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Gabriela Bučeková joins CF
10.09.2026
Gabriela Bučeková has joined CF BioData as a bioinformatician following the successful completion of her PhD studies at Masaryk University. Gabriela has already been part of the core facility during…
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Successfully defended dissertation thesis
03.09.2026
On 3rd September, our colleague Gabriela Bučeková successfully defended her dissertation thesis at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University. Her thesis topic is "Bioinformatics analysis of protein…
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ACC III featured on the cover of the 2026 NAR Web Server Issue
10.08.2026
Atomic Charge Calculator III (ACC III), developed at CF BioData, has been featured on the cover of the 2026 Nucleic Acids Research Web Server Issue. The cover image, created by Tomáš Raček,…
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Andrej Gáfrik joins CF BioData
01.08.2026
Andrej Gáfrik joined CF BioData on 1 August 2026. He will focus on the deployment and support of research data management solutions, particularly Onedata and OMERO, helping to improve the storage,…
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TRAINING: AI chat systems, agents, and tools
20.07.2026
Tomáš Raček presented a lecture about basic principles of AI chat systems, agents, and related tools.
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Eight theses successfully defended in spring 2026
30.06.2026
Eight students working with CF BioData successfully defended their theses in spring 2026.At the Faculty of Informatics, four master's theses were successfully defended. Filip Fábry worked on…
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Radka Svobodová Appointed Professor
01.06.2026
The head of core facility, Radka Svobodová, received her professorial appointment.
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Our contributin to the Open Science II conference
30.05.2026
Our colleague Adrián Rošinec recently participated in a panel discussion titled “Building Repositories in Practice: Experiences and Challenges.”
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Atomic Charge Calculator III was published in the Nucleic Acids Research
18.05.2026
Partial atomic charges provide a simplified description of the molecular electrostatic distribution that governs interactions with the surrounding environment. Owing to their widespread use in…
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Our contribution to the CS3 2026 - Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing
20.03.2026
Adrián Rošinec spoke at the CS3 2026 - Cloud Storage Synchronization and Sharing. His presentation was titled "Distributed Data Sharing Infrastructure for a Scientific Institute Based on Onedata,"…
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An article on ring analysis in ligand has been published
10.01.2026
An important part of protein structures is their ligands. The conformation of rings in ligands is crucial for the ligands’ scaffold and shape and, therefore, for interactions with their surroundings…
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Our contribution to the Sip of Science
18.12.2025
Our colleague Adrian Rošinec recently attended the Sip of Science event with a presentation about The Dark Matter of Molecular Dynamics Data - Turning Chaos Into Knowledge.His presentation explored…
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Our contribution to the XXIV. Meeting of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists
12.11.2025
The traditional Czech conference XXIII. Meeting of Biochemists and Molecular Biologists took place from 11th to 12th November 2025 in the Hotel Continental in Brno. The event is organised by the…
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Gromacs MetaDump was published in the Journal of Cheminformatics
30.10.2025
The volume of molecular dynamics simulation data shared through public repositories is rapidly increasing; however, fragmentation across several independent repositories, each using different dataset…
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MOLEonline was published in Bioinformatics
23.10.2025
MOLEonline is an interactive, web-based tool designed to detect and analyse channels (pores and tunnels) within protein structures. The latest version of MOLEonline addresses the limitations of its…
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Eleven theses successfully defended in spring 2025
30.06.2025
During the last fortnight, eleven of our colleagues successfully defended their theses as the Spring semester of 2025 ended. Theses were defended at the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of…
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PDBCharges was published in an article
30.05.2025
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is the largest database of experimentally determined protein structures, containing more than 230,000 experimentally determined structures. The chemical reactivity of…
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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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Workshop: Software tools for Structural Bioinformatics
12.02.2025
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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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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