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BIOGRAPHY
Damiano Piovesan is currently Associate Professor in Bioinformatics (SSD BIO/10)at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Padua (Italy). He specializes in protein function prediction with expertise on bioinformatics tools and methods.
ACADEMIC POSITION
Associate professor
(since 03/2022)
ACADEMIC CAREER & DEGREES
- 2022 – Assistant Professor – Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Padua – Italy
- 2019 – PostDoc researcher – Department of Biomedical Sciences
University of Padua – Italy - 2013 – PhD in Biotechnology, pharmacology and toxicology
University of Bologna – Italy - 2009 – MSc in Bioinformatics
University of Bologna – Italy - 2007 – BSc in Biotechnology
University of Bologna – Italy
LANGUAGES
English
Italian
(Upper Intermediate)
(Native)
2025
Journal Articles
Damiano Piovesan; Alessio Del Conte; Mahta Mehdiabadi; Maria Cristina Aspromonte; Matthias Blum; Giulio Tesei; Sören Bülow; Kresten Lindorff-Larsen; Silvio C. E. Tosatto
MOBIDB in 2025: integrating ensemble properties and function annotations for intrinsically disordered proteins Journal Article
In: Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 53, no. D1, pp. D495-D503, 2025, (Cited by: 1; Open Access).
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abstract = {© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.The MobiDB database (URL: https://mobidb.org/) aims to provide structural and functional information about intrinsic protein disorder, aggregating annotations from the literature, experimental data, and predictions for all known protein sequences. Here, we describe the improvements made to our resource to capture more information, simplify access to the aggregated data, and increase documentation of all MobiDB features. Compared to the previous release, all underlying pipeline modules were updated. The prediction module is ten times faster and can detect if a predicted disordered region is structurally extended or compact. The PDB component is now able to process large cryo-EM structures extending the number of processed entries. The entry page has been restyled to highlight functional aspects of disorder and all graphical modules have been completely reimplemented for better flexibility and faster rendering. The server has been improved to optimise bulk downloads. Annotation provenance has been standardised by adopting ECO terms. Finally, we propagated disorder function (IDPO and GO terms) from the DisProt database exploiting sequence similarity and protein embeddings. These improvements, along with the addition of comprehensive training material, offer a more intuitive interface and novel functional knowledge about intrinsic disorder.},
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Kun-Sop Han; Se-Ryong Song; Myong-hyon Pak; Chol-Song Kim; Chol-Pyok Ri; Alessio Del Conte; Damiano Piovesan
PredIDR: Accurate prediction of protein intrinsic disorder regions using deep convolutional neural network Journal Article
In: International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, vol. 284, 2025, (Cited by: 0; Open Access).
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abstract = {© 2024 Elsevier B.V.The involvement of protein intrinsic disorder in essential biological processes, it is well known in structural biology. However, experimental methods for detecting intrinsic structural disorder and directly measuring highly dynamic behavior of protein structure are limited. To address this issue, several computational methods to predict intrinsic disorder from protein sequences were developed and their performance is evaluated by the Critical Assessment of protein Intrinsic Disorder (CAID). In this paper, we describe a new computational method, PredIDR, which provides accurate prediction of intrinsically disordered regions in proteins, mimicking experimental X-ray missing residues. Indeed, missing residues in Protein Data Bank (PDB) were used as positive examples to train a deep convolutional neural network which produces two types of output for short and long regions. PredIDR took part in the second round of CAID and was as accurate as the top state-of-the-art IDR prediction methods. PredIDR can be freely used through the CAID Prediction Portal available at https://caid.idpcentral.org/portal or downloaded as a Singularity container from https://biocomputingup.it/shared/caid-predictors/.},
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Matthias Blum; Antonina Andreeva; Laise Cavalcanti Florentino; Sara Rocio Chuguransky; Tiago Grego; Emma Hobbs; Beatriz Lazaro Pinto; Ailsa Orr; Typhaine Paysan-Lafosse; Irina Ponamareva; Gustavo A Salazar; Nicola Bordin; Peer Bork; Alan Bridge; Lucy Colwell; Julian Gough; Daniel H Haft; Ivica Letunic; Felipe Llinares-López; Aron Marchler-Bauer; Laetitia Meng-Papaxanthos; Huaiyu Mi; Darren A Natale; Christine A Orengo; Arun P Pandurangan; Damiano Piovesan; Catherine Rivoire; Christian J. A Sigrist; Narmada Thanki; Françoise Thibaud-Nissen; Paul D Thomas; Silvio C. E Tosatto; Cathy H Wu; Alex Bateman
InterPro: The protein sequence classification resource in 2025 Journal Article
In: Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 53, no. D1, pp. D444-D456, 2025, (Cited by: 1; Open Access).
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doi = {10.1093/nar/gkae1082},
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date = {2025-01-01},
journal = {Nucleic Acids Research},
volume = {53},
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abstract = {© 2025 The Author(s) 2024.InterPro (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro) is a freely accessible resource for the classification of protein sequences into families. It integrates predictive models, known as signatures, from multiple member databases to classify sequences into families and predict the presence of domains and significant sites. The InterPro database provides annotations for over 200 million sequences, ensuring extensive coverage of UniProtKB, the standard repository of protein sequences, and includes mappings to several other major resources, such as Gene Ontology (GO), Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) and the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database. In this publication, we report on the status of InterPro (version 101.0), detailing new developments in the database, associated web interface and software. Notable updates include the increased integration of structures predicted by AlphaFold and the enhanced description of protein families using artificial intelligence. Over the past two years, more than 5000 new InterPro entries have been created. The InterPro website now offers access to 85 000 protein families and domains from its member databases and serves as a long-Term archive for retired databases. InterPro data, software and tools are freely available.},
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2024
Journal Articles
Hamidreza Ghafouri; Tamas Lazar; Alessio Del Conte; Luiggi G. Tenorio Ku; Peter Tompa; Silvio C. E. Tosatto; Alexander Miguel Monzon; Maria C. Aspromonte; Pau Bernadó; Belén Chaves-Arquero; Lucia Beatriz Chemes; Damiano Clementel; Tiago N. Cordeiro; Carlos A. Elena-Real; Michael Feig; Isabella C. Felli; Carlo Ferrari; Julie D. Forman-Kay; Tiago Gomes; Frank Gondelaud; Claudiu C. Gradinaru; Tâp Ha-Duong; Teresa Head-Gordon; Pétur O. Heidarsson; Giacomo Janson; Gunnar Jeschke; Emanuela Leonardi; Zi Hao Liu; Sonia Longhi; Xamuel L. Lund; Maria J. Macias; Pau Martin-Malpartida; Davide Mercadante; Assia Mouhand; Gabor Nagy; María Victoria Nugnes; José Manuel Pérez-Cañadillas; Giulia Pesce; Roberta Pierattelli; Damiano Piovesan; Federica Quaglia; Sylvie Ricard-Blum; Paul Robustelli; Amin Sagar; Edoardo Salladini; Lucile Sénicourt; Nathalie Sibille; João M. C. Teixeira; Thomas E. Tsangaris; Mihaly Varadi
PED in 2024: improving the community deposition of structural ensembles for intrinsically disordered proteins Journal Article
In: Nucleic Acids Research, vol. 52, no. D1, pp. D536-D544, 2024, (Cited by: 14; Open Access).
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doi = {10.1093/nar/gkad947},
year = {2024},
date = {2024-01-01},
journal = {Nucleic Acids Research},
volume = {52},
number = {D1},
pages = {D536-D544},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
abstract = {© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.The Protein Ensemble Database (PED) (URL: https://proteinensemble.org) is the primary resource for depositing structural ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins. This updated version of PED reflects advancements in the field, denoting a continual expansion with a total of 461 entries and 538 ensembles, including those generated without explicit experimental data through novel machine learning (ML) techniques. With this significant increment in the number of ensembles, a few yet-unprecedented new entries entered the database, including those also determined or refined by electron paramagnetic resonance or circular dichroism data. In addition, PED was enriched with several new features, including a novel deposition service, improved user interface, new database cross-referencing options and integration with the 3D-Beacons network—all representing efforts to improve the FAIRness of the database. Foreseeably, PED will keep growing in size and expanding with new types of ensembles generated by accurate and fast ML-based generative models and coarse-grained simulations. Therefore, among future efforts, priority will be given to further develop the database to be compatible with ensembles modeled at a coarse-grained level.},
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Omar Abdelghani Attafi; Damiano Clementel; Konstantinos Kyritsis; Emidio Capriotti; Gavin Farrell; Styliani-Christina Fragkouli; Leyla Jael Castro; András Hatos; Tom Lenaerts; Stanislav Mazurenko; Soroush Mozaffari; Franco Pradelli; Patrick Ruch; Castrense Savojardo; Paola Turina; Federico Zambelli; Damiano Piovesan; Alexander Miguel Monzon; Fotis Psomopoulos; Silvio C. E. Tosatto
DOME Registry: implementing community-wide recommendations for reporting supervised machine learning in biology Journal Article
In: GigaScience, vol. 13, 2024, (Cited by: 0; Open Access).
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date = {2024-01-01},
journal = {GigaScience},
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abstract = {© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press GigaScience.Supervised machine learning (ML) is used extensively in biology and deserves closer scrutiny. The Data Optimization Model Evaluation (DOME) recommendations aim to enhance the validation and reproducibility of ML research by establishing standards for key aspects such as data handling and processing, optimization, evaluation, and model interpretability. The recommendations help to ensure that key details are reported transparently by providing a structured set of questions. Here, we introduce the DOME registry (URL: registry.dome-ml.org), a database that allows scientists to manage and access comprehensive DOME-related information on published ML studies. The registry uses external resources like ORCID, APICURON, and the Data Stewardship Wizard to streamline the annotation process and ensure comprehensive documentation. By assigning unique identifiers and DOME scores to publications, the registry fosters a standardized evaluation of ML methods. Future plans include continuing to grow the registry through community curation, improving the DOME score definition and encouraging publishers to adopt DOME standards, and promoting transparency and reproducibility of ML in the life sciences.},
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