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Workshop: Software tools for Structural Bioinformatics

03.03.2025

Radka Svobodová, head of the Biodata Core Facility, organized a workshop entitled Software Tools for Structural Bioinformatics on 12-14 February. The aim of the event was to familiarize participants…
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Workshop: Introduction to molecular structure optimisation in xTB (in Czech)

27.02.2025

Ondřej Schindler, staff member of the Structural bioinformatics research group, will hold a workshop discussing the basics in optimisation of molecular structures. You will get familiar with related…
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The MUNI Scientist awards for publication in a prestigious journal

11.12.2024

A Structural Bioinformatics research group member, Ondřej Schindler, together with Radka Svobodová, was awarded the prestigious MUNI Scientist Award for outstanding scientific contribution. The award…
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Our contribution to the XXIII. Meeting of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists

13.11.2024

The traditional Czech conference XXIII. Meeting of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists took place from 12th to 13th November 2024 in the Hotel Continental in Brno. The event is organized by the…
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Our contribution to the BioExcel Conference on Molecular Dynamics Data…

23.10.2024

Our colleague Adrian Rošinec recently attended the BioExcel conference, showcasing a poster on the challenges and opportunities in molecular dynamics (MD) data management. His presentation…
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The DAREG project is completed

25.07.2024

Our colleagues Tomáš Raček, Tomáš Svoboda and Adrián Rošinec recently completed a project named „Portálové řešení pro správu a zpracování life-science datových sad a jejich metadat…
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Kick-off meeting of the NRP project

27.06.2024

Our colleagues Tomáš Raček, Tomáš Svoboda and Adrián Rošinec were present at the National Repository (NRP) project kick-off workshop that took place from 25th to 26th June in Prague. The key point of…
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A preprint about the validation of ring conformation was published

25.06.2024

Protein structures are highly valuable for research. A key point for their applicability is their quality. An important facet of structure quality is the validation of ligands. Validation of ring…
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Our contribution to the Open Science Workshop 2024

19.06.2024

Our colleagues Tomáš Raček, Tomáš Svoboda and Adrián Rošinec were actively present at The Open Science Workshop 2024 that took place yesterday (18th June) at the Faculty of Social Studies at the…
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AlphaFind was published in an article

12.06.2024

Prediction of protein structure from the sequence is a long-standing problem. The AlphaFold machine learning algorithm recently provided structure for more than 200 million proteins that would…
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PDBe featured a structure from Romana

04.04.2024

The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) publishes monthly articles that popularize interesting biomacromolecules from our everyday lives and tie them to structures stored in the PDB database. April's…
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ChannelsDB 2.0 was published in an article

07.12.2023

In 2018, the first version of the ChannelsDB database was published. Now, its second version was made public in the article ChannelsDB 2.0: a comprehensive database of protein tunnels and pores…
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An article was published in collaboration with PDBe

06.12.2023

Our colleague, Romana Gáborová, has recently co-authored an article with the Protein Data Bank (PDB) in Europe. The paper deals with current annotation practices (or the lack of such practices in…
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Our contribution to the 3D-Bioinfo | ICSB 3D-SIG | ELIXIR CZ conference

05.12.2023

The joint conference, named 3D-BioInfo | ICSB 3D-SIG | ELIXIR Czech Republic Community Meeting in Structural Bioinformatics, took place from 15th to 17th November 2023 in the Prague Congress Center.…
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Our contribution to the IBERGRID 2023 conference

30.09.2023

This Thursday, 28th September, our colleague Adrián Rošinec had a presentation about his research at the 12th Iberian Grid Conference (IBERGRID 2023). The conference was held in Benasque, Spain, from…
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αCharges and Mol*VS published in 2023 NAR WSI

19.05.2023

The Web Server issue of the Nuclear Acids Research hosts two articles authored by the Structural Bioinformatics research group this year.The first informs about Ondřej Schindler's AlphaCharges …
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Online advanced drug design workshop

25.01.2023

Our external associate, Karel Berka, is organising an Advanced in silico Drug Design workshop/challenge. It will take place from 30th January to 3rd February 2023. The workshop will cover structure…
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Interview with Radka Svobodova, Head of Core Facility Biological Data…

04.10.2022

In July 2022, Radka Svobodová was appointed as the official head of the Biological Data Management and Analysis core facility at CEITEC Masaryk University (MU). The new core facility was established…
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