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Irfan Alibay

@ialibay.bsky.social

Generally lost in alchemical space - Science Lead at Open Free Energy, Emeritus MDAnalysis core developer. You can find me on github at @IAlibay.

90 Followers  |  35 Following  |  4 Posts  |  Joined: 20.12.2023  |  1.4279

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Interested in learning more about @mdanalysis.bsky.social , simulation streaming and lots of cool molecular simulation tools? Come to the MDAnalysis 2025 UGM!

20.05.2025 21:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Free Energy of Everything: Benchmarking OpenFE Written by: Josh Horton, PhD Who is OpenFE and what do they do? Open Free Energy (OpenFE) sits at the nexus of academia and industry. We are developing an open-source software ecosystem for alchem...

If you weren't at @feworkshop.bsky.social in Boston last week, you missed Hannah Baumann giving the first sneak peek at results from our partner benchmarking study! Fortunately for you, Josh Horton wrote up a blog post about the early results: blog.omsf.io/the-free-ene...

#compChem

15.05.2025 14:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Artistic rendering of a biochemical model: a small molecule ligand, shown as a ball-and-stick model colored by element, is bound in a pocket in a protein surface, shown as a space filling model colored off-white.

Artistic rendering of a biochemical model: a small molecule ligand, shown as a ball-and-stick model colored by element, is bound in a pocket in a protein surface, shown as a space filling model colored off-white.

We're changing the field of #compchem by creating free and open-source software for performing alchemical free energy calculations. Our flagship protocol calculates relative binding free energies of protein-ligand systems. Try it out in your browser: colab.research.google.com/github/OpenF...

04.02.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Absolutely delighted to have been included @openuk.bsky.social 's 2025 honours list.

A big shout out to all the folks at @mdanalysis.bsky.social and @omsf.io for all their amazing work.

#opensource #openscience

02.01.2025 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Incredibly excited to see this work from Meghan Osato get to the preprint stage!

We knew that partial charge assignment with AM1BCC was unstable but we never would have guessed that it could cause such large issues with our free energy results!

27.12.2024 08:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Relicensing MDAnalysis was a major effort of ours, spanning over 3 years and far far too much of my time spent reading up on the the legal details of licenses. Major thanks to @orbeckst.bsky.social for pushing the process (and my often slow to act self) along :)

03.12.2024 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

CADD community, here's your chance to test how well your prediction models for affinity and ADMET *really* work in a real drug discovery program where all the data and protocols will be released openly!

03.12.2024 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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