AlphaFold Protein Structure Database and 3D-Beacons: New Data and Capabilities
Fleming, J. et al. (2025) ‘Alphafold protein structure database and 3D-Beacons: New data and capabilities’, Journal of Molecular Biology, p. 168967.
CV
Education
B.Sc. in Genomic Biotechnology, UANL
M.Sc. in Biotechnology, Tecnologico de Monterrey
Ph.D. in Pharmacy, University of Nottingham
Division of Advanced Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering
Work-experience
Bioinformatician, EMBL-EBI. Cambridge, United Kingdom — Apr 2023 – Present
Teaching Assistant, University of Nottingham). Nottingham, United Kingdom — Feb 2019 – Aug 2023
Clinical Research Scientist, Avant Santé Research Center. Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico — Feb 2015 – Aug 2016
Publications
Harnessing the 3D-Beacons Network: A Comprehensive Guide to Accessing and Displaying Protein Structure Data
Magaña, P. et al. (2024) ‘Harnessing the 3D‐Beacons Network: A comprehensive guide to accessing and displaying protein structure data’, Current Protocols, 4(5).
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database in 2024: providing structure coverage for over 214 million protein sequences
Varadi, Mihaly, et al. “Alphafold protein structure database in 2024: Providing structure coverage for over 214 million protein sequences.” Nucleic Acids Research, 2023.
Pegylated species separation through an innovative PEG-grafted agarose-based resin, association quantified by microcalorimetry
Magaña, P. et al. (2020) ‘Pegylated species separation through an innovative PEG-grafted agarose-based resin, association quantified by microcalorimetry’, Separation and Purification Technology.
Ultra-rapid and low-cost fabrication of centrifugal microfluidic platforms with active mechanical valves
M. M. Aeinehvand. et al. (2017) ‘Ultra-rapid and low-cost fabrication of centrifugal microfluidic platforms with active mechanical valves’, RSC Adv., 2017,7, 55400-55407
Talks
Cambridge-Google AlphaFold Workshop
Talk at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
AlphaFold Database: The new frontier of large-scale protein structure analysis
Talk at Logomo, Turku, Finland
Accessing and interpreting predicted protein structures from AlphaFold database
Talk at EMBL-EBI webinar, Hinxton, UK
Training
Skills
- Structural Bioinformatician
- Programming & Scripting:
- Python
- Bash Scripting
- SQL
- Software Development & Version Control:
- Git / GitHub / GitLab
- API Design & Deployment
Certifications & Conferences
Computational Structural Biology workshop, EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany
Evaluations of AI Applications in Healthcare, Stanford University - Jun 2022
Applied Machine Learning in Python, University of Michigan - Dec 2021
Statistics for Genomic Data Science, Johns Hopkins University - Aug 2021