Computer science × bioinformatics × cheminformatics. Ass. prof. @ WUR. Interested in all the sciences. Materialist. Fan of cats, Punk Rock, and Hockey.

The Netherlands
Joined January 2017
A map of all approved, illicit, and experimental drugs. A fully interactive Faerun visualization of @DrugBankDB embedded using TMAP from 2²³ dimensional MHFP space. This combines 4 projects I have been working on so far during my PhD. Check it out here: tmap-drugbank.surge.sh
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.@PengkangG is at #ICML2025 with our paper on "Boosting Protein Graph Representations through Static-Dynamic Fusion". If you're around and want to step by: Location: West Exhibition Hall B2-B3 hashtag#W-114 Time: Wednesday, July 16, 4:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. PDT
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There's a couple of weeks left to apply 😊
We're offering a fully funded PhD at the intersection of #ML/#AI and the life sciences with a focus on sustainability and chemistry. You'll work at WUR in NL, ranked #3 in environ. sciences, #1 in agricultural science, #38 in life sciences (QS). Apply: wur.nl/nl/vacature/phd-stude…
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We're offering a fully funded PhD at the intersection of #ML/#AI and the life sciences with a focus on sustainability and chemistry. You'll work at WUR in NL, ranked #3 in environ. sciences, #1 in agricultural science, #38 in life sciences (QS). Apply: wur.nl/nl/vacature/phd-stude…
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🧵 "Implicit Neural Representations of Molecular Vector-Valued Functions" arxiv.org/abs/2502.10848 New preprint in which we train modulated neural nets to approximate vector-valued functions representing molecules. We create superresolution repr. of low res protein-ligand pair..
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..and interpolate between conformations of a protein-DNA complex. Finally, we train an modulated autoencoder that learns the functions of over 500 small molecules and is able to also smoothly interpolate between them and embed them in a chemically meaningful latent space.
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Thanks to the great work of @jirkalhotka, a former master's student at EPFL.
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If you're looking for a (fully funded) PhD position in #ml/#ai methodology (with plenty of opportunities to apply it) at the intersection of #chemistry and #biology, don't forget to apply before the end of the year. wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd-studen…
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Here's a first: I'm hiring a PhD student at @WUR. If you have (or know someone who has) a strong background and interest in computational (bio)chemistry or computer science (especially 3D computer vision), let's work together 😊 wur.nl/nl/vacature/phd-stude…
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In "Learning on compressed molecular representations" Jan Weinreich and I looked into whether GZIP performed better than Neural Networks in chemical ML tasks. Yes, you've read that right. TL;DR: Yes, GZIP can perform better than baseline GNNs and MLPs .. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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.. It even be used on multimodal data, such as amino acid sequences and SMILES strings in binding affinity prediction tasks like this: s = gzip.encode(smiles + " " + aa) For regression or classification, we then use a weighted kNN and the normalised compression distance ..
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.. *However*, it also shows that the currently widespread benchmarks in machine learning for chemistry are a very low bar.
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Molecular dynamics simulations in mixed reality! With @labriataphd and @lucien_krapp we’re scaling our multi-user WebXR platform to enable immersive molecular simulations, fully based on web technologies. Stay tuned, lots of cool stuff coming soon! @threejs #WebXR #Quest3
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Glad to share the first results from the ongoing user survey on BioIcons. Really appreciate that it's used around the globe! You can read more about the results here: blog.bioicons.com/post/user_…
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Great data science postdoc opportunity (French) in Grenoble: Lethal Frontiers (FrontLet): Counting and Making Visible the Deaths at European Borders. This project is partnered with the UNITED campaign secretariat, Fatal Policies of Fortress Europe. emploi.univ-grenoble-alpes.f…
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🎊Our latest review "Chemical Space for Peptide-based Antimicrobials" by @MarkusOrsi, @HippolytePrsn, @bonvin15, @ThierryPaschoud, Basak Olcay, Xiaoling Hu, Sacha Javor, and @jrjrjlr is published on @CHIMIA_journal! Read it here👉chimia.ch/chimia/article/vie… @DCBPunibern @unibern
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MassSpecGym: A benchmark for the discovery and identification of molecules • MassSpecGym introduces a comprehensive benchmark and dataset for molecular discovery from mass spectrometry (MS/MS) data, addressing limitations of existing datasets in scope, standardization, and data leakage prevention. • With 231,000 high-quality labeled MS/MS spectra representing 29,000 unique molecules, it is the largest open-access resource for MS/MS data, including three core challenges: de novo molecular structure generation, molecule retrieval, and spectrum simulation. • The benchmark provides innovative splitting techniques to prevent data leakage and evaluates model performance in a generalization-demanding environment, setting a new standard for machine learning tasks in mass spectrometry. • MassSpecGym offers three tasks to support different research goals: predicting molecular structures from MS/MS spectra, retrieving known molecules from spectral libraries, and simulating spectra for any given molecule. • This tool is accessible through a user-friendly interface built on PyTorch Lightning and Hugging Face, promoting reproducibility and simplifying model evaluation and benchmarking within the broader machine learning community. @tomas_pluskal @jjjvanderhooft @me_datapoint @sohahassoun @bittremieux @WishartLab @BoWang87 @rschmid1789 @corinnabrungs @boeckerlab @roman_bushuiev @AntonBushuiev 💻Code: github.com/pluskal-lab/MassS… 📜Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.23326 #MassSpectrometry #MachineLearning #DrugDiscovery #Metabolomics #Benchmark
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Two weeks left to apply!
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🔉 Our first BDSC Symposium on #AI in Clinical and Translational #Medicine is only 2 weeks away! Are you an early career researcher working on #AI in #Health? Send in your abstracts and get selected for a ⚡ lightning talk - best one wins a price 🏆 !
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