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#WhyIScience Q&A: A software engineer develops computational tools for psychiatric and brain research

Broad Institute

By Claire Hendershot February 21, 2024 Credit: Allison Colorado, Broad Communications Khalid Shakir is a principal software engineer in the McCarroll Lab. Now, Shakir has traded in his Commodore 64 for large-scale computational tools that he develops as a software engineer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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The first major set of genetic associations found in long COVID

Drug Target Review

About the author Dr Sayoni Das SVP Bioinformatics at PrecisionLife Sayoni leads the research and development of bioinformatics pipelines that generate biological insights from PrecisionLife’s core technology and support drug discovery programmes.

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Case study: NCI’s Molecular Targets Platform

The Open Targets Blog

  However, the complexity of the system requires a lot of domain knowledge and software engineering experience, and the major challenge for us sits on the data side: it is challenging to ensure the data, configuration settings, or scripts we are using are updated at the same time as the Open Targets Platform.

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Not all neoantigens are created equal

Drug Target Review

Recent advances in bioinformatics show clonal neoantigens are the best targets for immunotherapy, as I will elucidate below. Using powerful bioinformatics technology developed and validated with sequence data from the TRACERx study, researchers are able to identify clonal neoantigens from a patient’s unique tumour profile.

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Advancing vaccine design: potential of peptide mimicry

Drug Target Review

1 The study reveals a novel bioinformatic approach and tool that holds the potential to empower researchers in designing vaccines capable of inducing a stronger immune response. By honing in on these critical regions, vaccines can be engineered to prompt a more potent and targeted defence against infectious pathogens.

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Finding the right CDMO partner for cell line development

Drug Target Review

Finally, comprehensive genetic knowledge also facilitates the use of powerful bioinformatic tools that strengthen the cell-line development process, especially for enhanced protein expression or monoclonality assessment.

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Twist Bioscience Harnesses AI-Powered Cloud for Synthetic Biology Breakthroughs

Fierce BioTech

They turned to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to quickly deploy, optimize, and scale a bioinformatics pipeline for predicting protein structures in drug discovery efforts, as well as accelerate the adoption of a next-generation archive storage technology. On Demand Start Date Tue, 12/05/2023 - 14:00

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