Please forward as appropriate. Locale Vienna, Austria Dates: July 15-16, 2011 URL: http://biofunctionprediction.org
Important dates: April 18, 2011: Deadline for submitting extended abstracts. May 9, 2011: Notifications for accepted abstracts e-mailed to corresponding authors May 16, 2011: Deadline for presenters to confirm acceptance of invitation to speak. July 15-16, 2011: AFP SIG alongside ISMB 2011 An ISMB Special Interest Group Meeting Automated Protein Function Prediction featuring CAFA: Critical Assessment of Function Annotations Sequence and structure genomics have generated a wealth of data, but extracting meaningful information from genomic information is becoming an increasingly difficult challenge. Both the number and the diversity of discovered sequences are increasing, while the fraction of genes whose function is known is decreasing.In addition, there is a need for annotation which is standardized so that it could be incorporated into function annotation on a large scale. Finally, there is a need to assess the quality of the function prediction software which is out there. For these reasons and many more, automated protein function prediction is rapidly gaining interest among computational biologists in academia and industry. The AFP SIG has been part of ISMB since 2005. This year the AFP SIG will feature CAFA: Critical Assessment of Function Annotations. Over 30 research groups from around the world are participating in CAFA. In late 2010, these groups have used computational tools to predict the function for a large set of protein sequences. The accuracy of these predictions will be assessed at this year's AFP meeting. We call upon all researchers involved in gene and protein function prediction to submit an abstract to the AFP meeting. Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to give a talk and/or present a poster. Select authors will also be invited to write a full paper which will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. For further instructions on how to submit abstracts to AFP/CAFA, please go here: http://biofunctionprediction.org/node/415 We are looking forward to seeing you in Vienna! Iddo Friedberg, Michal Linial and Predrag Radivojac The AFP organizing committee -- Iddo Friedberg http://iddo-friedberg.net/contact.html _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
