Publications

Exploring Biosynthesis & Chemodiversity of Natural Products

Remarkable diversity of alkaloid scaffolds in Piper fimbriulatum.
Damiani, T., Smith, J., Hebra, T., Perkovic, M., Cicak, M., Kadlecova, A., ... & Pluskal, T.
bioRxiv, 2024 • biorxiv.org

The biosynthetic origin of psychoactive kavalactones in kava.
Pluskal, T., Torrens-Spence, M. P., Fallon, T. R., De Abreu, A., Shi, C. H., & Weng, J. K.
Nature plants, 2019 • nature.com

Computational metabolomics

Statistical analysis of feature-based molecular networking results from non-targeted metabolomics data.
Pakkir Shah, A. K., Walter, A., Ottosson, F., Russo, F., Navarro-Diaz, M., Boldt, J., ... & Petras, D.
Nature protocols, 2025 • nature.com

MassSpecGym: A benchmark for the discovery and identification of molecules.
Bushuiev, R., Bushuiev, A., de Jonge, N., Young, A., Kretschmer, F., Samusevich, R., ... & Pluskal, T.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025 • proceedings.neurips.cc

Reproducible mass spectrometry data processing and compound annotation in MZmine 3.
Heuckeroth, S., Damiani, T., Smirnov, A., Mokshyna, O., Brungs, C., Korf, A., ... & Pluskal, T.
Nature protocols, 2024 • nature.com

Machine Learning Powered Enzyme Development

Highly accurate discovery of terpene synthases powered by machine learning reveals functional terpene cyclization in Archaea.
Samusevich, R., Hebra, T., Bushuiev, R., Bushuiev, A., Čalounová, T., Smrčková, H., ... & Pluskal, T.
BioRxiv, 2024 • biorxiv.org

Revealing data leakage in protein interaction benchmarks.
Bushuiev, A., Bushuiev, R., Sedlar, J., Pluskal, T., Damborsky, J., Mazurenko, S., & Sivic, J.
International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024

Learning to design protein-protein interactions with enhanced generalization.
Bushuiev, A., Bushuiev, R., Kouba, P., Filkin, A., Gabrielova, M., Gabriel, M., ... & Sivic, J.
International Conference on Learning Representations, 2024

Synthetic Biology

POMBOX: A Fission Yeast Cloning Toolkit for Molecular and Synthetic Biology
T Hebra, H Smrčková, B Elkatmis, M Prevorovsky, T Pluskal.
ACS Synthetic Biology, 2023 • ACS Publications