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Case study: gget’s new Open Target module

The Open Targets Blog

  “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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Case study: Extracting tidy data from Open Targets Genetics with Otargen

The Open Targets Blog

Amir Feizi is the Director of Bioinformatics at OMass Therapeutics, a spinout from Professor Dame Carol Robinson’s Laboratory at the University of Oxford. Their work was recently published in Bioinformatics. We chat with him about otargen, and the importance of sharing open-source resources within the bioinformatics community.

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

Broad Institute

We’re reusing open-source software that other people have built and adapting it to further bioinformatic science. I’ll say I’m excited about interactive visualizations, which are built on top of open source plotting packages such as R. And we keep on building new knowledge. It’s an exciting time.

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AI in Drug Discovery - A Highly Opinionated Literature Review (Part II)

Practical Cheminformatics

A Tutorial on Encoding and Generating Small Molecules with COATI [link] COATI: multi-modal contrastive pre-training for representing and traversing chemical space [link] The team at AstraZeneca released version 4 of their software package REINVENT for generative design.

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What Do Molecules That Look LIke This Tend To Do?

Practical Cheminformatics

One such collection is the ChEMBL database maintained by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). One of the easiest and fastest with a database like ChEMBL is to use the FPSim2 package, developed by the group at the EBI that maintains the ChEMBL database. Searching ChEMBL There are several ways of performing similarity searches.