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Maicol Bissaro

@_Maicol_

Computational Chemist @Evotec 🇬🇧 Former PhD student @UniPadova 🇮🇹

 Oxford, England
Joined July 2009
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Nice overview of our recent research at @Evotec showing how we can encode oligonucleotide sequences as chemical entities (not just as strings) enabling the training of ML models also for chemically-modified ones. Check out the preprint 🧬💻 doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-20…

Beyond conventional sequence-based encoding: a generalized Machine Learning pipeline for oligonuc...

The development of RNA-based therapeutics has significantly expanded the landscape of drug discovery by enabling precise modulation of gene expression. These approaches offer the potential to target...

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@AllThingsApx17 Sep 2025
Encode oligos as chemistry, not just strings. HELM→SMILES→MAP4 seems to match sequence-only approaches to predict siRNA efficacy. But, it generalizes to chemically modified oligonucleotides, where sequence-only baselines don’t work.
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@NEJMMay 31
Presented at #ASCO26: Among patients with previously treated metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, the RAS(ON) inhibitor daraxonrasib led to significantly longer overall survival and progression-free survival than chemotherapy. Full phase 3 RASolute 302 trial results: nej.md/4nWaxvM @ASCO
Graph from a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on daraxonrasib versus chemotherapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer. The x-axis represents months, and the y-axis shows the percentage of patients alive. Two lines indicate survival rates: daraxonrasib (blue) and chemotherapy (gray). The bottom section lists patients at risk over time. Title and journal logo are included.

ALT Graph from a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine on daraxonrasib versus chemotherapy for metastatic pancreatic cancer. The x-axis represents months, and the y-axis shows the percentage of patients alive. Two lines indicate survival rates: daraxonrasib (blue) and chemotherapy (gray). The bottom section lists patients at risk over time. Title and journal logo are included.

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Huge congratulations to Anna Herz and @julienmich80 on the newly published RBFE calculations paper! A remarkable accomplishment and a proud moment for our collaboration
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Modular and Interoperable Workflows for Benchmarking Alchemical Binding Free Energy Calculation Methodologies pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… @_Maicol_ @julienmich80 @EdinburghChem #JCIM Vol65 Issue19 #PharmaceuticalModeling
Modular and Interoperable Workflows for Benchmarking Alchemical Binding Free Energy Calculation...

Modular and Interoperable Workflows for Benchmarking Alchemical Binding Free Energy Calculation...

Abstract. Alchemical free energy methods are gaining traction in computer-aided drug discovery. An expanding array of methodologies is available for the se

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HURKACZ SI È IMPOSSESSATO DEL TUO CORPO PER CASO?!?!?!
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Tennis TV
@TennisTV17 Mar 2024
THIS. IS. TENNIS. 🔥 @janniksin @carlosalcaraz 🔥 #TennisParadise
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Quirinale
@Quirinale24 Feb 2024
#Quirinale: – at Roma, Lazio
Il Presidente della Repubblica ha fatto presente al Ministro dell’Interno, trovandone condivisione, che l’autorevolezza delle Forze dell’Ordine non si misura sui manganelli ma sulla capacità di assicurare sicurezza tutelando, al contempo, la libertà di manifestare pubblicamente opinioni. Con i ragazzi i manganelli esprimono un fallimento.

ALT Il Presidente della Repubblica ha fatto presente al Ministro dell’Interno, trovandone condivisione, che l’autorevolezza delle Forze dell’Ordine non si misura sui manganelli ma sulla capacità di assicurare sicurezza tutelando, al contempo, la libertà di manifestare pubblicamente opinioni. Con i ragazzi i manganelli esprimono un fallimento.

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Antonia Mey@ppxasjsm24 Feb 2024
A must read for anyone trying to predict binding affinities by @rinikerlab and @dr_greg_landrum pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Combining IC50 or Ki Values from Different Sources Is a Source of Significant Noise

Combining IC50 or Ki Values from Different Sources Is a Source of Significant Noise

Abstract. As part of the ongoing quest to find or construct large data sets for use in validating new machine learning (ML) approaches for bioactivity pred

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Patrick Walters@wpwalters7 Dec 2023
New post at Practical Cheminformatics, “Some Thoughts on Biotech vs Pharma for Computational Chemists”. practicalcheminformatics.blo…
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Davis Cup
@DavisCup26 Nov 2023
How has @janniksin turned that into a winner 🤯 #DavisCupFinals | @federtennis
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@alexkaplan01 Aug 2023
Wow! From @Dereklowe: “This is by far the most believable shot at room-temperature-and-pressure superconductivity the world has seen so far, and the coming days and weeks are going to be extremely damned interesting.” science.org/content/blog-pos…
A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments

A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments

A Room-Temperature Superconductor? New Developments

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Antonia Mey@ppxasjsm31 Mar 2023
Great view from here for the first talk of #MDinPharma by Christoffer Lind giving us insights on combining FEP with QM interaction energies.
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Almost three years after my PhD viva and I finally got my diploma. #PhDone #UNIPD #PhD
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We’re very happy to announce that our RFdiffusion manuscript is now on bioRxiv! A lot can change in a week - we’ve now tested over a thousand designs and there’s so much exciting new data! 🧵
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Alpha Lee@iamalphalee29 Nov 2022
Excited to share our preprint on using unsupervised learning to find inhibitors from fragments hits. The idea is learning a distance distribution of pharmacophores from fragment hits, and then scoring a large purchasable library using that. (1/3) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Thrilled to be at the @RSC_CICAG “AI in Chemistry” conference - lots of interesting talks, come along to hear about my work on”unsupervised learning of fragment-protein complexes”! #AIChem22
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Happy to share my first publication! Thanks to all that participated in this tough challenge! Special thanks to my supervisors @philbiggin and @FrankvonDelft! Also thank you @DiamondLightSou, @davidlmobley, @jchodera and @_Mehtap_Isik_! link.springer.com/article/10…
SAMPL7 protein-ligand challenge: A community-wide evaluation of computational methods against...

SAMPL7 protein-ligand challenge: A community-wide evaluation of computational methods against...

Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design - A novel crystallographic fragment screening data set was generated and used in the SAMPL7 challenge for protein-ligands. The SAMPL challenges...

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Yesterday during a hike I came across the Dragon of Vaia, one of the largest wooden sculptures in Europe. This dragon represents the rebirth of the Italian woods, hit by the terrible Vaia storm of October 2018. #dragon #vaia #lavarone #alpes
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