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Bárbara Zita Peters Couto
@barbarazpc.bsky.social
phd student @saezlab.bsky.social 💻 ✨

trying to reduce pain in this world by studying diseases + drugs 💊

also super interested in figuring out how to prevent misinformation in society 🔑
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🥁 Check out our new preprint on OmniPath, the prior knowledge resource for #SystemsBiology, and its brand-new OmniPath Explorer web app! 🥳

📖 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🔍 Explorer: explore.omnipathdb.org

OmniPath integrates 160+ resources for multi-omics analysis & modeling.

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September 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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👀 we are involved in projects 1 & 6 on the list:

1️⃣ Multicellular molecular characterisation of inflammatory bowel disease
6️⃣ Designing Efficient Single-Cell Perturbation Experiments with Lab-in-the-Loop AI Agents

📅 Application deadline is 30th September ❗
Recruitment is now open for the EMBL-EBI–Sanger Postdoctoral Programme.

ESPOD builds on the collaborative relationship between EMBL-EBI and the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, offering projects that combine experimental and computational approaches.

www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

🧬🖥️🔬#postdocjob
August 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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🎉 The revised version of CORNETO, our unified Python framework for knowledge-driven network inference from omics data, is published in peer reviewed form
🔗 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
📖 News & Views: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
💻 Code: corneto.org
🧵 Thread 👇
July 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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🔧 decoupler 2.0.6 is out thanks to @paubadiam.bsky.social‬, now as a core @scverse.bsky.social package scverse.org

This release includes a streamlined API aligned with scverse standards, updated vignettes, and a new one on pseudotime enrichment analysis 👇
decoupler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
June 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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In this Voices article, our @martingarridorc.bsky.social & @juliosaezrod.bsky.social discuss key strategies for building context-specific molecular networks: knowledge and data-driven methods, + future directions in the field bridging to structures and perturbations tinyurl.com/z8t6yych
What is the current bottleneck in mapping molecular interaction networks?
Network biologists today have access to a rich assortment of interaction networks produced by assays such as affinity purification-mass spectrometry (AP-MS), yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) screening, co-fract...
www.cell.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Ever wondered which method to use to infer kinase activities from phosphoproteomics data? 💻💭Our revised comprehensive evaluation of kinase activity inference tools, done in collaboration with the Zhang lab @bcmhouston.bsky.social, is now out @natcomms.nature.com 🔬 tinyurl.com/4twuc6z4
May 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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Here it is! Bonsai. Now there is really no more excuse for using t-SNE/UMAP. Bonsai not only makes cool pictures of your data. It actually rigorously preserves its structure. No tunable parameters. Incredible work by @dhdegroot.bsky.social.
I'm so excited about this!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Bonsai: Tree representations for distortion-free visualization and exploratory analysis of single-cell omics data
Single-cell omics methods promise to revolutionize our understanding of gene regulatory processes during cell differentiation, but analysis of such data continues to pose a major challenge. Apart from...
www.biorxiv.org
May 9, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Move over mitochondria, a new organelle called the nitroplast is here.

In a Science study last year, researchers reported that a nitrogen-fixing organelle has been identified in a marine alga.

Learn more in this #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/49GjClc #ScienceMagArchives
The nitroplast: A nitrogen-fixing organelle
A bacterial endosymbiont of marine algae evolved to an organelle
scim.ag
April 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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MCML Blog: 🚨 Hate speech spreads fast — and it’s not just about detecting hate or profiling its authors. Who reshares it?

Dominique Geissler, Abdurahman Maarouf & PI Stefan Feuerriegel analyzed the profiles of hate speech spreaders on social media. 🔍

📄 Read more: mcml.ai/news/2025-04...
April 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Wrapping up in beautiful Ascona ☀️ for the Modern Benchmark Conference sites.google.com/view/ascona2.... Great to see the community discussing a field that’s essential yet often overlooked and challenging @smuellerdott.bsky.social @barbarazpc.bsky.social @ivanovaos.bsky.social @paubadiam.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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🇺🇦💙🇬🇧 Standing with Ukraine—enhancing OSINT for a safer future!

Since day one, OSINT Industries has supported Ukrainian law enforcement with free access. Recently, EUAM Ukraine led a 4-day OSINT training at ХНУВС in Vinnytsia, equipping officers with advanced skills.

Proud to support this mission!
February 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM