Previous Meeting: June 2005

The Automated Function Prediction SIG meeting was a huge success, with over 100 delegates attending. The program now includes some talk slides, and will include more as those come along. The assessment targets, and the assessment talks are available from the results section. The AFP05 organizers would like to thank the speakers and the delegates for contributing to a stimulating and exciting meeting. Following the SIG meeting, a Birds-of-a-feather meeting was held, in which several of the meeting topics were discussed further. A summary of this meeting will be available soon.

Meeting location: the LaSalle ballroom, The Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center

The deluge of genomic information begs the following question: what do all these genes do? Many genes are not annotated, and many more are partially or erroneously annotated. Given a genome which is partially annotated at best, how do we fill in the blanks? We are faced with the problem of predicting protein function from sequence, genomic, expression, interaction and structural data. For all these reasons and many more, automated protein function prediction is rapidly gaining interest among computational biologists. We are pleased to announce that the first Automated Function Prediction meeting will be held as a Special Interest Group meeting (SIG) of ISMB 2005.

Prior to the meeting we will assess several submitted servers for prediction accuracy. The results of the assessment will be discussed and analyzed during the afternoon session. The morning session will be devoted to cutting edge talks in the field.

• Abstracts
• Protein function prediction servers for the assessment
• Sponsors.

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Please email your queries to Iddo Friedberg:    idoerg 'at' burnham.org