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Liwei Chang
@liweichang.bsky.social
Interested in molecules, small and large.
How does ramen assemble in warming soup — the ultimate scientific challenge 🍜

- Entropy-driven noodle arrangement

- Hydration kinetics

- Diffusion and buoyancy activated topping sorting
In new studies, the Baker lab outlines two different ways to bind previously "undruggable" disordered proteins using diffusion AI models.

Come for the science, stay for the pasta analogies:
#bioML 🖥️🩺🧬🧪

www.statnews.com/2025/07/17/n...
Undruggable ‘disordered’ proteins become druggable with new AI techniques from David Baker
In a new study, Nobel laureate David Baker and colleagues detail new methods for targeting undruggable "disordered" proteins.
www.statnews.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Reposted by Liwei Chang
An Evaluation of Biomolecular Energetics Learned by AlphaFold
by Lyu, Herschlag et al
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Interesting comparison of AF2/3 structures with the PDB (AF2 appears better)

Reminder: The PDB itself is probably biased relative to solution conformational ensembles and energetics
July 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Reposted by Liwei Chang
Ever wanted to predict protein NMR chemical shifts accurately and very very fast ? Great new paper from MIkailya Darrows @mdarrows.bsky.social. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Comments are welcome !
LEGOLAS: a Machine Learning method for rapid and accurate predictions of protein NMR chemical shifts.
This work introduces LEGOLAS, a fully open source TorchANI-based neural network model designed to predict NMR chemical shifts for protein backbone atoms. LEGOLAS has been designed to be fast, and with...
chemrxiv.org
January 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Reposted by Liwei Chang
For those following the @prof-ajay-jain.bsky.social /Cleaves/ @wpwalters.bsky.social preprint re: DiffDock @gcorso.bsky.social

I have read some of the back-&-forth between the author groups

As a practitioner in the field for > 20 yrs (academic side), here is my take: 🧵
@dereklowe.bsky.social honing in on the same bottom line message from @wpwalters.bsky.social @prof-ajay-jain.bsky.social

it's so true and hits so hard:
December 9, 2024 at 3:46 AM
Reposted by Liwei Chang
Super excited to preprint our work on developing a Biomolecular Emulator (BioEmu): Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning from @msftresearch.bsky.social ch AI for Science.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
December 6, 2024 at 8:39 AM