 person in the audience! 🤥)
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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
New study by Alexander Henoch (@ahenoch.bsky.social), a PhD student in our group @hifmb.de and @awi.de, shows what it takes to bring gene synteny into microbial pangenomes, and what we learn about the variability landscape of genomes when we do that. See the pre-print here: doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Kate Michie @kmichie.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Great summary and insight into Folddisco. 🧶🧬
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Folddisco and the Hidden Cost of Thinking at the Wrong Resolution
Data‑Rich, Insight‑Poor? —LXXIX Kim et al.’s Folddisco paper is easy to misread.
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
ICML is happening in Seoul this year, and I’ve been getting several messages about lab visits. Who else will be in town and would like to meet? @milot.bsky.social lab and mine are planning a dinner on July 7th, after the reception. Let me know if you’re interested!
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Johanna von Wachsmann @johannavw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
🧬 New preprint! We clustered 5.6 million bacterial genomes into genomically cohesive units (GCUs) 500× faster than existing tools. (In just 14 hours, 16.5 GB RAM using 48 CPUs). 🦠🐙Meet gemsparcl 💎✨! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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hbkgenomics.bsky.social @hbkgenomics.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Does your designed active site already exist in nature? Is an uncharacterized protein hiding a catalytic site or a pocket? Folddisco answers both, searching millions of structures for a 3D motif in seconds. @natbiotech.nature.com 🧬 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1/7👇
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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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Sebastian Deorowicz @sdeorowicz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
10 years after the first FAMSA paper, its successor is now published in Nat Biotech! We believe that FAMSA2 can enable analyses of large protein collections that were previously unattainable. Thank you, Andrzej and Cedric, for great collaboration www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Fast and accurate multiple-protein-sequence alignment at scale with FAMSA2 - Nature Biotechnology
FAMSA2 accurately aligns millions of protein sequences at high speed.
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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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George Bouras @gbouras13.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Whenever I presented Phold, I was frequently asked "can you do the same beyond phages?" We ( @oschwengers.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @binomicalabs.org et al) finally did it with Baktfold github.com/gbouras13/ba... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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GitHub - gbouras13/baktfold: Rapid & standardized genome annotation using protein structural information
Rapid & standardized genome annotation using protein structural information - gbouras13/baktfold
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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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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Baktfold: Sensitive protein functional annotation across the microbial tree of life using structural information www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Nabil-Fareed Alikhan @happykhan.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026
the web application is available at : brigx.genomicx.org I would be interested to hear feedback regarding bugs or any unexpected behaviour, any suggestions for the user interface, or any features you feel would be useful .
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BRIGX - Browser-Based Ring Image Generator
Circular comparative genome visualization tool running entirely in your browser
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Benjamin J. Buchfink @bbuchfink.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Clustering proteins using DIAMOND is out now @natmethods.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Clustering the protein universe of life using DIAMOND DeepClust - Nature Methods
DIAMOND DeepClust provides an ultra-fast clustering method for organizing the protein universe of life at low sequence identity, enabling large-scale dimensionality reduction and improving downstream ...
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Hajk-Georg Drost @hajkdrost.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
How much protein diversity can Life on Earth actually generate? With DIAMOND DeepClust, we show how billions of proteins across the tree of life can be clustered at low-identity for downstream analytics tasks. 📚Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💻Code: github.com/bbuchfink/di...
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Yunha Hwang @microyunha.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
My group at MIT is seeking a research scientist with a strong *experimental* background to lead and help shape the lab’s experimental infrastructure, supporting efforts to advance AI-driven enzyme discovery and characterization. See the full JD here: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
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Debora Marks @deboramarks.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Meet evedesign: open-source AI, accessible protein design ✅Combine models for multiobjective optimization ✅Integrate experimental data ✅ Run on your own infrastructure 📄Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 💻Code: github.com/evedesignbio 🌐Webserver: evedesign.bio Collaborate: hello@evedesign.bio
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evedesign: accessible biosequence design with a unified framework
Unified protein design for computational researchers and experimentalists
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
@ecallaway.bsky.social wrote a news article on our AlphaFold complex work. Thank you for covering it. 📄 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AlphaFold hits ‘next level’: the AI database now includes protein pairing
The database of 200 million protein-structure predictions now includes homodimers, adding new biological relevance.
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Martin Steinegger 🇺🇦 @martinsteinegger.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
AlphaFold database has entered the era of complexes. Together with NVIDIA, DeepMind and EBI, we use ColabFold, OpenFold and MMseqs2-GPU to predict ~31 million complexes (homo & hetro-dimers) resulting in 1.8 million high-quality predictions 📄 research.nvidia.com/labs/dbr/ass... 🌐 alphafold.ebi.ac.uk
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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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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Efficient protein structure prediction fromcompact computers to datacenters withOpenFold-TRT www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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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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Mihaly Badonyi @mbadonyi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
My first manuscript in MPI colours! With @tothpetroczylab.bsky.social, we show that AlphaFold PAE-derived contact probabilities are well calibrated to the fraction of true interface contacts across experimentally determined protein dimers. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Two-panel calibration plot (two benchmark dimer datasets) comparing predicted interchain contact-probability bins (x-axis) with the observed fraction of native interfacial contacts (y-axis). Points follow the diagonal, indicating close agreement between predicted probabilities and true interface-contact fractions.
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Wei Shen 沈 伟 @shenwei356.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Can't wait to release a 10-year-old birthday version for SeqKit! - 10 years - 2 papers, 3500 citations - 20 contributors - 40 subcommands - 880 commits - 500 issues - 685.5K Bioconda total downloads Thank you all, dear contributors and users! I'll keep maintaining it. github.com/shenwei356/s...
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Release SeqKit v2.13.0 (10-year-old birthday version) · shenwei356/seqkit
Changelog SeqKit is 10 years old! SeqKit v2.13.0 - 2026-02-28 seqkit: add support for reading and writing LZ4 compression format. new command: seqkit sample2: improved seqkit sample by @stahiga....
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Fabian Theis @fabiantheis.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
At the 132nd Internat. Titisee Conference on Biology 2.0: The AI Revolution in Biology & Medicine From sequence→function models 🧬 to protein & generative structure models 🧪 to AI of cell states & perturbations 🧫 Great science, great friends, beautiful lake. Thanks @BIFonds!
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New version of our preprint on bioRxiv about bioRxiv up. Now that’s what I call a revision – 6 years after the first version! It has new data about our progress and highlights from a massive user survey. 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Can we simulate realistic evolutionary trajectories and “replay the tape of life”? In this work, we propose a flexible, generalizable deep learning framework for modeling how the entire protein sequence evolves over time while capturing complex interactions across sites. 1/n doi.org/10.64898/202...
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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Our new review on genome annotation just appeared in @naturerevgenet.bsky.social, with a particular focus on the human genome, with Hayden Ji and Mihaela Pertea: rdcu.be/e4mI1
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Annotating genomes at increased scale and resolution
Nature Reviews Genetics - In this Review, Ji et al. overview how rapidly advancing experimental and computational methods are enabling improved and automated annotation of gene structure and...
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Patrick Bryant @patrickbryant1.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Introducing The Structural History of Eukarya (SHE): The first proteome-scale phylogeny constructed entirely from 3D structure. We computed 300 trillion alignments across 1,542 species to map the tree of life. 🧵👇 (1/5)
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Travis Wheeler @wheelerlab.org · 05/02/2026
Please spread the word: We invite applications to a two-week Computational Biology workshop in Singapore, June 14-27. This NSF-funded workshop brings together 16-20 US grad students with international peers. Apply by March 21: compbioasia.net 🧵 Details below:
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Compbio Asia
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Yoshitaka Moriwaki @agsmith.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Distance-Restraint-Guided Diffusion Models for Sampling Protein Conformational Changes and Ligand Dissociation Pathways Tatsuki Hori, Yoshitaka Moriwaki, Ryuichiro Ishitani www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Our new preprint is out.
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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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