Metabuli & Metabuli App v1.2 improve novel species classification with higher precision and recall. New light mode is 1.8× faster and requires 50% less storage while keeping precision. New RefSeq, GTDB, HRGM, and HROM databases added.
💾 github.com/steineggerla...
📄 doi.org/10.64898/2026.03.13.711249

45 novel protein folds in the updated AFESM (AFDB + ESMatlas) manuscript:
• 12 high-confidence folds in AFESM
• 33 by ColabFold-repredicting 2.3M low-quality domains
We show AFDB captures most domains already and ESMfold struggles with novelty
🌏 afesm.foldseek.com
📄 biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

ProteinTTT is now easy to run on Hugging Face Spaces and Google Colab. We’ll also be presenting the paper at ICLR 2026 🇧🇷
🤗 Hugging Face Space: huggingface.co/spaces/pimen...
⚙️ Google Colab: colab.research.google.com/drive/1l_h7c...
🧵👇

Now AFDB allows exploration of viral structures🦠

Multiple protein structure alignment at scale with FoldMason Protein structure is conserved beyond sequence, making multiple structural alignment (MSTA) essential for analyzing distantly related proteins. Computational prediction methods have vastly extended ou...

FoldMason is out now in @science.org. It generates accurate multiple structure alignments for thousands of protein structures in seconds. Great work by Cameron L. M. Gilchrist and @milot.bsky.social.
📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
💾 github.com/steineggerla...

Mirdita Lab - Laboratory for Computational Biology & Molecular Machine Learning Mirdita Lab builds scalable bioinformatics methods.

My time in @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's group is ending, but I’m staying in Korea to build a lab at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine. If you or someone you know is interested in molecular machine learning and open-source bioinformatics, please reach out. I am hiring!
mirdita.org

Phold's manuscript is now available @narjournal.bsky.social thanks to @susiegriggo.bsky.social @npbhavya.bsky.social @vijinim.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @eunbelivable.bsky.social & others not on bsky #phagesky academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

We train machine learning models on millions of proteins. But when it comes to making predictions, do we need them to understand all proteins at once? Often, we need an accurate model for the specific protein we are studying or designing. We address this with ProteinTTT arxiv.org/abs/2411.02109 1/🧵

Easy and interactive taxonomic profiling with Metabuli App.
It integrates database curation, read QC, taxonomic profiling, and visualization right on your desktop.
No command line, server, or internet required.
Now published in Bioinformatics! 🧵1/5
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
github.com/steineggerla...

Finally we got an end-to-end structural annotation tool for phages!

Protein Structure Informed Bacteriophage Genome Annotation with Phold Bacteriophage (phage) genome annotation is essential for understanding their functional potential and suitability for use as therapeutic agents. Here we introduce Phold, an annotation framework utilis...

Stoked to finally have a preprint out for Phold, our tool that uses protein structural information to enhance phage genome annotation #phagesky 1/n

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Protein Structure Informed Bacteriophage Genome Annotation with Phold www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08....

Folddisco webserver result view update:
- Added description texts for AFDB
- Integrated TaxoView taxonomy visualization & filter by @sunjaelee.bsky.social
- Inter-residue distance clustering by DBSCAN to explore motif diversity.
🌐 search.foldseek.com/folddisco
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Metagenomic-scale analysis of the predicted protein structure universe Protein structure prediction breakthroughs, notably AlphaFold2 and ESMfold, have led to an unprecedented influx of computationally derived structures. The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database now prov...

Today at 2 PM at 3DSIG #ISMBECCB2025, @nbordin.bsky.social presents our joint work on metagenomic-scale clustering and novel domain discovery in predicted structures!
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Also check out poster:
B-50 lolalign Sensitive structural alignments by Lasse
B-123 BFVD by Rachel

Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats Microbes are ubiquitous on Earth, forming microbiomes that sustain macroscopic life and biogeochemical cycles. Microbial dispersion, driven by natural processes and human activities, interconnects mic...

Our new preprint is out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
In this study, we present the largest systematic analysis of microbiome structure and function, integrating 85K uniformly processed metagenomes from diverse habitats worldwide.
@podlesny.bsky.social @jonas-bio.bsky.social @borklab.bsky.social

This time I didn't forget about the stickers. See you soon!

Are you a trainee interested in giving a flash talk at the Computational Structural Virology symposium? Abstracts are due in three days, on July 10!

Folddisco finds similar (dis)continuous 3D motifs in large protein structure databases. Its efficient index enables fast uncharacterized active site annotation, protein conformational state analysis and PPI interface comparison. 1/9🧶🧬
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🌐 search.foldseek.com/folddisco

Hello everyone! I am pleased to share information on the first ever Computational Structural Virology Symposium, conducted August 4th on zoom and highlighting work in this emerging field. You can register for this event here: forms.gle/CNiqskMwQEuV.... Please re-post!

CATH-Gene3D annotation visualised on BFVD structure prediction of UniProt A0A075FDU7

🦠🧬Exciting news! BFVD predicted viral protein structures are now available in @InterProDB!
For the first time, explore InterPro functional annotations directly on 3D structures of viral proteins not covered by AlphaFold DB. This bridges a critical gap in structural virology research.

Unicore is now published on GBE 🚀
Unicore rapidly identifies structural single-copy core genes from input species proteomes for phylogenetic analysis. Powered by Foldseek and ProstT5, Unicore enables linear-scale structure-based phylogeny of any given set of taxa. 🧵1/n
📃 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf109

We've updated our AFESM website to now include biome filtering, allowing exploration of protein structures adapted to specific environments.
🌐 afesm.foldseek.com
Read more about the work in the skeetorial
🦋 bsky.app/profile/mart...
or our preprint
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An atlas of tissue-specific protein-protein associations helps to prioritise targets for drug discovery Pedro Beltrao’s team at ETH Zürich, created the first atlas of protein interactions in 11 human tissues. Mapping which proteins interact in which tissues will help uncover the specific functions of di...

An atlas predicting protein interactions in 11 human tissues created by @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social's team at @imsb-eth.bsky.social will help uncover cell-type specific functions, elucidate disease mechanisms, and choose safer targets for drug discovery

🧬🖥️

blog.opentargets.org/an-atlas-of-...

I cannot say anything what F stands for.
I'm thrilled to present BFVD at RdRp summit, finally found right place. Thank you for organizers for inviting to this awesome meeting and city.
I would appreciate any feedback and feel free to discuss in-person or cia message. Explore BFVD🧭

Guess who is invited as the keynote speaker for the session on "Data Mining & Metadata Analysis"???

It is Rayan Chikhi!!!

He will introduce us to Logan. You can read the preprint here: tinyurl.com/vx4cykr7

Registrations are still open for #RdRpSummit2025!

Introducing our invited speaker for the session on 'Viral Dark Matter' we have Rachel Seongeun Kim from the Seoul National University!!!!

The registrations for on-site & remote participation are still open! More info: RdRp.io
#RdRpSummit2025

AFESM: a metagenomic guide through the protein structure universe! We clustered 821M structures (AFDB&ESMatlas) into 5.12M groups; revealing biome-specific groups, only 1 new fold even after AlphaFold2 re-prediction & many novel domain combos. 🧵
🌐 afesm.foldseek.com
📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

thank you so much😁

My poster "BFVD" is on 2nd day of RECOMB😁

@eunbelivable.bsky.social presented our viral protein structure database BFVD, including the new V2 update with improved predictions using 12 recycles for higher quality structures. Check out the paper and data here:
📄 academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com
#RECOMB2025