TY - CHAP A1 - Villim, Ján A1 - Nguyen, Martin A1 - Bobik, Pavol A1 - Genci, Jan A1 - Gecášek, Daniel T1 - New Version of the COR Simulation Engine T2 - Proceedings of 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2025) N2 - The COR simulation engine is a tool devoted to evaluating cosmic ray trajectories in Earth's magnetosphere. It is part of the COR System, available at https://cor.crmodels.org, and it also functions as a standalone command line tool. The former tool was published in 2022. We report the new version of the tool status with improved performance, precision, new functions/features, and refactored code. Y1 - 2025 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.22323/1.501.1377 VL - 501 PB - Sissa Medialab CY - Trieste, Italy ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Trepte, Philipp A1 - Secker, Christopher A1 - Olivet, Julien A1 - Blavier, Jeremy A1 - Kostova, Simona A1 - Maseko, Sibusiso B A1 - Minia, Igor A1 - Silva Ramos, Eduardo A1 - Cassonnet, Patricia A1 - Golusik, Sabrina A1 - Zenkner, Martina A1 - Beetz, Stephanie A1 - Liebich, Mara J A1 - Scharek, Nadine A1 - Schütz, Anja A1 - Sperling, Marcel A1 - Lisurek, Michael A1 - Wang, Yang A1 - Spirohn, Kerstin A1 - Hao, Tong A1 - Calderwood, Michael A A1 - Hill, David E A1 - Landthaler, Markus A1 - Choi, Soon Gang A1 - Twizere, Jean-Claude A1 - Vidal, Marc A1 - Wanker, Erich E T1 - AI-guided pipeline for protein–protein interaction drug discovery identifies a SARS-CoV-2 inhibitor JF - Molecular Systems Biology N2 - Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) offer great opportunities to expand the druggable proteome and therapeutically tackle various diseases, but remain challenging targets for drug discovery. Here, we provide a comprehensive pipeline that combines experimental and computational tools to identify and validate PPI targets and perform early-stage drug discovery. We have developed a machine learning approach that prioritizes interactions by analyzing quantitative data from binary PPI assays or AlphaFold-Multimer predictions. Using the quantitative assay LuTHy together with our machine learning algorithm, we identified high-confidence interactions among SARS-CoV-2 proteins for which we predicted three-dimensional structures using AlphaFold-Multimer. We employed VirtualFlow to target the contact interface of the NSP10-NSP16 SARS-CoV-2 methyltransferase complex by ultra-large virtual drug screening. Thereby, we identified a compound that binds to NSP10 and inhibits its interaction with NSP16, while also disrupting the methyltransferase activity of the complex, and SARS-CoV-2 replication. Overall, this pipeline will help to prioritize PPI targets to accelerate the discovery of early-stage drug candidates targeting protein complexes and pathways. KW - Applied Mathematics KW - Computational Theory and Mathematics KW - General Agricultural and Biological Sciences KW - General Immunology and Microbiology KW - General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology KW - Information Systems Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1038/s44320-024-00019-8 SN - 1744-4292 VL - 20 IS - 4 SP - 428 EP - 457 PB - Springer Science and Business Media LLC ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Trepte, Philipp A1 - Secker, Christopher A1 - Kostova, Simona A1 - Maseko, Sibusiso B. A1 - Gang Choi, Soon A1 - Blavier, Jeremy A1 - Minia, Igor A1 - Silva Ramos, Eduardo A1 - Cassonnet, Patricia A1 - Golusik, Sabrina A1 - Zenkner, Martina A1 - Beetz, Stephanie A1 - Liebich, Mara J. A1 - Scharek, Nadine A1 - Schütz, Anja A1 - Sperling, Marcel A1 - Lisurek, Michael A1 - Wang, Yang A1 - Spirohn, Kerstin A1 - Hao, Tong A1 - Calderwood, Michael A. A1 - Hill, David E. A1 - Landthaler, Markus A1 - Olivet, Julien A1 - Twizere, Jean-Claude A1 - Vidal, Marc A1 - Wanker, Erich E. T1 - AI-guided pipeline for protein-protein interaction drug discovery identifies a SARS-CoV-2 inhibitor JF - bioRxiv Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.14.544560 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Straube, Arthur A1 - Olicón Méndez, Guillermo A1 - Winkelmann, Stefanie A1 - Höfling, Felix A1 - Engel, Maximilian T1 - Unfolding the geometric structure and multiple timescales of the urea-urease pH oscillator N2 - We study a two-variable dynamical system modeling pH oscillations in the urea–urease reaction within giant lipid vesicles – a problem that intrinsically contains multiple, well-separated timescales. Building on an existing, deterministic formulation via ordinary differential equations, we resolve different orders of magnitude within a small parameter and analyze the system's limit cycle behavior using geometric singular perturbation theory (GSPT). By introducing two different coordinate scalings – each valid in a distinct region of the phase space – we resolve the local dynamics near critical fold points, using the extension of GSPT through such singular points due to Krupa and Szmolyan. This framework enables a geometric decomposition of the periodic orbits into slow and fast segments and yields closed-form estimates for the period of oscillation. In particular, we link the existence of such oscillations to an underlying biochemical asymmetry, namely, the differential transport across the vesicle membrane. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stein, Lewin A1 - Straube, Florian A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan A1 - Lemke, Mathias T1 - Directional sound source modeling using the adjoint Euler equations in a finite-difference time-domain approach JF - Acoustical Society of America N2 - An adjoint-based approach for synthesizing complex sound sources by discrete, grid-based monopoles in finite-difference time-domain simulations is presented. Previously [Stein et al., 2019a, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 146(3), 1774–1785] demonstrated that the approach allows to consider unsteady and non-uniform ambient conditions such as wind flow and thermal gradient in contrast to standard methods of numerical sound field simulation. In this work, it is proven that not only ideal monopoles but also realistic sound sources with complex directivity characteristics can be synthesized. In detail, an oscillating circular piston and a real 2-way near-field monitor are modeled. The required number of monopoles in terms of the SPL deviation between the directivity of the original and the synthesized source is analyzed. Since the computational effort is independent of the number of monopoles used for the synthesis, also more complex sources can be reproduced by increasing the number of monopoles utilized. In contrast to classical least-square problem solvers, this does not increase the computational effort, which makes the method attractive for predicting the effect of sound reinforcement systems with highly directional sources under difficult acoustic boundary conditions. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0002425 VL - 148 IS - 5 SP - 3075 EP - 3085 PB - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Secker, Christopher A1 - Fackeldey, Konstantin A1 - Weber, Marcus A1 - Ray, Sourav A1 - Gorgulla, Christoph A1 - Schütte, Christof T1 - Novel multi-objective affinity approach allows to identify pH-specific μ-opioid receptor agonists JF - Journal of Cheminformatics N2 - Opioids are essential pharmaceuticals due to their analgesic properties, however, lethal side effects, addiction, and opioid tolerance are extremely challenging. The development of novel molecules targeting the μ-opioid receptor (MOR) in inflamed, but not in healthy tissue, could significantly reduce these unwanted effects. Finding such novel molecules can be achieved by maximizing the binding affinity to the MOR at acidic pH while minimizing it at neutral pH, thus combining two conflicting objectives. Here, this multi-objective optimal affinity approach is presented, together with a virtual drug discovery pipeline for its practical implementation. When applied to finding pH-specific drug candidates, it combines protonation state-dependent structure and ligand preparation with high-throughput virtual screening. We employ this pipeline to characterize a set of MOR agonists identifying a morphine-like opioid derivative with higher predicted binding affinities to the MOR at low pH compared to neutral pH. Our results also confirm existing experimental evidence that NFEPP, a previously described fentanyl derivative with reduced side effects, and recently reported β-fluorofentanyls and -morphines show an increased specificity for the MOR at acidic pH when compared to fentanyl and morphine. We further applied our approach to screen a >50K ligand library identifying novel molecules with pH-specific predicted binding affinities to the MOR. The presented differential docking pipeline can be applied to perform multi-objective affinity optimization to identify safer and more specific drug candidates at large scale. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-023-00746-4 VL - 15 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Secker, Christopher T1 - Novel multi-objective affinity approach allows to identify pH-specific μ-opioid receptor agonists (Dataset) N2 - Virtual Screening Dataset for the paper "Novel multi-objective affinity approach allows to identify pH-specific μ-opioid receptor agonists" by Secker et al. (https://doi.org/10.1186/s13321-023-00746-4) Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-96220 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schneck, Jakob A1 - Weiser, Martin A1 - Wende, Florian T1 - Impact of mixed precision and storage layout on additive Schwarz smoothers JF - Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications N2 - The growing discrepancy between CPU computing power and memory bandwidth drives more and more numerical algorithms into a bandwidth-bound regime. One example is the overlapping Schwarz smoother, a highly effective building block for iterative multigrid solution of elliptic equations with higher order finite elements. Two options of reducing the required memory bandwidth are sparsity exploiting storage layouts and representing matrix entries with reduced precision in floating point or fixed point format. We investigate the impact of several options on storage demand and contraction rate, both analytically in the context of subspace correction methods and numerically at an example of solid mechanics. Both perspectives agree on the favourite scheme: fixed point representation of Cholesky factors in nested dissection storage. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/nla.2366 VL - 28 IS - 4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schimunek, Johannes A1 - Seidl, Philipp A1 - Elez, Katarina A1 - Hempel, Tim A1 - Le, Tuan A1 - Noé, Frank A1 - Olsson, Simon A1 - Raich, Lluís A1 - Winter, Robin A1 - Gokcan, Hatice A1 - Gusev, Filipp A1 - Gutkin, Evgeny M. A1 - Isayev, Olexandr A1 - Kurnikova, Maria G. A1 - Narangoda, Chamali H. A1 - Zubatyuk, Roman A1 - Bosko, Ivan P. A1 - Furs, Konstantin V. A1 - Karpenko, Anna D. A1 - Kornoushenko, Yury V. A1 - Shuldau, Mikita A1 - Yushkevich, Artsemi A1 - Benabderrahmane, Mohammed B. A1 - Bousquet-Melou, Patrick A1 - Bureau, Ronan A1 - Charton, Beatrice A1 - Cirou, Bertrand C. A1 - Gil, Gérard A1 - Allen, William J. A1 - Sirimulla, Suman A1 - Watowich, Stanley A1 - Antonopoulos, Nick A1 - Epitropakis, Nikolaos A1 - Krasoulis, Agamemnon A1 - Itsikalis, Vassilis A1 - Theodorakis, Stavros A1 - Kozlovskii, Igor A1 - Maliutin, Anton A1 - Medvedev, Alexander A1 - Popov, Petr A1 - Zaretckii, Mark A1 - Eghbal-Zadeh, Hamid A1 - Halmich, Christina A1 - Hochreiter, Sepp A1 - Mayr, Andreas A1 - Ruch, Peter A1 - Widrich, Michael A1 - Berenger, Francois A1 - Kumar, Ashutosh A1 - Yamanishi, Yoshihiro A1 - Zhang, Kam Y. J. A1 - Bengio, Emmanuel A1 - Bengio, Yoshua A1 - Jain, Moksh J. A1 - Korablyov, Maksym A1 - Liu, Cheng-Hao A1 - Marcou, Gilles A1 - Glaab, Enrico A1 - Barnsley, Kelly A1 - Iyengar, Suhasini M. A1 - Ondrechen, Mary Jo A1 - Haupt, V. Joachim A1 - Kaiser, Florian A1 - Schroeder, Michael A1 - Pugliese, Luisa A1 - Albani, Simone A1 - Athanasiou, Christina A1 - Beccari, Andrea A1 - Carloni, Paolo A1 - D’Arrigo, Giulia A1 - Gianquinto, Eleonora A1 - Goßen, Jonas A1 - Hanke, Anton A1 - Joseph, Benjamin P. A1 - Kokh, Daria B. A1 - Kovachka, Sandra A1 - Manelfi, Candida A1 - Mukherjee, Goutam A1 - Muñiz-Chicharro, Abraham A1 - Musiani, Francesco A1 - Nunes-Alves, Ariane A1 - Paiardi, Giulia A1 - Rossetti, Giulia A1 - Sadiq, S. Kashif A1 - Spyrakis, Francesca A1 - Talarico, Carmine A1 - Tsengenes, Alexandros A1 - Wade, Rebecca C. A1 - Copeland, Conner A1 - Gaiser, Jeremiah A1 - Olson, Daniel R. A1 - Roy, Amitava A1 - Venkatraman, Vishwesh A1 - Wheeler, Travis J. A1 - Arthanari, Haribabu A1 - Blaschitz, Klara A1 - Cespugli, Marco A1 - Durmaz, Vedat A1 - Fackeldey, Konstantin A1 - Fischer, Patrick D. A1 - Gorgulla, Christoph A1 - Gruber, Christian A1 - Gruber, Karl A1 - Hetmann, Michael A1 - Kinney, Jamie E. A1 - Padmanabha Das, Krishna M. A1 - Pandita, Shreya A1 - Singh, Amit A1 - Steinkellner, Georg A1 - Tesseyre, Guilhem A1 - Wagner, Gerhard A1 - Wang, Zi-Fu A1 - Yust, Ryan J. A1 - Druzhilovskiy, Dmitry S. A1 - Filimonov, Dmitry A. A1 - Pogodin, Pavel V. A1 - Poroikov, Vladimir A1 - Rudik, Anastassia V. A1 - Stolbov, Leonid A. A1 - Veselovsky, Alexander V. A1 - De Rosa, Maria A1 - De Simone, Giada A1 - Gulotta, Maria R. A1 - Lombino, Jessica A1 - Mekni, Nedra A1 - Perricone, Ugo A1 - Casini, Arturo A1 - Embree, Amanda A1 - Gordon, D. Benjamin A1 - Lei, David A1 - Pratt, Katelin A1 - Voigt, Christopher A. A1 - Chen, Kuang-Yu A1 - Jacob, Yves A1 - Krischuns, Tim A1 - Lafaye, Pierre A1 - Zettor, Agnès A1 - Rodríguez, M. Luis A1 - White, Kris M. A1 - Fearon, Daren A1 - Von Delft, Frank A1 - Walsh, Martin A. A1 - Horvath, Dragos A1 - Brooks III, Charles L. A1 - Falsafi, Babak A1 - Ford, Bryan A1 - García-Sastre, Adolfo A1 - Yup Lee, Sang A1 - Naffakh, Nadia A1 - Varnek, Alexandre A1 - Klambauer, Günter A1 - Hermans, Thomas M. T1 - A community effort in SARS-CoV-2 drug discovery JF - Molecular Informatics KW - COVID-19 KW - drug discovery KW - machine learning KW - SARS-CoV-2 Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/minf.202300262 VL - 43 IS - 1 SP - e202300262 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rodrigues Pelá, Ronaldo A1 - Draxl, Claudia T1 - Speeding up all-electron real-time TDDFT demonstrated by the exciting package JF - Comput. Phys. Commun. Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2024.109292 VL - 304 SP - 109292 ER -