What a start of the new year… The paper describing our software just got published in Bioinformatics – congrats to all authors!
Brezovsky J, Thirunavukarasu AS, Surpeta B, Sequeiros-Borja CE, Mandal N, Sarkar DK, Dongmo Foumthuim CJ, Agrawal N, 2022: TransportTools: a library for high-throughput analyses of internal voids in biomolecules and ligand transport through them. Bioinformatics (Advance article DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab872). full text
The great success of Bartłomiej, ranking 2nd among the 12 awarded grants in the NZ2 panel.
Many congratulations & stay tuned for exciting results to come!!
On Friday, Nishita has aced the mid-term evaluation of her doctoral studies. Congratulations on behalf of the team! Looking forward to more years of exciting research.
The great success of Carlos, ranking 3rd among the five awarded grants in the NZ2 panel. Many congratulations and we look forward to the newly generated and exciting results!!
Sequeiros-Borja CE, Surpeta B, Brezovsky J, 2020: Recent advances in user-friendly computational tools to engineer protein function. Briefings in Bioinformatics. (Advance article DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa150) full text
Progress in technology and algorithms throughout the past decade has transformed the field of protein design and engineering. Computational approaches have become well-engrained in the processes of tailoring proteins for various biotechnological applications. Many tools and methods are developed and upgraded each year to satisfy the increasing demands and challenges of protein engineering. To help protein engineers and bioinformaticians navigate this emerging wave of dedicated software, we have critically evaluated recent additions to the toolbox regarding their application for semi-rational and rational protein engineering. These newly developed tools identify and prioritize hotspots and analyze the effects of mutations for a variety of properties, comprising ligand binding, protein–protein and protein–nucleic acid interactions, and electrostatic potential. We also discuss notable progress to target elusive protein dynamics and associated properties like ligand-transport processes and allosteric communication. Finally, we discuss several challenges these tools face and provide our perspectives on the further development of readily applicable methods to guide protein engineering efforts.