New Title Alert: PottsMPNN- is a protein design model for generating sequences from protein structures and predicting the energetic effects of mutations.
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New Title Alert: PottsMPNN- is a protein design model for generating sequences from protein structures and predicting the energetic effects of mutations.
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New Title Alert: Mosaic- is a graphical tool for analysing and modelling biological membranes from 3D structural data. It combines tomogram import, membrane segmentation and surface meshing with protein localization and geometric measurements.
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Community Announcements:
Upcoming events from our partners at @instruct-eric.bsky.social.
Structural Biology Meeting at Instruct-IT
October 20, 2026 | Florence, Italy
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On October 13th at 12pm ET, Prof Beata Turoňová from @mpibp.bsky.social will kick off our 2026-2027 software webinar series with an introduction to cryoCAT, a library of contextual analysis tools for cryo electron tomography & subtomogram averaging.
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Monkeypox has no treatment. Scientists just found its weak spot: Vina Nguyen highlights the lab of Jonathan Abraham of @harvardmed.bsky.social & colleagues that appeared in @nature.com.
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Technical Notes: This month's software push includes updates to 11 titles -- Amber, BindCraft, ChemEx, HTSlib, IMOD, NAMD, Octopi, Picard, PolNet, PowerFit, and Warp.
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Bacterial Xenophilia: mechanisms behind foreign DNA import: Cariuna Ellison's highlight features a publication in @narjournal.bsky.social from Manuela Hospenthal & fellow researchers at @ethz.ch.
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SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in August from Guy Schoehn from IBS Grenoble – Research group in Journal of Molecular Biology: High-resolution Structure of the Vaccinia Virus Phospholipase D-fold Endonuclease K4.
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Upcoming events from our partners at
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Instruct SI CryoEM Workshop 2026, Single Particle Analysis
November 10-12, 2026 | National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Application deadline: October 2, 2026
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SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in August from Bo Liang from Emory University School of Medicine in Microorganisms MDPI: Unreacted RSV Polymerase Structures Expand the Post-Translocation Landscape of the Nucleotide Addition Cycle.
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SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in August from Andrew Kruse from @harvardmed.bsky.social in @pnas.org : Activation of the angiotensin II type I receptor by a nonpeptide agonist.
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Technical Notes: macOS 27 expected this fall
Apple is expected to release macOS 27 in the fall, & as w/ many new operating system releases, we recommend that users delay updating until the bugs are worked out. Contact us at [email protected] to report any problems you encounter.
SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in August from Eric Fischer from @danafarber.bsky.social in @nature.com DCAF11-dependent molecular glue degrader activated by glutathionylation.
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SBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in August from Peter Dahlberg at Stanford University in @pubs.acs.org Nano: Cryo-Electron Tomography Reveals Nanoscale Thick Filament Disorganization in MYH7 P710R Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Cardiomyocytes.
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Community Announcement: Upcoming events from our partners at
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Instruct-ERIC Industry Webinar - Mass Photometry to support Structural Biology Research
October 13, 2026 | Virtual
Presented in collaboration with Refeyn
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Fisk University student Cariuna Ellison's highlight features a @pnas.org paper from Kate Ferguson's lab at @yale.edu School of Medicine. Ferguson's group identifies the activation mechanisms of an important protein receptor, EGFR, linked to cancer.
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New Title Alert: OCTOPI- is a deep-learning framework for automated 3D particle picking in cryo-electron tomography, with tools for training and running 3D U-Net models and automatically exploring model configurations.
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Antibodies guiding cancer immunotherapy: a publication in @cp-cancercell.bsky.social w/ contributions from Priyamvada Acharya & colleagues from @dukemedschool.bsky.social.
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Community Announcement: Upcoming events from our partners at @instruct-eric.bsky.social
Instruct-ERIC Webinar Series: Structure Meets Function 49
September 15, 2026 | Virtual
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