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Our pre-print "Comparative evaluation of methods for the prediction of protein-ligand binding sites" is out on Research Square. Check it out! 🔗 tinyurl.com/Utges-LBS-comp On this paper we benchmark 11 ligand binding site prediction tools on our curated reference dataset: LIGYSIS!

Great looking preprint by my friend Dr Javier Sánchez Utgés @javierutges.bsky.social. This kind of comparative works between different computational methods are really important if we want computational work to be useful to others!

Our new preprint is out tinyurl.com/3jd68dpt It's a collaborative work with Euan Mackay, Aimee Bebbington, Jochen Kursawe, Jens Januschke and Marcus Bischoff UoD Life Sciences Science & Eng, UoD School of Biology @StA_Maths_Stats 0/17

This is a beautiful example of why biophysics can be so much fun! Proposing an actual *physical mechanism* for why a wide range of things happen, instead of just kicking the can down the road and blaming some yet unknown mysterious “regulator”. Well done, Rastko Rastko Sknepnek & team!

E. D. Mackay, et al., An active matter model captures the spatial dynamics of actomyosin oscillations during morphogenesis. bioRxiv 2024.10.04.616649 (2024). biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now out in Nature Physics: great work by Christina Hueschen, Rob Phillips, Alex Dunn and coworkers on gliding motility of apicomplexa, combining imaging of surface flows with continuum mechanics modeling. Read the open access paper here nature.com/articles/s4156…

Check out our previous work on characterising binding sites defined from fragment screening: tinyurl.com/Utges-FRAGSYS And how we used the #LIGYSIS dataset to perform the largest #benchmark of #ligand #site #prediction methods to date: tinyurl.com/Utges-LBS-comp

Our paper on "Comparative evaluation of methods for the prediction of protein-ligand binding sites" is now available on Journal of Cheminformatics! Check it out: tinyurl.com/Utges-LBS Check thread below for main results. Thanks to everyone that helped. Geoff Barton Barton Group

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J. Rozman, K. V. S. Chaithanya, J. M. Yeomans, R. Sknepnek, Vertex model with internal dissipation enables sustained flows. Nat. Commun. 16, 1–8 (2025). dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

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Congratulations to Dr Javier Sánchez Utgés @javierutges.bsky.social who has just published his final paper from his PhD work. Amazing to see how much he has achieved during his time at UoD Life Sciences!

I will be attending the ISCB News conference #ISMBECCB2025 in Liverpool from July 20-24. Who else is coming? Register here and don't miss it! invt.io/1txbm6fohph I'll be presenting the work done in my #PhD with Stuart MacGowan, Geoff Barton and others at Barton Group in University of Dundee!

My #PhD #Thesis: "Computational methods for the characterisation and evaluation of protein-ligand binding sites" is now publicly #accessible! I also shared the GitHub repo I used during the writing period. 📖 Thesis: tinyurl.com/utges-thesis 🔗 Repo: tinyurl.com/utges-thesis-r…