Recent Advances in Protein Bioinformatics
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 May 2021) | Viewed by 2919
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structural bioinformatics; intrinsically disordered proteins; machine learning
Interests: proteins; bioinformatics and computational biology; bioinformatics; protein structure; proteomics; computational biology; biostatistics; JavaScript; structural biology; Python scripting
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Dear Colleagues,
I would like to invite you to submit a contribution to a Special Issue of Applied Sciences entitled “Recent Advances in Protein Bioinformatics”.
Bioinformatics, or the development of computational methods for understanding biological data, has seen a surge of energy in recent years. The understanding of protein structure and function has vastly benefitted from new models, methods, and tools. This revolution has mainly been fueled by an ever-increasing computational power, giving access to previously unthinkable calculations as in the case of molecular dynamics pushing the boundaries of microseconds; advanced machine-learning techniques modeling complex problems, as in the case of AlphaFold, Google’s deep-neural-network algorithm for de novo prediction of protein folding; and mathematical approaches applied to complex problems from a different perspective, as in the case of RING, which analyzes amino-acid contacts exploiting graph theory. The added value deriving from the combined approach of biochemistry and computer science reflects the deep interdisciplinarity of the problems arising in the field of protein biochemistry, and the rise in mixed approaches is a trend destined to soar in the coming years.
Dr. Marco Necci
Dr. Lisanna Paladin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- graph theory
- molecular dynamics
- neural-networks
- machine learning
- intrinsic disorder
- protein folding
- protein function
- high-performance computing
