Luciano Abriata, PhD

MolecularWebXR: free, multiuser, immersive chemistry and biology at your fingertips, from high-end VR devices to smartphones and computers

2 November 2023 No Comments

Our new website is the Metaverse’s ultimate immersive tool for education and peer discussion in chemistry and structural biology. Running in web browsers and hence on all modern devices like smartphones, tablets, computers and VR-headsets, MolecularWebXR allows users to interact with each other and with virtual objects seamlessly inside a dedicated VR world. Access one of various rooms with preset content covering different topics, or setup your own material for education and scientific discussions. Read on to know more, see it in action, and get help. Article at https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/molecularwebxr-free-multiuser-immersive-chemistry-and-biology-at-your-fingertips-from-high-end-50b93f8e1148

Programming, Science and Technology

Building ChatGPT-like Chatbots With Customized Knowledge for Your Websites With Very Simple Programming

6 January 2023 No Comments

I’ve been building chatbots powered by GPT-3, that allow you to insert ChatGPT-like interfaces in any website by using simply a PHP library plus some HTML and JavaScript.

Here my main articles on this:

The most advanced prototype, with a nice GUI and a simple way to inject your custom information for the bot to use when replying questions –HERE
Prototype that can check Wikipedia in order to answer the questions –HERE
First prototype HERE

bioinformatics, Data science, molecular modeling, Science and Technology

Over one year of AlphaFold 2 free for everyone to use and of the revolution it triggered in biology

30 November 2022 No Comments

An article covering confident prediction of protein structures, their interactions with other biomolecules, and even protein design, all now at everybody’s reach thanks to the revolution started by Deepmind. Via https://medium.com/advances-in-biological-science/over-one-year-of-alphafold-2-free-for-everyone-to-use-and-of-the-revolution-it-triggered-in-biology-f12cac8c88c6

Contents:
– Introduction
– Democratizing the use of AlphaFold 2 and new adaptations of it
– What’s next
– Protein language models
– Pre-made databases of structural models built with these modern tools
– Unexpected things that AlphaFold 2 seems to be able to do
– Further reads on the topic and on broader structural biology

bioinformatics, Science and Technology

Web-based multiuser VR for fluent interactive collaboration and work

30 November 2022 No Comments

Check this blog post we wrote about our multiuser web-based VR tools that help connect students, teachers and researchers inside virtual worlds to discuss on virtual objects -here molecules that they can grab, move, zoom, and even deform with realistic physics, using just their hands and available everywhere thanks to #webxr. An article with plenty of examples in videos and photographs of actual users engaged with the tool. We are making science fiction reality!
Via https://medium.com/geekculture/web-based-multiuser-vr-for-seamless-interactive-collaboration-and-work-8bd9272e6b06

Cryptocurrency, Senza categoria

Love and hate stories about Brave -right now my preferred web browser

6 April 2022 No Comments

Using Brave with MetaMask to learn about the Ethereum blockchain:

https://medium.com/technology-hits/how-to-easily-post-data-in-the-ethereum-blockchain-network-forever-with-no-programming-ef957dff4539

Using Brave to navigate the internet without getting mad at advertisements:

https://medium.com/technology-hits/thanks-brave-browser-i-was-sick-of-youtubes-ads-fe3625f36296

Complaining that Brave pays but way too little:

https://medium.com/technology-hits/i-like-the-principles-behind-brave-browser-but-the-surf-to-earn-leitmotif-is-pure-deception-c5f0caf05755

Cryptocurrency, Programming

Reading and writing data to the Ethereum blockchain is very easy -see how in these two new articles

3 April 2022 No Comments

Two articles to learn about cryptostuff, blockchains, web3.0, and programming, all at the same time:

First, how to write data (disclaimer: you’ll need to spend some money as Ethereum):

Article 1: How to easily post data in the Ethereum blockchain network forever -with no programming

And then an article on how to read data (no need to spend money for this):

Article 2: Read Public Messages from the Ethereum Network with Simple Web Programming

Cryptocurrency, Data science, Programming, Science and Technology

A full web app to analyze historical cryptocurrency data -you can even compare coins

3 April 2022 No Comments

Let me share with you these new Medium blog entries describing my latest web app for cryptocurrency data display and analysis. Even with free test accounts:

Story 1:

https://medium.com/coinmonks/visualize-and-analyze-cryptocurrencies-in-full-detail-29441079a395

Story 2:

https://medium.com/technology-hits/a-web-tool-to-view-and-analyze-cryptocurrency-data-in-full-detail-free-access-in-this-article-73e4c1dea911

bioinformatics, biology, Data science, molecular modeling, Science and Technology

All my peer-reviewed and blog articles on protein modeling, CASP, and AlphaFold

13 February 2022 No Comments

I compiled all my peer-reviewed articles (some papers, a couple of reviews, one opinion) and blog entries about modeling proteins without templates, the best tool out there so far (AlphaFold 2), and the contest on structure prediction that positioned its developer Deepmind at the top (CASP).

You can see all these articles here.

Cryptocurrency, Data science, Programming, Science and Technology, Senza categoria

Two articles on how to easily retrieve historical crypto data with minimal web programming

4 February 2022 No Comments

Articles describing how to obtain historical and real-time crypto data from two data providers using their free APIs and very simple web programming.

Data science, Programming, Science and Technology, Senza categoria

New Medium story featuring the latest from Deepmind

19 December 2021 No Comments

Read this new article here at Medium’s Towards Data Science.

	Obtaining historical and real-time crypto data with very simple web programming
	Obtain Unlimited Historical Crypto Data through Simple Web Code -no API Keys