Magnus Ross

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Hi! I’m Magnus and this is my website, hopefully you will find something interesting here. I am currently a postdoctoral research fellow based in the AI Center at UCL. I’m interested in forecasting, uncertainty quantification, and probabilistic ML in general. I am also working on using ML to help combat antimicrobial…

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An idiot’s guide to lead optimisation for proteins

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Lead optimisation is the step in drug design where you take a molecule that sort of works and try to make it actually work, and it’s arguably the step where most real-world design campaigns succeed or die. Due to the influence of a couple of my pals , I have recently become interested in using machine learning to do…