You can check out the preprint of some recent work with the groups of Lena Lena Simine and Phil E-Biosensors Lab #aptamer

Happy to get this published. Thanks to all involved including Lena Simine for calculations help.

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The bioinformatician in a wet lab

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To start designing new DNA aptamers on a computer we had to find a way to speed up the calculation of binding affinities. Tao Liu's first paper introduces DeltaGzip: compression-based free energy from ultra-short MD trajectories, preprint: chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

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Ata Madanchi's first paper is out in The Journal of Chemical Physics doi.org/10.1063/5.0174… in which he upgrades our algo for generative modeling of amorphous materials to multi-elemental 3D and samples rare water motifs! A fun collaboration with Thomas D. Kühne Michael Kilgour and Frederik Zysk.

My brilliant PhD student Nufar, whose brother is a hostage in Gaza for over 80 days. Nothing prepared me to being a mentor under such a scenario. How can we even continue research in the lab?? Please help her, help us, spread this heart-breaking humanitarian call.

I managed to squeeze in one more hike with Lena Simine before the opening mixer, where I got to meet Doran I. G. B(ennett) Raccah Tuckerman Group Andrés Montoya-Castillo and many others! Now onward to the science 🤟

It’s been a pleasure hosting everyone for M&MS in McGill for fantastic science and discussions with Lena Simine! Thanks to our sponsors McGill Science, McGill Chemistry and Nutromics.

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Thanks to everyone who registered to attend M&MS2023! We are at capacity and we look forward to seeing you all in Montreal in just few weeks. Please check the workshop page for updates siminegroup.ca/mms, print your posters, finalize your travel plans, see you soon!

The McGill Molecular Science Mini-Meeting is back this year! 'Bio-sequence design: theory and experiment' meeting will be co-hosted by yours truly and E-Biosensors Lab. Please join us! Reg is free, scroll down for link siminegroup.ca/mms . #compchem

'The last (group) supper' 2022

Another step towards simulations of chemical quantum dynamics in phase space using Signed Particles Monte Carlo: arxiv.org/abs/2301.04820 a couple more steps and we're there :) One of the funnest projects to work on.

Check out arxiv.org/pdf/2301.04277… where we upgrade a method we call 'the MAP' to tackle the problem of generating well sampled multi-elemental very disordered molecular structures in 3D. Tested on liquid water and an ice nucleus with Thomas D. Kühne.. works surprisingly well! :)

New Year's resolution 2023: to diversify that RNA/DNA portfolio! :) Our paper on how to better search for useful nucleic acid sequences is now out in Jose Onuchic's Festschrift in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. Happy new year! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Our new pre-print on 'Diversifying Design of Nucleic Acid Aptamers Using Unsupervised Machine Learning' arxiv.org/abs/2208.05341