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Pablo Arantes

@pabloarantes.bsky.social

#compchem Research Scientist at Vita Nova Institute- Work interests mostly related to the simulation of biomolecular systems - Lead developer of the Making It Rain, Cloud-Bind and ParametrizANI projects. https://pablo-arantes.github.io/

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WOW!!! Fantastic news, Fiona! πŸŽ‰ Wishing you all the best, can’t wait to hear more about your new group!

12.10.2025 02:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🧠πŸ’₯ ParametrizANI found a home!
Our paper is now published in JCIM!

Making ML-based force field parametrization open and easy for everyone.
With TorchANI, @rdkit.bsky.social & @openmm.org

πŸ”— pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
@acs.org @giuliapalermo.bsky.social

09.10.2025 13:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Your protein moves, but when exactly? ⏱️
Meet eRMSF, our new Python tool that tracks fluctuations over time!

Traditional RMSF shows β€œhow much.”
eRMSF shows β€œwhen.” πŸ”₯

Preprint πŸ”— doi.org/10.26434/che...
GitHub github.com/pablo-arante...
Try it on Colab β†’ colab.research.google.com/github/pablo...

07.10.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exciting to see our protein binder design pipeline BindCraft published in its final form in @Nature ! This has been an amazing collaborative effort with Lennart, Christian, @sokrypton.org, Bruno and many other amazing lab members and collaborators.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Thank you, @olexandr.bsky.social! Yes, AIMNet2 is included in the notebook. Users can choose between several models: TorchANI, AIMNet2, and MACE-OFF. πŸ˜‰

21.08.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you my friend! πŸ₯°

20.08.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

When Pablo told me about this idea, I could see an immediate impact on drug discovery endeavors.

People can easily refine parameters of multiple dihedral torsion for hundreds of molecules and employ those in FEP simulations.

10/10 recommend πŸ‘

20.08.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - palermolab/ParametrizANI: ParametrizANI - Fast, Accurate and Free Dihedral Parametrization in the Cloud with TorchANI ParametrizANI - Fast, Accurate and Free Dihedral Parametrization in the Cloud with TorchANI - palermolab/ParametrizANI

New from our lab!
πŸš€ ParametrizANI - a #NeuralNetworks tool for molecular parametrization.
Predicts potential energy surfaces with near-DFT/CC accuracy, at a fraction of the computational cost!
#AI #QuantumChemistry #CompChem #ML πŸ€–
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Try it:
github.com/palermolab/P...

20.08.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Huge thanks to our co-authors Souvik Sinha & @giuliapalermo.bsky.social ! And deep gratitude to the @openmm.org, TorchANI team, Rotational Profiler developers, the "Making it Rain" team (@conradopedebos.bsky.social , @mdpoleto.bsky.social and Rodrigo Ligabue Braun) for their inspiration! 8/8

20.08.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - palermolab/ParametrizANI: ParametrizANI - Fast, Accurate and Free Dihedral Parametrization in the Cloud with TorchANI ParametrizANI - Fast, Accurate and Free Dihedral Parametrization in the Cloud with TorchANI - palermolab/ParametrizANI

Ready to try it? ✨ All our Colab notebooks are freely & publicly available on @github.com! Dive in to enhance your molecular studies. We're committed to fostering deeper insights & improved methodologies in the scientific community. Find ParametrizANI here: 7/8 github.com/palermolab/P...

20.08.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A game-changer! ParametrizANI is perfect for drug discovery, helping evaluate candidates with high accuracy & speed. It's also an excellent resource for education, offering hands-on experience without complex setups, & allows professional customization. #DrugDiscovery 6/8

20.08.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our user-friendly Jupyter notebooks provide a complete workflow for dihedral parametrization, from SMILES strings to optimized force field parameters. We support both GAFF & @openforcefield.org force fields, ensuring compatibility for your simulations. #ForceFields 5/8

20.08.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Accessibility is key! ParametrizANI runs on
@googlecolab.bsky.social, a "click-and-go" experience with free access to CPUs. No heavy parallel processing needed! We've parametrized molecules in less than 5 minutes on CPU. A big step for accurate, efficient small molecule parametrization! 4/8

20.08.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A core component: our Python version of the Rotational Profiler code. This analytical algorithm efficiently computes classical torsional dihedral parameters by fitting empirical energy profiles to a reference curve. #ComputationalChemistry #Algorithms #ForceFields 3/8

20.08.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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How? ParametrizANI uses the robust PyTorch-based TorchANI program & ANI deep learning models (ANI-1x, ANI-2x). This predicts potential energy surfaces with near-DFT or coupled-cluster accuracy, at a fraction of the computational cost! #DeepLearning #TorchANI #AIforScience 2/8

20.08.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
ParametrizANI: Fast, Accurate, and Free Parametrization for Small Molecules In molecular studies, the accurate parametrization of small molecules stands as an essential yet growing demand. Addressing this, we introduce ParametrizANI, a tool crafted explicitly for establishing...

Exciting news for molecular research! Introducing ParametrizANI: a fast, accurate, & free tool for small molecule parametrization! We're democratizing research, enabling teams of all sizes to perform dihedral parametrization with DFT-level accuracy. 1/8
doi.org/10.26434/che...

20.08.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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We have written up a tutorial on how to run BindCraft, how to prepare your input PDB, how to select hotspots, and various other tips and tricks to get the most out of binder design!

github.com/martinpacesa...

30.06.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Front-page-style graphic titled β€œBREAKING NEWS” with photos of RFK Jr. and Dr. Bhattacharya in front of a government hearing chamber. Text reads: β€œNIH Scientists Sound the Alarm as Health Research Faces Historic Threat” and β€œNIH Employees Send Trump Cronies Scathing Wake-Up Call.”

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives.

This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle.
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09.06.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4354    πŸ” 1413    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 73

Tem vaga ainda?

09.06.2025 01:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸš€ Excited to release BoltzDesign1!

✨ Now with LogMD-based trajectory visualization.
πŸ”— Demo: rcsb.ai/ff9c2b1ee8
Feedback & collabs welcome! πŸ™Œ

πŸ”—: GitHub: github.com/yehlincho/Bo...
πŸ”—: Colab: colab.research.google.com/github/yehli...
@sokrypton.org @martinpacesa.bsky.social

03.06.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the kind of message that makes it all worth it.

When someone takes a moment to say thank you, it reminds me why we keep pushing forwardβ€”sharing tools, writing posts, and trying to make science more open and accessible. Grateful for the kind words!

08.04.2025 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our latest paper just dropped in PNAS! πŸŽ‰

Turns out, CRISPR-associated transposons don’t just jumpβ€”they dance their way through DNA! πŸ•ΊπŸ”¬

Exciting times for genome engineering!
🧬 Read more in PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#CRISPR #GeneEditing #PNAS #MDsimulations #CompChem

02.04.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have included side-chain reconstruction using HPacker in the BioEmu Notebook. Thank you to @martinsteinegger.bsky.social whose notebook provided inspiration for incorporating the cell to add side-chain reconstruction.

πŸ”— Try it on Google Colab: colab.research.google.com/github/pablo...

02.04.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning Following the sequence and structure revolutions, predicting the dynamical mechanisms of proteins that implement biological function remains an outstanding scientific challenge. Several experimental t...

And what do you think would be faster to run it on a local machine with RTX 4090 or keep on the colab with the A100?

I don't have access to RTX 4090 and I'm only using A100 on Google Colab, so I suggested to check the original paper: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

24.03.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

However, do you think it would be better to do 5000 sample compared to 1000 sample?

I ran some tests and compared an ensemble of 1000 samples with each containing 5000 frames. I did not observe any differences between them except for the number of frames.

24.03.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Regarding your ideas, I loved the idea to compare an ensemble of WT and mutated protein using BioEmu, I'm working on a notebook to do that.

24.03.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Hi Tareq, Thank you for all information regarding BioEmu. As I clearly described on my firt post, I did not develop the BioEmu, I just performed the implementation using Google Colab.

24.03.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

This code only supports sampling structures of monomers. You can try to sample multimers using two sequences you want to predict and connect them with a long linker, but in their experiments, this has not worked well.

21.03.2025 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve just updated the BioEmu notebook to include the powerful LogMD. Now, you can generate equilibrium ensembles and explore the full ensemble directly in the notebook.

A huge thanks to Alexander Mathiasen for the support! πŸ™Œ

πŸ”— Try it on Google Colab: lnkd.in/gcuqd-fT

20.03.2025 18:09 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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πŸ”— Try it on Google Colab: colab.research.google.com/github/pablo...
πŸ”— BioEmu GitHub Repo: github.com/microsoft/bi...
πŸ”— Making it Rain Repo: pablo-arantes.github.io/making-it-ra...

#MolecularDynamics #AIforScience #CloudComputing #ComputationalChemistry #ProteinFolding #DeepLearning #MakingItRain

01.03.2025 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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