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 […]

Proteins, the mighty microscopic marvels present in what we eat, hence, what we are. In milkshakes 🥤, ice creams 🍦… your hair, your skin… you 👤. These molecular machines are present in all living things, from viruses to the dog 🐶 that barked at you the other day. They are so essential that they keep […]