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2025
Prof. Dr. Tunca Doğan, a faculty member at Hacettepe University’s Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Engineering, delivered a presentation at the prestigious Purdue University Online Bioinformatics Seminar Series on October 23.
A paper detailing “DrugGEN,” a novel system for designing target-specific drug candidate molecules using generative AI, has been published in Nature Machine Intelligence, one of the world’s leading scientific journals for artificial intelligence.
Great news from our group! Our collaborative study with Erasmus University, focusing on drug development against the pox virus, has been accepted by the journal Communications Biology. Congratulations to Atabey and Elif for their contributions!
A collaborative project by scientists from Hacettepe, Gazi, and Middle East Technical University (METU) is using artificial intelligence to accelerate new drug development processes. The project, named ‘DrugGEN’, not only aims to shorten the years-long drug development timeline but also to reduce its high costs. The research was published in Nature, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals.
Great news! The paper “ChemPile: A 250 GB Diverse and Curated Dataset for Chemical Foundation Models,” co-authored by Bünyamin Şen and led by a research group in Germany, has been accepted to the NeurIPS 2025 conference.
Our team from Hacettepe University Biological Data Science Laboratory participated in the 33rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 24th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2025).
2024
Our team from Hacettepe University Biological Data Science Laboratory participated in the 17th International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics (HIBIT 2024).
Our team from Hacettepe University Biological Data Science Laboratory participated in the 23rd European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2024).
2023
Our team from Hacettepe University Biological Data Science Laboratory participated in the International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2023).