Projects per year
Personal profile
Expertise
Structural Bioinformatics and computational biology
- Prediction of biophysical characteristics of proteins from their sequence
- Effect of amino acid variants on proteins and organisms
Computational aspects of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
- Statistical analysis of NMR data in relation to protein structure
- Structure determination of proteins from experimental NMR data
Education/Academic qualification
Chemistry, Ph.D., Ghent University
1 Dec 1992 → 19 Dec 1996
External positions
VUB director, Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels
Apr 2014 → …Maitre d'enseignement, Université libre de Bruxelles
2011 → …Scientific officer (NMR), European Bioinformatics Institute
1 Oct 2001 → 30 Sep 2010Research Fellow, Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montreal
1 Jan 2000 → 31 Aug 2001Postdoctoral researcher, Université libre de Bruxelles
1 Jan 1999 → 31 Dec 1999Postdoctoral researcher, Biotechnology Research Institute, National Research Council, Montreal
1 Jan 1997 → 31 Dec 1998Fingerprint
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EUAR56: Horizon 2020: HosmartAI: Hospital Smart development based on AI.
Vranken, W., Schoors, D., De Canck, H. & Vandemeulebroucke, J.
1/01/21 → 31/05/24
Project: Fundamental
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OZR3719: Bilateral cooperation within the framework of a joint doctoral project: benchfee for joint PhD VUB - UGent, DIXIT Bhawna
27/10/20 → 26/10/24
Project: Fundamental
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OZR3588: Financiering FWO hercules: ERA platform: Extended RNA Analysis platform - version 2.0
Rooman, I., Bouwens, L., Heimberg, H., Neyns, B., Vranken, W., Vanhaecke, T., Massie, A., van Grunsven, L., De Bruyne, E., De Bundel, D., Forsyth, R., Breckpot, K., Van Dooren, S., De Kock, J., Njemini, R. & Laoui, D.
1/05/20 → 30/04/24
Project: Fundamental
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IRP20: TumorScope: Leveraging VUB and UZ Brussels expertise towards a digital health research platform.
Vranken, W., Vandemeulebroucke, J., Cornu, P., Forsyth, R., Quinn, P., Van Dooren, S. & Duerinck, J.
1/11/19 → 31/10/24
Project: Fundamental
Research output
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b2bTools: online predictions for protein biophysical features and their conservation
Kagami, L. P., Orlando, G., Raimondi, D., Ancien, F., Dixit, B., Gavaldá-García, J., Ramasamy, P., Roca-Martínez, J., Tzavella, K. & Vranken, W., 31 May 2021, In : Nucleic Acids Research. 49, W1, p. W52-W59 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Computational resources for identifying and describing proteins driving liquid-liquid phase separation
Pancsa, R., Vranken, W. & Mészáros, B., 2 Sep 2021, In : Briefings in Bioinformatics. 22, 5Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Critical assessment of protein intrinsic disorder prediction
CAID Predictors & DisProt Curators, May 2021, In : Nature Methods. 18, 5, p. 472-481 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Interpreting a black box predictor to gain insights into early folding mechanisms
Grau, I., Nowé, A. & Vranken, W., Aug 2021, In : Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 19, p. 4919-4930 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Megabodies expand the nanobody toolkit for protein structure determination by single-particle cryo-EM
Uchański, T., Masiulis, S., Fischer, B., Kalichuk, V., López-Sánchez, U., Zarkadas, E., Weckener, M., Sente, A., Ward, P., Wohlkönig, A., Zögg, T., Remaut, H., Naismith, J. H., Nury, H., Vranken, W., Aricescu, A. R., Pardon, E. & Steyaert, J., Jan 2021, In : Nature Methods. 18, 1, p. 60-68 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
7 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (External organisation)
Wim Vranken (Examiner)7 Jan 2021Activity: Membership › Membership of peer-review panel or committee
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ELIXIR IDP community (External organisation)
Wim Vranken (Chair)12 Aug 2020Activity: Membership › Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
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MSCA-IDPfun & ELIXIR All Hands Meeting
Tamas Lazar (Organiser), Peter Tompa (Organiser), Wim Vranken (Organiser), Silvio C E Tosatto (Organiser), Damiano Piovesan (Organiser), Marco Necci (Organiser), Marco Carraro (Organiser)8 Apr 2020Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in or organizing an event at an external academic organisation
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Leveraging the biophysical context of amino acid residues to understand protein behaviour
Wim Vranken (Speaker)13 Feb 2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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KU Leuven (External organisation)
Wim Vranken (Examiner)15 Jan 2020Activity: Membership › Membership of peer-review panel or committee
Thesis
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Exploring the conformations and interactions in peptides with quantum mechanical methodology
Author: Alonso Giner, M., De Proft, F., Vranken, W., Oomen, J. & Ballet, S., Feb 2017Supervisor: Alonso Giner, M. (Promotor), De Proft, F. (Promotor), Vranken, W. (Promotor) & Ballet, S. (Jury)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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Identification and characterization of putative transcriptional regulators in archaea
Author: Donvil, L., Peeters, E. & Vranken, W., 10 Sep 2018Supervisor: Orlando, G. (Advisor), de Buyl, S. (Jury) & De Greve, H. (Jury)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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Self-labeling Grey-Box Model: An Interpretable Semi-Supervised Classifier
Author: Grau, I., 9 Oct 2020Supervisor: Nowe, A. (Promotor), García Lorenzo, M. M. (External person) (Co-promotor), Signer, B. (Jury), Vranken, W. (Jury), Lenaerts, T. (Jury), Van Dooren, S. (Jury), Vanhoof, K. (External person) (Jury) & Cornelis, C. (External person) (Jury)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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The effect of genome variation on human proteins: understanding variants and improving their deleteriousness prediction through extensive contextualisation
Author: Raimondi, D. & Vranken, W., 5 May 2017Supervisor: Lenaerts, T. (External person) (Promotor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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The role of dynamics in emergent protein properties
Author: Vranken, W., Orlando, G. & Lenaerts, T., 23 May 2019Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis