Back in June of 2022 I left Austria to go on my first secondment in Ghent, Belgium to visit Alireza and the rest of the Compomics group. Besides getting to know the people,  enjoying the summer in the beautiful city and eating numerous waffles, I also did a small project together with members of the […]

There are enormous amounts of biological cascades in every cell – the smallest functional compartment of our body [1]. Understanding the mechanisms underlying the vast array of phenomena is not only the key element to finding any clues about fatal diseases such as Alzheimer’s and cancer but also to progress in developing treatment for such […]

In our previous Journal Club blog post, we discussed «nanopore profiling,» a method for identifying proteins within the field of proteomics. Today we proceed with «how to validate the identification statistically other than the traditional target-decoy method with an improved version of the decoy-free approach» based on Dominik et al.’s article «Modeling lower-order statistics to […]