Tag Archives: computational biology

NWO funds sixteen new Science-M research projects across astronomy, neuroscience, chemistry, climate resilience and biotechnology

(IN BRIEF) The NWO Science Board has approved sixteen grant applications through the Open Competition Domain Science-M programme, supporting innovative fundamental research across a wide range of scientific fields. The funded projects include studies using the KM3NeT detector in the … Read the full press release

From Predicting Protein Shapes to Finding Their Hidden Rules, Structural Biology Enters a New Phase

Structural biology is shifting from predicting protein shapes to uncovering broader organizational rules AI tools like AlphaFold have made large-scale protein structure data far more accessible Researchers are increasingly exploring recurring patterns in amino acid organization across proteins Distributed and … Read the full press release

Global Citizen-Science Initiative Seeks Public Help to Verify Potential Universal Pattern in Protein Structures

A new citizen-science project is investigating a possible universal structural pattern in protein 3D architecture The pattern involves amino acids clustering by chemical type into mosaic-like arrangements Findings are based on analysis of over 160,000 protein structures and computational simulations … Read the full press release

Proteins Mosaic Q: a citizen-science project to gather evidence for a novel 3D protein structural pattern

(IN BRIEF) Proteins Mosaic Q is a global citizen-science initiative that invites volunteers to help confirm a newly identified structural pattern in the three-dimensional architecture of proteins. The project focuses on how amino acids cluster according to their chemical families, … Read the full press release