The Open Targets Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

  “Sam has an exceptional talent in software engineering, and his contributions reflect a deep understanding of both the technical and biological aspects required for bioinformatics tool development,” says Laura Luebbert, now a postdoctoral fellow in the Sabeti lab at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Harvard University.

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Drug Target Review

AUGUST 11, 2023

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 selecting specific segments of proteins that elicit robust immune reactions, these vaccines could offer enhanced protection against diseases.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 28, 2023

These neoantigens are identified by T cells of the immune system as foreign proteins and thus trigger an immune response. Recent advances in bioinformatics show clonal neoantigens are the best targets for immunotherapy, as I will elucidate below. Neoantigens are recognised as non-self and trigger an immune response.

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Drug Target Review

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The genes unique to the severe long COVID patients were found to be associated with immune pathways such as myeloid differentiation, macrophage foam cells and lipid signalling pathways. She is a computational biologist with a background in bioprocess engineering and biotechnology.

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Broad Institute

AUGUST 11, 2022

It’s been very exciting to integrate genetics, bioinformatics, biochemistry, and structural biology approaches in one study to understand this fascinating molecular system.” In humans and plants, the STAND ATPase proteins fight infection by recognizing patterns in a pathogen itself or in the cell’s response to infection.

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DrugBank

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In Silico Drug Repurposing Advances in bioinformatics and systems biology have fueled the rise of repurposing of in silico drugs. Its immunomodulatory effects help control the overactive immune response that drives these conditions.

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Codon

APRIL 16, 2023

Codon Digest is my weekly roundup of research, news, and industry highlights about engineered biology. Skin microbes can trigger strong immune responses. In other words: Brush some engineered bacteria on the skin, and they activate the immune system to go fight a tumor. BMC Bioinformatics. McCafferty C.L.

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