Böckerlab

🚨 A quick reminder: the PhD and postdoc positions within the ERC project #BindingShadows are still open! We’ve just moved into a brand-new building, and during the transition our servers and website were occasionally down, meaning we might not have received some applications.

So once again: if you’re skilled in bioinformatics and/or machine learning, and you’re excited about developing innovative computational methods for analyzing small molecule mass spec data, please apply! bio.informatik.uni-jena.de/mitarbeiteri...

Excellent news: 𝐒𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧 #𝐄𝐑𝐂 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭! 𝐁𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬 will develop ML models to predict whether some query molecule has a particular bioactivity or is binding to a certain protein, where the only information we have about the query molecule is its tandem mass spectrum.

The clue is: The model is supposed to do that when the identity and structure of the molecule is not known; not known to us, not known to the person that measured the data, not known to mankind (aka novel compounds).