Workshop on Computational Methods for Protein Sequence Annotation 2015

Event Dates

Nov 09, 2015 - Nov 12, 2015

Location

Washington D.C., USA

Submission Deadline

Sep 01, 2015

In conjunction with BIBM 2015

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

Protein function annotation

Protein structure prediction

Machine learning

Sequence profiles

Homology

Clustering

Hidden Markov Models (HMM)

Online Submission

Please submit a full-length paper (up to 6 pages IEEE 2-column format) or a short paper (2 pages) through the online submission system (you can download the format instruction here (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). Electronic submissions (in PDF or Postscript format) are required. Selected participants will be asked to submit their revised papers in a format to be specified at the time of acceptance.

Submission website

https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2015/bibm15/scripts/submit.php?subarea=SE&undisplay_detail=1&wh=/cyberchair/2015/bibm15/scripts/ws_submit.php