PinnedLucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)About me — Luciano AbriataBio, articles, freelance work, websites, resources, contact info, and more about me, the person behind the @LucianoSphere·3 min read·Feb 15, 2023--3--3
PinnedLucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)Welcome to the LucianoSphere!Nature, science, technology, programming, and DIY enthusiast. Biotechnologist and chemist, in the wet lab and at computers. Born AR from IT…1 min read·Sep 20, 2021--1--1
PinnedLucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)inTowards Data ScienceObtaining historical and real-time crypto data with very simple web programmingWhile learning about cryptocurrencies, I desperately needed data that I could manipulate myself to do my own plots and analyses. Here I…·10 min read·Aug 27, 2021--5--5
PinnedLucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)inGeek CultureChemistry and Biology Education Using Commodity Web Augmented Reality -in any device!Thanks to modern educational content using commodity web-based augmented reality in our moleculARweb site and in Google, students…·15 min read·Sep 10, 2021----
PinnedLucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)Flower-spotting hike up from Montreux + alpine garden + century-old railwayPART OF MY SERIES Natural wonders of Switzerland’s canton Vaud10 min read·Jul 11, 2021--3--3
LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)inTechnology HitsResearchers created a protein that responds to… magnetic fieldsA team of researchers from Calico Life Sciences has developed a new protein that responds to, and hence can be controlled by, magnetic…·3 min read·3 days ago--2--2
LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)EzMechanism: A Novel (and Kind of Unique) Tool for Predicting Enzyme Catalytic MechanismsNote for self: see example on the TEM lactamase in Figure 4, and relate to the tolerance to amino acid substitutions in this work:·3 min read·3 days ago----
LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)inAdvances in biological scienceAlphaFold 3's Advances and Limitations In a NutshellFrom a Month Worth of Tests Worldwide·5 min read·Jun 9, 2024----
LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)inCantor’s ParadiseUsing ChatGPT4o and a Function Plotter to Find the Function I NeededCoupling ChatGPT4o’s superb capabilities with Desmos for easy function plotting and exploration, all in my web browser!·5 min read·Jun 6, 2024--2--2
LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)inTowards Data Science“Sparks of Chemical Intuition”—and Gross Limitations!—in AlphaFold 3Observations after 3 weeks of DeepMind releasing its hitherto most advanced model for biomolecular structure prediction.·16 min read·Jun 5, 2024----