Riccardo Percudani
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Riccardo Percudani
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Father of Eva and Adele, husband of Ariane. Teacher and researcher at the University of Parma (Italy): biochemistry & bioinformatics, metabolic pathways, coevolution.
Michael Galperin is a wizard.
September 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We used coevolutionary analysis of KEGG networks to identify the gene linked to L-xylulose formation in human metabolism and Garrod's pentosuria.
#Bioinformatics #Genomics #Biochemistry

Now in PNAS: t.co/iPIhrbUmxz
(Preprint: www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...)
August 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Structural variation in human genome based on pangenome analysis. Tobias Marschall at #ISMBECCB2025
July 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Charlotte Dean on the future of AI-driven drug discovery #ISMBECCB2025 key note
July 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Erva Ulusoy presenting ProtHGT: protein function prediction using biological knowledge graphs and LLM at #ISMBECCB2025
July 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Clara De Paolis Kaluza on the past, present, and future of CAFA at #ISMBECCB2025
July 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Matthias Blum: integrating AI in InterPro. #ismbeccb2025 function COSI
July 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Erik Sonnhammer nicely presenting the FunCoup database and the complexity of functional networks at the #Ismbeccb2025
July 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Nicola Bordin: novel domain arrangements but no novel folds in the metagenome billion-scale protein universe. Nicely reported at the #ismbeccb2025
July 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Paul D. Thomas illustrating the GO annotation as derived from evolutionary modeling at #ismbeccb2025
July 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The birth and death of protein domains in metazoa presented by Maureen Stolzer at the #ismbeccb2025 functon-evolution section
July 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Marc Robinson-Rechavi, the funcional divergence of orthologs and paralogs, and the Bgee database at the function-EvolCompBiol section of #ismbeccb2025
July 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Overton prize James Zou illuminating the future of computational biology in his #ismbeccb2025 keynote on AI agents.
July 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Adam Gudys presenting at the EvolCompgen section of #ISMBECCB2025 FAMSA2: protein multiple alignment at the protein universe scale
July 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Amos Bairoch resuming 45 y of #biocuration in his #ISMBECCB2025 keynote
July 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Janet Thornton introducing John Jumper for the opening keynote at #ismbeccb2025
July 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Allantoin - In 1800, Vauquelin, together with Buniva, discovered a substance present in cow amniotic fluid but not in that of humans. It was later found in allantoic fluid and named allantoin. Allantoin is the end product of purine degradation in placental mammals, but not in humans and other apes
January 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Malic acid - Vauquelin confirmed the existence of malic acid, which he isolated from apple juice. This intermediate of the Krebs and glyoxylate cycles was first discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele and later named by Antoine Lavoisier after the Latin word for apple, malum.
January 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Asparagine - In 1806, Louis Nicolas Vauquelin and his assistant Pierre Jean Robiquet isolated asparagine (Asn, N) in crystalline form. As the first of the 20 universal amino acids to be identified, asparagine was named after its source: asparagus juice.
January 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763–1829), a French chemist, is best known for discovering chromium and beryllium. However, his contributions to biochemistry are often overlooked—he was the first to isolate several iconic metabolites. 1/4
January 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Pierre-Régis Burgel presenting the keynote speech at the 22nd convention of investigators in Cystic Fibrosis.
January 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Our #bioinformatics course assistants love using ChatGPT visuals in the computer lab exercises. I found this #BLAST visual quite punching!
January 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
2024 ISCB Innovator Award recipient, Dr. Sui-In Lee, concludes the #ISMB2024 congress with a powerful message: the researchers' goal is not to publish in prestigious journals, but to push the boundaries of human knowledge.
January 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Thomas Lengauer explains the behind the doors of publishing in Bioinformatics Advances @BioinfoAdv, the open access journal of the International Society for Computational Biology. #ISMB2024
January 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Alex Bateman discusses fair and unfair uses of generative AI and LLMs in scientific publishing at #ISMB2024. Unmissable if one want to use GTP for assistance.
January 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM