CompBioMed’s 16th e-seminar took place on 25 May 2021
PlayMolecule for Drug Discovery.
In 2017, Acellera launched the platform PlayMolecule with the aim to democratize the use of molecular dynamics and machine learning applications in the drug discovery field. Today, PlayMolecule is freely available to researchers worldwide, helping them to get more clear insights on their targets and in exploring the vastness of the chemical space available. Counting more than 80.000 jobs launched to present day, PlayMolecule strives toward the achievement of a full suite of applications based on top notch artificial intelligence and machine learning for accelerating the discovery of new drugs in the fight against existing and emerging diseases.
This e-Seminar is intended for scientists and researchers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences that are interested in learning new methods and technologies to improve high throughput virtual screening, computational hit finding, and molecular dynamics simulations applied to biologic systems. In this e-Seminar, you will learn how to launch jobs on PlayMolecule , how to retrieve the results and create workflows connecting the different applications available on the PlayMolecule.org platform.
The e-seminar was presented by Dr. Roberto Fino (Acellera Labs SL).
He graduated from the University of Bari in Organic Chemistry in 2014 then a Research Fellow at Stefano Piotto’s Lab, University of Salerno, working on improving docking and scoring of compounds in HTVS In 2016 selected as MSCA fellow for the AEGIS ITN consortium and received PhD from Technical University Munich at Helmholtz Center for Environmental Sciences and Health, with a thesis on Combining NMR fragment based screening, Computer Aided Drug Design and Multi Component reactions in early stage drug design. He was then visiting researcher at the ETH Modlab group at the UMCG of Royal University Groningen, where he contributed to the development of machine learning based analysis for chemical shift perturbation (CSP Analyzer) Chemist, programmer, storyteller he also plays the bass and guitar. In July 2020 he joined Acellera Labs SL and he works on the delivery of cutting edge computational tools to accelerate computational drug discovery.
This webinar series is run in collaboration with the VPH Institute
