Bruce Lichtenstein
Bruce Lichtenstein
@lichtenstein.bsky.social
Biophysical chemist and Protein Designer. I like making new molecules do new things.
Group leader at the Centre for Enzyme Innovation at the University of Portsmouth.
Poor dead cuttlefish
November 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It looks like it might have potential as a test bed — but there seem to be sacrifices in memory bandwidth even while providing vastly more than consumer cards. I’m not sure how this affects inference times and would be interested to know…
October 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I guess it depends upon the license of the code — my guess is that any agreement saying you cannot use the data generated from the publically available code for commercial purposes is difficult to enforce.
October 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
If you mean the online server….
October 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
You risk this being considered a disclosure I think
October 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I agree — perhaps it’s time to require proven implementation in other lab environments as a part of the peer review process. These are methodological advances rather than fundamental discoveries.
September 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Peer review and publication is now slower than model training/iteratiin and testing — it’s a failure point of the journal system that’s been creeping up on us for a while.
September 21, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Some of this reflects a conversation I had with Anthony Green about the application of de novo only to enzymes that carry out non-natural enzyme function. The issue fundamentally is that all definitions of de novo are built from contrasting with “nature,” the knowledge of which is incomplete.
August 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Congrats, Martin!
July 25, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Internationally oriented grants are not bad as your team offers a unique value added element; but have you been targeted your applications around tool development or a scientific question?
April 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I have had representatives from companies ask me how well some of the more common algorithms work as a user; and while I can generally be positive, it’s always with a caveat — you need to understand how to read/edit code, there are unpublished best practices, their capabilities are context dependent
April 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
They do in general — the deviations in the cities are often related to forced foot traffic flows…
March 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Always loved this! How long did it take you to find the music to accompany it?
March 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
So all proteins are in a superposition of folded and unfolded states; sounds about right actually.
March 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This is going to be the death of the Europe-to-US conference attendance. I’m not sure Universities would insure trips where targeted deportation is a risk.
March 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Scientific societies are in general fairly conservative entities, chemists are in general the most conservative scientists, so it doesn’t surprise me that academic societies of chemists can be regressive.
March 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Hello, I’m a biophysical chemist and protein designer at the University of Portsmouth — could I be added to the science feed?

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Bruce Lichtenstein
I am a Senior Research Fellow for Protein Engineering in the recently established Centre for Enzyme Innovation (CEI) at the University of Portsmouth. Our focus at the Centre is to develop biochemical,...
www.port.ac.uk
January 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The manuscript has a bit for everyone: manual protein design to preserve enzymatic thermodynamic properties with confirmatory structure, careful activity measurements, pilot scale bioprocessing of post-consumer plastic, synergy and more!
January 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM