Workshop on Computational Methods for Protein Sequence Annotation
in conjunction with BIBM 2015 (Washington D.C., USA, November 9-12, 2015)
Important dates
- Due date for full workshop papers submission: Sept 1, 2015
- Notification of paper acceptance to authors: Sept 30, 2015
- Camera-ready of accepted papers: Oct 17, 2015
- Workshop: Nov 9-12, 2015
Submission is closed.
Please use IEEE templates
- Full papers: 6 pages
- Short papers: 2 pages
Introduction
Sequencing technologies are producing a huge amount of data at a very fast rate. Human curators can't perform experiments for 3D structure
analysis at the same pace. Automated electronic annotation of sequences exploits different mathematical and computational methodologies to
extend properties of known protein sequences to others.
Different communities are interested in this approach: researchers working on proteins can use electronic annotations to
start testing hypotheses. On the other hand, experimental curators are interested in the features to
look for, i.e. which function or process is the most probable in the protein they are going to investigate. In this way, the experiment can
be targeted towards a specific and more detailed set of features.
Researchers apply many computational methods to solve this problem, and often a combination of multiple strategies can achieve better
performances. The purpose of this workshop is to present the state of the art in computational methods for protein sequence annotation,
aiming to inspire the creation of even more precise and clever techniques, thus improving electronic annotation of protein sequences.
Research topics
Research topics include but are not limited to:
- Protein function annotation
- Protein structure prediction
- Machine learning
- Sequence profiles
- Homology
- Clustering
- Hidden Markov Models (HMM)
Program Committee Members
Co-chairs
- Giuseppe Profiti (Interdepartmental Centre for Industrial Research in Health Sciences and Technologies, University of Bologna, Italy)
- Christine Nardini (Department of Molecular Systems Biology - CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China)
- Castrense Savojardo (Biocomputing Group, University of Bologna, Italy)
Program Committee
- Rita Casadio (Biocomputing Group, University of Bologna, Italy)
- Piero Fariselli (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy)
- Sara C. Madeira (Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
- Ugur Sezerman (Acibadem University Medical Faculty Medical Informatics and Biostatistics Department, Istanbul, Turkey)
- Hong-Bin Shen (Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics group, Shangai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China)
Workshop organizer:
Giuseppe Profiti
Research associate at University of Bologna, Italy
e-mail: giuseppe.profiti2[AT]unibo.it