Ersilia Open Source Initiative

We have used popular AI models to generate landscape images associated with infectious and neglected tropical disesease

The Ersilia Model Hub has been recognised as a public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance

We have analysed the results of a proteome-wide ligand screening experiment carried out by Georg Winter’s lab at CeMM, Vienna

We have found that skill-based volunteering is an effective strategy for enabling open source contributions in biomedical research from…

2023 marks the centenary of Italo Calvino. Our organisation, Ersilia, is named after a city imagined in his book Invisible Cities

Interview with Ankur Kumar

Ersilia has offered training in AI and participated in the foundational workshop of the recently inaugurated Centre for Drug Discovery…

WCAIR, a leading center for anti-infective drug discovery, offered a one-month introductory course for data scientists and software…

In a series of articles, Rosauro Varo Cobos offers his perspective on racism, colonialism and global health

AI-powered creativity may reshape how scientists approach their work and think about themselves. Visual arts and creative writing provide…

We have kick-started a project with H3D to identify genetic traits specific to African populations that determine variability in malaria…

Ersilia is joining the Barcelona Health Hub, a digital health center located in the architectural ensemble of Hospital de Sant Pau

We have interacted with Bloom, an open source AI tool trained on a gigantic corpus of text, in search of insights into Global Health

A short story about Ersilia’s co-founder journey from experimental sciences to computational biology, with the support from the Software…

We present a prototype of ChemXOR, a tool to build encrypted AI models for drug activity prediction

We recently visited the University of Buea, Cameroon, as part of a project to discover novel antivirals based on natural product compounds

The Ersilia Open Source Initiative was incorporated as a charity in November 2020 with a very clear goal: to equip laboratories in the…

I often go back to Enrique Vila-Mata’s 1985 short novel Brief history of portable literature. I like all Vila-Matas, but this is one of my…

If there is one thing I’ve been obsessed about as a researcher, this would be knowledge representation, or the art of converting the…

In his book The Rings of Saturn, W. G. Sebald points to a distortion in Rembrandt’s oil painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp…

A few weeks ago I received an Honorary Mention at the Research Parasite Awards, held during the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. These…

A simple script to download bioactivity data for small molecules

The road to becoming CEO of the Ersilia Open Source Initiative (EOSI), the small non-profit I co-founded together with Edoardo and Miquel…

An example of the benefits of being an Open Collective for a charitable organisation like Ersilia.