BSc in Genetics at @UABBarcelona MSc in Bioinformatics at @UPFBarcelona PhD in Structural Bioinformatics at @dundeeuni Postdoctoral Research Fellow at @ucl
London, England, UK
Joined July 2020
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🧵 1/6 🚀 Happy to share our latest preprint:
“Interrogating contrastive learning embeddings for structure-based virtual screening: a case study on DrugCLIP”
My first paper of the postdoc era, so definitely a special one!
📜 doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.16.…
Dr Javier Sánchez Utgés @javierutges.bsky.social retweeted
The scientific programme for 3D-BioInfo 2026 is live! 🧬And today is the last chance to take advantage of the discounted registration rate!
🔗Register: iscb.org/3dbioinfo2026/regis…
Are you working on the field of #Structural #Bioinformatics and have not registered yet? What are you waiting for?
Join me and the community in attending this excellent meeting in beatiful and history-rich #Rome!
I am so excited for this and cannot wait to see you all there!
🎉 Good news! The early registration deadline for the 3D BioInfo annual meeting has been extended to Sunday, October 4!
Register at iscb.org/3dbioinfo2026/regis…
📌ELIXIR membership is NOT required.
5/6 🔹 For novel targets, DrugCLIP recovers the correct ligand within the top 1% of ~50,000 compounds in 55-75% of cases.
But performance drops in more realistic scenarios, driven by sidechain orientation and, for predicted pockets, differences in pocket residue selection.
Earlier this month, I attended the 25th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) @ECCBinfo in beautiful #Geneva, #Switzerland!
A huge thank you to the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics for organising such an enjoyable and stimulating conference, and to @ELIXIREurope for its generous support. Thanks also to all the volunteers, speakers, session chairs, and everyone else involved behind the scenes!
Events like ECCB are a great reminder of how valuable it is to bring the computational biology community together to exchange ideas, share new research, and build collaborations!
I cannot wait for #ISMB + #ECCB in #Copenhagen next year. I hope to see many of you there! 🇩🇰
Dr Javier Sánchez Utgés @javierutges.bsky.social retweeted
Our bioRxiv paper introduces ECIFP: a scalable interaction fingerprint that maps the landscape of ligand binding modes.
✅ Identified binding modes for 9k+ ligands
✅ Analysis of 48k+ binding sites from 21k+ proteins
✅ Open-source & interpretable
more:
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Dr Javier Sánchez Utgés @javierutges.bsky.social retweeted
I'm 6 months into this fellowship, and it's been brilliant. If you've got ideas at the intersection of AI and science and want to take a shot at making them real then I can't think of a better opportunity. 8 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY TO JOIN COHORT 2. @encode_pillarvc @ARIA_research
Hi, everyone. I did it! ✅ 💪
#Challenge complete: 31 days of 100 push-ups a day - finished! 🔥
I started this as a small personal commitment with a big purpose: to support @CRUKScotland and help fund vital work in #cancer #research. 🎗️
My #CRUK page is still open, so donations are still welcome if you would like to help push the total a little further: fundraise.cancerresearchuk.o… 🔗
A couple of quick notes:
✅ All funds go directly to CRUK
✅ If you select 'Gift Aid', an extra 25% is added at no extra cost 🎁
Thank you again for being part of this. #Together, we really can make a difference! ✨
#CancerResearchUK #CRUK #Fundraising #CharityChallenge #PushUpChallenge #FitnessForGood #TogetherWeCan #CancerAwareness #Community #Health
